Daniel Laidler - Vocals, Guitar
Julie Sims - Guitar, Vocals
Tina Whitlow - Keyboards, Guitar
Dido Hallett - Keyboards
Seamus Feeney - Drums
Louis Jones+Ed Grimshaw
{later to become Warm Jets}
played Guitar and Drums on
the first single 'Shining in the woods.'
Gavin Skinner - Drums for the 2nd album 'Rosaria.'
Influences
Discography
This is a Fleas solo recording on which he was assisted by several members of Tiger. Dan Laidler also supplied the sleeve artwork.
Peel Sessions
03/11/96 - Maida Vale 5:
01 She's Ok
02 Icicle
03 Ray Travez
04 Where's The Love?
13/10/98 - Maida Vale 4
01 Bottle Of Juice
02 Candy & Andy
03 God It's Good
04 Sea Shandy
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For a brief couple of years in the mid-Nineties, London-based Tiger brightened up the music scene with their spiky, off-kilter mixture of throbbing keyboards, thrashy guitar and idosyncratic lyrics. Acclaimed by the music weeklies as the Next Big Thing, they released a string of great singles ahead of their debut album, but sadly imploded under the weight of expectation before the release of its follow up.
In a well-publicised accident of fate, Tiger were signed to Island in 1996 after A&R reps attending a gig caught their appearance as an unbilled support act and were suitably impressed. However, their debut single, the ebullient 'Shining In The Wood', was released on the indie label Fierce Panda in the Summer of 1996. The music press soon championed the band on the back of some exciting live performances which often bordered on the chaotic. Tiger it seemed had a sound of their own, a sound which was fresh and exciting. Too shifty, shouty and eclectically awkward to be considered 'Britpop', and too leftfield and arty to be taken up by the lager anthem crowd, they nevertheless provided a welcome alternative to the bands who wore their Kinks and Small Faces t-shirts a little too obviously, not to mention others whose output were facsimiles of the works of Wire.
Whilst the debut album 'We Are Puppets' couldn't quite maintain the quality of the initial singles, it did contain a number of fine tunes, including 'Shamed All Over', the twisty 'Storm Injector' and the breathlessly thrashy 'She's O.K.'. After an 18 month gap, the band returned in August 1998 with the wonderful 'Friends' single With a shiny production job courtesy of Stephen Street, it was a great pop record. Unfortunately, by the time the second album, 'Rosaria', was released to little fanfare on the Rough Trade imprint Tugboat, Tiger had split.
Julie Sims went on to play with Fly International, that features multi-instrumentalist Donald Ross Skinner.
Dan Laidler started a new band with drummer Gavin Skinner and Donald Ross Skinner, plus works on solo ventures sometimes performing with various friends.
are you excited for addy to move?i wasnt for keifer but i guess yesterday he went to go visit and refused to back to the 2s and stayed with sharen the hole day! i think addy will do fine because she is very sassy so the bigger kids wont pick on her:)she moves monday? you gonna be able to help her out? did you ever start on them online survey things i told you about? i hope you did, i just another check, this was for $237 from 2 weeks ago. if you didn't yet, pshhh, get on it; i guess you'll have to type the link into internet explorer or whatever, but here it is again:
are you excited for addy to move?i wasnt for keifer but i guess yesterday he went to go visit and refused to back to the 2s and stayed with sharen the hole day! i think addy will do fine because she is very sassy so the bigger kids wont pick on her:)she moves monday? you gonna be able to help her out? did you ever start on them online survey things i told you about? i hope you did, i just another check, this was for $237 from 2 weeks ago. if you didn't yet, pshhh, get on it; i guess you'll have to type the link into internet explorer or whatever, but here it is again:
Hey i love that profile song you have!!!! The video to it is pretty sweet. Yea Yea I been working Ive been pretty tired Ill call you when i get home today lil lis loves his daycare you should see the stupid badge with my picture on it I have to wear lol. but its all good, he loves the daycare, and its kewl that i can help out paying for it, know what im sayin? the extra money we made from taking those paid surveys online helped out so much!! you should really do them too; i mean, hey, the extra money comes in handy, right? i guess you'll have to type the link into internet explorer or whatever, but here it is:
www.blingforwork.com
La Te Da love ya talk to you laterzzzzzzzz O by the way Ill have more pictures to post before the lil lis's and my b-day uhhhh sometimes i feel so oldddddddd lol
Preview song from 'Tucson Moonshine' album, produced by JD Foster & feat. Calexico members Joey Burns, John Convertino & Jacob Valenzuela plus Nick Luca. Photos by Susie Hug. Photos of Susie Hug by Joey Burns. Recorded at Wavelab Studio in Tucson, Arizona. Engineered by Chris Schultz & Mixed by Craig Schumacher [who also played harmonica].
For further information, either visit www. myspace. com/circulus or www. myspace. com/belch1889 and look for the flyer (and the Paypal button), or email adrian_bell1889@hotmail.com
Tickets will be available at the portcullis on the day
Raaahhhh.... Gigs coming up...and some extra info
Friday 15th Febuary @ The Pigalle Club,
The Pigalle Club
215 Piccadilly
London
W1J 9HN
The night starts at 11pm with us coming on at 12am to do a 40 min set. Please email me back for a £7 guest list otherwise it's £15 on the door -
claire@clairenicolson.com - if you would like to eat call the reservations number below.
Reservations: 0845 345 6053
www.thepigalleclub.com
www.multimap.com
Bits and Bobs......
I will have a new website up soon and, if all goes well, we'll be starting to record the album soon too. I'm very excited about it. We have picked 11 songs for it, 3 of which are the demos on the myspace site including Toothpaste and Whisky, Quiet Company and Lord of The Flies.
My myspace : www.myspace.com/commonstaruk
Facebook : http://www.facebook.com/pages/Claire-Nicolsons-place-/8989357166
Thats it for now,
Claire x
I will be playing with the fella's again. On stage 8.30pm.
£8 guest list - email claire@clairenicolson.com or email direct - crystal@reason2b.net
£15 at the door, £12.50 advance ticket via Jazz Cafe.
For the full line up have a look at the flyer attached. For more details go to www.reason2b.net.
The Bloomsbury Bowling lanes is one of London town's best venues for a party with bowling, burgers and music from us and Johnny Feelings and The Tower of Dudes next Friday 7th September.
We're taking some time out from gigging after this one to nail some more tunes for your aural plasure so don't miss out!
BASEMENT OF: TAVISTOCK HOTEL, BEDFORD WAY, LONDON, WC1H
Love MB
Hey ho.. Calling all SECRET GARDEN PARTY goers.. Claire and the fella's (Ferg on percussion and Tom on double bass) are playing at the Centre Camp on Saturday.
We'd love to see you there!! We think we're on at 8pm but check the program when you get there....
Also, calling all Stoke Newingtonites!! We are playing the Edinburgh cellars in Newington Green on 1st AUGUST.
We're recording this one so come on down and givus a cheer! FREE ENTRY..
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For a brief couple of years in the mid-Nineties, London-based Tiger brightened up the music scene with their spiky, off-kilter mixture of throbbing keyboards, thrashy guitar and idosyncratic lyrics. Acclaimed by the music weeklies as the Next Big Thing, they released a string of great singles ahead of their debut album, but sadly imploded under the weight of expectation before the release of its follow up.
In a well-publicised accident of fate, Tiger were signed to Island in 1996 after A&R reps attending a gig caught their appearance as an unbilled support act and were suitably impressed. However, their debut single, the ebullient 'Shining In The Wood', was released on the indie label Fierce Panda in the Summer of 1996. The music press soon championed the band on the back of some exciting live performances which often bordered on the chaotic. Tiger it seemed had a sound of their own, a sound which was fresh and exciting. Too shifty, shouty and eclectically awkward to be considered 'Britpop', and too leftfield and arty to be taken up by the lager anthem crowd, they nevertheless provided a welcome alternative to the bands who wore their Kinks and Small Faces t-shirts a little too obviously, not to mention others whose output were facsimiles of the works of Wire.
Whilst the debut album 'We Are Puppets' couldn't quite maintain the quality of the initial singles, it did contain a number of fine tunes, including 'Shamed All Over', the twisty 'Storm Injector' and the breathlessly thrashy 'She's O.K.'. After an 18 month gap, the band returned in August 1998 with the wonderful 'Friends' single With a shiny production job courtesy of Stephen Street, it was a great pop record. Unfortunately, by the time the second album, 'Rosaria', was released to little fanfare on the Rough Trade imprint Tugboat, Tiger had split.
Julie Sims went on to play with Fly International, that features multi-instrumentalist Donald Ross Skinner.
Dan Laidler started a new band with drummer Gavin Skinner and Donald Ross Skinner, plus works on solo ventures sometimes performing with various friends.
