Courteeners announce Scotland summer warm-up shows
nme.comCourteeners have announced two intimate warm-up shows in Scotland ahead of their huge hometown show at Manchester’s Heaton Park.The band will be playing the O2 Academy Edinburgh on June 4 and O2 Academy Glasgow on June 5.
Tickets will go on sale on Friday (March 24) at 9:30am – you can buy yours here.Later this week, Courteeners will play London’s Royal Albert Hall as part of the Teenage Cancer Trust gig series in London, where they will perform their debut album ‘St Jude’ in full alongside a selection of greatest hits.The band will be playing Heaton Park in celebration of the 15th anniversary of ‘St Jude’.
The announcement of the gig was accompanied by a re-issue of the album alongside B-sides, non-album singles and demos.The reissue ended up debuting at Number One, three places higher than the original album’s chart peak.“It’s just mad, fingers crossed but it’s hard to know how to feel,” Fray told NME of the chart placing. “I love ‘St.
Jude’, and I’m never going to say that anything else we’ve done is better than that because that’s the one that set the tone – but I feel like our last album ‘More.
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