The Wedding Present - 24 Songs (3LP Transparent Mint Vinyl + 2CD)

Throughout 2022, The Wedding Present’s ‘24 Songs’ series saw the legendary indie band release two new tracks a month as double A sided 7”s, ultimately creating a much-sought-after box set.

David Gedge has now re-curated full-length versions of all twenty-four tracks for a new compilation album that will also comprise five bonus recordings including one featuring The Wedding Present’s first guitarist, Peter Solowka. ‘24 Songs’ was a doff of the cap to The Wedding Present’s ‘Hit Parade’ project of 30 years previous. That series proved to be a real milestone for the band with them becoming only the second-ever artist to achieve twelve Official UK Top 40 hits in a calendar year – at the time something that only Elvis had achieved! David Gedge says: “When it came to compiling the ‘24 Songs’ album, I decided not to sequence the tracks in chronological order.

With six sides of vinyl, you have six ‘beginnings’ and six ‘ends’ to play with, and I felt that the opportunity to build some kind of a musical journey was too good to miss! Listening back to this collection, I have to say that I genuinely believe that, for this project, The Wedding Present have recorded some of the best tracks in our history. I loved releasing the singles, but it’s satisfying to have them all rounded up together.”

24 Songs:

1. I Am Not Going To Fall In Love With You

2. Memento Mori

3. That Would Only Happen In A Movie

4. We Interrupt Our Programme

5. We Should Be Together

6. Strike!

7. Science Fiction

8. Summer

9. Each Time You Open Your Eyes

10. We All Came From The Sea

11. Monochrome

12. Kerplunk!

13. Don’t Give Up Without A Fight

14. X Marks The Spot

15. You’re Just A Habit That I’m Trying To Break

16. Plot Twist 17. Whodunnit

18. A Song From Under The Floorboards

19. Telemark

20. Astronomic

21. Go Go Go

22. Once Bitten

23. La La La

24. The Loneliest Time Of Year

5 Songs:

25. White Riot

26. Panama

27. Jump In, The Water’s Fine [Japanese Edit]

28. We All Came From The Sea [Utah Saints Remix]

29. Teper My Hovorymo