The Wedding Present Celebrate 35 Years Of ‘Seamonsters’

2026 is another big year for The Wedding Present. The band are celebrating the 35th anniversary of Seamonsters with a new pressing, and are following their tour of North America with concerts in the UK and continental Europe.

On March 27, RCA Records re-released the original 10 tracks that made up Seamonsters on deep-sea blue BioVinyl. This lush re-pressing is considered to be a more environmentally sustainable way of pressing records since it contains no petroleum products. The LP is available now.

The Wedding Present completed Seamonsters 35 : A 35th Anniversary Tour Of North America earlier this year, and followed it with spring and summer ‘Mixed Set’ concerts and festival appearances, including David’s annual At The Edge Of The Sea festival.

David Gedge says: “After last year’s career-spanning set list to celebrate 40 years of the band, I’m looking forward to spending much of 2026 focusing on what many people consider to be our best album. I can’t wait to revisit these songs with Rachael, Chris and Stuart, and I know that they’re all excited about how this is going to sound live.”

Seamonsters is back in the set list this autumn, when The Wedding Present embark on a UK-wide tour, followed by concerts in France and Germany. They’ll be playing the album in its entirety, along with other selected tracks from their extensive back catalogue. David has already promised that the band will be playing songs that were not heard on last year’s 40 tour.

The anniversary is a chance to revisit an album that was always going to be something special. After recording their first two albums, George Best and Bizarro, the band yearned for a different sound and started working with legendary engineer Steve Albini. After recording the single version of ‘Brassneck’ and the follow-up ‘3 Songs EP’, The Wedding Present travelled to Cannon Falls, Minnesota to record Seamonsters early in 1991.

The first real taster fans got of the new material was for a John Peel Session on BBC Radio 1, when the band previewed ‘Dalliance’, ‘Heather’ and ‘Blonde’ from the then-forthcoming album, along with future B-side ‘Niagara’. Peel himself said, “I’m seriously tempted to say this is the best stuff I’ve ever heard from The Wedding Present!” You can read more about this, and lots of stories from the recording of Seamonsters, in the third volume of David's autobiography – Tales From The Wedding Present – which is out now.

Seamonsters Track List:

Dalliance / Dare / Suck / Blonde / Rotterdam / Lovenest / Corduroy / Carolyn / Heather / Octopussy