The Real
Tuesday Weld
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.
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This year sees the release of the new The Real Tuesday Weld album: 'Soundtrack for the Last Werewolf' – a companion piece to
Glen Duncan's extraordinary new novel 'The Last Werewolf'.
Their first collaboration for I, Lucifer in 2004 spawned the
multi-award winning 'Bathtime in Clerkenwell' animation and a host of imitators.
The album comes in two parts – a conventional suite of songs and compositions drawn from the themes of the novel, and a fully mixed soundtrack collage of the music with additional pieces, readings by the author and voices from the story.
The Novel
Sexy, smart, bloody and heartbreaking, The Last Werewolf takes literature by the throat. For two hundred years Jacob Marlowe has wandered the world, enslaved by his lunatic appetites and tormented by the memory of his first and most monstrous crime. Now, the last of his kind, he knows he cannot go on. But as he counts down to suicide, a violent murder and an extraordinary meeting plunge him straight back into the desperate pursuit of life – and love.
Nick Cave describes The Last Werewolf as "a brutal, indignant, lunatic howl. A sexy, blood-spattered page-turner, beautifully crafted and full of genuine suspense, that tears the thorax out of the horror genre to create something that stands rapturous and majestic and entirely on its own".
The book will be published by Canongate on 7th April 2011, Knopf in the US in July.
For more information: http://www.thelastwerewolf.org/
You can buy a limited edition
signed hardback here.
Nick Cave describes The Last Werewolf as "a brutal, indignant, lunatic howl. A sexy, blood-spattered page-turner, beautifully crafted and full of genuine suspense, that tears the thorax out of the horror genre to create something that stands rapturous and majestic and entirely on its own".
The book will be published by Canongate on 7th April 2011, Knopf in the US in July.
For more information: http://www.thelastwerewolf.org/
You can buy a limited edition
signed hardback here.
The Album
A widescreen cinematic emotional cabaret, Soundtrack for the Last Werewolf will be the sixth The Real Tuesday Weld album and follows the Sunday Times and The Independent album of the week 'The London Book of the Dead’. It will be released by Six Degrees in the US in July and internationally thereafter. It features a range of special guests including Glen Duncan, The Puppini Sisters, Pinkie Maclure and Joe Coles of Lazarus Plane Crash.
You can nnow purchase the album here.
In the meantime you can hear the 'Moonrising Suite' which contains a selection of music from the album with voices from the book here (click the Toggle button below).
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You can nnow purchase the album here.
In the meantime you can hear the 'Moonrising Suite' which contains a selection of music from the album with voices from the book here (click the Toggle button below).
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Mr Wolf
Jake the Nipper is sexy, smart and bloody and will grab you by the throat.
Don't wear at full moon. The Mr Werewolf Brooch has been hand-made in synthetic fur with vari-coloured recycled button eyes and a gold plated pin. He will arrive hand packed in an Antique Beat gift box with his very own biography.
You can find Mr Wolf here.
Don't wear at full moon. The Mr Werewolf Brooch has been hand-made in synthetic fur with vari-coloured recycled button eyes and a gold plated pin. He will arrive hand packed in an Antique Beat gift box with his very own biography.
You can find Mr Wolf here.
Glen Duncan
Glen Duncan’s first novel, Hope, was published in 1997, and has been followed by six further novels: Love Remains; Weathercock; Death of an Ordinary Man; The Bloodstone Papers; A Day and A Night and A Day and bestseller I, Lucifer which The Independent on Sunday described as ‘one of the hottest literary properties of the new century.’ In 2005 Glen was named by The Times Literary Supplement as one of Britain's Twenty best young novelists.