Wedding Present Announce N.A. Tour

Weddoes supporting recent Albini-produced album El Rey.

By Blurt Staff

The Wedding Present has announced a 21 date North American tour which will commence at the Casbah in San Diego, California and conclude at The Mohawk in Austin, Texas.  The band released El Rey in May, its first new long player since 2005’s Take Fountain.  El Rey found the band reunited with noted producer Steve Albini, with whom they worked with on their 1991 release Seamonsters. 

The live lineup includes David Gedge (guitar and vocals), Terry de Castro (bass), Graeme Ramsay (drums), and Chris McConville (guitar).

El Rey was penned Gedge was living in Los Angeles and according to his label it “burns with West Coast sunlight; Hollywood seen through the eyes of a gritty British Northerner.”  Speaking about El Rey in MOJO Magazine, Gedge observed, “I’ve been living in West Hollywood for the last year or so, and while I’m not going to claim that this is my ‘L.A.’ album, there are some references. I suppose the themes are lust, jealousy, betrayal, regret, obsession, super-heroes… the usual. We chose to record with Steve this time because the new songs were sounding very guitar-ry and quite dark. It’s been good. As you’d imagine, really; Albini knows his stuff.”

Wedding Present Tour Dates:

9/18/08                        Casbah                                                San Diego, CA

9/19/08                        Troubadour                             Los Angeles, CA

9/21/08                        Slim’s                                      San Francisco, CA

9/23/08                        WOW Hall                              Eugene, OR

9/24/08                        Neumo’s                                  Seattle, WA

9/25/08                        Doug Fir Lounge                    Portland, OR

9/26/08                        Media Club                             Vancouver, B.C.

9/29/08                        Turf Club                                St. Paul, MN

10/1/08                        Empty Bottle                          Chicago, IL

10/2/08                        Crofoot (Pike Room)              Pontiac, MI

10/3/08                        Lee’s Palace                            Toronto, ONT

10/4/08                        Babylon                                   Ottawa, ONT

10/5/08                        Le National                             Montreal, ONT

10/6/08                        Middle East                            Cambridge, MA

10/8/08                        Bowery Ballroom                    New York, NY

10/9/08                        Southpaw                                Brooklyn, NY

10/11/08                      Black Cat                                Washington, D.C.

10/12/08                      Local 506                                Chapel Hill, NC

10/14/08                      The Earl                                   Atlanta, GA

10/15/08                      The Bottletree                         Birmingham, AL

10/17/08                      The Mohawk                           Austin, TX