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The Wedding Present: Seamonsters tour
Presented by: Green Mind Gigs| 0 | CAMBRIDGE: Green Mind @ Cambridge Junction |
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| P | Wednesday 21st November, 2012 |
| N | 7:00pm |
Event information
The Wedding Present have had eighteen UK Top 40 hit singles… not bad for a band that has, from its inception, stubbornly refused to play the record industry’s game. That was back in 1985 when David Lewis Gedge boarded a National Express coach in London with 500 records packed into a pair of his mother’s suitcases. In this fashion, the debut single GO OUT AND GET ’EM BOY! was collected from the pressing plant, delivered to the distribution company, and The Wedding Present was born. That pioneering spirit has been at the core of the band’s philosophy ever since. From GEORGE BEST, "an unmitigated delight" [NME], the first full-length release on their own Reception Records onwards, the band has charted an appealing, if often eccentric, course of its very own.
In 1991 with characteristically twisted Wedding Present logic, was to enlist noise-mongering [and, at that point, relatively unknown] sound engineer Steve Albini’s aid at a time when everyone else was releasing ‘Madchester’ dance mixes. The resulting SEAMONSTERS, recorded in the snowy wilds of Minnesota in just 11 days, suggested a more thoughtful Wedding Present. The Guardian newspaper noted that: "Albini has given The Wedding Present considerable weight, with Gedge’s voice trickling between banks of scowling guitars". Indeed, the singing ranged from sensual whispering to feverish screams.
The band will be playing the album in its entirety, alongside of 40 minutes of other material
Venue information
CAMBRIDGE: Green Mind @ Cambridge Junction| 0 | Clifton Road Cambridge CB1 7GX |
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| > | www.greenmind.co.uk |
| ! | 01223 511511 |
