St Jude - Courteeners

On paper a manchester based band is always gonna be compared to oasis and it doesnt help with the lead singer also being called liam but i think you will be pleasently suprised with this album. Hailing from manchester and cosisting of four people Liam Fray(vocals/guitar) Michael campbell (backing vocals/drums) David connan morrs(guitar) Mark cuppelo(bass) Make up the courteeners who are an indie rock band formed in 2006. The band have known each other since they was 10 where they attended school togeather. They took influnces from the likes of oasis and morrisery into the sharp blend of indie anthems. I was ...  Read the complete review

I first got into The Courteeners when a mate at work would not stop singing one of their tunes and i wondered what he was going on about and ignored him at first.He kept singing it loads more so i asked him who it was and he said it was The Courteeners - Not Nineteen Forever and so i thought i would check the song and the band out. I did this by looking on Itunes and i bought Not Nineteen Forever just on its own and i really liked what i heard and it was the type of music i had been wanting to hear for quite some time as some Indie bands tend to follow the rest of the genre and play it safe but it is really not the case with The Courteeners. Another ...  Read the complete review

I always act with caution when a new band gets hyped up as the next big thing etc. Manchester indie four piece The Courteeners have been described as "the most talked about band in Manchester". And judging by their first three singles - Cavorting, What Took You So Long? and Not Nineteen Forever - which are all included on St Jude, there were encouraging signs. However their debut album doesn't quite cut the mustard. It's not that it's a poor debut, its just that it should have been better. They were even mentioned on Coronation Street by David Platt twice in the space of fifteen minutes. Not many bands can say that they were mentioned during Corrie. On ...  Read the complete review

The Courteeners will always be faced with the daunting prospect of filling the shoes of the last massive band to step out of Manchester with a similar sound - the parallels with an early Oasis are unavoidable, from the style of the music to the way Liam Fray chooses to dress and act onstage. However, with songs like "Please Don't" and "Yesterday, Today and Probably Tomorrow", The Courteeners manage to put their own spin on a sound which existed long before Oasis. There is a unique mixture of faster, upbeat songs alongside these slower, melodic songs, with "Not Nineteen Forever" standing out among the middle order. The style of ...  Read the complete review