Monday, 9/16/2024
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The Wedding Present - Bizarro 35th Anniversary Tour

The Wedding Present will play five shows in Germany in September 2024 to celebrate the 35th anniversary of their classic album Bizarro. The band will perform Bizarro in full - along with other classics from their extensive repertoire - in a 90-minute set.

The tour is presented by Visions, gaesteliste.de & ByteFM.

AllMusic wrote about the album:
"The Wedding Present’s proper second studio album, Bizarro [RCA Records, 1989], dialed down the frenetic jangle the band was known for in their early days, and replaced it with a healthy dose of darkness and power. By adding fuzzy, crisp distortion to give the guitars a powerful punch, by slowing down the tempo to a pace that allowed singer David Gedge to wring more heart-wrenching despair and gloomy sarcasm from every line, and by improving their playing in general in every way, the album was the fullest realization of The Wedding Present's sound to date. The album kicks off with the unstoppable earworm 'Brassneck,' where Gedge brilliantly delivers lines that rhyme 'grow up' with 'throw up,' and plays like a collection of thematically linked singles. The standout single is 'Kennedy' with brilliant sing-along lyrics and a dramatic guitar build that crescendos into a whirl of sound. The rest of the album is no less impressive; whether it's the sparse 'What Have I Said Now?' or the slowly grinding 'Bewitched,' you could pull out any song and it would feel like a highlight... especially the epic-length 'Take Me!,' which closes the album in a frenzy of strums, drum fills, and chugging bass that builds and builds until it seems as though the song is floating, ready to sweep the listener away. The Wedding Present didn't necessarily need to improve upon their already successful blueprint, but they did, and it pays off fully on Bizarro."

Tracklist: Brassneck / Crushed / No / Thanks / Kennedy / What Have I Said Now? / Granadaland / Bewitched / Take Me! / Yeah, Yeah, Yeah, So Be Honest

David Gedge says:
“Bizarro was our second album and you can hear on it how much
we had learned from the experience of recording our debut, George Best. You only
have to listen to something like ‘Bewitched’ to notice that there’s much more in the
way of texture and depth on Bizarro. We’d just improved as songwriters and
arrangers, basically. It’s no less-frenetic a record, though!”
“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

Doors: 7 pm / Standing tickets

Event data provided by: Reservix