Literate, jazzy art-pop/cabaret practitioners headline this rather special event, by performing from their new album, ‘The Last Werewolf’ which is a soundtrack to the book of the same name by horror merchant Glen Duncan, who will here be reading extracts. Also features a set from TMR, whose new record is based around ghost stories, and performance poet Alabaster de Plume. Plus pumpkin carving, face-painting and cake, with a free gift for all those who come in suitably creepy fancy dress.

Jonathan Aird
Sunday, 23 October 2011
The Real Tuesday Weld “Songs for The Last Werewolf”
Crammed discs, 2011


Bad Moon Rising
Is this the way of the future, a multi-media listening and reading experience? “Songs for The Last Werewolf” is an album of music inspired by Glen Duncan’s book of the same title. It sits somewhere between the soundtrack of a non-existent movie, adding atmosphere to the unfilmed scenes, and with the mixture of music and snatches of spoken word – presumably dialogue from the novel – a musical interpretation of the novel. Here though the music tells the story arc by itself that it could stand alone well enough without these additional narrative hints.
It’s an intoxicating blend of Bohemian jazz, twenties crooning, electronica and more, which creates a fantastic realm of mist filled streets haunted by the full moon. The world it creates for the narrative is part burlesque club and part Bladerunner; there’s a dash of Beefheartian blues thrown in on the howling “Wolfman” and the gorgeous nocturne of “The Lupine Waltz” conjuring up a turn of the nineteenth century decadence.


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WESTMINSTER LIBRARY
35 St Martin Street
London WC2
Saturday 29 October


Come and join The Real Tuesday Weld, Author Glen Duncan and The Miserable Rich for a very special evenining at Westminster Library courtesy of Arctic Circle.


The band will be playing a selection of their greatest hits, some Songs For The Last Werewolf and will be premiering the extraordinary new animated film for Me and Mr Wolf. Glen will be reading. Bring prey.


A limited number of tickets are available for £10 in advance here.


The mobile Antique Beat Boutique will be there for early Christmas shopping with special bundles on all our merchandise which you can see here.


All courtesy of our sponsors Hendricks Gin.

The Real Tuesday Weld
Songs For The Last Werewolf


Perfect and dazzling latest release from the Clerkenwell Kid and his band of Merry Men – The Real Tuesday Weld – return with part-theatrical retelling of the Glen Duncan Book THE LAST WEREWOLF and part mythical Musical mystery tour through genres and rabbit-holes eternal…

10/10


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From album Songs For The Last Werewolf out 10 October.


We love a madly ambitious art project. On this album, Stephen Coates’ art-jazz ensemble provides mistletoe-free music and lycanthropic lyrics to accompany Glen Duncan’s self-explanatory novel The Last Werewolf. Its quite brilliant. Oh, and Piney Gir guests on the album. How circular.

British sonic adventurer Stephen Coates once had a dream about an American film star Tuesday Weld and subsequently named his band after her.

He deals in the retro sounds he calls “antique beat” and draws on cabaret, jazz and classical music while adding minimal electronica for a sophisticated modern twist.

Coates’ latest project serves as a soundtrack to a werewolf book by Glen Duncan yet comes across as an enthralling, nerve-shredding and coherent set piece in its own right.

The rabid blues of Wolfman is a striking departure though elsewhere the music hall atmosphere returns with fine guest vocals from The Puppini Sisters, Piney Gir and Pinkie Maclure. Aahhoo!