In the Spotlight showcases a cross-section of an artist's cover work. View past installments, then post suggestions for future picks in the comments! The boy Gedge has written some of the best love songs of the Rock 'n' Roll Era. You may dispute this, but I'm right and you're wrong! - John Peel The Wedding Present may not be a familiar name in the United States, but in the UK and elsewhere, they need no introduction - they're the band that took over the "Most Successful Indie Band" label from the Smiths and haven't recognized any relinquishing since. Led by [...]
There has been new additions to this year's Off Festival, which takes place in Katowice,Poland August 3rd-5th. Pissed Jeans , Doom , The Wedding Present , Fanfarlo , Purity Ring , Kuedo , Chrome Hoof , Cool Kids Of Death , Paula And Karol and Minerals are joining Metronomy , Das Racist , Suicide and many more on the line-up. Weekend tickets are available on the Off Festival website.
David Gedge (Leeds, 1960), es el responsable de algunos de los pasajes románticos más memorables que se hayan escrito en la historia del rock. También es cierto que, cada uno de sus discos son extensiones de un narcicismo crónico arraigado en su rol de casanova despechado. Pero la verdad es que poco importa cuántas veces más lo haga, si con ello continúa arrastrando esa tormenta eléctrica y emocional que, después de casi treinta años, sigue arrasando con todo lo que encuentra a su paso. Este señor es un romántico de la manera en que Greg Dulli, [...]
It's time to check out a bunch of the tracks I have not posted recently. These are just a few of the songs that would get their own individual posts here on GIMME TINNITUS if I only had the time. Here is the next NOT POSTED mix. Listen. Downloadables: Where Are The Cities (mp3) by Rayon Beach Wait For Us (mp3) by Mind Spiders Do Right (mp3) by Milk [...]
Filed under: Monthly Mixtape Flickr *The following is a dramatic interpretation of Spinner's Monthly Mixtape for April.* Int. Night - A New York City Apartment For fear of the Mayan Apocalypse, Cameron has been hiding in his bunker for 30 days, living off of a steady diet of cheeseburgers and Surge. BOOM. There is a clatter. He awakes from a deep slumber. [...]
The Wedding Present have announced a huge tour of UK and Ireland for the Autumn. Dates so far: 26/10 : Bournemouth, UK - Academy 27/10 : Portsmouth, UK - Wedgewood Rooms 29/10 : Exeter, UK - Timepiece 30/10 : Cardiff, UK - Polynesia 31/10 : Bristol, UK - Academy 02/11 : Dublin, IRL - Button Factory 03/11 : Galway, IRL - Roisin Dubh 04/11 : Cork, IRL - Cyprus Avenue 05/11 : Manchester, UK - BBC 6Music Session 06/11 : Carlisle, UK - Brickyard 07/11 [...]
Formed in 1985 while The Smiths sat atop the UK music world, The Wedding Present began to rise in prominence with that Mancunian band's breakup. Bypassing the Madchester movement, The Wedding Present's style of lovelorn pop combined the shambling sound of C-86 with The Smiths' more jangly elements, as well as the frenetic nature of The Fall and The Buzzcocks. Led by David Gedges, the band's only permanent member, and championed by John Peel, The Wedding Present helped lay the foundation for Brit Pop while simultaneously avoiding any direct connection with the idiom. After years of [...]
Quickly now: Hello weekend, hello new musics! Go! 1- Portland band What Hearts returns with a second album May 15th called Do It In the Day . Here's the title track.. ►What Hearts - "Do It In the Day" 2- Another Portland act with new music-- Michael the Blind releases Are's & Els June 5th. He departed the Rose City for San Francisco last year to record the effort at John Vanderslice's Tiny Telephone studios. ►Michael the Blind - "Another Circle of [...]
Falling - The Wedding Present I like this version a lot. While not soaring to where the Julee Cruise and Angelo Badalamenti version does, the Wedding Present do very well with what they have. Namely, guitars, distortion and David Gedge's voice. It's in other ways still quite beautiful. Not for evocation of the show itself, but of the devotion Twin Peaks stirs - all it gave us, how it made us all feel. It's better than that dance version of it. The [...]
Bogan Via – Afternoon Wonderland [mp3] (from Bogan Via EP , out now) Dead Mellotron – Stranger [mp3] (from Glitter , out May 7 th ) The Deer Tracks – Dark Passenger [mp3] (from The Archer Trilogy, Pt. 2 , out now) [...]
Dive / credit: Captured Tracks Thanks, perhaps, to their relationship with Steve Albini, the Wedding Present's albums always sound terrific. Albini didn't lay a finger on their latest, Valentina , but the guitars still smolder and the drums cut through the mix like a machete. The waveforms probably look like Giselle Bundchen. It doesn't hurt that the band, over two decades in, still has songwriting sharpness and romantic spite to spare. Here's Valentina 's lead track. I've been worshipping at the Captured Tracks altar for a year or [...]
Cat Stevenslores The general assumption as to whoy Teenage Fanclub release albums so infrequently - 20102s Shadows was just their third effort in the 21st century, assuming you count 2000 as part of this millenium - is that despite having three superb songwriters in their ranks, they just work very, very slowly; if this is true, then clearly bassist Gerard Love isn't the limiting factor. Based on Electric Cables , the debut album from his solo project as Lightships , he has no shortage of [...]
Images by Tom Gilmore of The Wedding Present from their recent Brighton Music Hall show... Jessica McMillan The Wedding Present , Jet Age , and Pinky Piglets Friday, March 23 at Brighton Music Hall The Wedding Present "You're Dead" by theweddingpresent Photos [...]
A tribute album to a legendary band becomes a time capsule of '90s underground music, and preserves one caterpillar an instant before it transformed into a mammoth butterfly.
photo by Brittney Bollay David Gedge has had one of the longest running and most prolific careers of any British band growing out of the late 802s and early 902s alternative era. His band The Wedding Present , formed in 1985, has produced nine albums to date and countless singles, and while that band was on hiatus, Gedge was creating music as Cinerama with his then girlfriend, Sally Murrell. Unlike the Gallaghers or even mid-career The Cure, The Wedding Present wasn't filling arenas with bombast but rather perfecting the romantic pop song, in their own [...]
Every day, Daily Downloads offers 10 free and legal mp3 downloads, plus free and legal live sets from around the internet. Today's free and legal mp3 downloads: Artifice : "Dreams (Fleetwood Mac cover)" [mp3] search for more Artifice posts at Largehearted Boy Brass Bed with Allison Bohl : "One" [mp3] from On Nilsson [...]
Frank Yang Somewhere over the last few weeks Sunday night's Wedding Present show at The Horseshoe got co-opted as the "closing party" for Canadian Musicfest , an appellation I personally refused to acknowledge. The 21st anniversary show for Seamonsters ? Absolutely. The tour in support of their just-released new record Valentina ? Certainly. Closing party for a festival that at no point acknowledged the band as part of their programme or acknowledged they were exponentially greater than most everyone else who played? [...]
Your Saturday menu: ► The Wedding Present , whose older repertoire still makes us nostalgically swoon , headlines the Troubadour in support of their new album "Valentina." [ Download "You Jane" here. ] Tokyo's Pinky Piglets support. ► USC's charity concert Derby Days returns with a lineup featuring Theophilus London , Bag Raiders and American Royalty . ► RT N' the 442s , the Silver Chords , Spindrift , He's My Brother She's My Sister , Restavrant , [...]
Photo By Jason ShapiroThe Wedding Present400 Bar, MinneapolisMarch 28, 2012"Good evening, we're the semi-legendary Wedding Present," frontman David Gedge dryly joked a few songs into his band's set
Despite legitimate criticism concerning Canadian Music Week's relative lack of A-listers this year, it had been a more than exhausting five days as the fest drew to a conclusion Sunday night. It occurred to me as I walked into the Horseshoe Tavern that aside from Friday night's set by New York-based Nicolas Jaar , every band I had seen (and there were a good many) had actually been Canadian, making the festival nothing if not true to its name. With my Canuck quota more than filled, I anticipated at least some degree of eclecticism as [...]
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