The Hopeful Boy Replacement Service is the new album from Sandra's Wedding.

The band, hailing from from Goole, who were praised by Guy Garvey on his BBC 6 Music show for their music and "having a band name worse than his own," are looking forward to sharing their signature combination of jangly guitars and biting lyrics on the new record. Featuring contributions from world renown composer Gavin Bryars (Father John Misty) amongst other contributors, the album will be released on July 14th.

Recorded at Young Thugs Studios, York, Summer 2022- Winter 2023.

Sandra's Wedding are Joseph Hodgson, Jonny Hughes and Luke Harrison. All bass guitar performed by Corey Jones.

Recorded at Young Thugs by Jonny Hooker & Noah Hindle, assisted by Will Jacobs.
Additional instrumentation by Anthony Thompson and Gary Hammond. 
Additional vocals by Hannah Bungard.

String arrangement on "For The Benefit of the Tape" by Gavin Bryars.

Produced by Sandra's Wedding and Jonny Hooker.

For Neil Monaghan. A champion from the start.

For The Benefit Of The Tape

MIXTAPE Luna Tunes #3 GOD ONLY KNOWS

A cover of my favourite Joe Solo track, No Fight No Struggle. This is also available on telefusion.bandcamp.com and all money from the sale of this track will be donated to The Trussell Trust Food Bank in Selby, in the spirit of We Shall Overcome.

No Fight No Struggle

Drawing comparisons with iconic northern guitar bands like The Housemartins and The Smiths, Sandra’s Wedding are a Goole-based band who wear their working class routes firmly on their sleeves.

With catchy songs full of bright, jangly guitars and clever lyrics about northern life, the band’s 2017 debut album ‘Northern Powerhouse’ and 2018 follow-up EP ‘Good Morning, Bad Blood’ were both met with rave reviews.

The group released their eagerly-awaited new album ‘Frame Yourself’ in Spring 2020 and planned to take the songs on tour. However, with lockdown restrictions the band decided to use the time productively and recorded a sooner than expected follow up album entitled 'Banana Bread.' The self recorded release is an exclusive download from their Bandcamp page.

Be sure to catch them live at a venue near you when you can.

Press:

"Sandra’s Wedding are certainly worthy of wider acclaim." - Rob Conlon, Gigslutz

"Like a cross between The Coral and The Housemartins" - Jericho Keys, BBC Radio York

"Their growing popularity is well deserved due to their obvious hard work and the musical brilliance they create within every track...10/10" - Revie Burns, Down The Rabbit Hole Magazine

"So what makes this quite as good as it is. Well it’s a grower, it charms you. It’s one of those sets of songs that creep up on you and worm their way into your head. Over my repeated listening I went from “well that’s quite nice” to “That’s some clever lyrics” to “why can’t I get that song out of my head” - Frank Roper, Local Sounds Focus

For The Benefit Of The Tape

Sandra's Wedding

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