Tigers group. The Tiger Lillies Music Group

The trio works in the gloomy comedy-tragic style of the Grand Guignol theater with elements of Brechtovsky cabaret and black humor. Song texts are often associated with the themes of different forms of sex and death, among the heroes of songs - prostitutes, perverts and drug addicts. ... Read everything

Tiger Lillies (Tiger Lillis, in Per. From English "Tiger Lilies") - Music Trio from London (United Kingdom), founded in 1989 and active to this day.

The trio works in the gloomy comedy-tragic style of the Grand Guignol theater with elements of Brechtovsky cabaret and black humor. Song texts are often associated with the themes of different forms of sex and death, among the heroes of songs - prostitutes, perverts and drug addicts. The group's business cards began their stage costumes and makeups, as well as the counter-tenor vocalist Martin Jacques, accompanying himself on the accordion.
Collaboration

Tiger Lillies were nominated for Grammy for the Album "The Gorey End", recorded in conjunction with Kronos Quartet (2003).
In 2005, a joint album "Huinya" with the Russian group of Leningrad came out. The leader of Leningrad Sergey Shnurov performs a lot of Tiger Lillies songs in artistic translation into Russian, and Tiger Lillies perform two songs of Leningrad in English. On all songs play musicians of both groups.

Tiger Lillies and Alexander Hake at the concert with the program "The Mountains of Madness" (Frankfurt am Main, 2007)
In 2006, the DVD "Mountains of Madness" was released, which is a joint program with a German musician Alexander Khake (from Einstürzende Neubauten) and Visual Artist Danielle de Picciotto (wife Hake). This project is based on works by the Writer of Howard Lovekraft (including "Call Khulhu"). Joint concert tour and this program took place.

Structure:
Martin Jacques (Martyn Jacques) - Vocals, Accordion, Keyboard, Guitar.
Adrian Huge Houble and Percussion.
Edrian Stout (Adrian Stout) - Bass, Music Saw, Vocals.
Discography

Albums
1994 - Births, Marriages and Deaths
1995 - Spit Bucket
1995 - AD Nauseam
1996 - Goodbye Great Nation, with Contrastate
1996 - The Brothel to the Cemetery
1997 - Farmyard Filth
1998 - Low Life Lullabies
1998 - Shockheaded Peter
1999 - Bad Blood and Blasphemy
2000 - Circus Songs
2000 - Bouquet of Vegetables - The Early Years
2001 - 2 Penny Opera
2003 - The Sea
2003 - The Gorey End, with Kronos Quartet
2003 - Live in Russia 2000-2001, concert album recorded in Russia
2004 - Punch and Judy
2004 - DEATH AND THE BIBLE
2005 - Huinya, with Russian group Leningrad
2006 - The Little Matchgirl
2006 - Die Weberischen
2007 - URINE PALACE
2007 - Love and War
2008 - 7 Deadly Sins
2009 - Freakshow.
2009 - Sinderella
DVD
2006 - Mountains of Madness, with Alexander Khake and Danielle de Picciotto

Martin Jacques left the dead building of the Minsk Airport and spawned: "I as if at home!" He said, pointing to the first poster "Clear" in his life.

From there, two accordionists looked at Martin or, as he immediately decided, he watched him himself. Starting in Trinity, the suburb of something called "Pancakes with Red Ikra and Balipolvavorr" (the "Balipolvarrian" component of Martin scared frightened), "Tiger Lilies" came to the club "Reactor" and first gave a concert, and then interview. Of course, to interview after the concert - idiocy. The journalist may have already drank and tired, and the musician already understands little
and wants to go to sleep and at the party. Nevertheless, we decided to chat with Martin after the show - to understand whether he changed from merging with the Minsk public. Indeed, changed - now he was almost as a native: signed Tatiana memorable pieces of friends, and Lyudmila even asked to help him get rid of the makeup, who, along with his streams with him, the concert was a success.

- What are your impressions of the concert in Minsk?
- At the very beginning, when I just went to the stage, I felt that we do not know the public with the public
friend, as it should. It was like a meeting of strangers. When the audience consists of old fans, it is more reminiscent of communication with the other. A little later we have already found new friends, but at first it was a bit strange and nervously. In addition, the organizers did their work too well, so there were people at the concert who came not because they like our music, but because it was the event of a citywide level. Someone from such people
the concert clearly did not like, and this is understandable - some people do not like the Tiger Lillies. That is, among the total number of viewers there was a certain number of people who would not come to our concert next time. And it's good that they will not come, they still do not fit. But in general, everything would be stunningly, I am very happy!

- You noticed that some people came with toys - plastic hammers and a doll Barbie?
- Yes, it was touching. I was presented to me a decorative skull, look (shows - approx. Auth.), He is written on the back of the head of the 'La Calavera De La Catrina' (so called Engraving Jose Guadalupe put, then the figure of the skeleton, dressed in a women's dress, seeing fashionable and other With the words "death-shchegolich" - an attribute of the Mexican Day of the Dead, - approx. Aut.) Who speaks Spanish? No one. It seems to me that in Minsk with Spanish, somehow not very.

When you meet a new adherence in the city, in which never played before, how do you pick up songs for execution?
- In this case, it all depends on the atmosphere. For example, if you were in our yesterday's concert in Moscow, you would seek that a completely different group appears. First, it happened in the theater, and sounded mainly slow compositions, melodic ballads, people cried. Yesterday everything was very sad and emotionally, and today everything was like a party. Crazy party with insane people. And both passed wonderful, I
like both options. Great job. It turns out, you are doing something, and people love what you are doing, they get pleasure from it, and bring people a pleasure to people - an amazing feeling. I myself feel from this
ourselves wonderful. Especially when people give me something beautiful as this decorative skull.

I feel great when people give me something as beautiful as a decorative skull.

- And after all, he is Mexican, not Belarusian.
- Indeed, Mexican, but we have a huge number of fans in Mexico. We are truly famous. Russia and Mexico are two huge countries that love us. Do not ask me why. Both of these people are interested in death, they like the accordion, maybe it explains it.

- Mexicans really play an accordion?
- (whispers - approx.) Well, maybe not. But I did not expect you to ask me such difficult and awkward questions. (louder - approx.) Actually, it seems to me that they really love the accordion!

During a dense tour of the tour, when you have concerts every day every day in different cities, like you, three adult men, allow other people to decide when you sleep when you play when there is?
- Such a lifestyle. So we earn existence, this is our work, and this is quite a pleasant job - to bring joy to people. We have fun doing our own business. The journalist sometimes has to wake up in the morning, sometimes - travel, all this needs to be taken as proper, all those terrible moments, of which sometimes work is. The same in my case - I have to humble with all the difficulties. For how to lift tomorrow at 7 am, to fly to Kiev, but at the same time, all this is very interesting.

- The fact that for you is work, for all the others - the event they was waiting for, perhaps all their lives.
- It is amazing, it really touches me for the soul. For this, some purpose and sense appear in my life and I feel great. It's nice to realize that people love you and what you are doing. Entering the feeling. At such moments, I feel that I create something good - I make people happy, I will bring a little sense in their lives, it's great, right? Perfectly. (Low voice - approx.) Because everything else I do not feel this at all. And when there is something like that, like this night, it touches me. It's great.

Five visual signs for which it was possible to identify in the Minsk crowd of present glasses of The Tiger Lillies.
1. Velida, but gorgeous felt hat-bowler.
2. Just some kind of stupid cap original, forms, more or less holding volume (for those who have not found a classic British pot).
3. Telnyma or at least some kind of wise thing with longitudinal blue or black stripes on a white background. The suspenders, a starchy white shirt, a black jacket or a fracture (however, is enough to have at least one of the above).
4. The presence in the hands of stupid artifacts: a rubber hammer, a plastic infant, spreading the bubbie doll doggles, and the like.

What do you think about the combination of love and depression? There are people who dreamed of getting to your concert, but at the last moment reversed because of the gateway depression.
"All I know about it, I know from my own experience, so I will say how it happens to me." For example, when I am at home, and I wanted to see some movie, I look at a stack of three or four DVDs, among which there is something commercial and easy, and there is a movie Ingmar Bergman, for example. And, it happens, I stop my choice on some light film, because I do not want to watch something too heavy. Even despite the fact that another film is better, more interesting and professional. Maybe The Tiger Lillies sometimes create the same effect.

- What impressed you in Belarus?
- First of all, people. They are awesome. The audience tonight was great tonight. Beautiful, beautiful evening. I am terribly happy. Unfortunately, we did not have time to see the whole city, we had a small bus tour, it was fun and interesting. The city impressed me, but the most interesting was what a promoter told me. He entered and struck me with a message that nothing belongs to anyone here. Everything belongs to the state. Incredible. Just like in Soviet Russia, isn't it? That is, they can cover this place at any time, because they have absolute power. Right? Unthinkable. (aside - approx.) Tell me, is there any water there? There are so many vodka, but there is no water.

- What dreams do you dream?
- I especially do not dream. Adrian is the one who you need.
- (Adrian Hewinger) My dreams are terrible.
- He has funny dreams. When he falls asleep, he seemed to go to the cinema.
- (Edrian Hewinger) When I play computer games for too long, or deal with your videos, laid down in folders, then later I dream that I sort the folders, and each of them is a new level of the game. Or recently, before traveling to Russia, I dreamed that we give a concert on the recreation center in Wales - a terrible place of pastime. There were twenty schoolchildren, and everything was just disgusting. After us, the scene began to go to the scene, which I once knew in the past, they were all in large clown shoes, in silly gloves with stupid bouquets of flowers, and arranged clown. Looking at it, the children were constantly shouting: "A-ah-ah!" Because of this, the first clown stopped his speech after three songs, and I still could not find Martin and Adrian, could not return to the stage to pick up my drums, because there was already the following clown with the next "A-A- Ah! ". And then a friend Martin appeared, he entered through the secret door and brought with him a lot of drugs. He was looking for a sound engineer who takes a lot of drugs, but the sound engineer was very busy, and he was constantly told Martin's voice. He had a voice exactly like Martin. How did this dream exhausted me.

- You have songs about heroes from the Middle Ages. Do you think you would have fun in those times?
- Oh! It seems to me that I would be burned on the bore. I strongly doubt that living in the Middle Ages would bring me a lot of pleasure. I would die of fear. I would have considered the heretic. No.

Oh! It seems to me that in the Middle Ages I would be burned on a fire.

- Obviously, you would not risk singing the same songs ...
- Oh, God, no, of course! You probably joke. I would not sing any of them. Often people ask me if there is something that I would not sing about. I always answer the same thing - I would not sing about Muslim
manah. This is fraught. Therefore, if I lived in the Middle Ages, I would never like to sing about Christians, I am completely convinced. I do not know what I would sang then, but not exactly about them. This is now I can fearlessly sing about the Middle Ages. But now is terribly different. You have heard that some guy seems to be cut into part only for making some art installation in which a naked woman took part, Koran was projected on whose body. Someone entered and used him with a ritual knife, which butchers use. I would not communicate with Muslims, I say exactly.

- And the last question: What is the most annoying in journalists?
- I think I know the answer. Most of all in journalists annoying me that (makes a pause - approx.): "So why is your group called The Tiger Lillies?" It seems to me that there is nothing worse. The rest of the questions are even more or less, but this returns me to thoughts: "Only not this, I am again, and again, and again I have to answer this question ..."

- It's time to print a finished answer.
- Just about this we recently spoke, and Adrian said that we need to cook "ten frequently asked questions" with answers. Or at least five. Although many do not force to read even it. Here are journalists who do not know about us at all, they did not read anything about us, did not conduct any preliminary preparation at all. They come and just ask questions. Sometimes it displays me. Although some of them are very cute and charming. Then it does not matter (laughs - approx.), They know something about the group or not. If a man is cheerful, it's great.

The Tiger Lillies London Trio ("Tiger Lilies") was formed at the end of the eighties. They were compared with The Pogues and Tom Wait, their style was called a street opera, a cabaret and a post-punkey. However, no shortcut and comparison to them is glued. Indeed, in their music you can see the impact of such musical and theater workers like Bertold Brecht, Kurt Weil, Jacques Brel and Spike Jones, right down to Sondheyam, Edith Piaf and Louis Armstrong. All world music, from Gypsy ballads, German cabaret, French chanson to dirty prison blues and songs of street musicians mixed, collapsed and re-created by the musicians of this unusual group. And the musicians are only three: Martin Jacques (Martyn Jacques - Accordion, Voice), Edrian Stout (Adrian Stout - Double Bass) and Adrian Huge (Adrian Huge - Percussion and Percussion). In contrast to the ascetic concert set of tools, in the studio, the musicians do not refuse themselves in anything - the recordings are heard the various tools: acoustic guitars, brass, keyboards and violins. Musicians gladly use the sounds of non-lacking doors and two-handed saws, bicycle beep signals and a funny giggle bag with laughter. Three people with their acoustic instruments create unique eclectric and eccentric music of extraordinary melodicity, beauty and emotional strength.

Texts The Tiger Lillies differ in open plump. Their dirty blues shock their frankness and blasphemous texts. They sing about prostitutes and pimps, weak antiquities and disabled, transvestites and friki, drug addicts, homeless and losers. They sing about sex with flies and sheep, crucifixes of Jesus Christ and how easy and fun to kill. "We do not sing a lot about positive things," says the drummer Adrian. "Yes, we sing about death, atrocities and diseases, about things about which people prefer not to think" - adds Martin. However, what can scare and repel, should not embarrass the listener - because as a truly postmodern group, "Tiger Lilies" belong to all this with a huge sense of humor. Martin sings about terrible, unpleasant and simply "non-political" things and the vote of a professional opera singer. Located on the verge between the joke, the creation of the group, their blasphemy and "pervert" cannot be taken seriously, especially since their most shocking songs is usually the most fun.

Another feature of the group's creativity is theatricality. Their concerts, or, it is better to say, the show is always an unexpectedly fun view. On the stage, the crown sheep run, the double bassist relieves his pants and sails in shorts, the drummer spreads the drum installation with a huge plastic hammer-harmonica, and Martin rolls his eyes, sings, yelling, laughs, and grimaches. In fact, The Tiger Lillies is a really theater group. Probably the most famous from their theater projects - the SHOCKHeaded Peter performances. The inexperienced stage of the bloody fairy tales of the Child Psychiatrist Heinrich Hoffmann, written 150 years ago (in Russian translation of 1849 - "Steppe Placeka"), fascinating a mixture of Victorian melodrama, puppet theater, theater of masks and gothic horror stories, - received widespread recognition as among the audience, So among critics. In 2002, the show received a prestigious theater award Laurence Olivier Award. There is the Tiger Lillies and a circus project - The Tiger Lillies Circus ("Circus Tiger Lilies") - a large-scale show with clowns, strongheads, jugglers, acrobats and friki.

In 2005, the whole world celebrated 200 years since the Day of the Danish Fairy Tale of Hans Christian Andersen, and in honor of this event The Tiger Lillies created their latest theatrical project - "The Little Match Girl" ("Girl with matches") on one of the famous Tales Andersen . The performance was in the program of the Year of Andersen and was shown on the most prestigious European theatrical sites. Another recent project The Tiger Lillies - "Mountains of Madness", a multimedia show, created in 2005, together with Alexander Hake from Einstuerzende Neubauten based on the works of Howard Lovecraft.

Musicians managed to play and movies - for example, in the film "Plankett and McLeene" (dir. Jake Cattle, starring Liv Tyler, Johnny Lee Miller and Robert Carlyl), in which their music also sounds. Also, the musicians wrote music and starred in the film Sergei Bodrov-senior "Let's do it in a quick" (Quickie, Sergey Bodrov-Jr., Jennifer Jason Li, Vladimir Mashkov, Henry Thomas). The Bodrovaya-senior group so loved the group that he shot a full-length documentary film, which was already shown on Russian television.

The Tiger Lillies collaborated with the most different well-known and unknown musicians, including Steven Severin (Steven Severin - Siouxsie and The Banshees) and Blixa Bargeld - Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds, Einstuerzende Neubaute). In their discography, joint albums with the CONTRASTATE experimental English group, the legendary Kronos Quartet (the album was nominated for Grammy) and the Russian pop group "Leningrad".

The Tiger Lillies, who have long had time to turn from London Bohemian's pets in the legend of the world cultural underground, produce their discs on their own Misery Guts Music label. Almost every evening they play in some room in some country of the world - England, Canada, America, Australia, Russia, Greece, Czech Republic, China, etc. In their repertoire, more than 1000 songs, and new ones are written. In their discography, 19 albums (which were reprinted in England, USA, Germany, Russia), the whole world press and crowds of fans seek the film and simply theaters, ex-weaving factories, classic concert halls, clubs, spacious churches and other places where they happen to speak.

Biographies of group members:

Martyn Jacques.
Martin Jacques, the group leader, was born in the small industrial English town of Slagh (Slough). Later he will write a song with the words "I" LL Sing You A Song If You Drop a Bomb on Slough "(" I will drink a song to you if you lose a bomb to the Slaya "). Martin entered the theological college in Wales to the philosophical department, but A year later, he was kicked out from there for the fact that he, being drunk, put a pig's head with Malboro's cigarette in the nose to the altar of the local church.
Playing the keyboard tools and writing Martin's songs at the age of 15, and his first strange group God and the Supreme Beings ("God and Higher Beings") he organized in the late 70s. He sang with a flower pot on his head, and his future wife and manager The Tiger Lillies Sophie Sishell (Sophie Seashell) played on the bass guitar. In the early 80s Martin moved to live in the "Red Lantern District" London - Soho (Soho). Here he lived 7 years in the apartment over the strip club. In the afternoon, he sold hashish tubes and other "accompanying" goods (and sometimes the drugs themselves) in the local market, often changed to women's clothing, and watched the representatives of the London "bottom" - prostitutes, drug addicts, puzzles, thieves, perverts, pathors, homeless people And losers, and at night I wrote about all this songs. At the end of the 80s, his apartment together with a huge number of texts and records God and The Supreme Beings burned, but Martin was ready for the organization of a new group, which he called in honor of one infamous prostitute, killed in London, - The Tiger Lillies.
The founder and ideologue of the group, the "neutered gangster", a fighter with censorship, asian and mediocrity loves to quote the Jacques of Brel, who once said: "All bad musicians need to shoot." For a long time I remember his manner to dress a la dickens, wearing a hat-bowler, from under which a long pigtail hangs, and sing with closed eyes. Angelic voice he sings about the fall of man. When he is asked what he likes in music, he says: "I am not a lover at all. I don't really like music." "However, he loves dead musicians," Adrian drummer inserts. "Yeah, the dead we love very much. And funny too. We love dead funny people. Spike Jones Dead and Funny, Bertold Brecht, Louis Armstrong, Edith Piaf, Billy Hollide, Janet Jackson. Although, it only seems that she is dead. She should be dead, although she is not very funny. "

Adrian Stout.
Adrian Stout, the double bassist is perhaps the only one of the members of the group who is a truly serious musician. He managed to play a bust of jazz, blues and country groups in various countries (including in India) before he became one of the "tiger lilies." Here he replaced the double bassist Phil Batcher (Phil Butcher), who was tired of constant tours and who wanted to marry. Adrian refused to play in the support group of Bob Dylan at a concert at the stadium in Wembley, because on the same evening he had to play with The Tiger Lillies in a small rushed pub. Since then, Edrian behaves extremely indecent: like other members of the group "loves" inflatable sheep and dress up as a prostitute, and besides, there are still wild dances during the execution of the SUICIDE song ("suicide").

Adrian Huge.
David Byrne, when for the first time I saw The Tiger Lillies drummer, called it "James Joyce on the drums". Adrian worked in meat and confectionery stores, shops selling motorcycles, banks, rejected cars. When he earned his first major amount of money, he exchanged her on small bills, poured them on the bed, undressed in dogge and began to lie down and ride on the trimmed beds. He first seriously engaged in music in 1982, being a member of the Uncle Lumpy and The Fish Doctors team ("Uncle Lamp and Fish Doctors"), and in 1989 he joined just the resulting group The Tiger Lillies. One day, Adrian came to the concert in the Czech Republic, waiting for the drum installation prepared by him. But instead, he was pointed to the mountain of polished kitchen utensils. However, he didn't embarrass any droplets and wore the audience's hearing all evening, armed with sauces, frying pan and a midwife. Since then, his drum installation looks like a cross between a modern sculpture and a children's toy store - along with standard drums and plates, Adrian uses all sorts of sakes, cracks, pounders and gtering, as well as the kitchen accessories that loved it. Until now, Adrian loves to repair cars in his free time.

Do you know Leningrad Group? Surely known. After all, the Serge of Cords plays the most primitive strings of the Russian soul. It can be perceived as irony, as a parody like humor. But on the fact it just is and it is funny. So, the heroes of our today's article, the London Music Group The Tiger Lillies, perform something similar, but in its own way.

Vomiting in apartments, old whores
Especially bike, flies fly
Blaverota is their food,
Here is such an environment.

Comparison with the Leningrad group is not accidental - teams are so ideologically intersect, which even recorded a joint album in 2005, which is called "Huinya". Someone could say that this name briefly and concisely reflects the very essence of the creativity of this team, but! We will not agree with this.

Beautiful life is success -
Belly grows almost everyone
And there is a choice of many dishes,
But soon there will be a terrible court.
No one will escape it
Nothing awaits anything
But there is no reason to worry
We will all die - you are not alone.

Limited in the article poems - free translation of the words of the songs The Tiger Lillies performed by the cord on the above album. And on the one hand, it is the top of the primitivism. But on the other, unless they reflect the very essence of the philistical worldview, not covered with a fig leaf of intake intellectuality and pseudo-intelligence. I often have you ever seen people in a state of strong alcoholic intoxication? Are there many civilization in them? You can not agree, but it is in a state of alcoholic intoxication in people pop up their true essence, which reflects, extended, grotesque, with irony and black humor, the texts of The Tiger Lillies. Who said that you need to sing only about beautiful? You can sing about everything!

Heroin - Good!
Cocaine is good!
Anasha - fuck,
Well, vodka is better!

The Tiger Lillies group was founded back in 1989, but still leads active creative activities. The team is a trio, which invariably enter Martin Jacques, Adrian Huthj and Adrian. Despite the modest composition, a sufficient number of different tools is seized in the arsenal of musicians, and not a male high voice Martin Jacques became a certain business card of the team. The songs of the group, as you already guessed, invariably causing and outrageous, and live performances combine elements of the terror theater, epic theater and cabaret. During his speeches, the musicians actively interact with the hall, so that visitors of their concerts become not just observers, but with full-fledged participants of what is happening.

You do not understand me,
I do not understand you!
I do not understand, I do not understand!
We live in different worlds!

Musicians called Edith Piaf and Bertolt Brecht with their role modes for imitation. In terms of the musical component, their creativity is difficult to attribute to any particular genre, since many characteristic features of different musical styles are reflected in the Tiger Lillies music. By 2014, the group already released 28 studio albums.

Double bass does not fall,
The guitarist always climbs
Drummer past cash registers
And not heard Maracasov.
Our show is shit
But it is one
But it is
Such one.

In real life, the musicians are not quite, but quite ordinary people. The thing is that they relate to their creativity somewhat removed, as to theatrical production. That is why they successfully exploit their image during the last 20 years and at the same time continue to regularly delight their fans with new albums and alive performances. By the way, as Martin Jacques admitted in one of the interviews, the largest number of group fans lives in Russia.