The Real Tuesday Weld

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  1. The Sweetest Songs
  2. I Believe
  3. Dorothy Parker Blue

Label: Antique Beat

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Mr Scruff meets Jarvis cocker on a mellow Sunday afternoon by the sea.

A gang of London night-dwellers are taking us to other eras and far-off places. They throw the net wide, to catch electronic cowboy songs, piano ballads, and swooning backing vocals from the Puppini Sisters. The Real Tuesday Weld provide an ever-so-slightly dark and very European soundtrack to late-night drinking. Listen to these songs and imagine yourself in the faded, louche glamour of a grand old seaside hotel, or by the grand piano at the Bessarabian embassy as the world outside burns. David Lynch may or may not be filming you at this point. "Last Words" is heavily featured in indie smash hit 'Nick and Nora's Infinite Play List' coming out in the UK end of January 2009.

Having released the London Book of the Dead album Tuesday aka Stephen Coates decided he wanted to do a live album so to accompany the Dead you have The End of the World. The Sweetest Song is a bittersweet beauty including worn shellac sound effects, sweeping strings and a rolling chorus feeling like a scratchy old super 8 film of a lost day at the seaside. I Believe is a much jauntier affair, sounding like the result of Mr Scruff and Jarvis Cocker getting together on a Sunday afternoon with a large pot of tea - splendid.

Releases we represent:

  • The London Book Of The Dead | Album | Antique Beat | 2008
  • The Clerkenwell Kid Live At The End of the World | Album | Antique Beat | 2008
  • The Return Of The Clerkenwell Kid | Album | Antique Beat | 2005

Quotes:

"Tracks both as beautiful and as ghostly as Blood Sugar Love, Dorothy Parker Blue and Last Words, and music that giddily recalls Gainsbourg, Pulp, Cole Porter, early Disney soundtracks and seedy postwar revue bars in the space of just a few bars, sweep you along with such swagger and menace." Sunday Times Album of the week 4/4

"Such genuine tenderness...it's like a punch in the solar plexus" The Independent album of the week 5/5

"Few English pop acts are as distinctive or idiosyncratic as the Real Tuesday Weld..Utterly unique, utterly delightful." The Telegraph

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