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The Wedding Present
Marc Riley Sessions Vol 4
The fourth instalment in The Wedding Present’s popular ‘Marc Riley Sessions’ series. The Wedding Present are a band with a history that’s inextricably intertwined with the BBC and, in particular, the late DJ John Peel, an early champion of the band.
The first four tracks on the album were recorded with a string quartet and trumpeter and include a remarkable re-imagining of Bewitched, originally from the band’s 1989 album Bizarro. For The Wedding Present’s ninth Marc Riley session they decided to include a couple of songs from the recently released Going, Going... album. This LP features additional orchestration and so they thought it would be exciting to revisit an augmented, Cinerama-style, set-up in order to play live at the BBC’s historic Maida Vale studios. But one of the songs we recorded on that day predates Going, Going... by nearly three decades. Bewitched has always had a symphonic feel to it and we thought it would also benefit from an orchestral lick of paint.
Ironically, for the other session on this LP, the band were stripped down their most basic again to thunder through punky tunes like Felicity, Getting Nowhere Fast and - the song that announced The Wedding Present to the world - Go Out And Get ’Em, Boy! This new version of that song from their debut release is followed here by renditions of songs on their most recent single; such is the time-contracting effect of a Wedding Present Marc Riley session!
Hatch
CD | LP
The Wedding Present
Take Fountain
The Wedding Present's 7th album, releasedn in 2005. Take Fountain' was the first Wedding Present album for nine years. During the ’time off', the band's singer and songwriter, David Gedge, had released albums by Cinerama, the group he'd started with his girlfriend, Sally Murrell. At the end of 2002, Gedge and Murrell unexpectedly split up and he decided to leave Leeds, his home for the preceding twenty-four years, and move to Seattle. Following the end of this fourteen-year relationship, Gedge began writing a collection of songs apparently influenced by his despair over the split. ’Take Fountain', the resultant album, was released, perhaps ironically, on St. Valentine’s Day 2005. This saw Gedge reviving the Wedding Present name for the first album since 1996′s Saturnalia to a torrent of critical acclaim.
Scopitones
CD | LP
The Wedding Present
Take Fountain
If we have stock left it will be available online from Saturday 25th April, strictly one per customerLimited edition Record Store Day double LP ’Take Fountain’ was the sixth album from The Wedding Present, originally released on CD only in 2005. This is the first time that the album has been released on vinyl and it contains bonus tracks culled from the singles that accompanied the original release.'Take Fountain' was the first Wedding Present album for nine years. During the ’time off', the band's singer and songwriter, David Gedge, had released albums by Cinerama, the group he'd started with his girlfriend, Sally Murrell. At the end of 2002, Gedge and Murrell unexpectedly split up and he decided to leave Leeds, his home for the preceding twenty-four years, and move to Seattle. Following the end of this fourteen-year relationship, Gedge began writing a collection of songs apparently influenced by his despair over the split. ’Take Fountain', the resultant album, was released, perhaps ironically, on St. Valentine’s Day 2005. This saw Gedge reviving the Wedding Present name for the first album since 1996′s Saturnalia to a torrent of critical acclaim. “’Take Fountain' is as eloquent an emotional discourse as he has mustered” [Mojo]. “Fans have long since recognised Gedge as more poet than pop star. Like Byron without the marsh fever, 'Take Fountain' confirms his status as an extraordinary songwriter” [The Times]. The album was recorded in Seattle with Steve Fisk, who has also produced Nirvana, Soundgarden, Pavement, Low and a previous Wedding Present album, ‘Watusi' [in 1994]. On one of the last programmes before his death, the renowned Fountain' is as good as anything The Wedding Present have ever done in the past".
Scopitones
LP
RSD 2015
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