Achingly gorgeous, wonderfully romantic. Drifting through gigantic lazy swirls of deep colour, sinking and sinking in their warm ecstasy, The Real Tuesday Weld's "Dreaming Of You" is one of the most beautiful songs I've ever heard. It was one of those moments, lasting long after the band finished performing it over the closing scene of Hans Richter's Dreams That Money Can Buy at the NFT, April 2005, where the song lingered within me and I was devastated not to have in my possession, to listen to over and over again. Luckily later that year, Comes With A Smile magazine featured it on Vol. 16 of their compilation series, How They Wash Away..., and I immediately special-ordered it. A "live" rendition was later released on The Real Tuesday Weld's The End Of The World album. The version with Stephen Coates singing is the one I'm most familiar with, seen and heard here live at the Corsica Arts Club in Elephant & Castle, London:
The film is a lovely, surrealist masterpiece, featuring dream sequences by Max Ernst, Fernand Léger, Man Ray, Marcel Duchamp, and Alexander Calder and RTW provided a live soundtrack that special evening, later released on the DVD. Here is a version sung by Cibelle, featuring beautiful footage from the final sequence of the film:
The new Real Tuesday Weld album is great, my review for godisinthetvzine is here. And here's Alex De Campi's excellent video for their majestic "Tear Us Apart":
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