UKRAINE

£14.99

All proceeds from this album go to support Ukraine.

UPDATE: All proceeds from this album are beeing donated to PTAHY VIDCHUI, organisation which provides medical assistance to military medics, as well as medics and paramedics, civil medicine - helping hospitals, clinics and dispensaries to close the necessary requests and provides assistance to victims after the occupation. Providing medical care: examination, medication, basic needs.

https://ptahy.vidchui.org/ennew/

Launch 21 July 2023

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The Tiger Lillies are heading to Ukraine, one of the first Western bands to play in the country, where they will perform two concerts in Lviv on 11 July and Kyiv on 13 July. For these special concerts the Olivier award-winning band will present a collection of new songs about Ukraine, written especially for these dates, along with a selection of their greatest hits.

The Tiger Lillies have been supporting Ukraine since the first days of the invasion. Having played the country many times in their career they hold their fans there in a special place in their hearts. The band are constantly talking about the war and the events taking place there on their social media, and lead singer Martyn Jacques has consistently spoken up for Ukraine to the band’s many fans.

This new album, UKRAINE, will be released on 21 July, with all proceeds going to support the country by raising funds for Ukrainians in war-torn areas.

The band’s singer and songwriter, Martyn Jacques, says “Over the last year or more, I have been very active about Ukraine on my Facebook page. I have made paintings and written poems and songs. This is a collection of those songs. The feelings of anger, frustration I have felt. Some of the songs are about people who support Russia. For political, economic, patriotic reasons. Some of the songs are about the arrogant, evil and corrupt Putin himself. Some of the songs are about the suffering of Ukrainian people in this horrible war. I feel such sympathy and sadness for the ordinary people who pay with their own lives or the lives of loved ones for the arrogant tsar gangster in the Kremlin.”

With an international reputation for being one of the foremost avant-garde bands in the world, the Grammy-nominated Tiger Lillies never cease to surprise, shock and entertain with their inimitable musical style, conjuring up the macabre magic of pre-war Berlin and fusing it with the savage edge of punk. This unique, Brechtian street opera trio tour the world playing concerts and theatre shows such as The Tiger Lillies’ Christmas Carol, The Ancient Mariner and the West End hit Shockheaded Peter.

This album was designed by the Ukrainian animation artist Mykyta Lyskov, who lives in Dnipro. Mykyta says “It is very important that such a legendary group as The Tiger Lillies supports Ukraine in the struggle for independence against Russian aggression. In the design of the album I used my drawing, which I drew while shelling was under way in my home town Dnipro. We are being killed in our own country, we need European support, we need weapons, we need fighter jets!”

TRACKLIST:

1. SLAYED

2. DESTROY THE DISEASE

3. WASHING MACHINES

4. VERMIN’S EVIL TOIL

5. BIRDS ARE SINGING IN UKRAINE

6. GANGSTER IN THE KREMLIN

7. NATO DEAR

8. BRING HIM TO HEEL

9. PUTIN’S TRUTH

10. HAPPY

11. DON’T ASK THEM RUSSIANS TO FORGIVE