Jacques: Shockheaded Peter - A Junk Opera - The Tiger Lillies

Description: Genre: Rock / Artist: The Tiger Lillies / Audio CD released 1999-03-08 at NVC Arts / Disc #1 Tracklisting 1 St ... more

Jacques: Shockheaded Peter - A Junk Opera - The Tiger Lillies ... Struwwelpeter Overture
2 Cruel Frederick
3 Dreadful Story About Harriet And The Matches
4 Bully Boys
5 Story Of The Man That Went Out Shooting
6 Snip Snip
7 Augustus
8 Fidgety Philip
9 Johnny Head In Air
10 Flying Robert
11 Shockheaded Pete

Newest Review: ... wicked character plus Hyacinth Bucket singing and you are some way to creating the monster/genius that is Martyn Jacques. The ... more

... Tiger Lillies are pretty popular in Russia where they did a split album with legendary Russian ska band Leningrad labeled "Huinya" (direct translation: dickness) Ok ok, stop waffling.. THE ALBUM - SHOCKHEADED PETER: A JUNK OPERA! Shockheaded Peter is a collection of tunes from their theater performance The Shockheaded Peter Tour which is based on the stories of Der Struwwelpeter (Shaggy Peter - Heinrich Hoffmann, 1845) which was a Children's book for the ages of 3-6 which is so bloody terrifying, I'm not ...more

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Jacques: Shockheaded Peter - A Junk Opera
Release Date: 1999 - 03 - 08, Audio CD, NVC Arts

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Jacques: Shockheaded Peter - A Junk Opera - The Tiger Lillies: Amazing album, definitely worth a listen (837 words)
by - written on 10/06/08 (Very useful, 227 readings)
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This is a truly unusual performance in the theatre (I've only seen clips from youtube, yet to see them live) and despite the high quality of the CD, it's not quite the same as seeing the faces and behaviour of the band. Not everyone knows The Tiger Lillies, so I'll tell you a little about them. They are a three-piece band that have been going for the best part of 20 years and were formed in London, they consist of portly frontman Martyn Jacques, the comical Adrian Huge on drums (occasionally wears a pig mask or drums with toy babies instead of sticks) and the former session musician Adrian Stout on double-bass and/or musical saw who as he wrote in his bio ... Read the complete review