The Real Tuesday Weld, Songs for the Last Werewolf (Crammed Discs)
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By Andy Gill


An audio soundtrack for Glen Duncan’s novel The Last Werewolf, this offers plenty of scope for songwriter Stephen Coates to indulge his love of period musical combinations.


The fulcrum on which the conceit pivots is that of murderous love, the werewolf’s terrible fate……


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THE REAL TUESDAY WELD
Songs For The Last Werewolf
Crammed Disks
September 2011
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Songs for swinging lycanthropes from Clerkenwell’s Cole Porter
Stephen Coates – aka The Real Tuesday Weld – is generally known for his artful rewiring of antique swing 78′s, so the opening track of his soundtrack to Glen Duncan’s novel, a blood-curdling, throat-shedding howlin’ wolfman blues, is something of a departure. Elsewhere “Love Lust Money”, “The Hunt” and “Tear Us Apart” propose a flappertronic marriage between 1920′s darling Anita Loos and the Pet Shop Boys’ Neil Tennanant. But the best things may be the most familiar: the wolfy waltzes “I Always Kill The Things I Love” and “The Ghosts”, and the dark side of the croon “Save Me”, featuring the sublime Pinkie Maclure.
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01. Its Time
02. Wolfman
03. The Lupine Waltz
04. I Always Kill The Things I Love
05. Time of the Month
06. Love Lust Money
07. The Ghosts
08. Room Service
09. The Hunt
10. Tear Us Apart
11. Save Me
12. I Dont Like it I Love it
13. Me and Mr Wolf
14. A Moment Allowed
15. Come Around
16. What You Are
17. Youre Going to Live
18. The Cruellest Month
19. Let it Come Down

Signed CD/Book

The new The Real Tuesday Weld album ‘Songs for the Last Werewolf’ is now released throughout Europe by our friends Crammed Disks. It comes in a drop dead gorgeous bespoke twenty page artbook format with incredibly beautiful illustrations by the band’s regular collaboarator artist Catherine Anyango with special writings by Glen Duncan author of The Last Werewolf.

Join the band and special guests The Puppini Sisters, Pinkie Maclure, Joe Coles, David Piper, Serena Bubowski and Glen Duncan himself on an epic widescreen journey through the full moonlight.

The album has already gained rave reviews in the US.To follow album reviews please visit
our Press page.

Each album bought through Antique Beat will be signed on request by Stephen Coates
of The Real Tuesday Weld.

Collaborator & friend Glen Duncan‘s new book ‘The Last Werewolf’ can be bought here and for the full wolf effect get your very own Jake the Nipper Brooch.

We are celebrating the launch of our new website with the official European release of The Real Tuesday Weld’s new album Songs for the Last Werewolf.


To celebrate we are offering our special friends The Wolf Bundle – a discounted bundle including Songs for the Last Werewolf, Glen Duncan’s novel The Last Werewolf and a Jake the Nipper Wolf Brooch by Zaza de la Hey.

Indulge yourselves in the Wolf experience with Songs for the Last Werewolf by The Real Tuesday Weld, The Last Werewolf by Glen Duncan and Jake the Nipper Brooch by Zaza de la Hey.

Rough onyx, garnets and brass beads have been strung in an earthly adornment to create this one off necklace from the Bijoux de Raniji range of jewellery.


Every necklace in the Bijoux de Raniji range of jewellery is a unique one off, handmade with precious and semi-precious stones that have been handpicked by Jewellery Designer Regine de la Hey on her travels in India.

The Real Tuesday Weld fitted girls t-shirt in mélange Jersey is a retro reinvention of the classic gym T-shirt for girls.

Glen Duncan and Stephen Coates will be performing together at Rough Trade East on Brick lane on Monday October 3rd at 7.00pm.

Glen will be reading from his novel The Last Werewolf and Stephen will be accompanying him with versions of some of the songs from the soundtrack to the book.

The album and paperback will be released on the same day.

You can pre-order a signed copy of the album here and a hardback signed copy of the book here

It is a free event and they would love to see you.
Details here:

They will also be performing a full band show at the wonderful and strange Westminster library on October 29th – the first time they have ever held such an event I believe.
More details on that soon.

These Bunny pookies were hatched for the pagan festival of Eostre, a great northern goddess whose symbol was a rabbit or hare.

Be a good egg and celebrate this Easter by giving a symbolic present – being handmade from completely natural fibres, they are a lot less calorific than chocolate. They are so damn stylish and sexy they are guaranteed to draw admirers and before you know it you will be at it like a rabbit yourself.

The Miss Eostre Bunny Brooch has been hand-made in felt with vari-coloured recycled button eyes and a gold plated pin. She will arrive hand packed with her very own biography. Each is unique and different so please bear in mind that the colour of the stitching & eyes & the dimensions will vary.

If you have an eye preference please add your request to your paypal order.

Dimensions 4.5cm wide x 8.5cm long.

The new The Real Tuesday Weld album ‘Songs for the Last Werewolf’ will be released in the UK and throughout Europe from October 3rd by our friends Crammed Discs, Crammed are without doubt one of the coolest, sweetest and best independent labels left standing. We love ‘em. Go here now to check out the release.

The album which has already gained rave reviews in the US comes in a drop dead gorgeous bespoke twenty page artbook format with illustrations by our very own Catherine Anyango and writings by Glen Duncan author of The Last Werewolf. It is distributed in the UK by Proper and we will be offering signed editions, bundles with signed copies of the hardback or paper back and with Ms Za ZA ‘s limited edition werewolf brooch very soon