R2 – 3/5
R2 Sunday 12 March 2012
Lazarus and the Plane Crash
Horseplay
by David Burke
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The Guillotines’ Joe Coles and The Clerkenwell Kid, the man behind The Real Tuesday Weld. If I tell you that Horseplay is a hybrid of Screamin’ Jay Hawkins, Captain Beefheart, Cab Calloway and The Cramps, you’ll know what I mean.
The songs are for the most part riotously danceable, especially ‘The King Of The Village Fete’, ‘The Clay’s A Calling’ and ‘Horn For The Whole Damn World’. But they do pathos-soaked balladry rather well too, as the gorgeous ‘Violent Men’ will testify.
According to Coles, “The words….were all written as they’re sung. It’s important to me that the subconscious is allowed to puke out whatever it wants to.” Lazarus And The Plane Crash can puke over my sound system any time.
Subba Cultcha – 9/10
Subba Cultcha 4 March 2012
Lazarus and the Plane Crash
Horseplay
by Andi James Chamberlain
9/10
Madcap, crazy, jazzed up menatlisms from the Antique Beat wizards…
Its like a party in your old 45′s and Tom Waits and everyone you love is invited…
Read the full article here…
Leicester Bangs Review
Lazarus And The Plane Crash – Horseplay (Antique Beat)
Well, this is a blast. Lazarus And The Plane Crash is Joe Coles, previously of The Guillotines, and Stephen Coates (aka The Clerkenwell Kid) of The Real Tuesday Weld. Together they’ve made a strange record of primal rock ‘n’ roll, dark, dangerous themes and freak show aesthetics. Maybe the boys can explain it all better:
Read more here
The Real Tuesday Weld – Live
The band will be playing shows on:
February 10th 2012
Handelsbeurs Concertzaal
Gent, BELGIUM
February 11th 2012
Botanique
Brussels, BELGIUM
February 12th 2012
Cafe Conc
Enisheim, FRANCE
February 13th 2012
Le Comedy Club
Paris, FRANCE
They would love to meet old friends and make new ones whilst there.
Valentine Gifts
With Valentine day fast approaching here are a selection of our lovely gifts with which to spoil your loved one or yourself – a Winged Cupie Brooch by Zaza de la Hey, a semi precious neclace by Raniji, L’Amour et la Morte socks by SpillyJane Knits or the music recorded on ‘Valentine’s Eve 2012 and beamed back in a dream’ by The Real Tuesday Weld.
The Real Tuesday Weld – Radio Clerkenwell Paris DJs Mix
The Real Tuesday Weld were formed by Stephen Coates in 1999 inspired by dreams of crooner Al Bowlly and the American actress Tuesday Weld. They’re influenced by 1930s jazz, Serge Gainsbourg, Ennio Morricone and minimalist electronica and are known for a series of critically acclaimed albums, arts projects and award winning collaborations with film makers. We started spotting them on Paris DJs way back in 2005… and fast forward to 2012 we were glad to be able to interview Stephen last week (read it in english or in french), and managed to get a mix from him cooked especialy for Paris DJs. The Real Tuesday Weld has a new album out, Songs For The Last Werewolf, and Stephen Coates has also a new project and album out, Lazarus and The Plane Crash. We love his neo-retro 1930s/film noir soundtrack/Beatles vibe spiked with English humor, and can’t wait to see the band on stage very soon: February 13th at the Comedy Club and february 15th at the Café de La Danse, both in Paris!
Interview with Stephen Coates
Stephen Coates (The Real Tuesday Weld)
(Interview by Nicolas Ragonneau for Paris Djs, january 2012)
Stephen Coates is a man of many masks, illusions and smoke-and-mirrors. Under his weird female pseudonym The Real Tuesday Weld he’s released impossible-to-classify records since the end of the Twentieth Century.
Read the full article here
Independent on Sunday – 4/5
The Independent Sunday 8 January 2012
Lazarus and the Plane Crash
Horseplay
by Simon Price
****
Lazarus and the Plane Crash is a project fronted by Joe Coles of defunct berserkers The Guillotines and Stephen Coates, aka The Real Tuesday Weld aka The Clerkenwell Kid. Horseplay, whose oversized packaging folds out into a Ouija board, is a peripatetic, eclectic magpie’s nest of styles, with Coles alternating between a badass Beef-heartian blues rasp and a more courtly Cole Porter diction, while Coates provides an alluring cut-and-past backing of vintage found sounds.
Independent – 4/5
The Independent 6 January 2012
Lazarus and the Plane Crash
Horseplay
by Andy Gill
****
In their determination to go out on any limb, regardless of taste or safety, Lazarus and the Plane Crash – a collaboration between Guillotines singer Joe Coles and Stephen Coates, grey eminence behind The Real Tuesday Weld – display the kind of risk-taking absent from The Maccabees’ album. Coates stitches together jazz samples, wailing bluesharp, wheezing squeezebox and scarified guitar, while Coles leaps in with off the cuff vocals that test the boundaries of propriety, delivered in a snarling croak akin to Tom Waits. It’s the id-monster having a party, coming on outrageously to anything that walks, with no mind for civility and a healthy regard for mortatlity; “This fleshy cage, it’s all the rage/You dance around for a bit, then they chuck you in an earthy pit.”
