Courteeners have surprise-released a new concert album, ‘Live In Manchester’. Listen in full below.
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The 20-track record captures Liam Fray and co’s sold-out hometown arena gig at the Co-op Live in Manchester on November 15, 2024. They shared the opening track, ‘Sweet Surrender’, as a single this October.
‘Live In Manchester’ was recorded, mixed and mastered by Chris Snow. The show formed part of Courteeners’ 2024 UK arena tour in support of their seventh and latest studio album, ‘Pink Cactus Café’.
The new live LP features the title track from the group’s most recent full-length effort, as well as ‘The Beginning Of The End’ featuring DMA’s – who were opening for Courteeners on the trek.
You can listen in full on your preferred streaming platform here, or via Spotify below.
The full tracklist for Courteeners’ ‘Live In Manchester’ is:
1. ‘Sweet Surrender’
2. ‘Are You In Love With A Notion?’
3. ‘First Name Terms’
4. ‘Acrylic’
5. ‘Pink Cactus Café’
6. ‘No You Didn’t, No You Don’t’
7. ‘Where Are We Now?’
8. ‘Solitude Of The Night Bus’
9. ‘The 17th’
10. ‘Modern Love’
11. ‘Sunflower’
12. ‘Hanging Off Your Cloud’
13. ‘It Must Be Love’
14. ‘How Come’
15. ‘Bide Your Time’
16. ‘Smiths Disco’
17. ‘Cavorting’
18. ‘The Beginning Of The End’ (feat. DMA’S)
19. ‘Not Nineteen Forever’
20. ‘What Took You So Long?’
The live album comes ahead of Courteeners’ massive live return to Manchester next summer. They’ll play an outdoor gig at the city’s Wythenshawe Park with a host of special guests, including The Vaccines. Find any remaining tickets here.
Ahead of their Co-op Live performance last year, Courteeners took to the stage at Manchester’s Heaton Park in the summer of 2023. Here, the band showcased their 2008 debut album ‘St. Jude’ in full in front of a 50,000-strong crowd to mark its 15th anniversary. A celebratory reissue had previously gone to Number One in the UK.
Speaking to NME about ‘Pink Cactus Café last year, frontman Fray explained: “It’s got a bit of Haim in there, the shuffle and the middle eight. But then it’s still very Manchester: ‘Take me out for a knockabout/ Against the wall of the time hole‘. If a Mancunian joined Haim, what would it sound like? Maybe that’s it! That chorus [of ‘Weekend Shy Of A Feeling’] is so euphoric.”
In a four-star review of ‘Pink Cactus Café’, NME praised “the full heart, fed mind and kaleidoscopic feel of the record”.
It added: “These aren’t songs by parka monkeys drinking Dark Fruits in the landfill of indie; they add up to a colourful sky that stretches way beyond Manchester. There’s confidence, and then there’s this.”
Meanwhile, Courteeners were recently announced as headliners for Tramlines Festival 2026 in Sheffield, alongside Fatboy Slim and Wolf Alice.
In other news, Liam Fray helped to launch a new Abbey Road-designed studio for up-and-coming grassroots musicians in Manchester earlier this year.
