The Wedding Present

About the Event

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The Wedding Present have had eighteen UK Top 40 hit singles; not bad for a band that has, from its inception, stubbornly refused to play the record industry’s game. It all started in 1985 when David Lewis Gedge boarded a National Express coach in London with 500 records packed into a pair of his mother’s suitcases and, in this fashion, delivered the band’s debut single 'Go out and get em boys!' to a distribution company in Yorkshire. That pioneering spirit has been at the core of the band’s philosophy ever since. From 'George Best', “an unmitigated delight” [NME], the first full-length release on their own Reception Records onwards, the band has charted an appealing, if often eccentric, course of its very own.

In what turned out to be a huge and comprehensive reassessment of the band, 2014 saw the re-releasing eight Wedding Present albums in critically acclaimed multi-disc 'extended' editions which brought together a wealth of historic recordings, radio sessions and videos.

Such has been the unpredictable nature of their career over the years, hardly anyone could have been surprised when he announced yet another remarkable project in 2015. Collaborating with Spanish indie legend Pedro Vigil he decided to 're-imagine' The Wedding Present's 'Valentina' album as Cinerama.

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