01. Waking Up
02. Anything But Love
03. On Lavender Hill
04. At the House of the Clerkenwell Kid
05. L’Amour et la Morte
06. Bruises
07. Turn on the Sun Again
08. Close Your Eyes When You Read This
09. Daisies
10. Something Beautiful
11. Déjà vu
12. The Birds and the Bees
13. Little White Birds
14. I Love the Rain
15. Asteroids
16. Am I In Love
17. Goodbye Stephen

This “story of a love affair from before its beginning until after its end” was never released properly outside the US.

The story is described and expanded in the ground breaking podcast series downloadable free here. The album features the classics ‘I love the rain’ and ‘At the House of the Clerkenwell Kid’ together with 13 other tracks reprising older songs extending beyond cabaret and swing to embrace breezy bossa nova, classic pop and gentle psychedelia. It is only available as a special download at the moment. Until the end of October, purchasers will be mailed an additonal bonus track – the original version of ‘I Love the Rain’ (possibly familiar from a certain soft drink commercial).

“The kind of record that deserves a lengthy essay, not a 500-word review… So emotionally potent, so melodically and structurally diverse, that it can wake you up with a jolt and think about love anew…. Weaving a sound reminiscent of [Stephin] Merritt, Prefab Sprout’s Jordan era, the surreal psyche-scapes of Eels circa Electro-Shock Blues (yes, really!), and the best soundtrack work by composers such as Angelo Badalmenti, Coates takes you into a sort of sensory dreamscape where all emotions are heightened and the yearning for romantic bliss competes with the potential for heartbreak at all times…. An absolute stunner, a reminder of how life-affirming an artist’s vision can be when it springs from the depth of his soul. One of the year’s best.” – Playback

01. Crazy In Love
02. At the Chime of a Clerkenwell Clock
03. Little Boxes

For the last eight years, The Real Tuesday Weld have produced a very beautiful personalised christmas card with a three inch mini CD containing exclusive songs, demos, previews, videos or messages. For the first time, this year they have agreed to open it up to all fans and friends.

You can pre-order it here. It comes in a specially designed cover by Catherine Anyango another Antique Beat artist and will be signed and dedicated to you personally or to a specified friend. Just let us know the address and recipient and we send it directly for you. Alternatively if you want it left blank so you can fill it out yourself, contact us.

We will need to have your order placed before 9th December to ensure delivery before Christmas. Joyeux Noel.

01. Intro
02. Heaven Cant Wait
03. Anything But Love
04. Someday
05. One More Chance
06. London
07. Lights Out
08. La Javanaisse
09. Eden
10. The Pearly Gates
11. Stand By Your Man

We have a very limited number of copies of The Real Tuesday Weld’s special Tour CD from 2004 containing unreleased songs, radically different live takes of old songs together with wonderful cover versions of Tammy Wynette’s ‘Stand By Your Man’ and Serge Gainsbourg’s ‘La Javanaisse’.

Special guests iclude Martyn Jacques from The Tiger Lillies, Pam Berry from The Pines and the author Glen Duncan.

Discs
Dreaming Of You
Narcissus II
The Girl with the Prefabricated Heart

The Real Tuesday Weld were commissioned by the British Film Institute to record their alternative soundtrack to Hans Richter’s 1948 surrealist cult classic ‘Dreams That Money Can Buy’ after sell out performances at London’s National Film Theatre and The Turbine Hall of The Tate Modern and a variety of International film festivals.

The film’s wonderfully strange Jungian dream sequences designed by the likes of Man Ray, Duchamp, Alexander Calder and Fernand Leger are magically re-scored and re-interpreted by the band with guest stars Brazilian sonic collagist Cibelle and English alchemist David Piper.

The soundtrack is available on the BFI DVD release of the film available together with the original soundtrack, additional films, illustrated booklet and documentary. You can get a free copy with orders of the DVD made through Antique Beat or purchase just the soundtrack CD.

01. Its A Dirty Job But Somebodys Got To Do It
02. Bathtime In Clerkenwell
03. The Ugly And The Beautiful
04. Someday Soon
05. Coming Back Down To Earth
06. One More Chance
07. La Bete Et La Belle
08. The Root Of All Evil
09. The Eternal Seduction Of Eve
10. Heaven Cant Wait
11. The Show Must Go On
12. Someday Never
13. The Pearly Gates

Guess what we found in the attic in the old house in Clerkenwell…. Yes, a battered chest full of the original version of ‘I Lucifer’ – released on Dreamy Records back in the days before ‘Bathtime in Clerkenwell’ changed things for ever!

It contains the original mixes of all tracks and one – “The Root of all Evil’ – which was inexplicably left off the subsequent editions in both Europe and America.

This one is for collectors or for those who haven’t had chance to get a copy of this album which went on to win many awards and rave reviews and launched the band around the world.

Come spin With Stephen Coates of The Real Tuesday Weld in Mashable’s Turntable.fm Room.

Coates will be hitting the decks between promoting his new album The Last Werewolf (appropriately, it’s supposed to be a full moon tonight). The disc is the soundtrack to a book by the same name, written by Glen Duncan.

All the action starts here at 4 p.m. ET, so start queuing up those tracks!

Mashable’s Turntable.fm

This week’s picks include a young jazz bassist with an eye for classic pop
and a musical tale from the dark side.

The Real Tuesday Weld brings us a waltz, a torch song, a distorted blues, and a genuinely pretty love song. The album ends with a tune that sounds like it could’ve come from a James Bond movie, if 007 were fighting werewolves.

The album is The Last Werewolf, by The Real Tuesday Weld.
(Available at Amazon) – Picked by John Schaefer

Read the review and listen live on Air on Soundcheck at Picks of the Week

The latest from Stephen Coates and his “Antique Beat” project takes its inspiration from “The Last Werewolf”, a novel by Coates’ childhood friend, Glen Duncan.

Campy werewolf numbers aside (a howling, bluesy tune called “Wolfman”? if you insist, Mr. Coates), the most interesting thing about this set is how much Coates continues to branch out beyond the hot-jazz-meets-trip-hop template that defined so much of his early work. “Love Lust Money” drops horns and filtered girl-group vocals (courtesy of the Puppini Sisters) into a full-blown house anthem; “Come Around”, with its gently strummed acoustic guitars, could pass for a Badly Drawn Boy ballad.

It can’t top 2007’s excellent “The London Book of the Dead”, but even a fair-to-middling Real Tuesday Weld album takes more intriguing twists and turns than most artists can muster. – AH

Read the full article at Metromix de Moines

The life of U.K. musician Stephen Coates — AKA The Real Tuesday Weld — is full of surreal occurrences.

Like his ten-year-old whisper-sung ditty “I Love The Rain” suddenly coming to reanimated life in a recent Chevrolet commercial, sounding simultaneously vaudevillian-ancient and indie-scene fresh.

Not an easy task. But Coates seems hell-bent on climbing high creative peaks.

The Real Tuesday Weld’s just-released 19-track set, for instance is titled “The Last Werewolf — A Soundtrack,” and it does, indeed, provide genre-defying background music. But for a just-published book by Coates’ British novelist chum Glen Duncan, the great little lycanthropic romp “The Last Werewolf” from Knopf.

Not that Coates hasn’t colluded with the literary world before — in 2004, he composed another soundtrack for Duncan’s previous “I, Lucifer” book. And he also has three dirges on the new Chandler-esque private-eye video game “L.A. Noire.” And he opens the latest album with a blues-rocking “Wolfman” (which echoes the novel’s opening moments when wolfman Jake Marlowe is informed that he has, by virtue of a recent murder, just become the last of his kind — this ain’t no timid Lon Chaney slapstick) that segues down stylistic back alleys in “The Lupine Waltz,” “I Don’t Like It, I Love It,” and “(I Always Kill) The Things I Love.” Interspersed are snippets of book dialogue performed by Duncan and others, with vocal cameos from Joe Coles, The Puppini Sisters, Piney Gir and Pumajaw’s Pinkey Maclure.

But you don’t have to simply picture this collaboration in your mind’s eye — Duncan and Coates are currently on a book/album tour that brings them to San Francisco on Tuesday, July 19, for a 7 p.m. reading/signing/concert at City Lights Books and then Tosca Cafe across the street afterwards.

And if that doesn’t get the bloodlust out of your system, log on to www.tuesdayweld.com.

Read more at the San Francisco Examiner

Today Stephen Coates from The Real Tuesday Weld tells us about “Tear Us Apart” from their brand new album “The Last Werewolf”, which is being released tomorrow! Here is the story:

“All the songs on The Last Werewolf album are inspired by Glen Duncan’s book The Last Werewolf, by its characters, relationships and situations. But they are also intended to communicate something wider, something more general and, despite the title, more human. In the case of ‘Tear us Apart’ I wanted to subvert the usual idea in pop songs that love does bad things to us – you know ‘only love can break your heart’, ‘love will tear us apart’ and so on.”

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