Real Live Tigers is Tony Presley, on tour from Austin, Texas, USA.

"Tony Presley sings beautiful folk poetry in low, undulating tones like a tearful lullaby on a quiet summer night. The purity, sincerity, and unassuming intelligence in everything he does makes your heart ache and your spirit smile." - Hometown Heroes Music Blog

"Presley’s set began with a loud, clear, strong voice that resonated off the walls of the coffee shop and brought an immediate hush from the uninvolved patrons on the other side of the cafe. He offered the inspiration and meaning behind the stories between many of the songs, and Presley’s deep vocals and halting method of delivery brought to mind both Will Oldham and Bill Callahan’s more morose work." - The Speed of Silence

"There Is a Storm That Sleeps Inside Us plods through stark sincerity and the sparsest accompaniment, and though the album heaves with a directness, Presley also riddles his plodding narratives with moments of nudged, tongue-in-cheek humor. But the general aesthetic is haunting, a brooding call that sounds less from beyond the grave than rousing from it, dirt sodden and encoffined. “By the time we got there, they were already scarecrows / So we danced on their graves, and sang their favorite songs / In the night in hope that we could bring them back by dawn,” Presley intones lowly on “Already Scarecrows,” the song moving in thick, dark, slow- motioned waves." - Austin Sound

With local opening acts Jen Wilke (casioacousticguitarprettyindieishfolkishpopmusic - "Jen Wilke brings her songs forth with a genuine playfulness that'll grab your ADD attentions and take 'em for imagination rides in warm summer story lands." - Bare Wire Technologies) and Jim Cherwick (mellowishguitarfolk).

PLUS mini-sets from touring acts Super Famicom, Nice and Friendly, and My Bicycle Emergency!

Come even earlier, stay later.

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