Stephen Coates (The Real Tuesday Weld) (Spoken Label, May 2021)

Latest Spoken Label session features Stephen Coates from  the wonderful The Real Tuesday Weld talking about their new album 'Blood',

the first in a final trilogy of new albums that the band will be releasing throughout 2021 into 2022. 

Stephen Coates formed The Real Tuesday Weld in 2001 (after a dream of the actress Tuesday Weld) pioneering a style he dubbed 'Antique Beat',

a combination of old jazz sounds and electronics that was to influence the emerging electro-swing scene. Reluctant scene-joiners themselves, 

the band run their own label, working with writers, animators and filmmakers and on a variety of commissioned arts projects.

They tour worldwide - often playing to animated backgrounds in venues including churches, museums, parks, galleries, buses and crypts - 

but they have remained cult and critical, rather than commercial, favourites despite multi-million youtube plays, film placements and multiple awards.

Their music has been used in many films, TV series and art installations and their collaborations with animators have proved enduringly popular, 

particularly the genre bending, multi-award-winning Bathtime in Clerkenwell and The Crooner series that has spawned a whole catalogue of fan art.

"Beautiful...giddily recalls Gainsbourg, Pulp, Cole Porter, early Disney soundtracks and seedy postwar revue bars" SUNDAY TIMES

"Utterly unique, utterly delightful" THE TELEGRAPH

"These heart-pricking songs speak to us all” WORD

“Superbly atmospheric” UNCUT

"An English-speaking Serge Gainsbourg rolling around Tin Pan Alley with synthesizer in hand." THE NEW YORKER

"Wildly inventive and completely miserable, a fascinating combination of old-timey jazz and modern-day electronica, drenched in heartbreak and despair. in a hushed, nioctine-bu ed purr" SF WEEKLY

“A sly witty, cinematic fusion of contemporary styles with classic elements of Serge Gainsbourg and Burt Bacharach” NEWSDAY

" The P.G. Wodehouse of electro-pop, or the Cole Porter of modern cool, superbly arranged, wickedly clever textures and beats will set your toes to tapping, but its bittersweet melodies will linger for days and weeks' LA WEEKLY

More about the tuesday weld can be seen at www.tuesdayweld.com 

Stephen's "BUREAU OF LOST CULTURE" Podcast can be found on Itunes, Podbay, Listennotes and Audible among many other websites.