| A Suicide for Winter Tour | The Tiger Lillies |
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Dedicated to those with a psychotic dislike of winter, The Tiger Lillies’ A Suicide For Winter Tour is a collection of exquisite songs of despair from London’s favourite cabaret subverts. Delve into the bizarre and disturbing underworld of singer Martyn Jaques, double bassist Adrian Stout, and the "James Joyce" of drums, Adrian Huge as they croon songs about prostitutes, drug addicts, and losers.
Featuring songs from their recent releases Urine Palace and Love and War, The Tiger Lillies return to Melbourne with their outrageous mixture of opera, gypsy music, falsetto vocals and exaggerated physicality for two chilling mid-winter performances.
The Tiger Lillies’ gruesome salon music and gutter sensibilities celebrate the loneliest of the seasons, unsettling audiences with their shocking black humour, intoxicating serenades and theatrical sophistication. Supported by The Twoks performing their melodic loops and gritty layers of violin and percussion electronica, modal jazz, hip hop and gypsy.
The Tiger Lillies were founded by Martyn Jaques who spent most of his twenties in a flat above a brothel in London‘s Soho, peeping through his window at the buzz of Soho’s lowlife. It took Jaques a good ten years to turn that strange world into art, while training as a singer and songwriter. In 1989 he got his first accordion and The Tiger Lillies were formed shortly after.
www.tigerlillies.com
Warning: Over 18 only. Some material may not contain coarse language and adult themes. Smoke effects
Supported by The Twoks
The Twoks are Xani Kolac (violin) and Tom Gannon (Drums, Percussion); part unpredictable, part electronica, and part unprecedented. Xani intricately layers and loops her violin as if she is playing with a quartet of strings fused with heart-starting beats traversing gypsy, hip hop, electronica and modal jazz.
Winner Best Music Performance Adelaide Fringe Festival 2008.
Arts House presents
The Tiger Lillies
A Suicide for Winter Tour
Supported by The Twoks
Venue: Arts House, North Melbourne Town Hall | 521 Queensberry Street, North Melbourne Mel Ref: 2A J10
Dates: Monday 4 and Tuesday 5 August 2008
Times: 7.30pm. 120 minutes with interval
Tickets: $30 / $25
Bookings: artshouse.com.au or 03 9639 0096
More info: www.artshouse.com.au
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