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The Real Tuesday Weld
Live At the End of the World Antique Beat Records

Article written by Ged M - Nov 16, 2009

The Real Tuesday Weld: Live At the End of the World

This is a work of imagination. Conceived in the same period as the London Book of the Dead album, the concept is that this is a Valentine’s Eve performance at the mythical End of the World Club in 2012. So far, so Roland Emmerich, although Mayans don’t get a mention and it’s not clear if this is THE apocalypse or just a sort of Weimar-Republic-gathering-storm moment. If this had been an extra disc with the previous album, it would have been an intriguing bonus but on its own it just falls flat. Partly that’s because it’s a very straight supper club cabaret performance, with the Clerkenwell Kid crooning like a junior Bing Crosby on songs like the 1924 standard ‘I’ll See You In My Dreams’ and generally creating a mood of gloomy romanticism that will have listeners reaching for the free blank ‘last will and testament’ that will be included with the album.

On his other albums he adds an avant twist to his musical excavations, using plenty of samples and beats, and creates a soundscape that blends 'then' and 'now' to unusual effect; here he plays it very straight, and comes up with a pretty dull, noodling jazz album. Mara Carlyle is a very good singer, as Will Hodgkinson’s Song Man book shows, but here she’s just another jazzer on the Brief Encounter-themed ‘Nightingales’. If there are dark times ahead, we’ll need something brighter than this to illuminate the dusk. Lighten up, man!

Links:
http://www.tuesdayweld.com
http://www.antiquebeat.co.uk
http://www.myspace.com/clerkenwellkid