wedding present reform..

the wedding present are the most underrated band of all time. seriously. this is fantastic news.

i saw cinerama in glasgow last year and gedge asked - after playing corduroy - "who thinks we should re-form the wedding present?" i was the only person shouting yes, which surprised me ... i mean, i didn't think ppl were cinerama *fans*. i just thought they accepted them as the next best thing.

although that link would suggest this is just going to be, umm, cinerama rebadged. hmm. that said: the wedding present are like the fall anyway: one man's skewed vision played out over thousands of line-up changes.

Then nominate 'Seamonsters' for the ILM 90s poll!

christ as if the original weren't shitty enough!

What is it that the foreboding start reminds me of? 'Tunic (Song For Karen)'?

This sounds promising.

"Around the same time, following the break up with his long-term girlfriend and musical partner, Sally, Gedge's personal life also entered a darker place, and he moved to Seattle and began writing a series of songs that were clearly influenced by his despair over the split."

Details:
http://www.eggrecords.co.uk/eggrest008.htm

yes, that makes me an unfeeling bastard. but still, i don't actually know the guy, do i? i just love his music. so, umm, if this means good songs then ... aargh, i feel guilty now.

Is this really the Wedding Present original members sort of deal or is it just Cinerama calling themselves by a different name? Cause I heard somewhere it was the latter.

Hmmm...no actually I think you may be on to something, fiendish...wasn't he always best in "spurned lover" mode?

Alex - interesting you say you gave up after Watusi - I was just today thinking about the album Saturnalia for some reason and how I ought to pull it out just for the hell of it. Good album, that. They went out very nicely in my book, not with a whimper but a bang. The only thing I didn't care for was the Mini EP. Sold it, in fact.

more like.

no, seriously!

not necessarily.

exhibit a: my favourite dress
exhibit b: dalliance
exhibit c: kenne ... oh, hang on. got confused there. sorry

The new single doesn't seem like it could be (recently) autobiographical either.

(but it's really all about GEDGE'S PAIN, and we all know it ;)

i haven't heard the new one yet. i forgot to look for it at the weekend. i'm waiting on a couple of orders turning up at mono this week so i'll try to get it then.

so the upshot is i'm waiting much longer to get hold of the music than if i'd bought it online. hmm.

x-post: ok, MFD isn't *immediately* post-breakup. but it's obviously recent enough: "slowly your beauty is eaten away/by the scent of someone else/in the blankets where we lay"

[tongue firmly in cheek] and hey, you know what women are like with dresses. if she's still wearing that dress then it can only be a matter of weeks. i mean, she'd have "gone off it" otherwise, no? [removes tongue]

Hang on - I've never thought about this line. Has he actually been breaking into her flat and sniffing her blankets?

i assume it's his blankets. mind you: is gedge the kind of person who'd change his sheets very often? perhaps i'm wrong with my timings, then.

C'mon, this is Mr Creepy Indie Stalker we're talking about. Of course he has!

But if it's Gedge's blankets then it's a bit rich to complain about his ex's beauty being tarnished by his new girlfriend's smell? I hate this man.

ok, how about this:

it's his girlfriend's blankets and he's *imagining* what they now smell like (ie of brut 33).

or: it's his blankets and they're being tarnished by some rubbishy one-night stand he can't shake off.

or ... oh, fuck, i've got to go to a meeting with marketing. pissery.

How about it's someone else entirely's blankets, but they happened to enjoy breaking into other people's houses, lying on their beds, and then leaving. Now he can imagine what happens when the other folk return and use their beds again.

god damn i wish i could listen to CDs at work. fuck.

so if you want to take it for the afternoon you're more than welcome. just yell.

This is like saying, "it's better than a yeast infection".

i'm not sure whether i'm disappointed or not. after one listen, there are three standouts: it's for you, perfect blue and the frankly jaw-dropping eight-minute version of interstate 5, which turns into a wonderful ennio morricone pastiche. but in terms of instrumentation - trumpets! strings! pianos! - it just ain't the weds. and i can't help feeling slightly short-changed.

still, that's after just one listen: i need to spend more time with it. and the lyric to marks sparkles down on me (i think that's what it's called) is one of his best yet.

Well, that settles it then. Thanks for saving me time and money!

yes. it is.

i can't wait to see TWP live in march to see if they do cinerama songs as part of the set.

gedge could well be god, you know.

I just read that TWP have an Albini-produced new one coming out in May.

I'm of the opinion that "Albini-produced" is rarely a liability, but when it comes to the Wedding Present, it's a definite PLUS.

New songs sound pretty good, from what I can make out of the poor sound-quality YouTube clips of recent WP gigs. Faster, choppy-pop type Weddoes, rather than the long, droney-rock Weddoes of Take Fountain.

awesome. i knew there was an album coming up but didn't realise it was albini-produced. get in.

Hmm, the Albini news is good. But my general feeling is that the more they stretch out on longer instrumental drones or extended jangles, the better ("Take Me," "Favorite Dress," "Interstate 5," "Suck").

I heard 3 of the new songs at their SXSW set in March, didn't impress me much, unfortunately...

Albini produced is more often good news than bad, though.