The Wedding Present

recently played a gig in No's favourite dutch venue The Paradiso in Amsterdam, you can watch all 84 minutes of it here

Cool, thanks!

Saw 'em at Portsmouth Wedgewood Rooms - top night. I think they did pretty much the same set every night, just alternating a couple of tracks here and there. A good mix of old and new though.

Take Fountain is great, I really like Perfect Blue at the moment.

Yeah, I was at The Wedgewood Rooms too. 'Interstate 5' was a great opener - has to be my favourite Wedding Present song now, I reckon. The album is a corker.

Andy

They opened with Interstate 5 the previous time they played there... in 2004 when they were still called Cinerama.

Sacré bleu Nic! Cette conversation n'est pas sur le thème!

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Just coz you got told off...

Hac quite clearly states that the clip in question was filmed at a venue familiar to both JD and NO. OK, so it is a bit tenuous...

Old Blue wrote: They opened with Interstate 5 the previous time they played there... in 2004 when they were still called Cinerama.

Did they really?? I was at that gig too, but as it's a little while ago now, I don't remember it being played. I thought it sounded oddly familiar when I first heard the single... Where does Cinerama end and the Weddoes begin??! On the latest album, there's 'Don't Touch That Dial', which was originally a CInerama single (and festive fifty number 1).

Andy

My first ever gig.....The Wedding Present, Glasgow Barrowlands, November 5th 1988. I was 14!!! Saw The Fall about two weeks later in the same venue. Very fond memories of both nights.

Bizarre to think of both bands playing a 2000 capacity venue. Reckon the 88/89 era was the "popularity peak" for both of 'em.

My Mrs holds the dubious honour of having fallen asleep at a Weddoes gig. Quite an achievement given the volume. She doesn't really like them and only came to keep me company.

Anyway - the question that needs to be asked is just how does Gedge get off stage at the end of the gig and to the merchandise desk before the punters have even left the auditorium?

Ah, the Pres. Grapper always thought it funny that people called them the Weddoes!

Some fond memories of Seamonsters era gigs. Got to know Grapper, Simon Smith and Keith Gregory quite well. Never took to DLG, he was always rather obsessed with this work ethic, most mortals would try and unwind a bit after a show, but not only was he straight over to organise Sally's already efficient merchandising, but hellbent on chasing the bootleg poster sellers away from the building. There was also the claim that the "we can't do encores because my fingers swell up when playing" myth was a cynical fabrication on the part of a Gedge who was determined to get offstage and back to his burgeoning business empire as soon as possible!

Doubt I would see them again now, it's all moved on quite a long way, and they are now a bit of a tribute band a la Fall, aren't they?

Saw a recent documentary where the fact that Gedge does everything was discussed. On the role of 'tour manager', he said "I'm not paying some bloke £150 a week to book a couple of hotel rooms and check we've got the right address for the venue."

I really enjoyed the recent show, Tim. They are no more a tribute to themselves than, say, err, New Order are

Old Blue wrote: Saw a recent documentary where the fact that Gedge does everything was discussed. On the role of 'tour manager', he said "I'm not paying some bloke £150 a week to book a couple of hotel rooms and check we've got the right address for the venue."

I really enjoyed the recent show, Tim. They are no more a tribute to themselves than, say, err, New Order are

Except that he's the only original member and writer of these songs still involved. A bit like MES and his constant squad rotation policy!

Mon dieu Nic, arrêter cette folie!

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& they are playing at the primavera sound festical in barcalona on the same bill as new order to bring another way to get this on topic