Plague Songs is one of the most audacious releases for this year. It is also a reflection of grey attitudes which have been put to musical diversity with great tact.
The Tiger Lillies are a cabaret incarnation of this noir-ish sensibility, travelling the world from their home base in England to regale audiences with a mix of high camp and lowbrow musical mayhem.
As Mozart's 250th-birthday celebrations drone on, levity has been distinctly absent. Enter British post-punk band the Tiger Lillies to change all that.
Our new show 'Die Weberischen' opens on Monday 28 in Vienna. Tiger Lillies perform with an orchestra and actors in a new show based on Mozart and his complicated love life.
?MUMMY!? The strangled yell rang around the tiny theatre and was sucked into a large silence. The audience of youngish middle-class apprecianados and polite but committed Goths tittered helplessly, already crippled with horrified laughter....
As an accordian trio who perform a surreal cabaret of the macabre, the Tiger Lillies generally draw on strange muses for their songs, but the writings of HP Lovecraft take the proverbial biscuit.
As part of the South Bank's Ether festival, Lovecraft's fantasies have been turned into a baroque musical cabaret named Mountains of Madness by the unlikely pairing of veteran avant-garde London vaudeville trio the Tiger Lillies and Alexander Hacke.
In honor of the bicentennial of Hans Christian Andersen's birth, the Tiger Lillies are lighting up "The Little Match Girl" with their special blend of world music, jazz, eerie falsetto and subtle raven-black sardonic wit.
We are happy to announce that the DVD release of the production ?Mountains of Madness ? will take place on the 24th of February 2006 8pm at the Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin.
GETTING hot and bothered about a controversial Sydney Festival show is a bit like going to a footy game and being shocked at the brutal nature of the tackling. Really, what did you expect?
Alexander Hacke, bass player for the German band Einstürzende Neubauten, and The Tiger Lillies, join forces to pay a very special tribute to H.P. Lovecraft?s genius and mastery at London's QEH
