Wedding Present
Premiere: The Wedding Present reveal live new video for the gorgeous, aching melancholy of Monochrome
Excitement reigns here at Backseat Mafia offices (i.e. my kitchen table) as we get to premiere the new video from the legendary boy Gedge and his Wedding Present co-conspirators – masters in the dark arts of making drop dead gorgeous indie gems, and they’ve cast another here in the shape of the melancholy Monochrome. Part …
Track: The Wedding Present – Once More
National treasure and certainly in the running for greatest living songwriter (in our view) and greatest living Englishman, David Gedge formed the glorious Wedding Present in the early 1980s. The bands second single, Once More was originally released on the bands own Reception Records in 1985, and appeared on the brilliant early compilation ‘Tommy 1985-1987’. …
rack: Wedding Present – Jump in, the Water’s fine
The boy Gedge and current Wedding Present line-up are preparing for the release of a new single, their first new material since 2017, on August 2nd, via Come Play With Me. The two track record – The Water’s Fine’ and ‘Panama’, and is available on 7” and limited edition 10” picture disc (a first for …
Meet: We talk to David Gedge from The Wedding Present / Cinerama on ‘Valentina’
Any indie kid can instantly identify the trademark Wedding Present choppy guitars but main man David Gedge has a fascinating side line as Cinerema where he experiments with very different sounds. He’s really gone for this time on Valentina which is a radical recording of the Weddoes album in the style of a louche Vegas …