For 30 years, David Gedge has been giving gruff voice to those whose love lives tend towards the disastrous. Let the churning melancholy consume you “What the hell is a Watusi?” asked guests at one ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. It was once written of the Wedding Present that they are a band "whose world you either buy into fully or not at all." ...
In 1985, a group of British rockers started making music as The Wedding Present. Since then, the band’s had two constants: David Gedge and powerful songs. Gedge is the sole original member in the ...
Indie rock was never expected to grow up like this. The stage features 18 jazz musicians playing everything from trombones to a vibraphone. Fronting them is David Gedge donning a velvet jacket and ...
It’s really impossible to say which is my favourite. Perhaps Culture — I wish they’d done more. The Slits was something of a classic, and I liked several by The Wedding Present. — John Peel speaks to ...
"People still try and emulate John Peel," says David Gedge, leader of The Wedding Present and one of the last true survivors of the British music scene of the 1980s. "His work as a musicologist put ...
The Wedding Present‘s David Gedge has opened up on the time he received a postcard from Morrissey, only for the Smiths frontman to deny all knowledge of it. Gedge was speaking to NME for the latest ...
(All tracks by the Wedding Present except 14–15 by Cinerama; tracks 1–9 and 15–18 on Manifesto, 10–13 on Island, and 14 on spinART/Cooking Vinyl.) “Jealousy is an essential part of love,” surmised ...