The Wedding Present will be launching their 24 Songs project with two intimate seated shows at the historic Old Market theatre in Hove on Saturday 22 & Sunday 23 of January 2022, following the release of the first single in the 7” series, ‘We Should Be Together’. Both events will...
The Wedding Present will be releasing a new 7” single every month throughout 2022. This new project, which has been called 24 Songs, comes thirty years after the band’s similar Hit Parade series of 7” singles in 1992. 24 Songs sees the first fruits of David Gedge’s song-writing partnership with...
Scopitones released Live 2012 by The Wedding Present on 23 July 2021. This album features the band live in concert at the Ritz in Manchester on 9 November 2012 and includes a performance of the iconic Seamonsters album in its entirety. Continuing in the format of other recent similar Scopitones...
The Wedding Present's third studio album Seamonsters was re-issued on vinyl by Sony Legacy Records on 28 May 2021. Seamonsters was originally released by RCA Records on 28 May 1991 [exactly thirty years to the day before this re-release] but has been unavailable on vinyl for some years. This new...
Scopitones released Locked Down And Stripped Back by The Wedding Present on 26 February 2021. The album was also released [on vinyl only] in North America by HHBTM Records. Locked Down And Stripped Back features home recordings of several Wedding Present classics and two previously unreleased songs: ‘You’re Just A...
Go Out And Get ’Em, Boy! – Tales From The Wedding Present: Volume 1 The first instalment of David Gedge’s long-awaited memoir-in-comic-book-form was released by Scopitones Books on 27 November 2020 and can be bought by clicking here. The stories featured in this stunning 176-page, matt-laminated, hardback book were previously...
On 4 December 2020, Come Play With Me Records of Leeds released ‘Not From Where I’m Standing’ – a double album by various artists calling themselves The Wedding Present & Friends. ‘Not From Where I’m Standing’ is a lovingly put together collection of 20 Bond film themes covered by current...
The Wedding Present's major-label debut album Bizarro will be re-issued on LP by Sony Legacy Records on 9 October 2020. Bizarro was originally released by RCA Records in 1989 but has been unavailable on vinyl for some years. This new version will feature the same track listing as the original,...
Various Artists : ‘Kiss Kiss Bang Bang’ The Wedding Present : ‘Shaun Keaveny Session’ Two singles - both released on Record Store Days 2020! The first single, ‘xx!!’ [or, to give it its full title, ‘Kiss Kiss Bang Bang – a tribute to the James Bond themes of Dame Shirley...
A musical based on the songs of Cinerama and The Wedding Present is being planned by writer and director by Matt Aston, with David Gedge acting as creative consultant on the project. Matt, whose previous work includes Touched by Stephen Lowe with Vicky McLure, Bomber’s Moon by William Ivory with...