Photo by Frank YangThere is an upside to having never been especially fashionable, and that's you never go out of fashion. Case in point, The Wedding Present, whom over the course of their twenty-plus year career (including the Cinerama years), have never really enjoyed the heights of critical or popular acclaim but have never suffered the sting of backlash, either. Instead, they've simply p...
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It's been three years since The Wedding Present re-emerged from the ashes of Cinerama with the album Take Fountain . They're back with what could be labeled David Gedge's "L.A. album." He lived in West Hollywood while he wrote these songs and it comes through in both tone and content (tons of references to L.A. landmarks, including the album title, El Rey , named after the famous mid-Wilshire ...
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--- - |- It's been three years since The Wedding Present re-emerged from the ashes of Cinerama with the album Take Fountain. They're back with what could be labeled David Gedge's "L.A. album." He lived in West Hollywood while he wrote these songs and it comes through in both tone and content (tons of references to L.A. landmarks, including the album title, El Rey, named after the famous mid-Wi...
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Minor apocalyptic is waking up to an aftermath like any other and wondering if setting myself up for disappointment by sameness is a stronger intoxicant than, say, forcing change however half-cocked. I mean, listen to me, whiney as ever.El Rey reunites David Gedge with Steve Albini seventeen years after Seamonsters. Do I love or hate it? It's the same difference, that's my answer. On one hand, ...
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And thus it is time for me to start rummaging through my shoeboxes full of cassettes to dig out my countdown-to- winter-solstice favorites. Today I woke up to a sky promising snow and now we have a light dusting. Winter is definitely not my favorite season, but those first few days of snow I feel such a sense of release. I guess sorta like an acceptance that it's finally here, and might as well...
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1985–1997, 2004–presentThe Wedding Present are based in Leeds, England, and where formed in 1985 from the ashes of the Lost Pandas. Their music has evolved from fast-paced indie rock in the vein of their most obvious influences The Fall, Buzzcocks and Gang of Four, to more varied forms thanks to their reincarnation in 2004.
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The Grateful Dead weren't through with me. I'd tried to like them on their own merits, I'd tried to use them as romantic subterfuge - I'd learned my lesson.The years passed, and I wrote songs when I wasn't busy with something else, and by the time the 90's rolled around I had an album's worth of material. I eventually accumulated a few friends who were reasonably proficient at different instr...
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After dropping my little daughter off at school yesterday, I strolled around the block to nearby Other Music, one of the last few decent record stores left in Manhattan (despite - or perhaps because of - their haughty disdain for relatively accessible selections). My reasons for stopping into record stores these days are purely Pavlovian. Be it an enclave of esoterica like Downtown Music Galler...
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The Wedding Present wish you a Merry Christmas with their new song Holly Jolly Hollywood. Simone...
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god i love having an outlet for my indie-rock snobbery!(begin rant) i am pretty much over music festivals. they seem to be increasingly attracting the "wrong" kind of person - kids who are just there to consume copious amounts of all KINDS of things, the cooler-than-thou who are just there to be able to say they went, and invariably those bogans who don't really care about the music. not to men...
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Note from Tyge: This song, plus the one from yesterday and tomorrow, all share a common denominator. You’ll be quizzed come the weekend.The Wedding Present – Don’t Take Me Home Until I’m Drunk
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I thought some of you might want to check-out the premier of the film "The Wedding Present - Drive" on Thursday, December 7, at Bridgette Mayer Gallery, Philadelphia, PA, which documents their first tour of the U.S. and Canada in more than 8 years. My old pal Steve from vital cog records and nowthirdhandfilms tells me seating is limited so get in touch with the gallery or him directly. I'm goin...
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