‘I got a nosebleed in minutes!’ How the Wedding Present’s indie banger classics inspired a musical

‘I got a nosebleed in minutes!’ How the Wedding Present’s indie banger classics inspired a musical

I n 2009, Matt Aston was watching the Wedding Present frontman David Gedge perform a “bizarre and brilliant” gig with the BBC Big Band when he was struck by a notion: that the combination of the singer’s conversational lyrics and brassy, orchestrated new arrangements felt a bit like, well, watching