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The Wedding Present
When: Wednesday 23rd October 2013 - Doors: 7.30pm
Where: Glee Club, Mermaid Quay, Cardiff Bay, CF10 5BZ
British band The Wedding Present bring The Hit Parade Tour to Glee Club Cardiff, on Wednesday 23rd October.
The Wedding Present have had eighteen UK Top 40 hit singles... not bad for a band that has, from its inception, stubbornly refused to play the record industry's game. In 1985 founder of the band, David Gedge, got 500 copies of their first single 'Go Out And Get 'Em Boy!' printed, picked them up, and delivered them by coach in his mother's suitcases to the distribution company. This 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 record label (Reception Records) onwards, the band has charted an appealing, if often eccentric, course of its very own.
In 1992, they released 12 singles, one per month, equalling Elvis' 35 year-old record for most hits in one year, and re-kindled everyone's interest in that ultimate pop format, the 7". Ultimately the singles were compiled on the two Hit Parade albums and awarded 'record of the week' by Tony Parsons in The Daily Telegraph.
'The boy Gedge has written some of the best love songs of the Rock 'n' Roll Era. You may dispute this, but I'm right and you're wrong!' - John Peel
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Glee Club Cardiff
Wed 23 Oct 2013
Doors: 7.30pm
Tickets: £14
Age: 16+
Box Office: 0871 472 0400 www.glee.co.uk/cardiff
Bookings & more info: http://glee.co.uk/performers/the-wedding-present.htm