CD - Wedding Present - Maxi

1CD - Import

In 1995, The Wedding Present released Mini on Cooking Vinyl Records. Mini – a 6-track EP – featured songs all of which had motoring connections.

Thirty years later, David Gedge has revisited the concept!

Maxi features six more tracks, all with titles referencing driving.

Scream, If You Want To Go Faster

Grand Prix

Hot Wheels

Two For The Road

Interceptor

Silver Shadow

David Gedge says: “Sometimes I like to set myself little goals. When we embarked on the 24 Songs project it was an interesting challenge, attempting to replicate the Hit Parade’s ‘twelve singles in a year’ scheme from thirty years before. So I just thought I’d do it again!”

“As I said in the sleeve notes for the 40 compilation album, the songs we recorded for Maxi were written relatively quickly because I had felt particularly inspired, both lyrically – with situations occurring in my life – and musically – writing with the then recently arrived Wedding Present guitarist Rachael Wood. The resulting tracks feel bigger and moodier than we’ve had for a while, and they’re certainly rockier, thanks to Rachael with her armoury of guitars and pedals!”