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The Wedding Present will release their complete sessions for the late John Peel's BBC Radio 1 show on March 26 via Sanctuary Records in the UK and on April 24 in the U.S.

Complete Peel Sessions: 1986-2004 spreads in-studio sessions, live sets, and band interviews across six discs, and it includes the band's cover of Orange Juice's "Felicity" as well as a venture into Ukrainian folk music.

Wedding Present founder/songwriter/vocalist David Gedge oversaw the compiling, remastering, and artwork for the set, which features liner notes by In Session Tonight author Ken Garner.

As for the contents of the box set (deep breath), the first disc consists of studio sessions in February and October of 1986, March and October of 1987, and March of 1988. The studio sessions on the second disc are from May 1988, May 1989, October 1990, March 1992, and March 1994. The third disc adds a live set from Peel's 50th birthday celebration in London in August of 1989 to studio sessions from December 1995 and July 2004. The remaining three discs feature live sets at the 1995 Phoenix Festival in Stratford-upon-Avon (disc four), the 1996 Sound City Festival at Leeds Metropolitan University (disc five), and the 1996 Reading Festival (disc six).

The Wedding Present have two live dates scheduled for March 31 and April 1 in England.

Dates:

03-31 Holmfirth, England – Picturedrome
04-01 Sheffield, England - The Plug