The Wedding Present 'Bizarro' | Beat Generator Live

PCL Presents
THE WEDDING PRESENT
+ Guests
Thursday, 4th April
Beat Generator Live, Dundee
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Doors 7pm
14+ u18s must be accompanied by an adult
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Tickets on Sale Tuesday 16th 10am via See Tickets & Tickets Scotland
https://www.seetickets.com/event/the-wedding-present/beat-generator-live/1276919
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BIZARRO : 30TH ANNIVERSARY CONCERTS

The
Wedding Present will be playing a series of concert dates in 2019 to
commemorate the 30th anniversary of the release of their major label
debut long-player, Bizarro.

Bizarro reviewed by AllMusic :

“The
Wedding Present's second proper studio album, Bizarro, [RCA Records,
1989] cut down a bit on the frenetic jangle that the band had been known
for in its early days and replaced it with healthy doses of darkness
and power. Adding some fuzzy, crunchy, distortion to give the guitars
some hefty impact, slowing the tempos down to speeds that allowed
vocalist David Gedge to squeeze more heartbroken despair and bleak
sarcasm out of every line and generally upping their game in every way,
the album was the fullest realization of The Wedding Present's sound
yet. Leading off with the unstoppably hooky ‘Brassneck’ which features a
brilliant Gedge reading of lines that rhyme "grow up" and "throw up",
the album plays like a collection of thematically related singles. The
most single-y among them is ‘Kennedy’ which has some brilliant
sing-along lyrics and an intensely dramatic guitar strum build-up that
crescendos into a maelstrom of sound. The rest of the record isn't far
behind; whether it's the sparse ‘What Have I Said Now?’ or the slowly
grinding ‘Bewitched’ one could extract any song and it would feel like a
highlight... even the epic-length ‘Take Me!’ which closes the album in a
fury of strums, drum fills and chugging bass that builds and builds
until it seems like the song is going to levitate and take the listener
right along with it. The Wedding Present didn't necessarily need to
improve their already winning template but they did and it pays off big
time on Bizarro.

Track-listing : Brassneck / Crushed / No /
Thanks / Kennedy / What Have I Said Now? / Granadaland / Bewitched /
Take Me! / Be Honest

In other news...

The Wedding Present will be playing festivals throughout the summer as well as helping to
celebrate the release of the George Best album feature film documentary
Something Left Behind. They will also be recording a new session for the
BBC Radio 6 Music DJ, Marc Riley. The band’s first six Marc Riley
sessions have already been released on two compilation LPs by Hatch
Records of Leeds. There will also be a new Wedding Present single in
May.

Following the popularity of last year’s George Best 30
album, where a Steve Albini re-recorded version of George Best was
released by Scopitones, the band are now planning to release Tommy 30, a
re-recording of early singles.,

Finally, David Gedge is hoping
to find time to continue writing and publishing issues of Tales From The
Wedding Present - his auto-biography in comic book form – as well as
continuing to DJ around the country.

www.theweddingpresent.co.uk

"The boy Gedge has written some of the best love songs of the 'Rock 'n'
Roll' era. You may dispute this but I'm right and you're wrong!" - John
Peel