24 Songs

Description

Full versions of all the tracks from 2022s 7-single-a-month series, re-curated by David Gedge to include five bonus tracks.

Triple LP* (on solid grey vinyl and very limited-edition transparent mint green vinyl) which includes 2 CDs

*also includes a DVD featuring the band playing live during the 24 Songs Launch event at The Old Market, Hove, in January 2022, plus a fascinating fly-on-the-wall documentary filmed as the songs were being written, arranged and recorded.

Throughout 2022, The Wedding Presents 24 Songs series saw the legendary indie band release two new tracks a month as double A sided 7s, 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 Presents first guitarist, Peter Solowka.

24 Songs was a doff of the cap to The Wedding Presents 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 its satisfying to have them all rounded up together.

The idea of releasing another collection of twenty-four tracks did initially seem quite daunting, admits David Gedge in the deluxe-CD sleeve notes but, with Jon Stewart (also of Sleeper) having joined the band at the end of 2019 and their subsequent writing partnership flourishing, he began to feel confident that they would be able to produce a years worth of music.