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 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…


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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:


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A widescreen cinematic emotional cabaret, Soundtrack for the Last Werewolf is the sixth The Real Tuesday Weld album and follows the Sunday Times and The Independent album of the week The London Book of the Dead. It’s been released by Six Degrees in the US on July 12th and internationally thereafter. It features a range of special guests including Glen Duncan, The Puppini Sisters, Pinkie Maclure and Joe Coles of Lazarus Plane Crash. A very special edition of the album with…..

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The Independent Sunday 8 January 2012
Lazarus and the Plane Crash
Horseplay
by Simon Price
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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.

The Independent Saturday 7 January 2012
Lazarus and the Plane Crash
Horseplay

Supposedly recorded in boozy singel takes, this “collision” between The Real Tuesday Weld’s Stephen Coates and the Guillotines’ Joe Coles is a lusty pile-up of bad-ass blues polkas. Subtle it isn’t, but the reckless racket is bracing and the mock-machowit (“I’m manly, I’m Desperate Danly!”) is leavening. The sleeve is a Ouija board, the noise within might just raise the dead.

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.”

Uncut January 2012
Lazarus and The Plane Crash
Horseplay
by Peter Watts
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Deranged gypsy pop meets Tom Waits on this oddball dark delight


Seemingly influenced evenly by Waits, black magic and The Cramps, this appealing curio features Joe Coles of The Guillotines working with The Clerkenwell Kid, producer of the kaleidoscopic The Real Tuesday Weld. It’s a suitably weird stew, mixing brothel creepers like “Two Frankfurters” with gypsy pop like “Mating Dance” and gleeful psychobilly brawlers like “Nasty And Naked” with Waitsian bawlers like “Violent Men”. The fact it is packaged in a simulacra of an Ouija board and references mythical London monster Spring-Heeled Jack only adds to the sense of bewildering charm.

Article written by Ged M


Like I, Lucifer before it, The Last Werewolf is inspired by a novel by Mancunian author Glen Duncan who stated in interview that The Real Tuesday Weld has “the depressing knack of getting into three verses and a chorus what I’ve just spent 100,000 words on”. The themes on the record are transformation and the loss of what you love (werewolves being such inconsiderate lovers), and it has the right degree of violence, debauchery and decadence, suffused with film noir atmospherics.

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INTERVIEW: The Real Tuesday Weld
By Aug Stone


The Last Werewolf by The Real Tuesday Weld is rapidly becoming my favourite album of the year, with their “You’re Gonna Live” the best song released this year and “Tear Us Apart” not far behind. I first became aware of the songwriting genius of Mr. Stephen Coates ten years ago when I was running the….


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