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".

[12] In 2010–11, Coates also co-wrote and produced an album Horseplay as "Lazarus and the Plane Crash", a collaboration with Joe Coles of UK cult garage rockers The Guillotines that was released on Antique Beat in 2012.

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,[21] English nu-folk diva Mara Carlyle,[22] Guillotines vocalist Joe Coles,[23] Martyn Jacques, leader of The Tiger Lillies,[24] and Pinkie Maclure.

[3] 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.

They hold multimedia events where Coates tells 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,[32] US and Europe, working with various musicians including Thurston Moore, Marc Almond and Barry Adamson.

[33] The project has become a major touring exhibition showing in London,[28][32][34] Belfast[34] and Newcastle, County Down (Northern Ireland), Trieste,[34] Moscow,[34][35] St Petersburg,[34] Tel Aviv[36] and Tokyo.

[37] 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 the University of the Underground.

In 2012 he appeared at 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.

[44] In February 2015, he wrote and narrated an essay for the BBC Radio 3 series Just Juvenilia,[45] telling the story of his visit to the underground river Fleet in London, the time he lived in a Buddhist monastery and the circumstances surrounding the forming of The Real Tuesday Weld in the late 1990s.

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.