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To mark the end of another successful year for the Oxjam festival 2009, The Real Tuesday are featuring with a true delight from their 2007 boxful of gushingly praised songs, 'The London Book of The Dead'. Read all about it!
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Cloud Cuckooland Appears on The Police Box 7 » A moreish transgenre nugget from a Sunday Times Album of the Week ‘The London Book of The Dead’ which "beautiful... giddily recalls Gainsbourg, Pulp, Cole Porter, early Disney soundtracks and seedy postwar revue bars". With some beat-boxing thrown in Log in to download tracks |
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 are 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. Their live performances are accompanied by extraordinary atmospheric visual projections.
After a series of low key releases on British, US and Japanese labels the band became known for wedding the suggestive hiss of ancient shellacs and vintage radio transmissions to samples, loops and glitchy beats. The first full-length release When Cupid Meets Psyche (2001) was acclaimed as
"...warm and welcoming as well as arty... a gypsy knees-up, a psychedelic bossa with the polite reeds of a ‘30s dance band crushed by booming hip-hop bass..." (Q Magazine).
The follow up : I Lucifer (2004) was a critically acclaimed 'soundtrack' to Glen Duncan's book of the same name (and a Times, Independent and Guardian album of the week) spawning the multi-award winning animation 'Bathtime in Clerkenwell' and a host of imitators.
The US only album "The Return of the Clerkenwell Kid' (2005) was another potent mixture of classic and modern sounds and reprised older songs to "tell the story of a love affair from before its beginning until after its end". Described by NY Times as "oddball electronica-goes-Tin Pan Alley" and "a hit of aural Ecstasy with a champagne chaser"
The band comprising: Stephen Coates, Vocals, samples, electronics; Jacques Van Rhijn, clarinet; Jed Woodhouse, percussion; Clive Painter, guitar and Don Brosnan on bass first performed their alternative soundtrack for Hans Richter’s 1948 surrealist classic ‘Dreams That Money Can Buy’ at London’s National Film Theatre NFT in 2005. The following year they were commissioned by the British Film Institute to record the score for release of the film on DVD followed by a spectacular performance in the Turbine Hall of London’s Tate Modern and subsequent sell out shows at the Bath, Belfast and Moscow Film Festivals with Brazilian electronic chanteuse Cibelle.
2008 sees the European wide release of 'The London Book of the Dead' already received with critical acclaim in the US and the UK (including the Sunday Times and The Independent album of the week).
Several new films and animations have been made to accompany the album and the next year will feature commissioned work for the Victoria and Albert museum, more film score work and live dates in Europe and the US.
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