... This album covers the songs from the Shockheaded Peter tour, a collection of tunes based on the stories from the children's book Struwwelpeter (Shockheaded Peter) written in the 1840's which I imagine would be fairly terrifying for any child but is supposedly for 3-6 year olds!
Anyway ... Read review
Impossible to categorise, The Tiger Lillies have been singing their own brand of ... more
blasphemous ballads, tragic tales and debauched ditties since 1991. The band fuse the spirit of punk with the passion of chanson, while at the same time evoking the disturbing and forgotten music of our dim and distant past, such as religious masses, Bavarian folk music, Berlin cabaret and Victorian English music hall song. This concert (with documentary footage and interviews) from the PS122 theatre in New York features a selection of songs, including some from their sensational smash-hit theatre production Shockheaded Peter.
Advantages: Crazy performance, songs well taken from the book Disadvantages: Falsetto could be too much at certain times
...covers the songs from the Shockheaded Peter tour, a collection of tunes based on the stories from the children's book Struwwelpeter (Shockheaded Peter) written in the 1840's which I imagine would be fairly terrifying for any child but is supposedly for 3-6 year olds!
Anyway the performances from the dark trio are immense and really bring the stories to life. Martyn is completely insane on the song "Dreadful story about Harriet ... ...a girl burn herself to death accidentally with matches after being told not to play with them (he also plays the part of the girl)
There are no weak links on this album and I think it's a masterpiece but the falsetto voice could irritate you if you are not in the right mood for listening to it! In other words don't listen to the album when you are having an argument with your other half! ... more
Earlier today, I reviewed a Frank Zappa album and that immediately made me think of The Tiger Lillies, another band fronted by a dramatic genius Martyn Jacques who supposedly spent several years living in a brothel in Soho whilst perfecting his falsetto voice.
Martyn leads the line well with his hillarious face, intonation and general onstage behaviour. This album covers the songs from the Shockheaded Peter tour, a collection of tunes based on the stories from the children's book Struwwelpeter (Shockheaded Peter) written in the 1840's which I imagine would be fairly terrifying for any child but is supposedly for 3-6 year olds!
Anyway the performances from the dark trio are immense and really bring the stories to life. Martyn is completely insane on the song "Dreadful story about Harriet & The Matches", where he plays a cat who watches a girl burn herself to death accidentally with matches after being told not to play with them (he also plays the part of the girl)
There are no weak links on this album and I think it's a masterpiece but the falsetto voice could irritate you if you are not in the right mood for listening to it! In other words don't listen to the album when you are having an argument with your other half!
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Product details
Title
Shockheaded Peter (A Junk Opera)
Performer
Tiger Lillies (The)
Genre
Soundtracks
Sub Genre
Show
Release Date
08/03/1999
Recomended Retail Price
16.99 GBP
Original Release Year
1999
Label / Distributor
NVC Arts / Cinram Logistics
Producer
Olimax; The Tigerlillies
Pieces in Set
1
Studio / Live
Studio
Stereo
Stereo
Format
Performer
EAN
639842652223
Catalogue Number
3984265222
Additional notes
Album Notes
Music composed by Martyn Jacques. Principal cast includes: Anthony Cairns, Jo Pocock, Julian Bleach, Graeme Gilmour, Tamzin Griffin. Engineers: Jim Custance, H. P. Lovecraft, The Doc.
Titles on disc 1
1.
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 Peter
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