Shockheaded Peter and Other Songs
Before founding the Tiger Lillies, Martyn Jacques spent seven years training himself as an opera singer with the castrati style of voice for six years while living in solitude above a brothel in London's Soho. Auspicious beginnings indeed for the man who would soon front this indefinably eccentric three piece band whose songs are littered with countless shifty characters from contemporary Britain's dark underbelly. Rendering the stories of pimps, prostitutes, con-men and thieves with his angelic voice, Jacques is a one man crusade against the powers of censorship, repression and mediocrity. Jacques unique musical mayhem is anchored by percussionist Adrian Huge who is not afraid to use a drum kit consisting solely of silverware and spatulas, and double bass player Adrian Stout who cavorts around the stage dressed in leider hosen and a kilt, in a bizarre tribute to the folk dances of Austria. This special night of music features the Tiger Lillies in New York performing their frenetic mixture of musical styles, including songs from their latest album Shockheaded Peter.