Vinyl Record
The Wedding Present - Bizarro
The Wedding Present - Bizarro on LP vinyl. A 1989 record available from Kilmorna Collection in Listowel, Ireland.
LP ยท 1989
Available from Kilmorna Collection in Listowel.
Buyer notes: 1989 LP, currently available from the Kilmorna Collection vinyl shelf. Pay for pickup in Listowel or ship within Ireland for EUR 5.50.
Bizarro is The Wedding Present's 1989 second album and the moment their high-speed jangle became bigger, heavier and more bruising. After George Best made David Gedge's romantic frustration feel like it was being fired through a small amplifier at impossible velocity, Bizarro brought the band to RCA and gave the songs a broader physical force without losing their awkward candour. Brassneck opens with all the warning signs of a band about to become louder than its shyness, while Kennedy, What Have I Said Now?, Granadaland and Bewitched turn failed communication, jealousy and romantic humiliation into guitar churn. Gedge's writing is famously plain-spoken, but that plainness is deceptive; every repeated phrase sounds like someone trying to win an argument they already know they have lost. Bizarro is indie rock as emotional abrasion, where the guitars do not decorate heartbreak so much as keep it pinned to the wall.
It matters because it moved The Wedding Present from beloved indie awkwardness into a tougher major-label statement without diluting their identity. Brassneck and Kennedy remain among the clearest examples of Gedge's gift for making romantic failure sound urgent.
For collectors, Bizarro is a core Wedding Present album: the second LP, the RCA step and the home of Brassneck and Kennedy. This edition's appeal is tied to the album's 35th-anniversary return, but the enduring value is the record's place in UK indie history.
Fast UK indie rock with churning guitars, dry vocals, romantic grievance, nervous repetition, muscular jangle, clipped drums and hooks that feel half-singalong, half-argument.
Recommended for: Collectors of late-1980s British indie and C86-adjacent guitar records; Listeners who like abrasive jangle-pop with wounded lyrics; Fans of Brassneck, Kennedy and David Gedge's romantic realism.
When was Bizarro originally released? The Wedding Present originally released Bizarro in 1989 as their second studio album. Which songs define Bizarro? Brassneck and Kennedy are the best-known anchors, with What Have I Said Now? and Bewitched deepening the album's emotional pressure. Why is Bizarro important for The Wedding Present? It shows the band carrying their fast, emotionally blunt indie style into a bigger setting without losing David Gedge's distinctive voice.