Tag: The Wedding Present

ALBUM: The Wedding Present ‘Going, Going…’

Rating: Just over 30 years since David Gedge released their debut single all by himself, lumbering 500 records on a coach to a distribution company, and only 4 years since their last record, The Wedding Present are back with a…

INTERVIEW: David Gedge (The Wedding Present, Cinerama)

Beloved of John Peel and emissaries of the pre ‘indie’ independent music scene, The Wedding Present remain masters of choppy, melodic ditties about (un)requited love, adept at articulating the quotidian events we all live through. We managed to doorstep lead-auteur David…

ALBUM REVIEW The Wedding Present reissues

Rating: A grown-up, post-bedroom dwelling Smiths, mainstay David Gedge is a narrator of the quixotic and quotidian, emblematic of ‘indie’ before the term became rootless and nothing but shorthand for a ‘look’ and usage of specific instrumentation (2/3 guitars, drums…

ALBUM REVIEW: Literature ‘Chorus’

Rating: Fifty years on the 1960s just won’t go away. More to the point, the ’60s that was refracted through the ’80s is the corpse that won’t stay dead. This is the C860s. In this vein, Literature, a four-piece hailing…