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The Wedding Present request the pleasure of your company at the marriage of CD and DVD, taking place in North America on Tuesday, May 16, 2006, and ministered by Manifesto Records. The ceremony, titled Search for Paradise: Singles 2004-5, features three singles from last year's Take Fountain album, along with their attendant B-side bridesmaids, acoustic versions of the A-sides, and a remix of "Ringway to Seatac" by German popists Klee, all previously unreleased in North America. (What are all those singles doing at a wedding? Looking for potential mates, we guess.)

DVD footage includes promotional videos for "Interstate 5", "I'm from Further North Than You", "Ringway to Seatac", and "Don't Touch That Dial", along with a live acoustic version of "Perfect Blue", and, of course, behind the scenes footage of picking out dresses and choosing a caterer and stuff like that.

The ceremony will take place simultaneously in Spain and Portugal, with Houston Party Records doing the honors, and one day earlier in the UK, courtesy of the Wedding Present's own Scopitones label. Europe, Australia, Scandinavia, Japan, and most of the rest of the world witnessed the blessed event earlier this month.

You may now kiss the tracklist:

CD:

01 Interstate 5 (UK single edit)
02 Bad Thing
03 Snapshots
04 I'm From Further North Than You
05 Rekindling
06 The Girl With the Curious Smile
07 Nickels and Dimes
08 I'm From Further North Than You (Klee remix)
09 Ringway to Seatac
10 Shivers
11 American Tan
12 Interstate 5 (acoustic version)
13 I'm From Further North Than You (acoustic version)
14 Ringway to Seatac (acoustic version)

DVD:

01 Interstate 5 (promotional video)
02 I'm From Further North Than You (promotional video)
03 Ringway to Seatac (promotional video)
04 Perfect Blue (three minute film)
05 Don't Touch That Dial (promotional video)
06 Behind the Scenes

As previously reported, the Wedding Present recently departed on their European honeymoon. The trip is scheduled to continue on through the month and wrap up in early June.

Dates:

05-12 Prague, Czech Republic - Abaton
05-13 Vienna, Austria - Planet Music Festival
05-14 Munich, Germany - Atomic Café *
05-15 Tübingen, Germany - Sudhaus *
05-16 Langenthal, Switzerland - Chrämerhuus
05-17 Geneva, Switzerland - L'Usine #
05-18 Lyon, France - Le Ninkasi ^
05-19 Annecy, France - Brise Glace %
05-20 Grenoble, France - Le Ciel
05-22 Bordeaux, France - Le Sonart
05-23 Nantes, France - L'Olympic &
05-24 Brest, France - Cabaret Le Vauban
05-25 Rennes, France - L'Antipode &
05-26 Paris, France - Nouveau Casino @
05-28 Southampton, England - Joiners $
05-29 Birmingham, England - Academy $
05-30 Bristol, England - Academy $
05-31 Liverpool, England - Academy $
06-02 Belfast, Northern Ireland - Spring & Airbrake +
06-03 Dublin, Ireland - Temple Bar Music Centre +
06-05 Glasgow, Scotland - ABC !
06-06 Leeds, England - Metropolitan University !
06-07 Nottingham, England - Rescue Rooms !
06-08 London, England - KOKO !=

* with Mon Roe
# with SWAB
^ with Mark Burgess & the Sons of God
% with Rhesus
& with Patriotic Sunday
@ with Flexa Lyndo
$ with Scarling
+ with the Betes Noires
! with the Victorian English Gentlemen's Club
= with Seeing Scarlet

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