It’s now just one month until The Wedding Present’s North American tour kicks off with the historic first ever live performance of ‘Bizarro’ in San Diego on April 1st., 2010.

We thought that this would be a good opportunity to post a news bulletin with updates on some of these shows, but further details of all the concerts can be found by clicking here.

NORTH AMERICA / APRIL

Tickets are selling fast for the North American leg and Maxwell’s in Hoboken, New Jersey has already sold out. In other news: ‘Girl In A Coma’ are unfortunately now unable to support The Wedding Present in San Francisco but Mister Loveless and Surf Cinema have both kindly stepped in!

JAPAN / MAY

Surprise special guests have been added to the bill for The Wedding Present’s concert at O’West in Tokyo on May 7th. Meanwhile, Wedding Present bass player Terry de Castro will be performing a solo concert at the Shibuya ‘7th Floor’ in Tokyo on May 8th. at which David Gedge will also be DJ-ing.

GERMANY / AUGUST

The Wedding Present’s appearance at the Boot Boo Hook Festival near Hanover has now been definitely confirmed for August 20th.

THE UK / AUGUST

The Wedding Present have announced that they will be playing at Tunbridge Wells Forum on August 18th. Meanwhile, Cinerama will support The Wedding Present in Holmfirth on the 26th.

‘Short Fuse’ have been added to ‘At The Edge Of The Sea’ - the one day Brighton mini-festival curated by David Gedge on August 28th. Short Fuse is a live literary cabaret group which puts on themed nights of new short fiction. Since it began in Brighton in 2007, it has attracted a cult following and a reputation for bringing some of the most shocking, surprising, boundary shaking and moving short fiction to local audiences. For ‘At The Edge Of The Sea,’ Short Fuse are gathering some of their best writers to perform stories based on David Gedge song titles.

OTHER APPEARANCES [click on the red words to go to the external site]

As is usual on a North American tour, The Wedding Present have been inundated with invitations to perform at radio stations and in record stores. At this time, the following events have been confirmed :

April 5th - while in Texas, the band will be recording a session for WOXY.com [an independent radio station based in Austin] which will be transmitted at 1400 [Central Time] on April 7th.

April 7th - while in Georgia, the band will be playing in the Criminal Records record store at 1154, Euclid Avenue NE, Atlanta, at 5PM.

April 11th - while in New York, David [and possibly other band members] will be guests on ‘Atlantic Tunnel’ which is broadcast on East Village Radio between noon and 2PM [Eastern Time]. East Village Radio broadcasts live from a store-front DJ booth in NYC’s East Village. Acoustic performances have been mentioned…

April 16th - while in Illinois, the band will have their yet-to-be-worked-out version of The Rolling Stones’ ‘19th Nervous Breakdown’ filmed by AVClub.com, the arts-and-entertainment branch of The Onion. AVClub say: “We won’t know for sure when it will air until closer, but sometime in early May is most likely”.

April 21st - while in Washington [the state, not the city], the band will be recording a session for KEXP [a public radio station based in Seattle (where David Gedge lived for 18 months)]. This session will be transmitted live, live, live at 4PM [Pacific Time].

Scopitones has regretfully announced that vinyl will not be available for purchase from the merchandise pages of this web site between February 1st and June 1st.  We apologise for this and recommend that if you did have your eye on one of those lovely 7″s, 10″s or LPs you should please buy it as soon as possible in order to avoid disappointment. Thanks…

There have been some early additions to the bill of ‘At The Edge Of The Sea’ the annual one-day festival curated by David Gedge. As reported earlier, The Wedding Present will end the night with a live performance of their second album ‘Bizarro’… but we can now also confirm that Cinerama, David Gedge’s ‘other’ band, will open the proceedings shortly after 3PM, as they did last year. We are also pleased to announce that the festival will also feature a set from Sharks [who have been known to cover The Wedding Present’s ‘Brassneck’ at concerts] and Dandelion Radio DJ Rocker. Please click here to visit our ‘concerts’ page.

The Wedding Present have announced two festival warm-up concerts in England for this summer. They will play at Wolverhampton Slade Rooms on 16 July and Holmfirth Picturedrome on 26 August. For further details of all forthcoming Wedding Present concerts please click here.

The Wedding Present have announced the three bands that will support them on their forthcoming tour of the United States and Canada. They are Ringo Death Starr [April 1-5], The Jet Age [April 7-10] and Girl In A Coma [April 11-24].

And, if you click on the band name above, you will be taken, as if by magic, to that band’s myspace page…

The Wedding Present have announced details of their first North American tour since 2008.

For details of the concerts, at which the band will play their classic major label debut album, Bizarro, in its entirety, please visit the tours page of this web site.

The Wedding Present are pleased to announce that they will be headlining the first ever ‘Deer Shed’ Music & Arts Festival which takes place in Baldersby Park near the village of Topcliffe in North Yorkshire on Saturday 17 July 2010. The festival is described as ‘one day and night of the best in contemporary music and art’ set in beautiful North Yorkshire parkland. You can visit the festival web site by clicking here.

We are pleased to announce that two concert recordings are being released for download only this January by Scopitones.

OUT NOW : LIVE IN NEW YORK - featuring a Cinerama concert in the USA from 28 June 2003. This album was mixed by Steve Fisk, who also recorded The Wedding Present’s ‘Watusi’ and ‘Take Fountain’ albums and has the following track-listing:

The One That Got Away / Quick, Before It Melts / Après Ski / You Turn Me On / Loveslave / And When She Was Bad / On - Off / Dalliance / Starry Eyed / I’m From Further North Than You / Superman / Careless / Perfect Blue / Your Charms / Don’t Touch That Dial

OUT ON 18 JANUARY 2010 : LIVE IN LEEDS - featuring a Wedding Present concert in the UK from 06 June 2006. This album was mixed by Christopher McConville who was The Wedding Present’s guitarist from 2006 to 2009 and has the following track-listing:

Shivers / Sticky / Ringway To Seatac / Corduroy / Flying Saucer / Montreal / Wow / You Should Always Keep In Touch With Your Friends / Mars Sparkles Down On Me / Click Click / Everyone Thinks He Looks Daft / Kennedy / Mercury / Dalliance / Brassneck / I’m From Further North Than You / Why Are You Being So Reasonable Now? / Take Me! / Octopussy

Although Scopitones is not currently planning to release these particular albums on CD, the concerts were also filmed and so we hope to release live DVDs of both events at some point in the future.

Scopitones audio releases are available for download from : iTunes, Amazon, Bell Mobility, eMusic, Gracenote, Hot Topic / Shockhound, Lala, Limewire, Groove Mobile, MediaNet Digital, Mondomix, MySpace Music, Napster, Neurotic Media, Rhapsody, Rogers Wireless, SecuryCast and Spotify. If you don’t find us on your preferred site, please let us know by emailing Jessica at : ScopitonesUK@aol.com

HAPPY 2010

We would like to wish all our readers a ‘Happy New Year’!

See you on the ‘Bizarro’ Tour!

From everyone at Scopitones…

…the home of Cinerama and The Wedding Present.

We are very pleased to announce that ‘At The Edge Of The Sea’, the one-day indoor festival curated by David Gedge [pictured], will return in 2010 on Saturday 28 August. The event will once again take place between 3PM and 10PM at the historic ‘Concorde 2′ venue which is situated on the seafront at Brighton, on the sunny south coast of England.

The festival is still very much in the planning stages but we can already confirm that The Wedding Present will be playing their second album, ‘Bizarro’, live at this event.

The cost of admission, unfortunately, has to be slightly higher than it was in 2009, but a limited number of ‘early-bird’ tickets have been made available at the old  price of just £15. Just click here.

Last year’s event was a huge success and there were some great performances from the likes of The Wedding Present, Cinerama, The Pipettes, Terry de Castro, Calvin Party, The Victorian English Gentlemens Club, Villareal, Human, Astrid Williamson and Eamon Hamilton. You can see pictures from the day here and purchase ‘At The Edge Of The Sea’ merchandise from our merchandise pages.

In anticipation of this year’s Bizarro 21st Anniversary Tour [See Tours Page for details] we are pleased to announce that the lyrics to this, The Wedding Present’s major label debut, featuring memorable songs such as Kennedy, Brassneck, Bewitched and Take Me! can now be found at the lyrics page of this site.

David Gedge has taken over The Wedding Present’s ‘Twitter’ account. To become one of his [ahem] ‘followers’ please click here and sign up for an account [if you don’t already have one]. It’s free, very easy and you don’t have to ‘tweet’ or anything if you just want to read his missives.