The avant-garde and provocative trio mixing cabaret, vaudeville, musical and street performance has the reputation of a cult band and a eclectic following: Mel Brooks, Terry Gilliam, Marylin Manson. „The godfathers of Brechtian punk cabaret” have been touring since 1989. The band, established by Martyn Jacques, an opera performer specialized in the castrato style and a former Soho resident – he used to live right next a brothel, in a world of vice, the main source of inspiration for his future music. Their musical world – „surrealist pornography”, as many critics described it – is the world of the outskirts, of promiscuity and violence.
Eccentric and intense, their shows were presented on all continents, either by themselves or accompanied by various theatre groups. "It's not surprising that their cult following is worldwide – a Tiger Lillies gig is a journey into wild emotion that passes right through melodrama and out the other side into bizarre beauty”, wrotes „Evening Standard”. The band released over 30 EPs: „Brothel to the Cemetery”, „Farmyard Filth”, „Ad Nauseam”, „Shockheaded Peter” – winner of two Olivier awards in 2002 or „The Gorey End”, a 2003 Grammy nominee.
The three musicians are Martyn Jacques (vocal, accordion, piano, guitar, harmonic, ukulele and banjo), Adrian Huge (drum, percussion and backing vocals) and Adrian Stout (bass, Theremin and backing vocals). The band was also featured in a documentary Drunken Sailor (2007) by Sergei Bodrov, nominated to Oscar for Mongol.
Official website: http://www.tigerlillies.com/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TheTigerLillies
Youtube: http://www.youtube.com/user/JustTigerLillies
Price per ticket: 30 lei. Tickets can be purchased in advance on www.biletmaster.ro.
