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The Tiger Lillies

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The Tiger Lillies are a cult British musical trio formed in 1989 by singer-songwriter Martyn Jacques. [1]

54 relations: Accordion, Alexander Hacke, Backing vocalist, Banjo uke, Bertolt Brecht, Cole Porter, Danielle de Picciotto, Dark cabaret, Double bass, Drum kit, E. A. Dupont, Edgar Allan Poe, Edward Gorey, Einstürzende Neubauten, Grammy Award, Guitar, Hamlet, Harmonica, Huinya, Jealousy (1925 film), Jew's harp, Justin Vivian Bond, Kronos Quartet, Kurt Weill, Laurence Olivier Award, Lead vocalist, Leningrad (band), Lloyd Kaufman, Loot (magazine), Love for Sale (song), Lulu (opera), Martyn Jacques, Mongol (film), Musical saw, Nan Goldin, Percussion instrument, Piano, Punch and Judy, Rain Dogs, Reumert prize, Rudolstadt-Festival, Struwwelpeter, The Ballad of Sexual Dependency, The Independent, The Little Match Girl, The Mountains of Madness, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, The Threepenny Opera, Theremin, Time Out (magazine), ..., Tom Waits, Troma Entertainment, Ukulele, Woyzeck. Expand index (4 more) »

Accordion

Accordions (from 19th-century German Akkordeon, from Akkord—"musical chord, concord of sounds") are a family of box-shaped musical instruments of the bellows-driven free-reed aerophone type, colloquially referred to as a squeezebox.

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Alexander Hacke

Alexander Hacke (also known as Alexander von Borsig, Alex Hacke, Hacke, born 11 October 1965) is a guitarist, bass guitarist, singer, musician, record producer, writer and film maker from Germany.

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Backing vocalist

Backing vocalists are singers who provide vocal harmony with the lead vocalist or other backing vocalists.

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Banjo uke

The banjolele (brand name; sometimes banjo ukulele or banjo uke) is a four-stringed musical instrument with a small banjo-type body and a fretted ukulele neck.

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Bertolt Brecht

Eugen Berthold Friedrich Brecht (10 February 1898 – 14 August 1956), known professionally as Bertolt Brecht, was a German theatre practitioner, playwright, and poet.

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Cole Porter

Cole Albert Porter (June 9, 1891 – October 15, 1964) was an American composer and songwriter.

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Danielle de Picciotto

Danielle de Picciotto is an American born artist, musician and film maker.

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Dark cabaret

Dark cabaret may be a simple description of the theme and mood of a cabaret performance, but more recently has come to define a particular musical genre which draws on the aesthetics of the decadent, risqué German Weimar-era cabarets, burlesque and vaudeville shows with the stylings of post-1970s goth and punk music.

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Double bass

The double bass, or simply the bass (and numerous other names), is the largest and lowest-pitched bowed string instrument in the modern symphony orchestra.

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Drum kit

A drum kit — also called a drum set, trap set, or simply drums — is a collection of drums and other percussion instruments, typically cymbals, which are set up on stands to be played by a single player, with drumsticks held in both hands, and the feet operating pedals that control the hi-hat cymbal and the beater for the bass drum.

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E. A. Dupont

Ewald André Dupont (25 December 1891 – 12 December 1956) was a German film director, one of the pioneers of the German film industry.

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Edgar Allan Poe

Edgar Allan Poe (born Edgar Poe; January 19, 1809 – October 7, 1849) was an American writer, editor, and literary critic.

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Edward Gorey

Edward St.

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Einstürzende Neubauten

Einstürzende Neubauten ("Collapsing New Buildings") is a German industrial band, originally from West Berlin, formed in 1980.

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Grammy Award

A Grammy Award (stylized as GRAMMY, originally called Gramophone Award), or Grammy, is an award presented by The Recording Academy to recognize achievement in the music industry.

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Guitar

The guitar is a fretted musical instrument that usually has six strings.

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Hamlet

The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, often shortened to Hamlet, is a tragedy written by William Shakespeare at an uncertain date between 1599 and 1602.

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Harmonica

The harmonica, also known as a French harp or mouth organ, is a free reed wind instrument used worldwide in many musical genres, notably in blues, American folk music, classical music, jazz, country, and rock and roll.

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Huinya

Huinya is a collaboration between the Russian band Leningrad and the British trio The Tiger Lillies.

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Jealousy (1925 film)

Jealousy (German:Eifersucht) is a 1925 German silent comedy drama film directed by Karl Grune and starring Lya De Putti, Werner Krauss and Georg Alexander.

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Jew's harp

The Jew's harp, also known as the jaw harp, mouth harp, Ozark harp or juice harp, is a lamellophone instrument, consisting of a flexible metal or bamboo tongue or reed attached to a frame.

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Justin Vivian Bond

Justin Vivian Bond (born May 9, 1963) is an American singer-songwriter, author, painter, performance artist, and actor.

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Kronos Quartet

The Kronos Quartet is an American string quartet based in San Francisco.

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Kurt Weill

Kurt Julian Weill (March 2, 1900April 3, 1950) was a German composer, active from the 1920s in his native country, and in his later years in the United States.

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Laurence Olivier Award

The Laurence Olivier Awards, or simply the Olivier Awards, are presented annually by the Society of London Theatre to recognise excellence in professional theatre in London at an annual ceremony in the capital.

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Lead vocalist

The lead vocalist (or main vocalist, lead vocals or lead singer) in popular music is typically the member of a group or band whose voice is the most prominent in a performance where multiple voices may be heard.

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Leningrad (band)

Leningrad (Ленинград), also known as Gruppirovka Leningrad (Группировка "Ленинград") and Bandformirovanie Leningrad (Бандформирование "Ленинград"), is a popular Russian rock band from Saint Petersburg (formerly Leningrad), led by Sergey "Shnur" Shnurov.

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Lloyd Kaufman

Stanley Lloyd Kaufman Jr. (born December 30, 1945) is an American film director, producer, screenwriter, and actor.

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Loot (magazine)

Loot is one of the United Kingdom's leading free classified advertising publishers, distributing its products via print, internet, interactive television and Wireless Application Protocol (WAP).

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Love for Sale (song)

"Love for Sale" is a song by Cole Porter, from the musical The New Yorkers which opened on Broadway on December 8, 1930 and closed in May 1931 after 168 performances.

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Lulu (opera)

Lulu (composed from 1929–1935, premièred incomplete in 1937 and complete in 1979) is an opera in three acts by Alban Berg.

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Martyn Jacques

Martyn Jacques (born 1959) is a British musician, singer and songwriter mostly known as the founder and front man of cult British trio The Tiger Lillies.

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Mongol (film)

Mongol (Монгол), also known as Mongol: The Rise of Genghis Khan in the United States and Mongol: The Rise to Power of Genghis Khan in the United Kingdom, is a 2007 semi-historical epic film directed by Sergei Bodrov, about the early life of Temüjin, who later came to be known as Genghis Khan.

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Musical saw

A musical saw, also called a singing saw, is a hand saw used as a musical instrument.

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Nan Goldin

Nancy "Nan" Goldin (born September 12, 1953) is an American photographer.

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Percussion instrument

A percussion instrument is a musical instrument that is sounded by being struck or scraped by a beater (including attached or enclosed beaters or rattles); struck, scraped or rubbed by hand; or struck against another similar instrument.

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Piano

The piano is an acoustic, stringed musical instrument invented in Italy by Bartolomeo Cristofori around the year 1700 (the exact year is uncertain), in which the strings are struck by hammers.

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Punch and Judy

Punch and Judy is a traditional, popular, and usually violent puppet show featuring Pulcinella (Mr. Punch) and his wife Judy.

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Rain Dogs

Rain Dogs is the eighth studio album by American singer-songwriter Tom Waits, released in September 1985 on Island Records.

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Reumert prize

The Reumert prize (Danish: Årets Reumert) is an annual Danish awards ceremony to recognize excellence in theatre achievements in Denmark.

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Rudolstadt-Festival

The Rudolstadt-Festival (till 2015 TFF ("Tanz- und Folkfest") Rudolstadt) is a German folk, roots and world music festival.

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Struwwelpeter

Der Struwwelpeter ("shock-headed Peter") is an 1845 German children's book by Heinrich Hoffmann.

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The Ballad of Sexual Dependency

The Ballad of Sexual Dependency is a 1985 slide show exhibition and 1986 artist's book publication of photographs taken between 1979 and 1986 by photographer Nan Goldin.

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The Independent

The Independent is a British online newspaper.

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The Little Match Girl

"The Little Match Girl" (Den Lille Pige med Svovlstikkerne, meaning "The little girl with the matchsticks") is a short story by Danish poet and author Hans Christian Andersen.

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The Mountains of Madness

"The Mountains of Madness" is an audio/visual musical adaptation of the works of H.P. Lovecraft by Tiger Lillies, Danielle de Picciotto & Alexander Hacke.

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The Rime of the Ancient Mariner

The Rime of the Ancient Mariner (originally The Rime of the Ancyent Marinere) is the longest major poem by the English poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge, written in 1797–98 and published in 1798 in the first edition of Lyrical Ballads.

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The Threepenny Opera

The Threepenny Opera (Die Dreigroschenoper) is a "play with music" by Bertolt Brecht, adapted from a translation by Elisabeth Hauptmann of John Gay's 18th-century English ballad opera, The Beggar's Opera, with music by Kurt Weill and insertion ballads by François Villon and Rudyard Kipling.

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Theremin

The theremin (--> originally known as the ætherphone/etherphone, thereminophone or termenvox/thereminvox) is an electronic musical instrument controlled without physical contact by the thereminist (performer).

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Time Out (magazine)

Time Out is a British travel magazine published by Time Out Group.

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Tom Waits

Thomas Alan Waits (born December 7, 1949) is an American singer-songwriter, musician, composer and actor.

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Troma Entertainment

Troma Entertainment is an American independent film production and distribution company founded by Lloyd Kaufman and Michael Herz in 1974.

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Ukulele

The ukulele (from ukulele (oo-koo-leh-leh); variant: ukelele) is a member of the lute family of instruments.

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Woyzeck

Woyzeck is a stage play written by Georg Büchner.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Tiger_Lillies

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