26-831: The Westminster Music Library in London is one of the largest public music libraries in the UK. It includes sheet music, scores, sets of parts for performances, press cuttings and books about music. Since 2021 the collection has been housed within the Westminster Reference Library in St Martin's Street, part of the Westminster Libraries network. For more than 70 years it was located within Victoria Library at 160, Buckingham Palace Road on
52-510: A biopic of anthropomorphic taxidermist Walter Potter , several Everyman programmes for BBC Two and for a series of documentaries made by Amnesty International about the Syrian conflict . The band have had many existing tracks used in films, television shows and commercials. Their song "I Love the Rain" was used in a commercial for Chevy in 2011. The 2013 Apple iPad commercial featured
78-830: A documentary based around interviews carried out in Russia for an edition of BBC Radio 3's Between the Ears series. The programme told the story of an underground culture of forbidden music in the Cold War -era Soviet Union and featured the Russian band Mumiy Troll . He currently presents The Bureau of Lost Culture , a bi-monthly show about counter-cultural themes. Most of the band's albums have had multiple versions released in different territories. They have also issued several private releases including an "Audio Christmas card" with exclusive tracks each year since 2000. This discography
104-528: A dream involving Weld and 1930s vocalist Al Bowlly and cites it as inspiration for the band's particular style. (A German alternative / indie rock band by the name of Tuesday Weld, that released two albums and four singles in the 1990s, is not related.) Coates lives in Clerkenwell , London. "The Clerkenwell Kid", often cited or credited as the band's producer/re-mixer, is an alter ego for Coates himself. Their 2009 album The Clerkenwell Kid: Live at
130-494: A house on the site from 1710 to 1727, and later the house was occupied by the novelist Fanny Burney . The cellars of that house are part of the current building. The library was designed by the architect A. N. Prentice for Westminster City Council , and built by Walden & Company of Reading. It was modified in the 1950s and 1980s. In addition to a general reference collection, the library has specialist fine art and performing arts, business and law collections. Since 2021
156-522: A large collection of vocal sets, sheet music, and 17,000 books about music for reference and loan. The library holds every edition of Grove's Dictionary and an archive of 450 music journal titles. The library is particularly noted for its coverage of British scores from the 19th and early 20th century, and for its collection of press cuttings, originally the working library of Edwin Evans. Westminster Reference Library Westminster Reference Library
182-625: Is a reference library in St Martin's Street , London, in the City of Westminster , part of the Westminster Libraries network. The library was opened by W. Foxley Norris , dean of Westminster, on 8 October 1928 to replace the former library of the parish of St Martin in the Fields . The Leicester Fields chapel , built by the Huguenots in 1693, was once located on the site. Isaac Newton lived on
208-493: Is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . This article about a listed building in the United Kingdom is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . This article about a London building or structure is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . The Real Tuesday Weld The Real Tuesday Weld is a British band formed in 2001 by lead singer and producer Stephen Coates, who studied at
234-549: Is a soundtrack to the novel of the same name (2012) by childhood friend Glen Duncan , reprising their joint work on Duncan's novel I, Lucifer (2004). BBC Music reviewer Lisa Haines described the I, Lucifer soundtrack as "[a] remarkably wonderful album...a melancholic collection of sardonic whispers, melodious instrumentals and woozy, underhand beats". Uncut said it was "[m]eticulously arranged, touching, intimate, and with mesmerising melodies". In 2010–11, Coates also co-wrote and produced an album Horseplay as "Lazarus and
260-732: The I, Lucifer album) appears as the soundtrack for Budovsky's innovative multi-award-winning short film of the same title . Coates has written music for various independent features including Paul Cotter's Bomber (2009) and the US indies Meeting Spencer (2011), The Suspect (2013) and Meet Me in Montenegro (2014) as well as the French movie Encore heureux (2016), directed by Benoit Graffin . He has also written for several documentaries and short films including US cult series The Midnight Archive , The Man Who Married Kittens ,
286-523: The Fiona Shaw -directed arts project Peace Camp , part of the 2012 Cultural Olympiad , providing a vocal take on Nick Cave 's lyrics to the song " Into My Arms " with A. L. Kennedy . In February 2015, he wrote and narrated an essay for the BBC Radio 3 series Just Juvenilia , telling the story of his visit to the underground river Fleet in London, the time he lived in a Buddhist monastery and
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#1732765117692312-529: The Royal College of Art . They have released several albums, singles and EPs, and many tracks on compilations. Their combination of big-band jazz era sounds with electronica and vintage-style animations has been influential on the current range of electro swing artists and DJs. Their live shows are usually accompanied by visuals in the form of bespoke films and animations. The band is named after American film actress Tuesday Weld . Coates once had
338-1182: The End of the World is an imaginary live recording of a concert on the "eve of the apocalypse". The Clerkenwell Kid is also the main character in a London-based mythology that Coates has developed around his love of the city's history and stories. In early 2021 Coates announced on the band's website that the Real Tuesday Weld would be winding up "in the next year or so" after the release of three final albums – Blood (released in May 2021), Dreams (released in September 2022) and Bone . The Real Tuesday Weld releases are currently distributed by Antique Beat (UK) and Cargo Records (UK) . They are published by Mute Records . Previously releases have been by Crammed (Europe, Australasia, South America) and Six Degrees Records (North America), Kindercore Records , Dreamy Records, Bambini Records, PIAS Recordings and Motorway Records. The band's album The Last Werewolf
364-641: The Plane Crash", a collaboration with Joe Coles of UK cult garage rockers The Guillotines that was released on Antique Beat in 2012. Every year since 2003, the band have released a Christmas EP of songs and spoken word elements. The band have worked with many animators and filmmakers, particularly the Russian animator Alex Budovsky and the American animator George Fort on several international award-winning films. Their "Bathtime in Clerkenwell" cut (from
390-691: The University of the Underground. Outside music, Coates has written for various publications and radio and worked with various arts organisations. His label Antique Beat presents the monthly "Salon for the City" in Westminster and curates various arts events including "32 Londoners" and "London Month of the Dead" based around the city's history and mythology. His involvement with and writing about
416-626: The basis for a book X-Ray Audio: The Strange Story of Soviet Music on the Bone published in November 2015 by Strange Attractor Press . The pair have made a short documentary film X-Ray Audio – The Documentary with UK organisation The Vinyl Factory and the longer form Roentgenizdat which was awarded the best documentary prize at the London Russian Film Festival in 2017. They hold multimedia events where Coates tells
442-454: The circumstances surrounding the forming of The Real Tuesday Weld in the late 1990s. In November 2015, his publishing company Antique Beat and Earth Recordings released Film Music , a three-album set of music by the Russian film composer Mikael Tariverdiev , a project Coates had been working on since he first heard the composer's music in Moscow in 2011. In November 2017 a follow-up release
468-699: The first floor. A private library, the Central Music Library Limited (CML), was first established in 1947, formed to keep together the personal library of the late music critic Edwin Evans and his father. Initial funding for this came from a £10,000 endowment by the pianist and composer Winifred Christie as a memorial to her late husband, the Hungarian composer Emánuel Moór . CML was then invited to deposit its collection within Westminster Public Libraries, and
494-754: The library has also been home to the Westminster Music Library collection, which was formerly based at Victoria Library . Westminster Music Library is one of the largest public music libraries in the UK, holding a wide range of sheet music, scores, and books about music. The library also loans telescopes. Outside library opening hours the library has hosted many events and concerts including Telemachus , Sea Power , Mr Hudson and The Library , Polar Bear , Harry Keyworth , Chisara Agor , Piney Gir and The Real Tuesday Weld . The library also has art exhibition spaces. This article relating to library science or information science
520-611: The original songs for the Rockstar Games title L.A. Noire . The recordings feature the Real Tuesday Weld with German singer Claudia Brücken of the band Propaganda . In 2014, Coates launched The X-Ray Audio Project , an initiative to provide a resource of information about "Roentgenizdat" Soviet bootleg recordings of forbidden music made on used X-rays in the 1940s and 1950s. The project archives visual images, information, audio recordings and interviews made during travels in Russia with photographer Paul Heartfield as
546-882: The piano instrumental "The Lupine Waltz" from The Last Werewolf album. The song "Last Words" (from the album The London Book of the Dead ) is cut throughout and plays over the final scenes of Sony Pictures ' 2008 film Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist by indie cult director Peter Sollett (who is known for his feature film Raising Victor Vargas ). Coates has re-mixed several artists including Duke Ellington , Count Basie , David Byrne and The Puppini Sisters in their burlesque -style re-make of " Crazy in Love " by Beyoncé . The Real Tuesday Weld have collaborated widely with artists including Brazilian electronic chanteuse Cibelle , English nu-folk diva Mara Carlyle , Guillotines vocalist Joe Coles, Martyn Jacques , leader of The Tiger Lillies , and Pinkie Maclure . In 2007, Coates
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#1732765117692572-879: The story of the Soviet bootleggers and they cut new X-ray records from live performances as a demonstration of the process involved in the UK, US and Europe, working with various musicians including Thurston Moore , Marc Almond and Barry Adamson . Coates delivered a talk on the project at TEDx in Kraków in June 2015. The project has become a major touring exhibition showing in London, Belfast and Newcastle, County Down (Northern Ireland), Trieste , Moscow, St Petersburg, Tel Aviv and Tokyo. In March 2019, as The Bureau of Lost Culture, Coates and Heartfield cut audio by Massive Attack , Jonsi , Noam Chomsky amongst others onto X-ray for "The Library of Dangerous Thoughts" project by
598-600: The tomb of Hannah Courtoy in Brompton Cemetery has encouraged speculation that it contains a working time machine. He has written for Collecteurs, Londonist , The Quietus , Garage Magazine , and other publications and has narrated voice-overs for various animations. In 2008, he wrote and presented a series of eight radio programmes: US and THEM: Sounds of Propaganda and the Cold War on London arts radio station Resonance FM . In 2012 he appeared at
624-648: Was commissioned to write music for the Rothko room at the Tate Modern , London and the band 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" at London's Victoria and Albert Museum for the 2008 Cold War Modern exhibition. In 2010/11, he was commissioned to write and produce
650-632: Was made of the complete soundtrack to the Soviet classic comedy of errors The Irony of Fate , the score from the TV series Olga Sergeevna was released in October 2017 and the original sound track for the 1970s Soviet blockbuster series Seventeen Moments of Spring was released in November 2018. In 2018, he wrote and presented a series of five radio programmes on London arts radio station Soho Radio on various subjects related to bootleg music and vinyl culture. In 2019, he wrote and presented Bone Music ,
676-627: Was renamed as the Westminster Central Music Library, which opened in October 1948. Librarian Lionel McColvin , appointed as Librarian of the City of Westminster in 1938, was involved in the establishment of the collection. The American librarian Dorothy Lawton also advised on the initial organization. Another critic, Harold Rutland , bequeathed his extensive collection to the library after his death in July 1977. Today there are over 30,000 music scores and performance parts,
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