Category: The Wedding Present

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A SLOW, atmospheric, post-rock instrumental is not what a seasoned Wedding Present listener expects to hear, nor a stately and majestic track built around a worldless choir of male and female vocals, nor a sublime movement for string quartet and piano. Yet this is how Going, Going…, the Present’s new album opens – but in another… Continue reading The Wedding Present at Galway Advertiser

Overlown: Your new album Going, Going… is a double album consisting of twenty songs, each of which has an accompanying short film. It is perhaps your most ambitious work to date. What inspired you to take on such a large project? David Gedge: The main answer to that is that I felt like I didn’t want to… Continue reading The Wedding Present Interview at Overblown

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The Wedding Present, Going, Going… (HHBTM) Earlier in 2016 HHBTM dished wax of The Weddoes’ 2005 effort Take Fountain and follow it up here with a 2LP/DVD set of the group’s latest (available outside the US on Scopitones). It opens with a series of largely instrumental and somewhat post-rock pieces, an unusual and intriguing turn as each of the… Continue reading The Wedding Present at The Vinyl District

You’re going at full speed and full out on Going, Going…, a collection of compositions that captures not only a transcontinental road trip of the US, but also, via your lyrics, the indecision, self-examination, convictions, realizations, and revelations of the person behind the wheel. I take it you literally went on this US road trip… Continue reading The Wedding Present Interview at The Big Takeover

It’s funny. When I was younger, I couldn’t stand any of this talk about romance and relationships. That’s all girl stuff, base pleasures, distractions – and besides, I had my own fantasy worlds to explore. But now with the rolling of years – and a love life that still doesn’t exist – desire has led… Continue reading The Wedding Present – Song of the Day at This is Not a Drill