That Playlist in Full

I'm not sure there will be very many people interested in this post, but I did hear some people making positive noises about the songs played both at the Wedding and at the reception in Leicester. If you're not particularly interested in the background music then feel free to stop reading now, or perhaps take a look at the photographs provided by the photographer.

It's fair to say that I have linked idiosyncratically and basically at what caught my interest. Many of the youtube videos or other things linked are live recordings or slightly different versions. Many of them just make me happy or are things I have seen for the first time today. If you want to know anything more about any of the bands then clock on their name or send me an e-mail about them.

Wedding Party Playlist

Before the wedding:
1. Oh God Where are you now? (In Pickering Lake? Pigeon? Marquette? Mackinaw?) - Sufjan Stevens [excerpt]
2. Redford (For Yia-Yia & Pappou) - Sufjan Stevens
3. Vito's Ordination Song - Sufjan Stevens
4. Hope - Dirty Three
5. Hail to the Lord's Anointed - The Welcome Wagon

[at this point Catherine was not around to walk down the aisle. We sat in nervous silence for a couple of minutes and the PA technician put Hope on again until Catherine arrived. Thanks PA technician.]

Whilst we were signing the register Peter and the organist played Part 1 of Okna na Marca Chagalla (1976) by Petr Eben.

As we left the Church:
Olsen Olsen - Sigur Ros [excerpt]

Leicester Playlist

1. Empire State (Son House In Excelsis) - Mercury Rev

2. Beartown - Polar Bear

3. Untitled 3 - Sigur Rós

4. Hail To The Lord's Anointed - The Welcome Wagon

5. She Has No Strings - Dirty Three

6. Nude - Radiohead

7. Yiddisher Charleston - The Gilt Edged Four

8. Parking Lot - Galaxie 500

9. Strings of Nashville (Instrumental) - Pavement

10. The Ground So Soft - Lift To Experience

11. Everything's [um, gone badly]! - Dirty Three

12. High Lonesome Moan - David Pajo

13. Never Let Me Go - Aretha Franklin

14. Schizophrenia - Sonic Youth

15. Ina Mina Dika - Asha Bhosle

16. Some Kinda Love - The Velvet Underground

17. Come On! Feel The Illinoise! - Sufjan Stevens

18. (Love Is Like A) Heatwave - Martha Reeves

19. Nantes - Beirut

20. Falling From Cloud 9 - Lift To Experience

21. THE FIRST DANCE: Breathless - Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds

22. Adlai Stevenson - Sufjan Stevens

23. Nowhere To Run - Martha Reeves & The Vandellas

24. Caribou - Pixies

25. Today - Smashing Pumpkins

26. Little Fury Things - Dinosaur Jr

27. Box Elder - Pavement

28. Friday I'm in Love - The Cure

29. Punka - Kenickie

30. Expectations - Belle & Sebastian

31. Light & Day / Reach for the Sun - The Polyphonic Spree

32. Autoclave - The Mountain Goats

33. Jesus - The Welcome Wagon

34. O Saathi Re - Asha Bhosle

35. Spiral Golden Town - Deerhoof

36. Into The White - Pixies

37. What Goes On - The Velvet Underground

38. Thalassocracy - Frank Black

39. Gold Soundz - Pavement

40. I Like Birds - Eels

41. The Lovecats - The Cure

42. Trompe Le Monde – Pixies

43. Iggy – Acoustic Ladyland

44. Can I Take You To The Cinema? - Kenickie

45. Can't Buy Me Love - The Beatles

46. Tugboat - Galaxie 500

47. The Abandoned Hospital Ship - The Flaming Lips

48. The Penalty - Beirut

49. House Of Cards - Radiohead

50. Chasing A Bee - Mercury Rev

51. Going To Queens - The Mountain Goats

52. Hanging Around The Day Part 2 - The Polyphonic Spree

53. Float On - Modest Mouse

54. These Are The Days - Lift To Experience

55. Just Like Honey - The Jesus & Mary Chain

56. God Is In The House - Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds

57. Black Horse - Gastr Del Sol

58. The Rider Song - Nick Cave & Warren Ellis

59. Hope - Dirty Three

60. Death Is Not The End - Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds

61. Fire In My Heart - Super Furry Animals

Phew! Little things on our return to Leeds

Hello everyone,
In the last 17 days I have slept in seven beds in four cities in two countries, so it's fair to say that I'm tired and I don't really know where I am. We have so many wonderful memories of the last two-and-a-bit weeks and would really like to say thank you to everybody who has helped us prepare, celebrate and relax following these times.

I'm not trying to produce anything in a coherent manner yet, but have a few things to share with everyone.

Firstly, the photographer has put a very large number of photos on his portfolio website, which can be accessed by clicking here. After clicking, there is an option in the top right hand corner to watch the pictures as a slideshow. Don't feel that you have to -there are more than 500 pictures on the site- but feel free to have a look through. Catherine and I have the unenviable task of looking through all of these and selecting just a small percentage of them for the wedding album.

Secondly, plenty of people have been asking us about our honeymoon. We had an amazing time and will very soon be able to provide proper and sensible pictures showing what we did. As these need to be developed (thanks to those who bought it on the Bliss List) all I have is the pictures Catherine decreed were not worth the film, development or association with her camera. As some of these were absolutely vital I had to use my phone to take them. My favourite of this is the first thing I saw out of the airport, which was the quite fabulous book vending machine:



60SEK for a paperback, with descriptions and short authors bios on the front and sides.

My other preferred picture is of the poster for the upcoming "Handful of Keys '09: Rhapsody in Rock" gig. A shame I had to miss the gig itself as it as it is happening in August:



Close inspection reveals that, sadly, it is his hair over his left eye and not an eye-patch. To make up for it though, you are absolutely correct in thinking that it is a keytar he is holding in the bottom right of the poster.

For some unknown reason, Catherine prefers the shot I took whilst trying to get my phone to work so I could take the picture above:



As I said in the post before the wedding, we have lots more to put on the blog, so do keep checking. Pretty soon I'm going to create an album on a site where people will be able to add their own photos. I'm hoping to rack up a number of photos equal to the photographer's website.

Thanks again for everyone's continued emotional and practical involvement in our wedding. Although things are getting back to some degree of normality we are made constantly aware of what a wonderful time we have had in the last few weeks and how special this has been to us. We hope to hear from you all very soon.

Leicester Countdown

Hello everyone,
I am writing this from the airport in Stockholm. We have had a wonderful time on our honeymoon and are about to take the plane back to the UK to be with you all tomorrow in Leicester.

We hope everyone who came had a really good time at the wedding. We're hoping to spend a little bit more time with everyone tomorrow and will hopefully not be running around doing thirty things at once. The information for getting to the venue is below and it will be great to see everyone who can come tomorrow.

I must go, I haver a plane to catch...