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.
Stephen Trousse

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.

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.

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