‘The Last Werewolf’ by THE REAL TUESDAY WELD

ABOUT:

"What does an album mean anymore unless it has a narrative behind it?"

The Real Tuesday Weld album 'The Last Werewolf' takes Glen Duncan's novel as the backdrop for a widescreen emotional cabaret tailor-made for the I tunes generation. For the album is both a high-concept soundtrack plus a diverse playlist for the eclectic of ear and heart, all held within the band's own genre 'Antique Beat'. The book's themes of violence, friendship, transformation, London, love and betrayal are recast as a suite of songs bound together by voices and readings from the text.

As ever with an album by The Real Tuesday Weld, individual tracks cover a spectrum of styles from thirties ballads and torch songs through gypsy jazz and electro-swing to minimalist electronica. A range of influences including Gainsbourg, Chopin, Django Reinhardt, Cole Porter, Springsteen, Barry Adamson and Tom Waits hover ghostlike over the story as it unfolds.

Guest vocalists include long term collaborators The Puppini Sisters, Joe Guillotine, Pinkie Maclure and Piney Gir. The collaboration between author and musician reprises 'I Lucifer' the 2004 critical applauded work which spawned the international award winning and much imitated "Bathtime in Clerkenwell"."

Crammed Discs is pleased to release "The Last Werewolf" as a deluxe hardcover CD book including extracts from the novel, lyrics and original illustrations by Catherine Anyango.

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CREDITS:

Songs For The Last Werewolf, is a soundtrack for the novel by Glen Duncan, The Last Werewolf

Made and played by Stephen Coates with:

Clive Painter, Jacques Van Rhijn, Don Brosnan, Jed Woodhouse

The vocals of Joe Coles on Wolfman, Marcella Puppini on Love Lust Money, The Puppini Sisters on The Hunt, Piney Gir on Me and Mr Wolf, Pinkie Maclure on Save Me and Let it Come Down

The voices of Glen Duncan, David Piper, Serena Bubowski, Natalie Ruth Gudgeon, Don Brosnan and Angela Penhaligon

Strings on Save Me by The Forget Me Nots

Vocal arrangement on The Hunt and string arrangement on Save Me by Marcella Puppini
Recorded at The House of the Clerkenwell Kid and by Clive Painter at Wolf
Mastered at Wolf

Written by Stephen Coates except: Wolfman, written by Stephen Coates and Joe Coles
and Save Me, words by Stephen Coates with Joe Coles
All songs published by Strictly Confidential /Les Editions de la Bascule

Imagery by Catherine Anyango, layout and design by McCloud Zicmuse
Extracts from The Last Werewolf by Glen Duncan and courtesy of Canongate Books