Collection: The Wedding Present

The Wedding Present are one of the UK’s most longstanding and much-loved indie bands and have eighteen UK Top 40 hit singles to their name. Not bad for a band that has, from its inception, stubbornly refused to play the record industry’s game. From debut album George Best, “an unmitigated delight” (NME), onwards, the band has charted an appealing, if often eccentric, course of its very own. The band released its ninth studio album, Going, Going..., to huge critical acclaim in 2016.

Since then the band have retained a prolific output including releases of a series of BBC 6 Music sessions recorded for Marc Riley, George Best 30 (re-recorded with Steve Albini and released 2017), Something Left Behind (film, 2018), Tommy 30 (re-recorded and re- leased 2019) and picture disc ‘Jump In, The Water’s Fine’ / ‘Panama’ in 2019.

‘Sleevenotes', David’s reflection on his earlier lyrics, was published in 2019 and during lockdown in 2020, the band recorded a series of stripped back sessions for their festival At The Edge Of The Sofa. The sessions were released as an album Locked Down And Stripped Back earlier in 2021. A musical based on David’s music is now also in the works!

The band are hoping to return to playing live over the summer and have announced a “Seamonsters 30th Anniversary” tour of the United Kingdom, Eire, and Continental Europe