Gift of a show for anniversary

The band will be playing at the Empire Music Hall in Belfast and tickets are on sale now.

Formed in Leeds in 1985, The Wedding Present have had eighteen UK Top 40 hit singles over the years.

With their early releases The Wedding Present had acquired a reputation for bittersweet, breathtakingly honest love songs immersed in whirlwind guitars, so it was extraordinary that Ukrainski Vistupi V Johna Peela, with the band exploring traditional Eastern European folk music, should be their major label debut for RCA Records.

The next step, made with characteristically twisted Wedding Present logic, was to enlist the aid of the noise-mongering sound engineer Steve Albini. The resulting Seamonsters, recorded in the snowy wilds of Minnesota in just 11 days, suggested a more thoughtful Wedding Present.

In 2005, in the wake of the success of the album ‘Take Fountain’, and after almost an eight-year hiatus, The Wedding Present set out on a mammoth twenty month concert tour of Europe and North America. which included most of the major festivals and ended in November 2006.

The band continued to record and tour and in 2019, The Wedding Present released Tommy 30, which was comprised of brand new versions of the early songs featured on their first singles compilation Tommy, originally released in 1988.

With live concerts being curtailed during 2020, The Wedding Present turned their hands to facilitating a more virtual existence. This included the home recording of 12 ‘locked down and stripped back’ videos.

Tickets are on sale now at ticketmaster.ie.