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The Real Tuesday Weld - Radio Clerkenwell Paris DJs Mix

Wednesday 18 January 2012, 18:16 1

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...

The Real Tuesday Weld - Songs for The Last Werewolf - out on Six Degrees/Crammed Discs

Monday 16 January 2012, 13:22

The Real Tuesday Weld - Songs for The Last Werewolf
(CD/Digital) Six Degrees Records, 2011-07-12 (US and digitally everywhere)
(Special Edition CD) Crammed Discs, 2012-01-16 (Europe)

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' 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 written pieces by Glen, artwork by Catherine Anyango and exclusive tracks will be released by Crammed discs in Europe in October. We've been fans of The Real Tuesday Weld's swinging chamber orchestral sunshine bitterpop for years and can't wait to see this released over here!!
Read the Paris DJs interview with The Real Tuesday Weld : in english or in french.

Interview with Stephen Coates (The Real Tuesday Weld, english version)

Thursday 12 January 2012, 14:50

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. I, Lucifer (2004), The London Book Of the Dead (2007) and The End of The World (2008) were major achievements. Stephen's baroque and romantic world is tinged with bittersweet melancholy. London is its sole setting, and the Clerkenwell Kid (one of his other aliases) a recurring character. Long before the electro-swing fashion, blending early jazz, cabaret, easy-listening and electro, he invented a genre of his own called ‘antique beat’. His new album Songs for The Last Werewolf (Crammed Records/Europe, Six Degrees Records/USA) is released on Tuesday (coincidence?) 16th of January and it’s the OST of the eponymous - and critically acclaimed - book by Glen Duncan (The Last Werewolf, Canongate Books, 2011). His side-project, the psychedelic garage-blues band Lazarus and The Crash Plane (read the review here), has also released its first record on his Antique Beat label. Stephen talks about the beginning of The Real Tuesday Weld, the way he uses dreams in his life, his love for London… just before releasing the nice mix he’s cooked for us, scheduled for January 17th on Paris DJs.

Interview de Stephen Coates (The Real Tuesday Weld, french version)

Thursday 12 January 2012, 14:49

Stephen Coates (The Real Tuesday Weld)
(Interview de Nicolas Ragonneau pour Paris Djs, janvier 2012)

Stephen Coates est un homme de masques, d'illusions et de faux-semblants. Depuis la fin du XXe siècle, et sous le pseudonyme étrange et féminin de The Real Tuesday Weld (l'actrice blonde d'Il était une fois en Amérique), il a signé des albums inclassables et mémorables comme I, Lucifer (2004), The London Book of The Dead (2007) ou The End Of The World (2008). C'est un monde baroque et romantique à la mélancolie douce-amère, dont Londres est le théâtre exclusif, et The Clerkenwell Kid (un autre de ses pseudonymes) le héros récurrent.
Bien avant la mode de l'électro-swing, Stephen avait créé son propre genre musical (l'antique beat) mêlant le jazz de l'entre-deux guerres, le cabaret, l'easy-listening et l'électro. Son nouvel album, Songs for The Last Werewolf (x.php/tag/SIX%20DEGREES">Six Degrees Records/USA), sort le 16 janvier. Présenté comme la bande originale du livre The Last Werewolf de Glen Duncan (Canongate Books, 2011), ce disque est commercialisé sous la forme d'un petit livre de format carré. Son autre projet, un groupe garage-blues psychédélique formé avec le chanteur Joe Coles, Lazarus and The Plane Crash (lire la chronique de l'album Horseplay ici), vient de sortir sur son label Antique Beat. Avec une grande sincérité et son ironie coutumière, Stephen Coates revient sur la formation de The Real Tuesday Weld, la façon dont il utilise ses rêves dans sa vie, son amour pour Londres, avant le mix exclusif qu'il a préparé pour Paris DJs, prévu le 17 janvier.

Lazarus and The Plane Crash - Horseplay - out now on Antique Beat Records

Thursday 12 January 2012, 12:55

Lazarus and The Plane Crash - Horseplay
(CD/Digital) Antique Beat 2012-01-02

"It is a strange hairy thing" says Stephen Coates (aka The Clerkenwell Kid aka The Real Tuesday Weld) about his new project Lazarus and The Crash Plane (an allusion to Gainsbourg's Cargo Culte?) in the interview he's just done for Paris DJs. And it is indeed a weird and bonkers creature, a psychedelic freaky blues beast and in a way a kind of deviant side of The Real Tuesday Weld. But this time Coates leaves lyrics and vocals to The Guillotines' frontman Joe Coles (who's already sung on The Real Tuesday Weld's Songs for The Last Werewolf album) and only composed the music. Coles' voice shows a great talent to interpret his Captain Beefheart-styled texts and ranges from howl and barking to caress and murmur. This is obvious on the sick and mean ballad Violent Men. Other members of the Lazarus crew include Ping Lee on guitar, Mao Yamada on double bass, Pato Vidal on bass, Dave Brown on percussion, Daniele Sammarco on accordion and Heliocentrics' guitarist Adrian Owusa. Together they've built the first in-your-face record of 2012.
Read the Paris DJs interview with The Real Tuesday Weld : in english or in french.

The Real Tuesday Weld - The Show Must Go On (video)

Wednesday 13 July 2011, 17:20 2

The Real Tuesday Weld - The Show Must Go On

The Real Tuesday Weld - I Love The Rain EP - out on Six Degrees

Monday 09 May 2011, 20:19

The Real Tuesday Weld - I Love The Rain EP
(Digital Single) Six Degrees Records, 2011-05-03

Now available by popular demand. Includes the 2011 Mix of I Love The Rain as heard on the Chevy Traverse car ad… originally available on the pop album of the year 2005 The Return Of The Clerkenwell Kid…

The Real Tuesday Weld - The London Book of the Dead

Tuesday 28 August 2007, 18:04

The Real Tuesday Weld - The London Book of the Dead
(CD) Six Degrees Records, 2007-08-28

Tracklisting :
01. Blood Sugar Love
02. Decline and Fall of the Clerkenwell Kid
03. It's a Wonderful Li(f)e
04. Cloud Cuckooland
05. Kix
06. Love Sugar Blood
07. I Loved London
08. I Believe
09. Song for William
10. Waltz for One
11. Ruth Roses and Revolvers
12. Dorothy Parker Blue
13. Last Words | Download MP3
14. Into the Trees
15. Bringing the Body Back Home
16. Aparte

Links :
tuesdayweld.com
myspace.com/therealtuesdayweld
youtube.com/therealtuesdayweld ‪sixdegreesrecords.com/artists.php?artist=The_Real_Tuesday_Weld‬
facebook.com/sixdegreesrecords
youtube.com/sixdegreesrecords

The Real Tuesday Weld - Return Of The Clerkenwell Kid

Tuesday 21 June 2005, 03:02

The Real Tuesday Weld - "Return Of The Clerkenwell Kid"
(Six Degrees)

LA révélation pop de l'année!
Stephen Coates alias The Real Tuesday Weld nous avait déjà bien giflé en 2004 avec son mini-tube "Bathtime In Clerkenwell" (voir la vidéo Quicktime) extrait du splendide "I, Lucifer", et ce nouvel album met la barre encore plus haut. Cette fois des sommets Beatles-iens sont atteints, aggrémentés de leur sauce jazz et de ses baies electronica. Je m'explique: sur un swing on ne peut plus jazzy s'entrelacent des glitches, claviers et autres effets trip-hopisants que n'auraient pas nié les Boards Of Canada (par exemple), ainsi que des choeurs angéliques, de vieux samples de films français ("L'amour et la mort"), et un chant bien anglais, entre Edwyn Collins, les Tindersticks et I Am Kloot.
The love album of the year!! Et puisque rien ne parle mieux de la musique que la musique elle-même :

Download MP3 "Something Beautiful" + Download MP3 podcasts "Cupid and Psyche", "At The Home of the Clerkenwell Kid", "The Birds & The Bees", "Out Of The woods And..." et "I Love London" sur Theclerkenwellkid.blogspot.com
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