PuSh 2008 is going to be the best PuSh Festival yet. The complete schedule of events is now available on the site for your perusal. We think you're going to be excited and surprised by what we're offering this year. NEW this year, you can order your PuSh Pass online, and save big bucks!

In a short space of time, PuSh has become one of Vancouver’s signature events - a multi-disciplined platform for theatre, dance, music and various hybrid forms of performance. The core of our mission is straightforward: each January we present the very best in contemporary performance with work that is visionary, genre-bending, multi-disciplined, startling and original.

This year's festival builds on the massive success of its predecessors, with a jam-packed lineup of theatre, dance, music and genre-defying work from some of Vancouver’s most exciting companies and an array of artists from as far afield as Italy, Australia, and New Zealand. There are 23 shows, plus a cabaret, in the main program at 15 venues. Along with new faces, audiences will be treated to the return of some artists and companies who have presented their work at PuSh in past years. Check it out!
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Hailed as “garishly gaudy and gloriously obscene,” by Time Out, the infamous Tiger Lillies return to Vancouver for the first time in six years for a performance at the Vancouver East Cultural Centre on Sunday, October 28, 2007 at 8pm, presented by the PuSh International Performing Arts Festival’s new Push+ Series. The Tiger Lillies are a three-piece band based in London, whose shockingly blasphemous cabaret-style music has earned them a cult following around the world. This PuSh+ performance is a part of the Misery Guts tour, a musical journey filled with twisted tales that force you to crawl into the filthiest corners of sinister worlds, both real and imagined.

Founded in 1989 by front man Martyn Jacques (vocals, accordion, ukulele and piano), whose haunting falsetto is the result of training in the castrati-style while living above a brothel in London’s Soho, the eccentric trio is also percussionist Adrian Huge, whose usual drum kit looks like “a cross between a modern sculpture and a children’s toy shop,” and vagabond virtuoso Adrian Stout on bass and musical saw. Eerily carnivalesque and wildly entertaining, the Tiger Lillies take a trip back into the cabarets of Berlin in the 1920s and a look into the obscure, the disturbing and the bizarre.

The band’s fans include fellow musicians Marc Almond, who called them, “Just brilliant and utterly fantastic! You'll never hear more perverse and twisted as well as haunting and sorrowful songs. Just get a ticket by hook or by crook, if there's any left (which I doubt) and catch them while you can,” and Alex Kapranos of Franz Ferdinand, who declared, “There is nothing else like them. Any description of them is an injustice—they are completely peerless.”

With 21 albums under their belt, The Tiger Lillies have collaborated with the Kronos Quartet, Edward Gorey, and Vancouver’s The Holy Body Tattoo among others. Their 2003 album The Gorey End was nominated for a Grammy Award, and in 2002 their musical Shockheaded Peter received Oliver Awards for Best Entertainment and Best Performance in a Supporting Role in a Musical (Martyn Jacques).

TIGER LILLIES
Vancouver East Cultural Centre
1895 Venables St. (at Victoria)
Sunday October 28, 8pm
Tickets: $30 general admission and
$26 students and seniors
Available at Ticketmaster, call 604.280.3311 or visit ticketmaster.ca.


Media Contact: Ellie O’Day, O’Day Productions | 604.731.3339
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