Architecture and Morality: The Wedding Present Revisited

By Roger Holland

Pop scholars frequently undervalue The Wedding Present. If the Smiths were the undeniable figurehead for the UK's thriving independent pop scene of the 1980s, then Gedge's little-band-that-could certainly inherited that mantle. [31 May 2007]

The Wedding Present

By Ian Mathers

I was worried that the band would either rely too much on their (admittedly) superb new album El Rey or else just do a sort of old-times revue, but they managed to strike a nearly perfect balance between the old and the new. [23 October 2008]

The Wedding Present: El Rey

By Ian Mathers

It's been a rough decade or so for Wedding Present fans, but they've finally come up with a fitting successor to Seamonsters. [5 June 2008]

The Wedding Present: Shepherd’s Bush Presents The Wedding Present

By Jason MacNeil

Post-Smiths, pre-Britpop band the Wedding Present dust off “oldies” for this impressive, satisfying guitar-saturated record, a record you’d be a complete fool to not enjoy from start to finish, top to bottom. [6 May 2008]

The Wedding Present: Search For Paradise

By Roger Holland

Let's face it, no-one does love, break-ups and hurt like David Gedge. [16 May 2006]

The Wedding Present, Singles 1989-1991

By Sarah Zupko

The Wedding Present amassed a brilliant body of work that was fully entrenched in the angular post-punk aesthetic.

Sound Affects: What Made the Wedding Present Great (1985-1991)

The genius of the early Wedding Present was the tense interplay between David Gedge's heartfelt yet quotidian lyrics of love and loss and Pete Solowka's mad, banjo-like strumming. [19 August 2009]

Notes from the Road: PHOTOS: SXSW Day 1: The Wedding Present @ Emo’s Annex