This event has been rescheduled to Thursday 25 August 2022. Ticket holders will be contacted regarding the new date.

“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

The Wedding Present have had eighteen UK top forty hit singles… not bad for a band that has, from its inception, stubbornly refused to play the record industry’s game.

That was back in 1985 when David Lewis Gedge boarded a National Express coach in London with five-hundred records packed into a pair of his mother’s suitcases. In this fashion, the debut single Go Out and Get ‘Em Boy! was collected from the pressing plant, delivered to the distribution company, and The Wedding Present was born.

That 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 Reception Records onwards, the band has charted an appealing, if often eccentric, course of its very own.

Rescheduled from Saturday 27 June 2020, Thursday 17 September 2020 and Friday 25 June 2021.

Dates & Times

Last session: Sun 29 Aug 2021 at 8:00 PM - This event has now passed
Derby Hall @ The Met
£23 seated / £21 standing (inc fees)

Doors open 7pm // auditorium open 7.30pm // on-stage 8pm

Covid Safety at The Met

This will be a full-capacity event with a non-socially distanced audience; we will however still be utilising many Covid safety measures for your safety and the safety of our staff.

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