The Courteeners have announced a major UK tour, capturing the band’s most successful 18 months to date. The Manchester indie rock group will play a series of shows around the country before a 5 night stint at Manchester’s O2 Apollo making them the first band to play so many consecutive nights at the iconic venue.
The autumn tour marks the most successful period of the band’s career, kicked off by their highest charting album so far, Concrete Love. That release was quickly followed by headline slots at Reading and Leeds, primetime appearances at Glastonbury, Isle of Wight, T in the Park and V Festival and a historic hometown gig at Manchester’s Heaton Park in June. All 25,000 tickets for that show sold out in under an hour.
That particular performance was awarded a 5 star review by Q Magazine, which stated it as ‘their equivalent of the Stone Roses’ Spike Island or Oasis’ Maine Road. less like a ‘performance’, more like a reciprocal communion’.
The band is set to release the new single ‘Small Bones’, next week, taken Concrete Love.
The Courteeners will play:
26/11 – Stoke Victoria Hall
27/11 – Lincoln Engine Shed
29/11 – Glasgow O2 Academy
30/11 – Newcastle O2 Academy
1/12 – Leicester O2 Academy
3/12 – Wolverhampton Wulfrun Hall
4/12 – London O2 Shepherd’s Bush Empire
8/12 – Manchester O2 Apollo
9/12 – Manchester O2 Apollo
10/12 – Manchester O2 Apollo
11/12 – Manchester O2 Apollo
12/12 – Manchester O2 Apollo
