Our Lyrics
Our CDs to date all come without the lyrics written inside. As a result we've had lots of requests to put them online somewhere. SO...this is me putting them online somewhere. Enjoy!
The Silent City (coming very soon)
January Mailout
'Ello. I hope you're enjoying your holiday should you be currently undertaking one, or alternatively enjoying working again if you are back at work. Suffice to say I hope you're enjoying whatever it is you are doing, and if you are not enjoying it then I hope you're at least getting paid a lot for it or it is in some way for the greater good (or ideally both).
This is just a quick note to let you know that tickets for our Spiegeltent show are on sale. This band was created with venues like The Famous Spiegeltent firmly at the forefront of our collective minds, so we'll be putting everything we have and several things we don't currently have but may yet obtain through crime into our debut performance at the iconic venue.
Tickets:
http://spiegel.artscentremelbourne.com.au/2012/the-tiger-and-me/
Hear The Smoke here:
http://www.facebook.com/thetigerandme?sk=app_2405167945
Facebook event:
http://www.facebook.com/events/308056109238393/
Also, if you like any of ABC's Nightlife, Mark Holden, or this band, then you should tune into ABC tonight from 11pm. We'll play a couple of songs and say some things, hopefully most of which are witty and eloquent, but I can't promise anything.
Kind regards,
The Tiger and Me
The Famous Spiegeltent
'The Smoke' Video Launch
March 7
11pm
Tickets on sale now
December Mailout
O'right? My esteemed colleague and band member Jane tells me that I've started speaking with an English accent because I've been listening to too many old radio recordings of Ricky Gervais. I'm prepared to accept that like many spurious accusations, this may have a foundation in truth BUT DOES THAT MAKE ME A BAD PERSON JANE?! HUH?!
Exac'ly. And tha'.
I digress. I'm easily distracted today. Incidentally did you know that pigs can't look up? SORRY! I'm doing it again. My parents think that younger people have short attentions spans, but as Socrates (supposedly) said:
"The children now love luxury; they have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for elders and love chatter in place of exercise. Children are now tyrants, not the servants of their households. They no longer rise when elders enter the room. They contradict their parents, chatter before company, gobble up dainties at the table, cross their legs, and tyrannize their teachers."
Which makes me think that older people just think that about younger people in general. I tried to point this out to them but I got distracted by some colour and movement. ANYWAY NONE OF THIS IS RELEVENT.
Our launch is this Saturday and it's going to be a belter. As per usual for big shows, we have some guest performers, one of whom looks so much like Sting I think it actually might be Sting's long lost Hungarian twin brother. I call him Shting. We have support from Kikuyu, who we love. Get along early to catch her set, it's worth seeing.
We are playing the entire new recording, which features five brand new songs that you almost certainly will not have heard, unless you are in the band, plus one other song that you may have heard us play live before.
thethousands.com.au said this:
Indie/folk band The Tiger and Me have set themselves an ambitious task. Three separate recordings, with staggered releases, combining to express a musical descent into madness. Their first release The Howling Fire contained the kind of music that had you swinging your brew, clinking stein to stein and singing along as your once-precious beer frothed over the edge unnoticed. Their second release, however, is not like this – not like this at all. Opting for a slower, melancholic feel, the band switch their piano accordion to “sad” and continue their three-part journey with The Silent City. Yet even its dark tones can’t stop The Tiger and Me’s infectious folk-charm leaking through – they’ll probably even have you swinging your mug from time to time throughout the set, only this time you may weep when your brew goes over the tip (but it was never about the beer was it?) – yeah, that’s madness for you. The EP will see its first light at the Phoenix Public House this weekend, and with lo-fi sweetheart Kikuyu backing them up – you’d be mad to miss it.
Thank you and good night,
From Ade, and in order of residential proximity to Fez: Fez, Tim, Jane, Tobes, Sarah.
'THE SILENT CITY'
LAUNCH DECEMBER 10
THAT'S THIS SATURDAY
EXACTLY
Click HERE to book tickets
Facebook it HERE
Listen to new single 'THE SMOKE' online HERE.
November Mailout
THE SILENT CITY'
LAUNCH DECEMBER 10
Click HERE to book tickets
Listen to new single 'THE SMOKE' online HERE.
Adored mailing list,
I hope you're well. I'm well thanks. Largely because WE JUST HANDED THE KEYS INTO OUR OLD PLACE OH YEAH!
Whoa. Ahem. Sorry about that. Just finished moving house from bad house to good house. Excited. Okay, now to business.
SINGLE
Our new single has arrived back from the mastering fella and it's online. It will be released along with its five friends at the single launch discussed above.
COMMONGROUND
We're playing at a ripper of a little festival called Commonground this weekend, alongside Flap!, The Band Who Knew Too Much, The Stetsons and more. Further info here.
EAST COAST SHENANIGANS
Next week is the Brisbane launch of The Howling Fire (better late than never), and then Mullumbimby Music Festival all weekend - all gig venues and times are here.
Thanks for listening,
Ade, and in order of enthusiasm for free jazz: Sarah..........................................................................Tim, Tobes, Fez and Jane
October Mailout
NEW EP!
LAUNCH DECEMBER 10
Phoenix Public House
All other details TBC
2 GIGS THIS SATURDAY
4PM
Pure Pop Records
In-store performance (in the courtyard)
221 Barkley St, St. Kilda
9PM
The Evelyn
Supporting The Bon Scotts (album launch)
351 Brunswick St
Also with Kikuyu
$15/$12+bf
Doors at 8pm
Facebook here
Dear Mailing List,
I know you're busy, so I'm going to dispense with old-fashioned sentences and come at you in point-form today, often with poor grammar and that.
- Been in studio recording new EP. Been great. And that. Almost done. Been working hard. Look how hard we've been working!
- New single will hit you in the face within a couple of weeks. It's quiet and ssshhhh yeah.
- EP launch announced
- This weekend, in-store performance in St. Kilda, for you southerners.
- Saturday night should be a belter. Kikuyu is massively worth seeing and The Bon Scotts are heaps of fun.
So, in closing, as Thelonious Monk allegedly once said, you got do dig it to dig it, you dig?
Ade
And, autobiographically (in order of who I met first), Tobes, Jane, Fez, Tim and Sarah.
* Meredith tickets get massive prices on eBay. I'm just saying.
High Tea and Launch Review
Hello everyone and good early Tuesday afternoon to you all,
A huge thanks goes to everyone who came to our Melbourne EP launch at The Toff, it was a great night for us. There is a kind review in Faster Louder here.
They say (who is 'they'?! I wonder about 'they' sometimes. They seem to say an awful lot and no one questions them. I'm going to keep an eye on them) that there is no rest for the wicked, and if we are wicked, and I like to think that we are, then 'they' are spot on. We played an acoustic show in a warehouse in Sydney's Surry Hills last week as part of a series called High Tea. The wall-high windows viewing Sydney's cityscape, the invite-only attendees and the uber-hip 'underground' exclusivity of the whole affair lent the night a distinctly New York atmosphere. In my mind, at least. It was a night in which I learned that playing to 80 people who are dead silent and only a few feet away is, in many ways, much more nerve-wracking than playing to hundreds who can't be seen beneath the stage lights. It's a very cool idea and the organisers do it well. If you're ever in Sydney on a Thursday night with time to kill I recommend checking it out here.
We're back in Sydney in August at The Basement, in Adelaide and Geelong very soon soon, at Melbourne Uni in August, and have the odd free local gig thrown in here and there. We must be getting more wicked. Check website(s) for details, and we'll see you soon.
Ade, and The Tiger and Me
Post Launch Goodness
Hello everyone!
Well its been a very busy couple of months here in Tiger land and it's looking like it's going to be quite a fruitful and busy year ahead of us. I think the band is like one of those giant queen ants that keeps giving birth to things in order to keep her tiny ant kingdom alive.
We've just recently released our first of three EP's at the Toff in Town last Saturday. Great gig. Thank you to all that attended and showed your support! We are very much appreciative. Much like that queen ant is whenever people come to her gigs.
Do you think there are tiny Taiko drumming ants in the ant world? If so that queen ant should totally hire the team that we got for the launch because they were amazing!!
Toshi and the gang did an amazing job on Saturday. http://www.wadaikorindo.com/ is his website if anyone is interested in Japanese Taiko lessons, they are a heap of fun. A heap. Bring all your tiny ant friends!
Also, a big thanks to the Tiger brass section which consisted of the amazing Shannon Barnett, Liam McGorry and Andrew Szentandrassy.
Once again, all you ants out there (you know who you are) should totally hire a killer brass section like this as they make you sound incredible.
The next few months see the band head interstate in celebration of the release of 'The Howling Fire' EP. You can find tour dates here: http://www.thetigerandme.com.au/gigs.
And very soon we'll be heading back to the studio to record the next EP!
Which after writing this blog, I kind of feel like it should be called 'Ant Queen: Queen of the Ants'
eh?
ah?
p.s I'm very tempted to upload a picture of a queen ant, but while searching for a pic of them I realised they are quite disguisting and always look depressed or in pain.. This was a horrible analogy..
Studio Blog #1
Ahoy. This is Ade, taking time out from recording our new EP to wait around at home for the electrician who has 28 minutes remaining in his self-allocated timeframe to come around and fix stuff. Jane is recording vocals as we speak, with Tobes and Fez on their way to the studio later today for a group singalong.
We’re at Atlantis Studio in Port Melbourne with producer Myles Mumford. Myles has a beard that is more than acceptable by Fez’s lofty beard-standards.
The studio itself is a keyboard player’s dream – it essentially has my keyboard realised in real instruments, with a (very old) grand piano, Rhodes, Hammond organ etc.
I have seen two Nick Cave tape reels are lying around so far.
Drums and bass were finished late on Saturday night, following which Sarah could not move her drumming arms. Her other arms were fine.
Yesterday was a rest day, which we spent resting by driving to Gippsland to play at The Hills are Alive Festival. We stopped at a petrol station that I swear was miniature. The pumps were tiny. Sarah bought an iced coffee that was tiny. The people were tiny. It freaked us right out. Tiny Gippslanders with their tiny petrol trying to sell us tiny goods. Maybe we were enormous.
The festival was very cool. Dan Kelly’s Dream Band played after us – great set, we loved it. One of them was dressed as a ‘corporate’ Mexican, and another was wearing a fez and karate outfit. Discuss.
Okay more soon, possibly from another source, as I have the looming prospect of three hundred thousand piano and vocal takes staring me down.
The electrician didn’t show. His window has closed. I’m leaving.
It's time for a blog
Well, it's almost the end of February 2011, and we haven't posted here for a bit. Mainly because we've been really awesomely busy getting prepared for the year ahead whilst simultaneously smashing out loads of gigs such as our current Wesley Anne front bar residency (the last show of which is tomorrow - FREE - 5-7pm). PLUG.
Also, we had a lovely little trip down to the Otway Estate (have you been down there? Beautiful) in January to play at the 'Day on the Dam' - for the launch of the Apollo Bay Music Festival! It was so much fun and we got to hang out with all the lovely ABMF organisers (yay!). Playing times for Apollo Bay are out now so if you're heading down there, check out our Gigs page to see when and where you can catch us.
Other exciting things coming up are a couple of regional shows - in my and Ade and Tobes' home towns. We're heading to Geelong on March 18 to perform with The Nymphs (it makes sense) at new Geelong venue The Wrong Crowd, which happens to be run by my best-friend-from-primary-school's favourite-media-teacher-from-high-school. Worlds collide! Should be an absolute corker - if you're in that fair city do come along!
We're hitting Ballarat a couple of times, both at the Wendouree Performing Arts Centre, on 10 March and then later in May. We'll be sharing the line up with other great Ballarat exports such as James Sidebottom and Tessa Pavilach. Details are available on our Gigs list.
And finally, we're thrilled to be part of the line up for The Hills Are Alive festival on a lovely farm in the heart of Gippsland! If you're one of the lucky folks with a ticket (it's sold out!) come see us play at noon on Sunday 27 March, just before Dan Kelly's Dream Band. YES.
So that's a pretty comprehensive gig plug for the time being. In other news, we're booking in studio time to start laying down tracks for our new recording project. Pretty ri-go-damn-diculously exciting. We love recording, and this time we're loving it even more because we're working with the charmingly beardy and talented Myles Mumford. Hoorah!
Did I mention I'm excited? If not, let me put it on record. I am excited.
So - hopefully see you at a gig or two (or three or four or maybe more) in the near future...
- J
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End of year gig! Free download! Oh my!
THE TIGER & ME/THE LLOYD WEIR
Double Headline
The Grace Darling
$10
Saturday 18th December
Doors at 9pm
Yooooo,
Sorry for disappearing, however we thought it was high time we wrote some new material. We will be showcasing some of this new material at our end of year party extravaganza gig withThe Lloyd Weir (that's Weir, not Weird, despite the insistance of my left hand middle finger as it consistently automatically adds a 'd' without my consent. Muscle memory hey. Swings and roundabouts).
This will be our final show of the year, unless you count our two shows at Falls, which I do, because they are shows at Falls, which is awesome. So what I mean is that it will be our final show in Melbourne for the year, without exception, Falls-related or otherwise. So come along and celebrate the end of the year with a party. A Grace Darling party. And some dancing and yelling and whatnot.
Also, very importantly, thank you very much for your support this year. We are very happy with this year. Album out, tour, reviews etc. Very very good. So thank you. Lots.
ALSO, we have a free download for you. You've probably all wondered what The Tiger & Me sounded like with Jay-Z rapping over the top. I assume. I often do. I know that the first time I played Lead a Merry Dance Around the Fire to the band they all thought it lacked some decent hip-hop. I give you 99 Problems Around the Fire. Right click and 'save target as' to download, or click to listen.
Enjoy.
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