
Its was 16 years ago today that me and a girl called Steph went to see The Wedding Present play!
1992 was when the band spent the whole year releasing a single on the first Monday of every month. Original material on the a-side and a cover version on the flip. These singles were then compiled together on the The Hit Parade albums.


I was 20 and 3 months or so into my Uni tour of duty. The only Wedding Present singles I had at the time were ‘Kennedy’, ‘Brassneck’ and ‘Corduroy’ which featured their great version of a personal favourite, ‘Make Me Smile (Come Up And See Me)’.
As far as I can remember it wasn’t packed out at The Event. There was plenty of space to bounce around. At the time the venue regularly played host to a variety of bands from everyone from Ice T’s Body Count to Blur. When it wasn’t putting on live gigs it was the top spot for student nights and I remember many spent dancing with a pint of cider or bitter in hand.
Anyway, support for the Wedding Present were Tse Tse Fly and Moonshake. I know this not from memory but because I wrote it on the back of the ticket. God knows what they were like though. I actually wasn’ that bothered about The Wedding Present either. I was persuaded to go by this girl and I spent the evening waiting for them to play ‘Kennedy’. I remember being a bit disappointed and theres a distant memory of some punter being a bit annoying. That said my interest in the band must have been stirred enough for me to ask for the Hit Parade compilation tapes for Christmas that year.
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