where are they now?

Toasted.

They just released a new album produced by Albini didn't they ?
Saw a picture of a healthy bronzed looking Gedge in Mojo as I think he is now LA based.
Or am I missing the real question here ?

thank you

They're still going strong and although the line up has changed numerous times David Gedge is still standing. The 80's and 90's band members have long since moved on to other things.

Apparently Gedege now lives in LA though his songs are still all about love, loss, good girlfriends, bad boyfriends, the last train home and the pouring rain. If you subscribe to the all the songs sound the same myth then the only way you'll tell them apart is now he references texts and jpegs. If you don't and especially if you liked Seamonsters or Bizarro you should like the new stuff.

Saw them play in Exeter a couple of weeks back and they were loud, fast and moshtastic.

I was at that too. The hub is a right dive, you stick to the floor with your first step, the sort of place to only drink bottles. I remember DLG saying something about the towels stinking of wet animals. Storming set though!

El Rey is a great album, bovril, I'd advise you to get it. I won't call it a return to form as there wasn't anything wrong with Cinerama or Take Fountain (I know that's not what you were hinting at, Greenlander).

Bovril, if you've missed out on the last few releases, the recently released live offering would be a good place to start as the set list is quite evenly spread along the Gedge timeline.

I'll be seeing tham again in Swindon in July, and Bristol in December. Can't wait.

thanks again!

just found out about the December tour - playing Leeds Uni..

And completely bypassing the Midlands. Again.

Phoebe, they were in Birmingham on Monday and Cambridge on Tuesday. Hope you caught them.

Awful band, for point-missers.

You disliking the Wedding Present is not the most surprising thing I've learnt on here, SR, but what is the point that their fans have missed?

My friend Nick saw them at The Joiners in Southampton this week: another dive famous for punters' sweat hitting the ceiling, condensing, and raining back down. Lovely.

The Wetting Present.

Disco Sea Shanties wrote:

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You disliking the Wedding Present is not the most surprising thing I've learnt on here, SR, but what is the point that their fans have missed?

The Wedding Present did a 'Nephilim', that is to say they kickstarted their career by mopping up a section of the fanbase of a vastly superior band who were in hiatus or in disarray (in the Nephilim's case The Sisters Of Mercy, in The Wedding Present's case The Smiths) that was glancing around looking for another similar band, who were fully active and gigging and releasing records, to latch onto.

I'll never forget the first term of my second year at uni when all the Smiths fans came back from hols suddenly converted to Wedding Present fans. And this is why they were point-missers. They fetishised the form of The Smiths at the expense of the content, and mistakenly believed that what was really great about The Smiths was their northern-ness and lo-finess and kitchen-sinkness and indie-ness. Qualities that The Wedding Present also happened to have. But that's all they fucking had.

Yeah, they were/are fucking dreadful. Perhaps a fan could explain what on earth they see in them for a change.

When I was in in the toilets at Bristol International (or 'Bristol Provincial' as my companion had it) airport earlier this year, there was a solitary advertisement sticker on one of the cubicle doors. It was for The Wedding Present playing 'George Best' live in full a few months earlier. Seemed strangely appropriate.