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There have been multiple acts named Tiger, including a late 80s/early 90s reggae dancehall DJ, a 90s indie/Britpop band, a hardcore punk band, a Japanese female vocalist and a Trinidadian calypso singer popular in the 1930s.

Tiger was a very competent UK blues/rock outfit put together by guitarists Big Jim Sullivan and Les Walker, together with vocalist Nicky Moore, keyboard player Dave McCrae, drummer Billy Rankin, and bass player Phil Curtis. Dave McCrae later was replaced by Alan Park, previously with Beggar’s Opera. Tiger split in 1977 after recording three albums.

Yuh Dead Now, Cool Me Down and No Wanga Gut are tracks by the former. He was known for his original ‘growling’ style of chatting and was popular on the sound system Blackstar and many stageshows in Jamaica, before a motorcycle accident cut his aspiring career short in 1994, sparing his life but not his vocal chords.

The indie/Britpop Tiger recorded songs such as Friends, My Puppet Pal, Race and Shining In The Wood, all heavily played by Mark Radcliffe circa 1996. The band also sported unfashionably long hair at the back of their heads (often erroneously described as mullets), skinny jeans and metal t-shirts - a look much derided at the time but adopted a few years later by East London hipsters.

The hardcore Tiger, formed in 2006 in Traverse City, are set to release an album on Truth & Justice Records.
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  • zobbychris

    yoooo taiga

    16 Feb 5:11pm Reply

  • timriddim

    I doubt that it's impossible to disparate different artists with the same name wikipedia has a method why shouldn't it be possible for Last FM

    18 Sep 2010 Reply

  • ihavefivehat

    they could have it look at the song name and the album title and compare it to other people's scrobbles and figure it out from there. you might still get some crossovers but it would be a hell of a lot better than what we have now.

    5 Aug 2010 Reply

  • Chimino

    ...because there is no way to separate them if they share the same name, that's why.

    26 Jul 2010 Reply

  • wondabhoy

    why do they put disparate artists together just because they share the same name?????

    18 Apr 2010 Reply

  • lolo-b

    dancehall tiger!!!!!! him name tiger!!!

    22 Jul 2009 Reply

  • Rycochet

    If there were as many tigers in the wild as in there have been in the music industry, they wouldn't be endangered. Also, mullets or not, Indie Tiger were great.

    28 May 2009 Reply

  • christiemalry

    Big love here for indie Tiger.

    12 Mar 2009 Reply

  • fergusmcphail

    Indie Tiger! <3

    23 Sep 2008 Reply

  • jewbo23

    Indie Tiger all the way. Loved those guys.

    10 May 2008 Reply

  • blueyz

    guilty by tiger,what a classic

    6 Jan 2008 Reply

  • Chimino

    Rrrrrrrowwwwwwwwwwwwwwrrrr!! Tiger de pan di scene...

    18 Aug 2007 Reply

  • Anew

    I loved my puppet pal, Tiger!

    27 Jul 2007 Reply

  • poorshakes

    any love for indie tiger?

    22 Mar 2007 Reply

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