One of the most successful UK bands of the last 16 years, Courteeners are an English guitar group - Liam Fray, Michael Campbell & Daniel Moores - formed in Manchester in 2006.
Lauded by Q Magazine as one of “the world’s biggest underground acts”, all of their albums have hit the Top 10 in the UK album chart – 2008’s St. Jude (No.1), 2010’s Falcon (No.6), 2013’s ANNA (No.6), 2014’s Concrete Love (No.3), 2016’s Mapping the Rendezvous (No.3), 2018’s St. Jude - Re:Wired (No.5), 2020’s More. Again. Forever (No.2) and the current album ‘Pink Cactus Café’ (No. 2)
In 2023, their lauded album St. Jude reached Number 1 for the very first time with its 15th anniversary edition and became the album with the longest time between release and charting at Number 1 in UK chart history, according to the Official Charts Company. The band played their third sell out 50,000 capacity headline show at Heaton Park in June to celebrate the anniversary of the album.
Courteeners have cemented their place as one of the country’s biggest and best-loved bands. And the reason? Well, that’s when we need to turn our attention to the band’s singer and songwriter Liam James Fray. A riot of contradictions–romantic, sensitive, brash, self-doubting & opinionated – it’s his songwriting, an acute observation of how life is mostly lived, that has fuelled the band’s longevity, striking a resounding chord with an increasing large bandwidth of young people across the country.
The band recently collaborated with award winning Australian band DMA’s on their latest single “The Beginning Of The End” from their 2024 album, Pink Cactus Cafe.
Supporting them on this run of dates is BIIG TIME - the brainchild side project of DMA’s guitarist Johnny Took and his brother Matty Took, of Sydney band Planet. Turning industry heads in 2020 with their fuzz-drenched single “It’s You”, BIIG TIME are known for their hazy indie-rock charm and atmospheric live shows.