Blog - Tag: Music | Antique Beat

Cat On The Wall Review | Lazarus and The Plane Crash | Horseplay

13 Sep 2013 - 00:00

Every so often you can come across an incredible album by happy coincidence. It’s a rare but delightful occurrence....

Subba Cultcha Review | Lazarus and The Plane Crash | Horseplay - 9/10

14 Mar 2012 - 00:00

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…

Independent | Lazarus and The Plane Crash | Horseplay | ****

6 Feb 2012 - 00:00

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.

Independent on Saturday | Lazarus and The Plane Crash | Horseplay

7 Jan 2012 - 00:00

Supposedly recorded in boozy single 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.

Americana UK Review | The Real Tuesday Weld | Songs for The Last Werewolf – 7/10

23 Oct 2011 - 00:00

“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.

Subba-Cultcha Review | The Real Tuesday Weld | Songs For The Last Werewolf - 10/10

6 Oct 2011 - 00:00

Perfect and dazzling latest release from The Clerkenwell Kid and his band of Merry Men – The Real Tuesday Weld – returning with part-theatrical retelling of the Glen Duncan book, 'The Last Werewolf' and part-mythical-musical mystery tour through genres and rabbit-holes eternal…

Word Review | The Real Tuesday Weld | Songs for The Last Werewolf

1 Oct 2011 - 00:00

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.

Uncut Review | Lazarus and The Plane Crash | Horseplay | ****

27 Sep 2011 - 00:00

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.

Pitchfork Review | The Real Tuesday Weld | The Return of The Clerkenwell Kid

13 Sep 2005 - 00:00

“Return revisits a baker's dozen of tracks from the Weld's 2001 debut, Where Psyche Meets Cupid, albeit with fresh recordings and a smattering of, ahem, real new material. Also recurring is Coates' self-described "antique beat" style, which in itself mingles the long-ago with the recent: Twenties and '30s music-hall and Tin Pan Alley (via "When I'm Sixty-Four", Village Green-preserving Kinks, or tourmate/fan Stephin Merritt of Magnetic Fields) with copious sampling and light, pastoral electronics of the Saint Etienne school.