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Part of the Optic Sevens 5.0 Reissue Series. Limited to 1000 copies worldwide. Pressed on clear blue vinyl . Includes poster. The Wedding Present's third single originally released in 1986. Company card inner, re-printed copy of original promo poster. Sleeve is a copy of original 12" release. "This Boy Can Wait" is the unedited 12" version.
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HHBTM 225LP
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"Throughout 2022, The Wedding Present's 24 Songs series saw the legendary indie band release two new tracks a month as double A sided 7"s, ultimately creating a much-sought-after box set. David Gedge has now re-curated full-length versions of all twenty-four tracks for a new compilation album that will also comprise five bonus recordings including one featuring The Wedding Present's first guitarist, Peter Solowka. 24 Songs was a doff of the cap to The Wedding Present's Hit Parade project of 30 years previous. That series proved to be a real milestone for the band with them becoming only the second-ever artist to achieve twelve Official UK Top 40 hits in a calendar year -- at the time something that only Elvis had achieved! David Gedge says: 'When it came to compiling the 24 Songs album, I decided not to sequence the tracks in chronological order. With six sides of vinyl, you have six 'beginnings' and six 'ends' to play with, and I felt that the opportunity to build some kind of a musical journey was too good to miss! Listening back to this collection, I have to say that I genuinely believe that, for this project, The Wedding Present have recorded some of the best tracks in our history. I loved releasing the singles, but it's satisfying to have them all rounded up together."
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CLUE 111EP
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A new project from The Wedding Present. A new 7" single every month throughout 2022. Penultimate release in the series.
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CLUE 109EP
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A new project from The Wedding Present. A new 7" single every month throughout 2022. 24 songs sees David Gedge writing with legendary Sleeper guitarist Jon Stewart for the first time, and a more perfect union could not have been predicted. The ninth 7" features "We All Came From The Sea" and "Summer".
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CLUE 103EP
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A new project from The Wedding Present. A new 7" single every month throughout 2022. 24 songs sees David Gedge writing with legendary Sleeper guitarist Jon Stewart for the first time, and a more perfect union could not have been predicted. The third 7" features "Go Go Go" and "La La La".
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CLUE 102EP
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A new project from The Wedding Present. A new 7" single every month throughout 2022. 24 songs sees David Gedge writing with legendary Sleeper guitarist Jon Stewart for the first time, and a more perfect union could not have been predicted. The second 7" features "I Am Not Going To Fall In Love With You" and "A Song From Under The Floorboards".
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CLUE 104EP
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A new project from The Wedding Present. A new 7" single every month throughout 2022. 24 songs sees David Gedge writing with legendary Sleeper guitarist Jon Stewart for the first time, and a more perfect union could not have been predicted. The fourth 7" features "Monochrome (7" Version)" and "You're Just A Habit That I'm Trying To Break".
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CLUE 106EP
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A new project from The Wedding Present. A new 7" single every month throughout 2022. 24 songs sees David Gedge writing with legendary Sleeper guitarist Jon Stewart for the first time, and a more perfect union could not have been predicted. The sixth 7" features "Once Bitten" and "Kerplunk!".
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CLUE 101EP
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A new project from The Wedding Present. A new 7" single every month throughout 2022. 24 songs sees David Gedge writing with legendary Sleeper guitarist Jon Stewart for the first time, and a more perfect union could not have been predicted. The first 7" features "We Should Be Together" and "Don't Give Up Without A Fight".
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CLUE 105EP
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A new project from The Wedding Present. A new 7" single every month throughout 2022. 24 songs sees David Gedge writing with legendary Sleeper guitarist Jon Stewart for the first time, and a more perfect union could not have been predicted. The fifth 7" features "X Marks The Spot" and "Strike!".
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"HHBTM Records will release Locked Down And Stripped Back Volume Two by The Wedding Present on 1 July 2022. Locked Down And Stripped Back Volume Two features home recordings of Wedding Present and Cinerama classics, along with a previously unreleased song: 'That Would Only Happen In A Movie'. There is a bevy of guest stars on the album. Jon Stewart [of Platinum-album-selling Sleeper fame] reprises his new role as Wedding Present guitarist but is joined here by some Wedding Present members of old. Peter Solowka, from the band's first line-up appears on 'Nobody's Twisting Your Arm' playing his second instrument, the accordion, while Hit Parade guitarist Paul Dorrington contributes to a re-working of the Top 30 single 'Blue Eyes'. Long-time Wedding Present and Cinerama bass player Terry de Castro returns to infuse the album with her own unique style, while current Wedding Present bass player Melanie Howard takes over the lead vocal duties on a beautiful version of 'At The Edge Of The Sea'. Last, but certainly not least, Amelia Fletcher - backing vocalist on George Best and Bizarro -- also returns to the party! As on the first volume, each musician recorded and filmed their parts at home and, as before, it is fascinating to see how stripped-back arrangements bring out different aspects of these brilliant songs."
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SCOPITONE 085CD
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The Wedding Present, recorded and filmed at the Ritz, Manchester, on November 9, 2012. This double-disc release includes both a CD and a DVD of the concert. Following the release of Seamonsters in 1991 the Guardian newspaper noted that: "Engineer Steve Albini has given The Wedding Present considerable weight, with Gedge's voice trickling between banks of scowling guitars," and went on to feature the LP in its list of "1,000 albums to hear before you die". Despite its uncompromising sound the album reached No. 13 in the British album charts and has been hailed as a classic.
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"The Wedding Present recorded a full acoustic and stripped back album during the lock down from COVID-19 featuring classic Wedding Present hits and deep cuts and new tracks like 'We Should Be Together' which is a duet with Louise Wenner of the britpop band Sleeper. 12 tracks in all included 'My Favourite Dress' and 'You Should Always Keep In Touch With Your Friends.'"
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SCOPITONE 088CD
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Locked Down And Stripped Back features home recordings of Wedding Present classics, along with two previously unreleased songs: "You're Just A Habit That I'm Trying To Break" and "We Should Be Together". The former is the first fruit of David Gedge's songwriting partnership with Wedding Present guitarist Jon Stewart (of Sleeper fame) whilst the latter was originally written (but never released) by Sleeper themselves. This new Wedding Present version features Louise Wener on vocals. With each band member recording and filming their parts at home under lock-down restrictions, the recording process was far from easy, but the end result illustrates splendidly how The Wedding Present have adapted to the impact of COVID-19. David Gedge says: "As the summer of 2020 wore on it became increasingly obvious that At The Edge Of The Sea --my annual festival in Brighton -- was sadly going the way of other live music events. Following its cancellation, I decided to replace it with an 'online' version, presented live from my own living room and featuring home-recorded videos from many of the artists that had appeared at the festival over the years. For The Wedding Present's contribution, we picked twelve tracks to re-work in a 'semi-acoustic' style, and it was fascinating to see how stripped-back arrangements brought out different aspects of the songs. The Seamonsters track 'Blonde' was a prime example of this, with a 'just-two-guitars' approach resulting in a naïve and stark-sounding interpretation. In addition to the brilliant contributions from Louise and Jon from Sleeper, my long-time writing associate Terry de Castro fired over contributions from Los Angeles and, fresh from finishing her first Such Small Hands solo album, Wedding Present bass player Melanie Howard took over lead vocals for a version of 'Sports Car'."
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ON 210EP
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Exceptional second single from The Wedding Present that was originally released on Reception Records in 1985. Reissued here on white vinyl. Includes postcard and poster; edition of 1000.
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SCOPITONE 079CD
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The Wedding Present, recorded and filmed at the Atomic Café, Munich, on October 24th, 2010. This double-disc release includes both a CD and a DVD of the concert. DVD includes bonus track.
Of the original Bizarro release, All Music says: "The Wedding Present's second proper studio album, Bizarro, cut down a bit on the frenetic jangle the band was known for in its early days and replaced it with healthy doses of darkness and power. Adding some fuzzy, crunchy distortion to give the guitars some hefty impact, slowing the tempos down to speeds that allow vocalist David Gedge to squeeze more heartbroken despair and bleak sarcasm out of every line, and generally upping their game in every way, the album was the fullest realization of The Wedding Present's sound yet. Leading off with the unstoppably hooky 'Brassneck' which features a brilliant Gedge reading of lines that rhyme 'grow up' and 'throw up', the album plays like a collection of thematically related singles. The Wedding Present didn't necessarily need to improve their already winning template, but they did and it pays off big time on Bizarro."
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SCOPITONE 082CD
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George Best became The Wedding Present's first album in 1988. But Tommy, released one year later, was made up of the early songs from the singles and radio sessions that had catapulted them from being bedsit musicians into indie darlings: "Go Out And Get 'Em, Boy!" with its purposefully super-fast guitars, "You Should Always Keep In Touch With Your Friends" an anthem for those long time Wedding Present fans, "My Favourite Dress" the only single in the collection that ended up on George Best, the classic, fraught tale of losing one's first love that perfectly played on the heart strings and began David Gedge's legacy of understanding everyone's heartbreak. Tommy 30, a brand-new re-recording of Tommy, did not come about simply as a "follow on" to George Best 30 (SCOPITONE 074CD, 2017). The band felt, during a Tommy 30th anniversary concert tour, that the songs had grown and evolved. Enter a more confident vocalist... an altogether growlier guitar. A bigger sound. The urgency of a 25-year-old Gedge is replaced with a charming vocalist with years of experience. Everything's warmer and, maybe, gentler... but in a satisfying way. It's like your old friends have come home to see you.
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SCOPITONE 082LP
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LP version. Includes CD. George Best became The Wedding Present's first album in 1988. But Tommy, released one year later, was made up of the early songs from the singles and radio sessions that had catapulted them from being bedsit musicians into indie darlings: "Go Out And Get 'Em, Boy!" with its purposefully super-fast guitars, "You Should Always Keep In Touch With Your Friends" an anthem for those long time Wedding Present fans, "My Favourite Dress" the only single in the collection that ended up on George Best, the classic, fraught tale of losing one's first love that perfectly played on the heart strings and began David Gedge's legacy of understanding everyone's heartbreak. Tommy 30, a brand-new re-recording of Tommy, did not come about simply as a "follow on" to George Best 30 (SCOPITONE 074CD, 2017). The band felt, during a Tommy 30th anniversary concert tour, that the songs had grown and evolved. Enter a more confident vocalist... an altogether growlier guitar. A bigger sound. The urgency of a 25-year-old Gedge is replaced with a charming vocalist with years of experience. Everything's warmer and, maybe, gentler... but in a satisfying way. It's like your old friends have come home to see you.
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Part of The Optic Sevens Reissue Series. Originally released in 1985 on Reception Records. The debut single by The Wedding Present is reissued here on white vinyl using the original artwork from Reception Records. Includes Poster and postcard.
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SCOPITONE 087CD
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In 2017, The Wedding Present played a series of concert dates to commemorate the 30th anniversary of the release of their classic debut album, George Best. With its bittersweet, breathtakingly honest love songs immersed in whirlwind guitars, George Best struck a chord with outsiders across the indie universe. The album has achieved legendary status in the hearts and minds of alternative music fans everywhere. The final concert in the 30th anniversary series took place at the O2 Academy in Leeds on December 9, 2017. This was, of course, hugely appropriate because Leeds was the city where The Wedding Present were born and where George Best was written, arranged, rehearsed, and partly recorded. Appreciating the significance of the event, David Gedge decided that this Leeds show would be the last time that The Wedding Present would play George Best live... ever! DVD on this is PAL format, region free.
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SCOPITONE 074CD
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It was early 2008 and The Wedding Present were in Chicago, recording their seventh album, El Rey (MFO 43904CD). But they had also recently completed a successful "twentieth anniversary" concert tour for their debut LP George Best (1987), and having played that entire album dozens of times live, it was fresh in their minds and under their fingers. So, after they'd wrapped up recording El Rey, David Gedge suggested they lay down a "live" version of George Best in the same studio. After all, the equipment was already set up and the band were on fire. Steve Albini, with whom they were recording, initially wasn't too keen on the idea, but David assured him it would be quick and easy. Albini grudgingly caved. But David was right; it was quick... recorded live, more like an early Beatles LP or a Wedding Present Peel Session than a long drawn-out modern recording with a bunch of overdubs and multi-tracked layering. One could almost imagine that this is the version of George Best that David would have liked to have recorded back in 1987. It is just so well done... as you'd expect, of course, with Albini at the controls. But you can also feel David's 20 years older, self-guiding the new recording with experience and confidence. Everything is bigger... the drums on the original recording were played live, but were done on a "Simmons" electronic drum kit. The combination of Albini's recording and the ultra-talented Graeme Ramsay on "real" drums brings these frantic songs to life. However, the real difference comes out in the way those super-fast, ever-jangly guitars sound... they're warmer, they're rockier, they're more modern. More... Albini! To round everything off with another contemporary twist, multi award-winning mixer/producer Andrew Scheps -- last heard on The Wedding Present's ground-breaking Going, Going... album (SCOPITONE 066CD/LP, 2016) -- enthusiastically agreed to mix the finished recordings, having heard the original LP for the first time in his living room in Los Angeles in 2012, when he was mixing The Wedding Present's eighth studio album in 2012, Valentina (SCOPITONE 037CD).
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SCOPITONE 030CD
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In November 2007, The Wedding Present performed their classic debut album George Best (1987) live, in its entirety, in Dublin, Ireland. The concert, which took place in front of a thrilled crowd at the city's "Village" venue to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the release of the LP, was recorded and filmed for posterity is now released for the first time here on DVD and CD.
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SCOPITONE 066LP
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Double LP version. Includes DVD, CD, and 7". Going, Going..., the ninth studio album from UK indie darlings The Wedding Present, tells the story of a road trip across the USA, revealed across a collection of twenty "linked" songs, each with an accompanying short film. As David Gedge points out, work began soon after the 2012 album Valentina (SCOPITONE 037CD), "I'd already decided by then that I didn't want to make the next release just 'another album' and so I came up with the idea of twenty 'interconnected' pieces of music. In the summer 2014, I traveled across the USA with photographer Jessica McMillan and we made some atmospheric short films to accompany the tracks. Since then it's been a case of progressing through the music, trying all sorts of ideas, seeing how they work set against the visuals." Uncharacteristically, the album opens with four hauntingly beautiful instrumental songs, including the cinematic "Sprague" and the captivating "Marblehead". Going, Going... then takes a head-long dash through tracks such as "Two Bridges", "Birdsnest", "Kill Devil Hills" and "Broken Bow", all perfectly executed in classic Wedding Present fashion; a jangle of clanging guitars, a squeal of feedback and a rush of adrenaline. With "Little Silver", "Bear", "Lead" and "Rachel" he proves yet again that he is a virtuoso when it comes to the bittersweet love song; his knack for a simple turn of phrase perfectly articulating the banalities and ecstasies of a relationship. Whilst they are the undoubted masters of frenetic indie-pop, The Wedding Present re-route momentarily on "Emporia" and "Wales" before ultimately immersing the listener in an epic album finale with "Santa Monica". Throughout this enchanting album, ambient soundscapes and orchestral pop arrangements jostle for position with layers of feedback drenched guitars, pummeling drums and a truly massive bass sound as the band plays some of the heaviest material they have ever recorded. The films that accompany each track are a mesmerizing collection of moving photographs. The rippling water in "Marblehead" delicately draws us into the melody while "Two Bridges" takes us onto a Manhattan street corner and exudes New York City in the summertime. The feeling of a road trip is present throughout with the rivers and lakes of the mid-west and the deserts of the south-west before the album ends with the sun setting over the Santa Monica mountains.
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SCOPITONE 066CD
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Going, Going..., the ninth studio album from UK indie darlings The Wedding Present, tells the story of a road trip across the USA, revealed across a collection of twenty "linked" songs, each with an accompanying short film. As David Gedge points out, work began soon after the 2012 album Valentina (SCOPITONE 037CD), "I'd already decided by then that I didn't want to make the next release just 'another album' and so I came up with the idea of twenty 'interconnected' pieces of music. In the summer 2014, I traveled across the USA with photographer Jessica McMillan and we made some atmospheric short films to accompany the tracks. Since then it's been a case of progressing through the music, trying all sorts of ideas, seeing how they work set against the visuals." Uncharacteristically, the album opens with four hauntingly beautiful instrumental songs, including the cinematic "Sprague" and the captivating "Marblehead". Going, Going... then takes a head-long dash through tracks such as "Two Bridges", "Birdsnest", "Kill Devil Hills" and "Broken Bow", all perfectly executed in classic Wedding Present fashion; a jangle of clanging guitars, a squeal of feedback and a rush of adrenaline. With "Little Silver", "Bear", "Lead" and "Rachel" he proves yet again that he is a virtuoso when it comes to the bittersweet love song; his knack for a simple turn of phrase perfectly articulating the banalities and ecstasies of a relationship. Whilst they are the undoubted masters of frenetic indie-pop, The Wedding Present re-route momentarily on "Emporia" and "Wales" before ultimately immersing the listener in an epic album finale with "Santa Monica". Throughout this enchanting album, ambient soundscapes and orchestral pop arrangements jostle for position with layers of feedback drenched guitars, pummeling drums and a truly massive bass sound as the band plays some of the heaviest material they have ever recorded. The films that accompany each track are a mesmerizing collection of moving photographs. The rippling water in "Marblehead" delicately draws us into the melody while "Two Bridges" takes us onto a Manhattan street corner and exudes New York City in the summertime. The feeling of a road trip is present throughout with the rivers and lakes of the mid-west and the deserts of the south-west before the album ends with the sun setting over the Santa Monica mountains. CD version includes a DVD.
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SCOPITONE 042EP
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RSD 2013 release. Includes download code. Four songs from The Wedding Present's 2012 album Valentina (SCOPITONE 037CD) sung in German. The music was recorded in France, the lyrics translated in Brighton, and the vocals recorded in L.A, with bassist Pepe le Moko singing backing vocals in her native language. These songs would sound magnificent in any language . . . "The Girl From The DDR" (originally a duet in German and English) features the mighty Swollen Pickle pedal on Graeme Ramsay's guitar; "524 Fidelio" is the oddball, with its eccentric timing, hypnotizing backing vocals, and huge pop chorus.
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