The Tiger Lillies return to Soho Theatre with Soho Songs Low Life Lullabies
By SohoLisa | Sunday, July 17, 2011, 15:27
Legendary post-punk pioneers The Tiger Lillies return for their first London run in over two years with a new show celebrating Soho. Martyn Jacques, the lead singer and founder of the band spent most of his twenties in a flat above a brothel, peeping through his window at the buzz of Soho's lowlife, and he has been writing about w.hores, gangsters and freaks his entire 22 year career. In this show The Tiger Lillies unveil a whole host of future classics alongside some of their earliest material.
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The Tiger Lillies come to the Soho Theatre! © Elenec Flickr photostream
Their music is a mixture of pre-war Berlin cabaret, anarchic opera and gypsy music, echoing the voices of Bertolt Brecht and Jacques Brel. The Tiger Lillies shock, amuse and entertain in a postmodern vaudeville way, with their inimitable in-yer-face shows, where no limit should be taken for granted.
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The Tiger Lillies are highly entertaining, a bit avant garde with tongues firmly in cheek and very dark. If you like gypsy punk & cabaret most definitely check them out. I'm sure they must have a load of stuff on youtube. Not a band to listen to if you're easily offended though. Enjoy if you do go!
By The Pumpkin Queen at 11:43 on 19/07/11
ReportHas anyone seen this - is it any good?
By zoebow09 at 14:39 on 18/07/11
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