On Tuesday June 10th at 6:30pm, Last Will and Petra Core will feature their June 6, 2025 interview with longtime The Wedding Present frontman David Gedge before the sold out show at The Chapel in SF.
Tune in for the conversation, songs of The Wedding Present and related music, along with an excerpt from a 1994 interview Last Will conducted with Gedge live at KALX.
Singer/lyricist/guitarist David Gedge founded The Wedding Present in 1985. They were an early favorite of British alternative radio legend John Peel, who said, “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!”
The Wedding Present have had eighteen UK Top 40 hit singles… not bad for a band that has, from its inception, stubbornly refused to play the record industry’s game. It all started in 1985 when David Lewis Gedge boarded a National Express coach in London with 500 records packed into a pair of his mother’s suitcases and, in this fashion, delivered the band’s debut single Go Out And Get ‘Em, Boy! to a distribution company in Yorkshire. That pioneering spirit has been at the core of the band’s philosophy ever since. From George Best, “an unmitigated delight” [NME], the first full-length release on their own Reception Records onwards, the band has charted an appealing, if often eccentric, course of its very own.
