Liam Fray, The Courteeners (Photo: Andy Crossland for Live4ever)
Peace have been confirmed as the main support for The Courteeners‘ gig at Manchester’s Heaton Park next June.
Also on the bill on June 5th are Bipolar Sunshine and Blossoms as The Courteeners prepare to rubber-stamp a status built up across four studio albums since 2008 as one of Manchester’s favourite homegrown bands by playing the outdoor venue – albeit at a reduced capacity – which has in the past played host to high profile gigs by the likes of Oasis and The Stones Roses.
“Their experimentalism is exceptional, their madness amazing,” we said of the most recent release ‘Concrete Love’. “The Courteeners can no longer be marginalised by the narrow-sights and small-sized minds of the judges of modern-day music.”
“Limited to pub jukeboxes? Not when they have the tunes to pack out palaces across the legendary localities of our globe with as much spite, snarl and seriousness as a real man whilst also being greatly brave, adventurous and innovating, providing some mystery beneath an ocean’s worth of prolific songwriting.”