Video: The Wedding Present Everyone Thinks He Looks Daft live

"Oh, why do you catch my eye, then turn away?” -from "Everyone Thinks He Looks Daft", The Wedding Present, 1987 The first line of the opening track on The Wedding Present’s debut album George Best, was strangely predictive of the question frontman David Gedge would spend the next 25 years musically investigating. Through 9 glorious albums packed with drunken hookups, betrayals and heartbreaks, Gedge - and the throng of musicians who have filed in and out of the band over the years – has [...]

I remember walking around in the late eighties and sneering at the "30-somethings" wearing old Stones tour shirts.  Threadbare and ridiculous, given that the Stones had ceased to be relevent, I was comfortable knowing that I was far hipper wearing my new Wedding Present tour shirt.  Twenty years later, the music has held up far better than my shirt. David Gedge and company started releasing brilliant singles in the mid-80's.  After getting noticed by the legendary John Peel, their popularity grew as they released their first album 'George Best' in 1987.  While a multitude of bands released one [...]