The Wedding Present

The Wedding Present have a reputation for bittersweet, honest love songs and are heavily influenced by bands such as The Fall, Buzzcocks and Gang of Four. Enlisting noise-mongering producer Steve Albini to produce album Seamonsters at a time the country was going nuts for acid house, releasing one single a month in 1992, and working with everyone from Ian Broudie from the Lightening Seeds and Rolling Stones producer Jimmy Miller, The Wedding Present are always challenging and experimental.

Recently the band has enjoyed a resurge in popularity as 2009 saw Gedge collaborate with the BBC Big Band for the Fuse Festival, release his bass players solo album and launch his own mini festival, At The Edge Of The Sea, in Brighton.

This year marks the 21^st anniversary of the release of their album Bizarro, which featured the bands first hit single Kennedy, and was touted by Melody Maker as 'simply unbeatable'.