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  • The Wedding Present 'George Best 30' - Cargo Records UK

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    The Wedding Present 'George Best 30'

    £12.99

    It was early 2008 and The Wedding Present were in Chicago, recording their seventh album, El Rey. But they had also recently completed a successful ‘twentieth anniversary’ concert tour for their debut LP George Best and, having played that entire album dozens of times live, it was fresh in their minds and under their fingers.

    So, after they’d wrapped up recording El Rey, David suggested they lay down a 'live' version of George Best in the same studio. After all, the equipment was already set up and the band were on fire. Steve Albini, with whom they were recording, initially wasn't too keen on the idea but David assured him it would be quick and easy.

    Albini grudgingly caved. But David was right; it was quick... recorded live, more like an early Beatles LP or a Wedding Present Peel Session than a long drawn out modern recording with a bunch of overdubs and multi-tracked layering. One could almost imagine that this is the version of George Best that David would have liked to have recorded back in 1987.

    It is just so well done... as you’d expect, of course, with Albini at the controls. But you can also feel David’s 20 years older self guiding the new recording with experience and confidence. Everything is bigger… the drums on the original recording were played live, but were done on a ‘Simmons’ electronic drum kit.

    The combination of Albini’s recording and the ultra-talented Graeme Ramsay on ‘real’ drums brings these frantic songs to life. However, the real difference comes out in the way those super-fast, ever-jangly guitars sound… they’re warmer, they’re rockier, they’re more modern. More… Albini!

    To round everything off with another contemporary twist, multi award-winning mixer/producer Andrew Scheps [last heard on The Wedding Present’s ground-breaking Going, Going... album] enthusiastically agreed to mix the finished recordings, having heard the original LP for the first time in his living room in Los Angeles in 2012, when he was mixing The Wedding Present’s eighth studio album, Valentina.

    Tracklisting:
    1. Everyone Thinks He Looks Daft
    2. What Did Your Last Servant Die Of?
    3. Don't Be So Hard
    4. A Million Miles
    5. All This And More
    6. My Favourite Dress
    7. Shatner
    8. Something And Nothing
    9. It's What You Want That Matters
    10. Give My Love To Kevin
    11. Anyone Can Make A Mistake
    12. You Can't Moan, Can You?
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  • The Wedding Present 'Locked Down And Stripped Back Volume Two'

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    The Wedding Present 'Locked Down And Stripped Back Volume Two'

    £5.49

    Release Date: 05/04/2024

    Locked Down And Stripped Back Volume Two features home recordings of Wedding Present classics along with a previously unreleased song: ‘That Would Only Happen In A Movie’.

    The first volume in the series came about when David Gedge’s annual festival At The Edge Of The Sea went ‘virtual’ in 2020 and the band recorded semi-acoustic versions of songs to be streamed. An album of the tracks was compiled and released due to popular demand.

    The same thing happened the following year and so Volume Two features tracks initially recorded for 2021’s online festival. There’s a bevy of guest stars on this second album! Jon Stewart [of Platinum-album-selling Sleeper fame] reprises his new role as Wedding Present guitarist but is joined here by some Wedding Present members of old.

    Peter Solowka, from the band’s first line-up appears on ‘Nobody’s Twisting Your Arm’ playing his second instrument, the accordion, while Hit Parade guitarist Paul Dorrington contributes to a re-working of the Top 30 single ‘Blue Eyes’. Long-time Wedding Present bass player Terry de Castro returns to infuse the album with her own unique style, while current Wedding Present bass player Melanie Howard takes over the lead vocal duties on a beautiful version of 1986’s ‘At The Edge Of The Sea’. Last, but certainly not least, Amelia Fletcher – backing vocalist on George Best and Bizarro – also returns to the party!

    Tracklisting:
    1. Brassneck
    2. No
    3. Careless
    4. Nobody’s Twisting Your Arm
    5. What Have I Said Now?
    6. Perfect Blue
    7. Everyone Thinks He Looks Daft
    8. That Would Only Happen In A Movie
    9. At The Edge Of The Sea
    10. Blue Eyes
    11. Dare
    12. Octopuss
    As on the first volume, each musician recorded and filmed their parts at home and, as before, it is fascinating to see how stripped-back arrangements bring out different aspects of these brilliant songs.

    Tracklisting:
    1. Brassneck
    2. No
    3. Careless
    4. Nobody’s Twisting Your Arm
    5. What Have I Said Now?
    6. Perfect Blue
    7. Everyone Thinks He Looks Daft
    8. That Would Only Happen In A Movie
    9. At The Edge Of The Sea
    10. Blue Eyes
    11. Dare
    12. Octopuss
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