The band is named after American film actress Tuesday Weld. Coates once had a dream involving Weld and '30s vocalist Al Bowlly. Coates and others often cite the dream as inspiration for the band and its particular style.
Presently, the band is signed to Antique Beat (UK) and Six Degrees Records (rest of the world). Some older recordings were with Kindercore Records, Dreamy Records, Bambini Records, PIAS recordings and Motorway Records. There was a band by the name of Tuesday Weld that released a CD "Starscene 98" on Glitterhouse Records but is not related.
The band has also complemented The Puppini Sisters in their burlesque style re-makes of modern popular classics such as Crazy in Love by Beyonce Knowles and have collaborated widely with Brazilian electronic chanteuse Cibelle, English nu-folk diva Mara Carlyle, Guillotines vocalist Joe Coles, The Tiger Lillies and others.
They are generally regarded as being critically rather than commercially successful but their music has been used frequently in films, TV, advertising and arts contexts. In 2007 they were commissioned to write music for the Rothko room at the Tate Modern in London and have re-scored the surrealist cult film 'Dreams That Money Can Buy' for the British Film Institute. Other commissioned arts projects include 'Propaganda from the State of Love' first performed at London's Victoria and Albert museum in connection with the 'Cold War Modern' exhibition.
They have worked extensively with animators and film makers particularly the Russian animator Alex Budovsky on several international award winning animations. Their "Bathtime in Clerkenwell" cut (from their "I, Lucifer" album) appears as the soundtrack for Budovsky's innovative short animated film of the same title, to be found as the opening film on the compilation DVD "Avoid Eye Contact Vol. 1". The song "Last Words" (from the album "The London Book of the Dead") plays over the final scenes of Sony pictures' 2008 film Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist by indie cult director Pete Sollett (Raising Victor Vargas). Stephen Coates has written music for several documentaries, short films and independent features under his own name including Paul Cotter's "Bomber" (2009) and the US indie "Meeting Spencer" (2009)
"The Clerkenwell Kid" is often cited as the band's producer / re-mixer. "The Clerkenwell Kid" is an alter ego for Coates himself; Under the "Characters" section of the "The Real Tuesday Weld" website Coates is named as "The Clerkenwell Kid". A series of eight radio programs: "US and THEM: Sounds of Propaganda and the Cold War" was produced / presented under this name for the London Arts radio station Resonance 104.4fm in late 2008
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