Courting: Last News

Courting have shared a new single called ‘After You’ – you can listen to it below.The song serves as the second preview of the Liverpool band’s duality-themed third album ‘Lust For Life, Or: How To Thread The Needle And Come Out The Other Side To Tell The Story’, out March 14 Lower Third (pre-order/pre-save here).Speaking about the raw, distorted and thrashing tune, frontman Sean Murphy-O’Neill explained: “‘After You’ was the first song that we wrote for ‘Lust For Life…’. It is an exercise in direct songwriting, an attempt to create something very straightforward.“We wanted the wall of guitars and the drums to feel almost hypnotic.

Courting have spoken to NME about their rowdy new single ‘Pause At You’ and their duality-themed third album ‘Lust for Life, Or: ‘How To Thread The Needle And Come Out The Other Side To Tell The Story’. Check it out below, along with details of their 2025 UK headline tour.The Liverpudlian rockers – comprised of vocalist Sean Murphy-O’Neill, drummer Sean Thomas, guitarist Joshua Cope and bassist Connor McCann – have shared their rowdy and infectious new single ‘Pause At You’ today (November 20).

Courting have covered the Oasis anthem ‘Don’t Look Back In Anger’ at their Reading 2024 set.The Liverpool indie four-piece appeared on the Main Stage this lunchtime (Saturday 24 August) and sandwiched a section of the song into their track ‘Crass’. Previously they’ve done the same thing with The Strokes’ ‘Last Nite’ and fun.’s ‘We Are Young’.This comes ahead of Liam Gallagher’s headline set here tomorrow night, and amid his fuelling of rumours of an Oasis reunion.

Courting have spoken to NME about the making of second album ‘New Last Name’, which features The Cribs’ Ryan and Gary Jarman on co-production duties. Check out our interview with the band and the Jarman brothers below, where they also open up about the current era of indie and comparisons with The 1975.The “raucously fun” Courting debut ‘Guitar Music’ was released in 2022 and saw the Liverpool four-piece push back against labels of ‘post-punk’ via auto-tuned vocals and rave-inspired breakdowns.

Courting have shared their cover of Olivia Rodrigo‘s ‘Bad Idea Right?’ – check it out below.The Liverpool band took on Rodrigo’s summer 2023 hit from her new album ‘GUTS‘, putting their indie spin on the rowdy anthem.Their version kicks up the energy levels, complete with a wild scream from frontman Sean Murphy O’Neill towards the end of the song.Listen to it below.Courting’s second LP is out Friday (January 26), which NME described in a three-star review as an album “perpetually in motion” that’s “both ambitious and scattershot at once”.It added: “What’s clear is that the playful, “for the plot” vibe of a band that started on a lark is beginning to transform into something close to remarkable.”Reviewing the group live in Liverpool last year, NME described the performance as a “thrilling show that’s big, clever and funny as fuck”.The group spoke to NME back in 2022 about being in a band that’s “more traditionally weird than a lot of the acts that get booked on massive festival lineups”.“We want to bring people together, while simultaneously attempting to win over those who may just be [at a festival] to listen to Arctic Monkeys or The 1975. Weird, brilliant stuff is happening on the smaller stages – and we want to be proof of that,” said Murphy-O’Neill.“I just think, in the cockiest way possible, we’re a year or two ahead of the curve [with ‘Guitar Music’],” he added of their sound.

Courting have shared a playful and upbeat new track called ‘Tennis’. Listen to the “twisted” tongue in cheek single below.The Liverpool four-piece also shared a round of UK tour dates set for this September and October.