LIVE: THE WEDDING PRESENT – THE RITZ, MANCHESTER 10/10/2025

The Wedding Present are one of those bands who have soundtracked a vast part of my life, from dancing at indie discos as a teen to well pretty much doing the same around the kitchen at a recent 50th birthday do. It’s safe to say the huge crowd assembled in The Ritz tonight probably identify […]
Back in 1985, the brilliant guitar pop of ‘Go Out And Get Em Boy’ was the Wedding Present’s first single, and in the intervening decades, it’s fair to say that David Gedge and the Wedding Present have done exactly that. Their blend of shimmering guitar tunes, often with a rockier overtone, and lyrics capturing love […]

INTERVIEW: THE WEDDING PRESENT – CELEBRATING 40 YEARS OF INDIE GREATNESS!

Louder than Words

Line-up now confirmed for Louder Than Words

The Louder Than Words Festival of music and writing returns this year for its sixth edition from November 9th to 11th 2018 .  It remains the only festival that interrogates that enduring love affair between music and the written word. This year, the festival will open on the Friday with Radio 1’s Gemma Cairney, followed by the current bass player with […]
– CENTRAL STATION, WREXHAM – I’ve been given license by the Silent Radio grandees to leave our Manchester stomping ground for unexplored North Walian pastures. Having been cruelly ruled out of the Manchester show with work commitments, I’m in Wrexham to watch The Wedding Present perform George Best in its entirety. Album shows are a […]

LIVE: THE WEDDING PRESENT – 20/06/2017

THE WEDDING PRESENT RELEASE VIDEO FOR ‘SCOTLAND’ TAKEN FROM THEIR RECORD STORE DAY EP RELEASE

Indie legends, The Wedding Present, are set to release a new, four-track, EP entitled ‘Home Internationals’ on the Spanish record label El Segell del Primavera, for this year’s Record Store Day. It is set to be released Saturday 22nd April 2017. Always coming out with something unexpected, the EP sees The Wedding Present developing the […]
Manchester Academy will host a series of special shows to celebrate the venue’s 25th anniversary. The Oxford Road venue, which originally opened in October 1990, has announced a series of celebratory gigs including performances from Buzzcocks, Peter Hook and the Light and The Wedding Present. Buzzcocks will play on October 10, followed by Peter Hook’s […]

THE WEDDING PRESENT, BUZZCOCKS AND PETER HOOK TO PLAY MANCHESTER ACADEMY 25TH ANNIVERSARY SHOWS