A Dream Turns Sour might be number 35 in the long Tiger Lillies' release catalogue, but there is something absolutely unique about it. It is the first Tiger Lillies' album to talk about an actual fact: World War One. The Tiger Lillies' songwriter, founder and front man, Martyn Jacques usually draws his inspiration from the gutters of his own imagination; sometimes his songwriting is based on famous works of fiction such as S.T. Coleridge's Rime of the Ancient Mariner and Shakespeare's Hamlet which he twists and turns relentlessly to bring up to Tiger Lillies' speed. But never before has he been inspired by anything as real and political as a war. And never before has he used the exact words of others in his songs, without being tempted to write his own lyrics instead. A Dream Turns Sour is a bricolage of English and German World War One poems, transformed into an angry yet lyrical set of songs. Amongst its highlights is the haunting 10 minute long reciting of Isaac Rosenberg's Dead Man's Dump, the brilliantly melancholic ballad based on Leslie Coulson's Our Little Hour and the bitter, heartbreaking finale Dulce et Decorum Est by Noel Hodgson. One century after the beginning of the First World War, this doom-laden tale of death by The Tiger Lillies, makes one wonder if our war-free Western World suffers any less from despair, danger, violence and nationalism. The album was recorded in London's Rooster Studios and Space Eko East in 2014. Martyn Jacques is on vocals, accordion, piano and guitar, Adrian Stout on double-bass, musical saw, theremin and jaw harp, Mike Pickering on drums & percussion and guest musician Paul-Ronnie Angel on bouzouki, banjo and slide guitar. Recorded in London's Rooster Studios in 2014 Featuring Martyn Jacques, Adrian Stout, Mike Pickering and multi-instrumentalist David Coulter. Eagerly anticipated studio album from The Tiger Lillie