The Wedding Present | Tommy
The Wedding Present | Tommy

The Wedding Present | Tommy

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On white vinyl.

April, 1985. At the very moment when the first few notes of ‘Go Out And Get ’Em, Boy!’ twinkle out of BBC Radio 1’s John Peel show to herald the birth of The Wedding Present, David Gedge is listening intently at home along with the population of late teens that would become his ardent fans.

In the beginning, The Wedding Present were resolutely not an album band. In fact, David had often been quoted as saying that they would never release an LP.

Pleased to have recorded and released that debut single… they just started on the next one. This continued for a couple of years, while the band went from organising their own concerts in pubs around Leeds to playing at Glastonbury Festival. That all changed, of course, when George Best became The Wedding Present’s first album in 1988. But Tommy – released one year later – was made up of the early songs from the singles and radio sessions that had catapulted them from being bedsit musicians into indie darlings: ‘Go Out And Get ’Em, Boy!’ with its purposefully super fast guitars, ‘You Should Always Keep In Touch With Your Friends’ – an anthem for those long time Wedding Present fans, ‘My Favourite Dress’ – the only single in the collection that ended up on George Best – the classic, fraught tale of loosing one’s first love that perfectly played on the heart strings and began David Gedge’s legacy of understanding everyone’s heartbreak.

1. Go Out And Get Em Boy!
2. (The Moment Before) Everything Spoiled Again
3. Once More
4. At The Edge Of The Sea
5. Living And Learning
6. This Boy Can Wait
7. You Should Always Keep In Touch With Your Friends
8. Felicity
9. What Becomes Of The Broken Hearted?
10. Never Said
11. Every Mothers Son
12. My Favourite Dress