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My friend Sally's band – which I used to play in – is touring with the Wedding Present in the UK in December. She's looking for a driver and a van to take them on the road: 12 : Edinburgh - Liquid Rooms 13 : Aberdeen - Moshulu 14 : Glasgow – QMU 15 : Newcastle - Academy 16 : Leeds - University 17 : Bristol - Academy 18 : London - The Forum Would be three of them plus the driver, plus a guitar amp and...
In a rare display of normalcy from a politician, Andy Burnham, Britain’s young Culture Secretary, has apparently told Q Magazine: “I would trade in the whole political career tomorrow if I could join the Wedding Present.” Global Dashboard’s less musically sophisticated (or less aged) readers can find out what they’ve been missing since the Leeds-based [...]
The Wedding Present's Nobody's Twisting Your Arm - here captured in a Chart Show indie chart top ten (from the fifth March 1988, if you're keeping notes). Buy: Thank Yer Very Glad [Part of the 1988 Festive Fifty Weekend ]
The version which got everyone excited - the almost never-ending Take Me by The Wedding Present - was the session version. This isn't that - it's live, recorded at Wolverhampton's Little Civic Hall (presumably for people who don't feel very civil'). You might not need to look at your screen during this one. Buy: An Evening With The Wedding Present DVD [Part of the 1988 Festive Fifty Weekend ]
Festive 50 archivist David Gedge appears at number eight: Why Are You Being So Reasonable Now by the Wedding Present: The official video, off of MySpace Buy: George Best [Part of 1988 Festive Fifty Weekend ]
15. The Wedding Present - I'm Not Always So Stupid Twenty years on - more or less - here's Gedge playing the song in a metal box in Derbyshire, July 2008 Buy: Live 1987 14. The Fall - Cab It Up From the ballet I Am Kurious Oranj - and flagged by YouTube as requiring care for under 18s Buy: I Am Kurious Oranj 13. Morrissey - Suedehead Live on Later... With Jools Holland in 1992 Buy: Live In Dallas DVD...
More 'maybe it's time to go and live in the US' fodder: Earlimart have been confirmed as support for the Wedding Present's US and Canada dates. Which are these: September 18 – San Diego, CA @ Casbah September 19 – Los Angeles, CA @ Troubadour September 21 – San Francisco, CA @ Great American Music Hall September 23 – Eugene, OR @ John Henrys September 24 – Seattle, WA @ Neumos September 25 – Portland,...
Pattern is Movement Tonight's show was supposed to be at Studio B and was supposed to have The Jealous Girlfriends on the bill (August 20). Instead, Pattern is Movement, Jukebox the Ghost, Bryan Scary and "a very special unannounced guest"...
In 1992 the New Musical Express celebrated its 40th anniversary by releasing a limited edition compilation album consisting of 40 number one hits covered by 40 contemporary bands and artists as diverse as indie acts The Wedding Present, The Fall and Curve, to more estalished major label artists like Sinead O'Connor, Boy George and Bob Geldof. Glaswegian power-poppers Teenage Fanclub were featured...
For those who deem live music the highest desideratum for their lugholes, I am proud to announce the launch of my column in the Nighttimes music magazine which aims to champion and give scope to the vast richness and diverse talent presently playing notes in the Midlands musical melting pot. Built upon a premise of positive [...]
The Wedding Present - El Rey (Vibrant) Paul Taylor 29/ 5/2008AFTER several years trading under the name of Cinerama, David Gedge rekindled the name The Wedding Present in 2005, hitting us with Take Fountain, forged in the cauldron of love gone sour, his 14-year relationship with Sally Murrell having ended. If that was his Seattle album - with all the dour overtones that suggests - then El Rey may be...
I've avoided tag-your-it Internet memes successfully to date. But, now that fellow tech policy blogger Adam Thierer has taken the bait and thrown down his favorite album for each year of his life, I'm in. Mine... 1968: White Album, The...
