I don't know what's going on in this video. But it seems appropriate.
The Tiger Lillies are a UK based cabaret punk trio. Their purported origins: Lead singer Martin Jaques fine tuned his unique falsetto in a room above a Soho brothel for much of his younger years. He then pulled together a pair of Adrians (Huge and Stout) on drums and stand up bass, unleashing The Tiger Lillies upon the world.
It's hard to think of a concise description for such an idiosyncratic and wide ranging group. Their music is a mixture of accordion-infused fair ground stomps, dead eyed waltzes and lots and lots of falsetto operatics by Jaques. However even this description can't begin to cover the costumes, the concepts, the songs not sung in falsetto, the songs with ukulele, the songs which aren't songs and more.
But nothing brings a crowd together - or summarizes this band - better than Banging In The Nails. When played live, drummer Adrian Huge will frequently whip out a pair of enormous plastic mallets and literally smash his drum kit to pieces.
It's joyful, jumping, and Jesus filled.
I probably should have saved this for Easter.
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