Tiger Lillies
Posted by: throbnorth on 11 April 2004
I belatedly caught 'Shockheaded Peter' this weekend at the Lyric Hammersmith, and am still suffused with that warm glow that excellence induces. Besides, tales of the mutilation & death of small wayward children always give unaccountably deep satisfaction to primary school teachers. It's just so right, somehow.
I was much struck by the unusual music by the Tiger Lillies, and see that they have an album 'The Gorey End', a collaboration between themselves and the Kronos Quartet of settings of unpublished verse by Edward Gorey. Sounds like a winner to me.
Has anybody bought it, or have any recommendations for other Tiger Lillies purchases? There's an album called 'Farmyard Filth' ['a merry sing-along about hamsters, German shepherds, giraffes, pigs and sheep — and the amputees, pensioners and transsexuals who love them'] which looks fun. My only worry is whether the Lillies' unusual combination of countertenor and accordian might grate after a while.
throb
I was much struck by the unusual music by the Tiger Lillies, and see that they have an album 'The Gorey End', a collaboration between themselves and the Kronos Quartet of settings of unpublished verse by Edward Gorey. Sounds like a winner to me.
Has anybody bought it, or have any recommendations for other Tiger Lillies purchases? There's an album called 'Farmyard Filth' ['a merry sing-along about hamsters, German shepherds, giraffes, pigs and sheep — and the amputees, pensioners and transsexuals who love them'] which looks fun. My only worry is whether the Lillies' unusual combination of countertenor and accordian might grate after a while.
throb