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Known for their independent spirit and loyal fanbase, they’ve crafted a decades-long legacy in the music scene.
The Wedding Present has had eighteen UK Top 40 hit singles…not bad for a band that has stubbornly refused to play the record industry’s game since its inception.
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.
