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the wedding present

GalleryMusic

The Wedding Present are currently on their 24 Hour Songs tour and taking in a number of Irish venues, one such venue was Limelight in Belfast with Lucy Gaffeny in support slot and David McEneaney was there catching the action. Lucy Gaffney photos: The Wedding Present photos:

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MusicTrack / Video

I MEAN, it’s just isn’t stopping, is it, this viral ice age that has a grip on our music scene; but at least musicians are out there creating, bringing us new aural joy to keep us going through the grind. And at the forefront of all that are indie legends and darlings in equal proportion, …

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MusicTrack / Video

WEDDING PRESENT frontman David Gedge has dropped a video for his cover of “​We Have All The Time In The World​”, which crowns the album the Not From Where I’m Standing​, a collection of Bond themes and songs covered by current and former members of ​The Wedding Present​.  The Wedding Present have never been shy of …

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MusicNewsTrack / Video

ALL THIS viral mess around us: it’s meant musicians have had to lock and load, get going as the going got tough. Plates, stepped up to. New ways adopted. New records made. And you can bet your bottom dollar that David Gedge’s The Wedding Present wouldn’t sit back and let it wash it over them. …

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MusicNews

Come Play With Me proudly presents a collection of 20 Bond themes covered by current and former members of The Wedding Present. This benefit album will be released on Friday 4th December as a double LP (including CD), CD, and digitally. 100% of the profits from its sale will be donated to ‘Campaign Against Living …

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Magazine / Radio Show PlaylistsMusicPlaylists

Whatever John Peel show you use, compiling a complete playlist, or even an accurate one, given the breadth of the music chosen, much of it remaining in obscurity, is nigh on impossible. One of the enjoyable things though, it’s – apart from the cross genre breadth that Peel utilised meaning the music jumps from one …

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Album ReviewsMusic

In 1994, my irrepressible* psychedelic band (*back then, rip-off promoters, total lack of press or record company interest, and poor quality drugs were seen as challenges, compared to today’s climate, where the literal end of the world is a “no” from Simon Cowell) landed a management/publishing deal with Brian Hallin, the long-time manager of The …

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MusicNot Forgotten

“Ride white horses today ! Buy a red Chevrolet ! Let’s go swim the Zambezi Let’s do it just cos it’s easy !”   Fans of Saturnalia and Wedding Present completists may all wonder why I’m so excited about this.  ‘2, 3, go’ (catalogue number fry 048) has been around since ’96.  It’s well-established in …

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InterviewMusic

The Boy Gedge talks to us about the Edsel Records reissues of The Wedding Present’s back catalogue, what he found in the archives, and his acclaimed songwriting: “In what people say, how they say it, why they say it … I don’t know if people feel it’s not interesting enough to be inspiring and to write pop …

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