Saw The Wedding Present last night, doing their [Steve Albini-engineered] Seamonsters album in its entirety, and thankfully padding it out either side, whereas they used to play only an album and then piss off:
I must have been standing right behind whoever filmed this, so it’s a pretty good memento!
They were really good (as always), and pretty loud too, but Gedge’s guitar parts should have been way louder for my taste. He’s still great, though: funny, unassuming and still a brilliant songwriter — see recent album Valentina.
Their Japanese support band, Toquiwa (tok-ee-wah), were very entertaining too, in a different kind of way:
Their singer’s mangled Engrish (she knew what she was doing), keyboard stomping, impressive beer-downing skills and infectious, boundless enthusiasm won over all; unfortunately, the video above doesn’t show any of that, being from another gig…