The Real Tuesday Weld are a
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band, fronted by lead singer and founder Stephen Coates. They are known for producing
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-style music with subtle
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influences, a style dubbed "antique beat" by Coates
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The band is named after
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film actress
Tuesday WeldTuesday Weld is an American actress.Weld began her acting career as a child, and progressed to more mature roles during the late 1950s. She won a Golden Globe Award for Most Promising Female Newcomer in 1960...
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The Real Tuesday Weld are a
BritishThe United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland is a sovereign state located off the northwestern coast of continental Europe. It is an island country, spanning an archipelago including Great Britain, the northeastern part of Ireland, and many small islands...
band, fronted by lead singer and founder Stephen Coates. They are known for producing
jazzJazz is a musical art form which originated at the beginning of the 20th century in African American communities in the Southern United States from a confluence of African and European music traditions....
y
cabaretCabaret is a form of entertainment featuring comedy, song, dance, and theatre, distinguished mainly by the performance venue—a restaurant or nightclub with a stage for performances and the audience sitting at tables watching the performance being introduced by a master of ceremonies, or MC.Cabaret...
-style music with subtle
electronicaElectronica includes a wide range of contemporary electronic music designed for a wide range of uses, including foreground listening, some forms of dancing, and background music for other activities; however, unlike electronic dance music, it is not specifically made for dancing...
influences, a style dubbed "antique beat" by Coates
http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/collective/A2692640.
The band is named after
AmericanThe United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
film actress
Tuesday WeldTuesday Weld is an American actress.Weld began her acting career as a child, and progressed to more mature roles during the late 1950s. She won a Golden Globe Award for Most Promising Female Newcomer in 1960...
. Coates once had a dream involving Weld and
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vocalist
Al BowllyAlbert Allick 'Al' Bowlly was a popular British Jazz singer and crooner in the United Kingdom during the 1930s, making more than 1,000 recordings between 1927 and 1941. Bowlly was born in Mozambique to Greek and Lebanese parents who met en route to Australia and moved to South Africa...
. Coates and others often cite the dream as inspiration for the band and its particular style.
Presently, the band is signed to Antique Beat (UK) and
Six Degrees RecordsSix Degrees Records is an independent record label noted for its catalog of recordings from international musicians and vocalists. The label was founded in San Francisco in 1996...
(rest of the world). Some older recordings were with
Kindercore RecordsKindercore Records is an independent record label based in Athens, Georgia, which was founded in 1996 by Ryan Lewis and Daniel Geller to document the emerging music scene in Athens, Georgia....
, Dreamy Records, Bambini Records, PIAS recordings and Motorway Records. There was a band by the name of Tuesday Weld that released a CD "Starscene 98" on Glitterhouse Records but is not related.
The band has also complemented The Puppini Sisters in their burlesque style re-makes of modern popular classics such as Crazy in Love by Beyonce Knowles and have collaborated widely with Brazilian electronic chanteuse Cibelle, English nu-folk diva Mara Carlyle, Guillotines vocalist Joe Coles, The Tiger Lillies and others.
They are generally regarded as being critically rather than commercially successful but their music has been used frequently in films, TV, advertising and arts contexts. In 2007 they were commissioned to write music for the Rothko room at the Tate Modern in London and have re-scored the surrealist cult film 'Dreams That Money Can Buy' for the British Film Institute. Other commissioned arts projects include 'Propaganda from the State of Love' first performed at London's Victoria and Albert museum in connection with the 'Cold War Modern' exhibition.
They have worked extensively with animators and film makers particularly the Russian animator Alex Budovsky on several international award winning animations. Their "Bathtime in Clerkenwell" cut (from their "I, Lucifer" album) appears as the soundtrack for Budovsky's innovative short animated film of the same title, to be found as the opening film on the compilation DVD "Avoid Eye Contact Vol. 1". The song "Last Words" (from the album "The London Book of the Dead") plays over the final scenes of Sony pictures' 2008 film
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by indie cult director Pete Sollett (Raising Victor Vargas). Stephen Coates has written music for several documentaries, short films and independent features under his own name including Paul Cotter's "Bomber" (2009) and the US indie "Meeting Spencer" (2009)
"The Clerkenwell Kid" is often cited as the band's producer / re-mixer. "The Clerkenwell Kid" is an alter ego for Coates himself; Under the "Characters" section of the "The Real Tuesday Weld" website Coates is named as "The Clerkenwell Kid". A series of eight radio programs: "US and THEM: Sounds of Propaganda and the Cold War" was produced / presented under this name for the London Arts radio station Resonance 104.4fm in late 2008
Discography
Most albums have had multiple versions released for different territories. The band has issued several private releases including an audio Christmas card with three exclusive tracks every year since 2001. This discography is not complete, though it does cover the major releases.
Albums
- At The House Of The Clerkenwell Kid, (2001, Bambini)
- Where Psyche Meets Cupid, (2001, Kindercore Records
Kindercore Records is an independent record label based in Athens, Georgia, which was founded in 1996 by Ryan Lewis and Daniel Geller to document the emerging music scene in Athens, Georgia....
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- I, Lucifer
I, Lucifer is the third studio album by The Real Tuesday Weld and was released in 2003. It was intended as a companion soundtrack to the novel I, Lucifer by Glen Duncan. Bathtime In Clerkenwell is the song used by Alex Budovsky in the famous short animation "Bathtime in Clerkenwell"...
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; edited and released 2004, Six Degrees RecordsSix Degrees Records is an independent record label noted for its catalog of recordings from international musicians and vocalists. The label was founded in San Francisco in 1996...
). Soundtrack/companion to the novel I, Lucifer-Plot Summary:In I, Lucifer, God presents the devil with a chance of redemption by living a somewhat sinless life in a human body. Lucifer, not wanting redemption, takes God’s offer for a trial but instead takes it as a month vacation. This story takes place in London and Lucifer lives in the body...
by Glen DuncanGlen Duncan is a British author born in 1965 in Bolton, Lancashire, England to an Anglo-Indian family. He studied philosophy and literature at Lancaster University....
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- Les Aperitifs et Les Digestifs (2004)
- The Return of the Clerkenwell Kid
The Return of the Clerkenwell Kid is an album by The Real Tuesday Weld, released in 2005.-Track listing:#"Waking Up" – 0:34#"Anything But Love" – 3:30#"On Lavender Hill" – 3:54#"At the House of the Clerkenwell Kid" – 3:28...
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- "Dreams That Money Can Buy", (2006 BFI). Alternative soundtrack to the 1948 surrealist cult film by Hans Richter
- The London Book of the Dead, (2007, Six Degrees Records / Antique Beat)
- At the End of the World, (2008, Six Degrees Records / Antique Beat). Limited live recording made by The Clerkenwell Kid 'on the eve of the apocalypse'
Singles
- Trojan Horses (1999)
- The Valentine EP (2000, Dreamy Records)
- I Love The Rain (7") (2001, Dreamy Records)
- Am I in Love? (2001) Motorway Records]])
- The Meteorology Of Love (2002) Bambini Records
- The Ugly and the Beautiful, (2004, Play It Again Sam
[PIAS] Recordings is an international record label. The name is an acronym of "Play it Again Sam" and comes from a piece of dialogue often purported to be in the film Casablanca, but which in fact is not spoken in the film...
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- Bathtime in Clerkenwell, (2004, Play It Again Sam
[PIAS] Recordings is an international record label. The name is an acronym of "Play it Again Sam" and comes from a piece of dialogue often purported to be in the film Casablanca, but which in fact is not spoken in the film...
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- Bathtime in Clerkenwell, (2004, Six Degrees Records
Six Degrees Records is an independent record label noted for its catalog of recordings from international musicians and vocalists. The label was founded in San Francisco in 1996...
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- Still Terminally Ambivalent Over You, (2005, Play It Again Sam
[PIAS] Recordings is an international record label. The name is an acronym of "Play it Again Sam" and comes from a piece of dialogue often purported to be in the film Casablanca, but which in fact is not spoken in the film...
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- Kix, (2008, Six Degrees Records
Six Degrees Records is an independent record label noted for its catalog of recordings from international musicians and vocalists. The label was founded in San Francisco in 1996...
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- Last Words, (2009, Antique Beat)
Compilation Tracks
The band has appeared on many compilations. here are a selection
- The Days of You & Me (Remix) on Kindercore 50 (2000, Kindercore Records
Kindercore Records is an independent record label based in Athens, Georgia, which was founded in 1996 by Ryan Lewis and Daniel Geller to document the emerging music scene in Athens, Georgia....
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- I Like It That Way on Kindercore 50 (2000, Kindercore Records
Kindercore Records is an independent record label based in Athens, Georgia, which was founded in 1996 by Ryan Lewis and Daniel Geller to document the emerging music scene in Athens, Georgia....
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- The Return of the Clerkenwell Kid on A Wish Upon a Star (2001, Dreamy Records)
- I love the Rain (Stormy weather mix on Little Darla Vol. 17 (2001, Little Darla)
- At the House of the Clerkenwell Kid (carousel mix) on Carousel Vol3 (2002, Carousel
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- Declan's Bad Days on Comes With A Smile Vol. 8 (2003, Comes With A Smile)
- Declan's Little White Birds on Comes With A Smile Vol. 8 (2003, Comes With A Smile)
- One More Chance on Little Darla Vol. 20 (2003, Little Darla)
- Bathtime in Clerkenwell on Transmusicale 26 (2004, Transmusicale)
- Bathtime in Clerkenwell on Luffkasellet 3 (2005, Music for Dreams)
- The Ugly and the Beautiful on The Thrill of Collette (2005, N.O.I.S.E./Collette)
- The Eternal Seduction of Eve' on The Thrill of Collette (2005, N.O.I.S.E./Collette)
- The Ugly and the Beautiful on Siddhartha (2005, GeorgeV Records)
- The Day Before You Came on Backspin: A Six Degrees 10 Year Anniversary Project (2007, Six Degrees Records
Six Degrees Records is an independent record label noted for its catalog of recordings from international musicians and vocalists. The label was founded in San Francisco in 1996...
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- Yes, I Love You (Shrift Remix) on Eden (2007, Six Degrees Records
Six Degrees Records is an independent record label noted for its catalog of recordings from international musicians and vocalists. The label was founded in San Francisco in 1996...
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- Paris Blues (Duke Ellington remix) on Cinematic (2007, Six Degrees Records
Six Degrees Records is an independent record label noted for its catalog of recordings from international musicians and vocalists. The label was founded in San Francisco in 1996...
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- Bringing the Body Back Home (Feat. Cibelle)) on Traveller 08 (2008, Six Degrees Records
Six Degrees Records is an independent record label noted for its catalog of recordings from international musicians and vocalists. The label was founded in San Francisco in 1996...
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- Kix on Buddha Bar X (2008, GeorgeV Records)
- Last Words on Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist Soundtrack (2008, Atlantic Records
Atlantic Records is an American record label best known for its many recordings of rhythm & blues, rock and roll, and jazz...
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Remixes
- After All for Bebel Gilberto (2005, Six Degrees Records
Six Degrees Records is an independent record label noted for its catalog of recordings from international musicians and vocalists. The label was founded in San Francisco in 1996...
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- Yes, I Love You for Shrift (2006, Six Degrees Records
Six Degrees Records is an independent record label noted for its catalog of recordings from international musicians and vocalists. The label was founded in San Francisco in 1996...
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- Paris Blues for Duke Ellington (2007, Six Degrees Records
Six Degrees Records is an independent record label noted for its catalog of recordings from international musicians and vocalists. The label was founded in San Francisco in 1996...
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- Asa Branca for David Byrne / Forro in the Dark (2007, Nublu)
- Crazy In Love for The Puppini Sisters (2008, Universal / Verve)
- Good Morning Blues for Count Basie (2008, Verve
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