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Post by dontask on Nov 29, 2009 21:03:59 GMT
nice to see, even if abit dubious.
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Post by Darren on Dec 7, 2009 12:55:51 GMT
yeah that letter you did a couple of weeks ago about them got in this week. haha i knew you'd love the bit about muse. ill type it up in full. COURTEENERSbankrupted by own album Second album sessions have left Liam Fray's lot struggling to finish with "literally zero" cash Thanks for typing it all up Sean but is there any chance you could scan it for the "Documentation" Board? PM me if you can  |
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Post by Sean on Dec 15, 2009 20:29:14 GMT
check tommorow they're in it in some form, probably a proper live review  |
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Post by Deleted on Dec 16, 2009 11:38:51 GMT
there's a big interview in the MEN's Urban Life today aswell, i'm gonna try and pick up a copy.
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Post by Darren on Dec 16, 2009 13:06:09 GMT
Nice one matt, I never get to see any of this stuck in the east midlands!
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Post by jthemod on Dec 16, 2009 15:25:23 GMT
ye if anyone could put it on here be much appreciated!
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Post by Sean on Dec 16, 2009 16:50:36 GMT
for the article in todays nme go to the official facebook |
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Post by mc18988 on Dec 16, 2009 17:01:20 GMT
........with a magnifying glass handy.......
can't read it or the MEN article
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Post by Sean on Jan 6, 2010 9:25:33 GMT
An article from the NME 6.1.10.
Kasabian will be headlining various festivals next year, cementing themseleves as the biggest rock'n'roll band in the country and mid level types such as The Enemy and The Courteeners are preparing to make a huge leaps this year. The latter in particular look like real contenders, having made a stadium sized album unashamedly aimed at the masses. For their frontman, the kind of no-nonsense guitar music they do is elemental in it's appeal, making it unshakeable, even necessary. "I was at the first Babyshambles gigs in Manchester and it was fucking intense, man," he remembers. "It was an intense love. I find it difficult to believe that somebody can get that involved in some weirdo on a laptop. That kind of love is reserved for guitar bands. There's romance to seeing someone behind a microphone with a Telecaster."
Back to the fray
The Courteeners
[/b]Manchester Central
Friday, December 11
Huge hometown show proves they've stepped up a gear
Various local talents have fueled a manic atmosphere at tonight's mammoth 10,000 capacity sold-out gig/monument to Mancunia, from electro danceheads The Whip to old-school anarchists Buzzcocks but it's north Manchester's gobbiest The Courteeners who really owns the hearts of this crowd. Kicking off the mayhem is fresh tune 'Will It Be This Way Forever?', taken from forthcoming new album 'Falcon'. It's somewhat cliched lyrically, even a little fashionably morbid, but musically it captures a brooding ambience that sucks you straight in. After favorites 'Cavorting' and 'Acrylic', another new song, 'You Overdid It, Doll' is shared for the first time. It's a sultry, synthy floor-filler on which Liam Fray's voice is more melodic than on previous releases, and backed by more intricate guitar lines. In the whirlwind media that surrounded the release of debut album 'St. Jude', it was often Fray's homely accented, linear, heartfelt lyrics with which the public could most identify. A couple of years later and the frontman is delving into experiences his fellow Mancunians will be less likely to relate to: 'Scratch Your Name Upon My Lips', for example is a darker love song dedicated to the emotional turmoil of having a lover 6,000 miles away. Yet it still connects. Perhaps it's due in part to that odd, infamous Manc mindest of determination, cockiness and humility that makes it believable, but there's also a newly justified confidence driving The Courteeners; technically speaking, they've upped their game and it is a notable credit. They sound more like a band than ever before. Fray is drinking water and concentrating on pleasing his hometown while his hometown is drinking beer and loving him right backz. It's a match made in swagger heaven. Amid the crafty indoor cigarettes, excess beer spillage and a thick air of fast food greaes, comeback single 'Cross My Heart and Hope To Fly' is chanted by the crowd like a sudden classic. It's an atmospheric moment which appears to humble the candid quartet. Ending the night after thanking every person in the room, early anthems 'Not Nineteen Forever' and 'What Took You So Long?' are played with an ease and assurance that suggest the city's rock'n'roll days are anything but over. This time round, the Middleton lads secure the impact as a live band to back up that never-ending bravado.
Just worried all this good reviewing, and they're gonna slate the album. Hope not though.
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Post by sirmavers on Jan 6, 2010 10:42:35 GMT
Nice one Sean.
For the record, I don't remember 'Scratch Your Name Upon My Lips' being played, did anyone else?
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Post by Sean on Jan 6, 2010 11:26:13 GMT
Nope, the NME eh..
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Post by sirmavers on Jan 6, 2010 11:48:57 GMT
They must've confused it with another new tune, I certainly don't remember it  Nice review though in all, they're going to have to swallow their pride and admit that the new stuff is class eventually aren't they, after being nasty through 2008 |
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Post by Sean on Jan 6, 2010 20:42:24 GMT
Seems that way, they're bumming them at the moment.
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Post by cb on Jan 6, 2010 21:49:52 GMT
Are you sure you couldn’t have found the time,
Swallowed your pride and loved the NME?
nice one
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Post by louisiatch on Jan 6, 2010 22:30:48 GMT
Are you sure you couldn’t have found the time, Swallowed your pride and loved the NME? nice one Lol. Really nice review. Thrilling. Can't wait. London and Oxford. Bournemouth probably. |
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Nice review though in all, they're going to have to swallow their pride and admit that the new stuff is class eventually aren't they, after being nasty through 2008