The Real Tuesday Weld, formed by Stephen Coates in 1999, released their first full-length album in 2001 with When Cupid Meets Psyche and followed it up with I Lucifer (2004), the critically acclaimed soundtrack to Glen Duncan’s book of the same name spawning the multi-award winning animation Bathtime in Clerkenwell. The Return of the Clerkenwell Kid (2005) reprised older songs to “tell the story of a love affair from before its beginning until after its end”.  The 2008 release of The London Book of the Dead also met with critical acclaim (including the Sunday Times and The Independent album of the week) and was followed with The Clerkenwell Kid Live at the End of the World a live recording made by The Clerkenwell Kid ‘on the eve of the apocalypse’.

The band are known for a series of critically acclaimed albums, arts projects and award winning collaborations with film makers. Their live performances are accompanied by extraordinary atmospheric visual projections. The band created an alternative soundtrack for Hans Richter’s 1948 surrealist classic Dreams That Money Can Buy at London’s National Film Theatre NFT in 2005 and were subsequently commissioned to record the soundtrack for the release of the film on DVD. Their “Propaganda from the State of Love” commissioned by the Victoria and Albert Museum together with the music for the Rothko room at the Tate Modern continued the band’s association with the British art establishment and has been followed by film and television work and live dates across Europe and the US.  Stephen scored two independent features: Bomber and Meeting Spencer in 2009 / 2010 and is currently working with various film makers in the UK and US. He has produced albums for Marcella Puppini of the Puppini Sisters and as Lazarus and The Plane Crash with Joe Coles from The Guillotines due for release in early 2012. Most recently he wrote the original songs for Rockstar Games blockbuster LA Noire and provided the music for the Chevrolet ‘Rainy Day’ campaign in the US.

The Real Tuesday Weld are signed to Antique Beat (UK), Six Degrees Records (USA) and Crammed (Europe). The live band comprises of Jacques Van Rhijn, Clive Painter, Don Brosnan, Geraldine McEwan and Jed Woodhouse.