Liam Fray, The Courteeners (Photo: Andy Crossland for Live4ever)
Tickets for The Courteeners‘ hometown concert at Manchester’s Heaton Park, set for June 15th next year, have gone on sale.
The outdoor gig is another sure sign of the band’s stronghold over parts of the UK, and they’ll be joined at the venue, which hosted one of Oasis’ last mass gatherings in 2009, by James and Pale Waves. The gig and what it says about The Courteeners, that they may perhaps be ‘the most curious act in rock today‘, was something addressed in Live4ever’s review from Reading Festival:
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“Ignored by scenesters and largely by the press, they can sell out Heaton Park in their hometown and must have played Reading countless times. Their ascent up the bill has been glacial – now only one step away from the top, they auditioned for the headline slot in relentless fashion.”
“A career-spanning set, the highlight The 17th, one of their most recent singles, is a subtle banger driven by synth keyboards, a world away from the cranium crushing Cavorting, which was also given an airing.”