THE TIGER LILLIES
opening for
THE DRESDEN DOLLS
HALLOWEEN - OCTOBER 30, 2004
AVALON - BOSTON, MA
with special guests
COUNT ZERO
PHOTOS & TEXT by SHERI HAUSEY
Additional photos on 2nd page by Bill T Miller
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I'm distracted by rubber chicken parts affixed willy nilly to Adrian
Huge's thrift shop special --that would be his drum set. I'm primed for my
first Tiger Lillies' experience. Yeah, I've read the press on this cult
wonder from Angleland. I imagine a trio that could teleport easily
into Josef von Sternberg's "Blue Angel" and take the stage with Ms.
Dietrich. But instead of Marlene's throaty vocals, Martyn Jacques' heart
wrenching falsetto floods the room with that particularly piercing
pitch that intones aching human despair into the marrow of your bones. The lonely sound of Adrian Stout's saw, echoing through the hushed air,
undergirds the fatalistic falsetto and makes me feel like, well, like the
pathetic lead character in "The Blue Angel." You know, Emil Janning's
doomed LATIN teacher, Prof. Immanuel Rath, who gives up everything for
Marlene's Lola-Lola and, penniless and deserted, staggers back to his
school in the dead of night to die on his desk in an empty classroom.
Suddenly I have visions of myself staggering onto the third floor of
Boston Latin Academy in search of my desk. But then there are those damned rubber chickens and the bawdy humor and the engaging dramatic interplay of these three players that is so alive in its assertion of the spectrum of human emotions that the Lillies pull you back from the brink more alive than ever. Enter the musical realm of the Tiger Lillies and enter the spectacle that is our shared Human Comedy.
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SHERI HAUSEY
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