With a new Wedding Present album on the horizon, we thought it only right and proper that we should have a new web site, too. We haven't changed the content, all your favourite pages are still here, we've just updated the navigation and upgraded the look. We are thankful to...

The Wedding Present have agreed to be one of the bands opening the 2012 Primavera Sound Festival at a free concert in Barcelona on Wednesday 30 May. According to the event organisers, the festival will considerably increase its scope this year, with a large-scale event open to all. The Lluis...

The Wedding Present have premiered a couple of tracks from their forthcoming album 'VALENTINA'. The first, the brilliant 'YOU JANE', with Gedge comparing yet another flailing love affair to classic Hollywood romances, is a digital single which should be downloadable from all the usual digital distribution services. You can watch...

The Wedding Present will be releasing their much-anticipated eighth studio album, 'Valentina', in March. It was recorded in France, California and England during 2011 and mixed by Andrew Scheps [whose past credits include Metallica, Iggy Pop and Johnny Cash]. Valentina comes four years after 2008’s 'El Rey' and is performed...

Scopitones, in association with Raw Shark Comics, has just published a fascinating graphic novel compiling stories inspired by David Gedge song titles. The NME called Gedge 'one of the most consistently brilliant songwriters in Britain', his songs slicing through the messy business of love, loss, and longing like a cut...

Scopitones will release a double album of live Wedding Present recordings from 1990 on 09 January 2012 [in the UK] and on 17 January 2012 [in North America]. This release will be available on CD and by download. 'LIVE 1990' collects the seventh and eighth of The Wedding Present's infamous...

The very best of wishes to all of our readers from everyone here at Scopitones, the home of Cinerama and The Wedding Present. In his 'New Year Address' [ha, ha...] David Gedge said: "2012 is going to be a very exciting year for us. As well as releasing our new...

We are very pleased to announce that our old friends The Victorian English Gentlemens Club will be appearing with The Wedding Present at two of the concerts on the band's 'Seeing Out 2011' Tour. VEGC will be opening the shows in Glasgow and Leeds. The tour dates in full are:...

The Wedding Present have announced the dates of their 2012 concert tour of North America. Although the tour has been primarily arranged to celebrate the release of the band's forthcoming album [which will be out in March 2012] they are also taking the opportunity to celebrate the twenty-first anniversary of...