The Real Tuesday Weld

Stephen Coates operates under the project name The Real Tuesday Weld as its singer and songwriter. Based in London, he first studied visual art and withdrew from the Royal Academy of Art in 1997 to pursue music instead. Although he lists British-based big-band singer Al Bowlly as his chief influence, the outfit’s primarily electronic material more readily brings to mind standard Europop reference points such as Burt Bacharach, Ennio Morricone, and Serge Gainsbourg.

Three EPs appeared first: 1999’s The Meteorology of Love, initially issued under the Tuesday Weld name before the title required alteration following legal threats, then 2000’s Valentine and 2001’s L’Amour et la Morte. The summer of 2001 finally brought the full-length debut When Psyche Meets Cupid. Coates continued issuing albums thereafter, among them At the House of the Clerkenwell Kid in 2002, I, Lucifer in 2004, The Return of the Clerkenwell Kid in 2005, and The London Book of the Dead in 2007. The End of the World, released the next year, highlighted the 1930s jazz dimension of his work, whereas 2011’s The Last Werewolf adopted a wider range of styles as the soundtrack to Glen Duncan’s novel of the same title.