Jane Hendry - vocals, violin
Ade Vincent - vocals, guitar, keys, live loops
Sometimes featuring:
Paul Daniel - drums
Tim Keegan - bass
Influences
Ed Harcourt, Ray Lamontagne, Damien Rice, The Beatles, Portishead, Joni Mitchell, Zero 7, Ben Folds
Sounds Like
Going to sea world and taking off your pants.
NOW AVAILABLE:
THE TIGER AND ME EP
THE TIGER AND ME: LIVE AT MANCHESTER LANE
Click on the image for more info and how to order
Or if you simply can't wait then you can purchase and download the tracks and artwork electronically instead, also by clicking on the image.
Both albums are also available on iTunes
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If you buy a physical cd, make sure you select 'No plastic' in postage options, it will save you money as the cd has no plastic anyway. It's one of those fancy cardboard ones. Pretty. Like tigers.
CDs are about $13 total (that covers postage and handling and everything) and downloads about $8.50. It all depends on that fickle, fickle exchange rate.
The Tiger and Me are currently on a part business-research-tour in Eastern Europe and part sabbatical until September, when they will return to Australia and begin work on their first studio album. Gigs to be announced.
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The Tiger and Me provide captivated audiences with folk longings, country thoughts, gypsy stylings, electronic suggestions and cabaret moments, through the use of male/female lead vocals, violin, guitar, piano, live loops and a spark that dances between the music and a provocative set of lyrics. Hearing this duo’s up-close voices transports you to one of the best kinds of after-the-party parties, when the poseurs have gone home and a few remaining friends congregate on the stairs, swap their stilettos for socks, and finally start telling the truth. This is one personal conversation we actually feel privileged to overhear: the duo tells arresting stories with their intertwining vocals and subtle arrangements. The result is something that takes “folk duo” and gives it an entirely new, entirely feline spin: the bastard love-child of Portishead and Ray Lamontagne. And they are lovely to look at with their soft shiny coats.
The duo started when Ade, after finishing his Honours degree in Composition, was working as a keys player for Tobias Cummings and the Long Way Home, Brendan Welch, and 72 Blues, among others, and found himself writing a stash of songs that were all dressed up but had nowhere to go. In a performance on a dusty, discarded guitar in an unfamiliar apartment to Jane Hendry, a singing voice was discovered where previously it was thought there was not one. Jane added her haunting, angelic voice to the mix and sparked the realization that this might be a tiger with legs. Their most popular song, the haunting “Alleyway”, made its own way out of the abandoned guitar, performed as it was composed. Its Sunday-morning pace has you thinking that this is going to be a chill lullaby until you realise what they’re singing about. This spark that dances between the music and an incongruous set of lyrics is there in many of the songs. It’s this tension and frisson that sets the group apart from any predictable canon of folk duos.
"An entwined and tight partnership. The Forsaken Few and Murderer in Uniform fly the album on towards the Paul Kelly/george airstrip, concentrating on a tightly compact and generally profound set of lyrics. Wisdom, “lost you in your apathy, finding some way to get back home,” and brutal honesty, “I feel like a murderer in uniform, dressed to compliment the day,” are common themes."
"a live looped circus act enters...making it hard to know what circus tent you’ve entered!"
Shane P Bennett, Beat Magazine
If you like their music they would very much like you to visit their triple j site and do what you feel is right:
Hi Jane and Ade! They certainly are! Sorry i've been hibernating writing, rewriting, putting together music for my next album plus a close friend of mine just got back from the U.K. I've been meaning to call but my schedule has been hectic. Loved your show at the NWM Australian showcase. Hope U2 and the gang are doing well! Cheerios, Brett
No dramas guys. Hope the international jetsetting is going well. Looking forward to working with you both. Let us know when you need a clip and we can bounce around some ideas.
Thanks! I see you are off galavanting about through Canada w/The Remains amongst others. They drop in to Tamworth fairly regularly, you guys should too. Just for me! Ha, got to love the rare good shows that roll through town. Best of everything to you both, I'm so awed and inspired to hear the fantastical music out there. It's like a treasure hunt, finding rubies like you two.
Thanks Jane, Dig your music too! all the best in Canada! Will def come to one of your shows when you return to Melbourne Town:) Peace, Todd - ApRiL mAzE
Hey guys Awesome gig on Sat night at Wesley Anne. It was lovely talking to you Jane... fyi I managed to scam some $$ off a friend for a copy of the cd! yeah! safe travels
