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Music > Reviews > The Wedding Present By Sarah ZupkoPopMatters Editor & Publisher College radio faves and true cult band The Wedding Present are regretfully no more—though David Gedge released the stellar Va Va Voom with his new group Cinerama last year. As the biggest UK indie pop band of the late 1980s, the Wedding Present amassed a brilliant body of work that was fully entrenched in the angular post-punk aesthetic. This new compilation captures all of the band’s BMG singles (“Kennedy,” “Brassneck,” and “Crawl” among them), including B-sides, from the turn of the decade and includes a smattering of rarities and unreleased material as well, including a number of live tracks recording in Leeds in 1990. Anyone with even a passing interest in indie rock from either side of the pond needs this collection. —
 Related ArticlesWhat Made the Wedding Present Great (1985-1991)By G E Light19.Aug.09 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. The Wedding PresentBy Ian Mathers23.Oct.08 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. 
The Wedding Present: El ReyBy Ian Mathers05.Jun.08 It's been a rough decade or so for Wedding Present fans, but they've finally come up with a fitting successor to Seamonsters.  The Wedding Present: Shepherd’s Bush Presents The Wedding Present
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