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News: Reception: The Wedding Present Musical Premieres in Leeds This Summer

A brand-new musical featuring the songs of David Gedge, The Wedding Present, and Cinerama will premiere at The Warehouse in Holbeck, Leeds, from August 22 to September 6, 2025. Written…

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Gallery: The Wedding Present / Lucy Gaffney – Limelight, Belfast 07.09.2023

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…

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SEE: The Wedding Present feat. Louise Wener – ‘We Should Be Together’

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…

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SEE: David Lewis Gedge – ‘All The Time In The World’ – Weddoes-related Bond covers album!

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…

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NEWS: The Wedding Present announce album of lockdown versions and more – see the stripped back ‘Crawl’

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…

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NEWS: THE WEDDING PRESENT AND FRIENDS TO RELEASE ALBUM OF BOND THEMES FOR CALM

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…

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Playlist: John Peel Show 26.6.88 tracks

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…

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Album Review: The Wedding Present – Going, Going…

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,…

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From an old record box: The Wedding Present – 2, 3, go

“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…

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Meet: The Wedding Present – David Lewis Gedge Speaks

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,…

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