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The Tiger Lillies are a group led by the twisted and brilliant accordionist Martyn Jacques. With Adrian Huge on drums and firecrackers, and Adrian Stout on double bass, musical saw, and backup vocals, they make a striking trio, performing a marvellous blend of gypsy circus cabaret, traditional English vaudeville, and Weill-esque operattas with a dash of Brechtian stagecraft. Their songs’ thematic content tends to focus on death, religion, circus life, seafaring creeps, pimps, prostitutes, rent boys, bestiality, drugs, and the seedier side of life. Sung in a haunting falsetto, the lyrics are often in the first person, wherein the characters confess their heinous and disturbing crimes. Despite the blasphemous and coarse subject matter of the vast majority of their catalog, their early work reveals a softer side of the man behind the grease paint.

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cabaret, dark cabaret, avant-garde, experimental, alternative
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1	Banging in the Nails	84
2	Bully Boys	80
3	Russians	71
4	Killer	69
5	Hell	64
5	Crack Of Doom	64
5	Start A Fire	64
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Chimzuk wrote:
Sunday afternoon

Мені дуже подобається!

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Marciodnmoraes wrote:
8 days ago

hahaha, genial xD

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Vadimious wrote:
9 days ago

I'm bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, banging in the nails! (c) ))

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AfshinMay wrote:
9 days ago

they are the soul of dark art , maddens and purity

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AfshinMay wrote:
9 days ago

gods/ gods/ gods/ /anti /anti/ anti

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Stakker_Skam wrote:
9 days ago

they makes me cry

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xEvyn wrote:
14 days ago

Pioneers of dark cabaret, fucking fantastic. Love these men. <3

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psychosemitic wrote:
14 days ago

Please, Reverend Glasseye kinda sucks. Also, Freakshow is great, great, great! Two excellent albums this year - how do they do it?!

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thinkinghead wrote:
16 days ago

!!!8 neue Österreich-Termine!!!, zu sehen hier: http://www.tigerlillies.com/2003/index.php?main=live

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Lastera wrote:
November 2009

Amo su música, oh sí. Es una bandita de 10.

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Alehandro13 wrote:
November 2009

2mynameishuman The Brothel To The Cemetery

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mynameishuman wrote:
November 2009

What would be good albums to start with? (Note: I like 'Start a Fire' and 'Bully Boys', very much!)

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mynameishuman wrote:
November 2009

'Start a Fire' is great.

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factak wrote:
October 2009

The russian in the market square, ye the russian

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saftsack wrote:
October 2009

It is annoying. But that's why I like it. ;)

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freakydude91 wrote:
October 2009

The way he sings is hella annoying, if reverend glasseye was singing instead then this music would be very awesome

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extemporanea wrote:
October 2009

and I love you though you smell <3

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radaladar wrote:
September 2009

They played two nights here in Budapest. I got to play the first half a minute or so of Gin on the drums! It was awesome.

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Fruehsport wrote:
September 2009

http://www.lastfm.de/tag/mein%20quitschiger%20leiherkasten

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winter-eagle wrote:
September 2009

They were ace when I saw them in Sydney - would've been nice if they'd stayed a bit longer though; I would've gone to more shows...

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