• The Thin Air Podcast: David Gedge (The Wedding Present)

    The Thin Air podcast returns with a distinguished elder statesman of indie rock – David Gedge of The Wedding Present.  John Peel favourites and jangle-pop pioneers The Wedding Present emerged from Leeds in the late 1980s with their scrappy and lyrical debut album ‘George Best’.  A unique blend of bitter melodrama and everyday mundanity, it’s an urgent record that revels in the melancholy of small town life. From their C86 roots the band went to be bona fide indie-popstars, charting no less than 12 singles in the UK top 40 in 1992, and becoming a regular anomaly in the shiny…