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Danny Jones -12th July 2024
Fresh from announcing their new album, Manc music legends Courteeners have now revealed they are set to play a massive Manchester show at the Co-op Live later this year.
The Middleton-formed favourites of the modern indie scene are probably one of Greater Manchester’s biggest exports of the last two decades and while they might have dropped the The these days, everyone still knows who you’re talking about when they hear that name.
So, it’s no surprise that after announcing their first new material in four years and still smashing massive festival slots year in and year out, as they did at Lytham earlier this month, Courteeners have booked a gig at the new Co-op Live arena.
Imagine how mad ‘Not Nineteen’ Forever is going to go off in here…
Courteeners UK Tour! Including Manchester @TheCoopLive (Friday 15th Nov) & London @O2AcademyBrix (Saturday 16th Nov).Special guests @DMASmusic (all except London). Pre-order the album from the official store https://t.co/C3Swlw1pKV for exclusive pre-sale access(9am Weds 17th Jul) pic.twitter.com/1qKgdczvas
— Courteeners (@thecourteeners) July 12, 2024
Better yet, we’re pretty buzzing about the support acts too, as for every tour date other than London, Courteeners will be opened for by fellow indie rock icons, DMA’S, who we’ve got a very big soft spot for here over at The Manc Audio.
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The Aussie outfit have a massive following of their own here in the UK and sell-out big venues all over Europe; plus, since we now know that the core trio feature on the ‘Teener’s upcoming record, Pink Cactus Cafe, it only makes sense to have them come along for the ride.
Plus, we already saw them smash it as supports for the local lads at their now legendary Heaton Park show in front of 50,000 Mancs last summer, so we know this is just another day at the office for them.
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We’re very much looking forward to hearing ‘Silver’, ‘Lay Down’, ‘In The Air’, and all their other bangers at the biggest indoor entertainment venue on the continent.
Read more:
- Mayor Andy Burnham to play special indie DJ set at Band on the Wall
- Coolness personified – Jungle deliver one of the smoothest sets Castlefield Bowl has ever seen
- Manic Street Preachers and Suede at Sounds of the City 2024 – all you need to know
Courteeners and their special guests come back to Manchester for their first ever show at Co-op on Friday, 15 November.
Tickets go on sale next Friday, 19July at 9am and you can be ready and waiting to grab yours HERE – we hope it goes without saying that you’ll need to be quick if you want to get your hands on these.
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And if you haven’t yet had a first taste of what their new music sounds like so far, you can find out more about their forthcoming seventh studio album and hear the lead single down below:
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Coolness personified – Jungle deliver one of the smoothest sets Castlefield Bowl has ever seenDanny Jones
We enjoyed another night at Castlefield Bowl on Thursday evening and Sounds of the City 2024 continues to impress, as the almighty Jungle took to the stage for one of the smoothest all-round performances we’ve seen in a long time.
The modern dance icons have been flying the flag for the disco renaissance over the past decade and, pound for pound, have become one of Britain’s very best live acts.
After all, they did just headline the West Holts Stage at Glastonbury barely a fortnight ago and after a fair few people already dubbed their favourite set, we already knew they were going to smash Sounds of the City as well.
We just didn’t expect it to look so effortless.
— The Manc (@TheMancUK) July 12, 2024So, who saw @jungle4eva at Castlefield Bowl last night and have you stopped dancing yet? 😅
Gotta be one of the coolest artists on the planet right now, surely? 🕶️ 🪩#SoundsOfTheCity2024 #SOTC24 pic.twitter.com/loNeScGwSg
The coolest customers within a 20-mile radius, Jungle did have an opening DJ set to help warm the crowd up a little but, to be honest, it’s not like they needed it. The Bowl was read.
From the moment we heard that instantly recognisable and ever-so-unique synthy and almost kazoo-ey intro to ‘Busy Earnin”, the funk was very much in full swing and it quickly became apparent that those in attendance were going to dance all night long until the very last note. And that’s exactly what they did.
That might sound pretty standard for a gig, but to actually get that many people properly grooving non-stop for more than two hours on a muggy Thursday night in Manchester, when most people are still knackered from the celebrations from the footy, is quite the statement.
And we’re not just talking casual two-stepping: one of the things that we loved the most about this show was how many people fully threw themselves into the pure disco of it all. Us Mancs can dance, trust us; we spotted Aljaž from Strictly in the crowd and he looked impressed too.
Pretty sure we saw a 10 scorecard go up and one point, hard to say…
But seriously though, the set was bop after bop, be it long-standing favourites ‘Time’, ‘The Heat’, ‘Heavy California’ and ‘Happy Man’, or other radio hits like ‘Romeo’, ‘Keep Moving’ and, of course, Volcano bangers such as ‘Us Against the World’ and ‘Candle Flame’.
And yes, we did get to see a few people pull out the ‘Back on 74’ dance and yes, it was wonderful.
Honestly, the list goes on and on when it comes to these lot and one of the highest compliments we can pay the dance music collective is that they also managed to bring some of those album tracks that we’ve never been as fussed about to life on the stage in a way that we now can’t get them out of our heads.
If that isn’t the hallmark of a good live band then when we don’t know what it is. We also don’t think you’ll find many live acts where the whole team and touring crew of musicians feel just as big a part of the core group as its frontmen.
The main duo might be the geniuses that are Josh Lloyd-Watson and Tom McFarland but where they excel is in spotlighting all of these various individual performers in moments and celebrating the ensemble – something that has always been at the heart of dance music as a genre.
Read more:
- Manic Street Preachers and Suede at Sounds of the City 2024 – gig info
- Loyle Carner at Castlefield Bowl– rapper wows and proves ‘Ain’t Nothing Changed’
- Watch the moment the Kings of Leon fans learned of the England score mid-gig at Co-op Live
We might not have been able to get tickets for Glasto (literally the one act we would have been fighting through the crowds to see) but, for now, we’ll happily relish having seen Jungle on our home turf and simply watching as they turned Castlefield Bowl into a dancefloor.
Sounds of the City 2024 really has been dynamite so far – you only have to read our review of Avril Lavigne’s Manchester gig or look back at the scenes for Fatboy Slim to see that – and it’s not over yet.
With the Manics and Suede, as well as Hacienda Classical still set to play this weekend, we’ve got a couple more days to sign off this year’s festival in the best style possible.
Enjoy it while you can, people.
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Manic Street Preachers and Suede at Sounds of the City 2024 – tickets, stage times, setlist and moreDanny Jones
With the penultimate performance on the horizon and this year’s Sounds of the City festival drawing to a close, a pair of legendary British bands are set to see us out in style, as Manic Street Preachers and Suede prepare to play Castlefield Bowl this weekend.
Two of the most revered veterans of the UK’s alternative rock with careers spanning the best part of four decades, the Manics and Suede are up there with the biggest names to have ever played Manchester much loved outdoor arena, and this crowd will be full of people who’ve been there since day one.
With the former flying the flag for the Welsh and the latter keeping the glam side of the genre alive,
So, for any of you going along to see the Manic Street Preachers and Suede double bill at Sounds of the City 2024, here’s everything you need to know about the gig on Friday, 12 July.
Tickets for Suede and Manic Street Preachers in Manchester
Now, the question is are there tickets left for Manic Street Preachers and Suede? And the very simple answer is technically yes, but only a few and they are via resale.
Unfortunately, when you get two big acts with a reputation and long-lasting following as loyal as these guys command, tickets tend to sell out very quickly – that’s just the way the cookie crumbles.
If you do want to spring for the resales available on Ticketmaster, they’ll cost you £77.85 each before fees and, as always, you can also keep an eye out for spares through other trusted resellers like Twickets and TicketSwap.
Sounds of the City stage times
It looks as though Suede will play first as the two co-headliners have been taking turns when it comes to opening up for each other on this tour.
As for when you’ll see everyone taking the stage, you can expect them to take the stage around 7:25pm before Manic Street Preachers follow them at 9:15pm.
Gates to the venue itself, as they have throughout SOTC 2024, will be open from 5:30pm onwards and we all know the early birds get first crack at those seats below the canopy.
What tracks are they likely to play?
Speaking of previous performances, the last date also gives us a good idea of what we can expect from both bands on Friday night.
Trusty old Setlist.fm, aye?
Suede’s predicted Sounds of the City setlist
- Turn Off Your Brain and Yell
- Trash
- Animal Nitrate
- The Drowners
- It Starts and Ends With You
- Pantomime Horse
- To the Birds
- Filmstar
- Antidepressants
- Sometimes I Feel I’ll Float Away
- She Still Leads Me On
- Shadow Self
- Personality Disorder
- The 2 of Us
- The Wild Ones (acoustic)
- So Young
- Metal Mickey
- Beautiful Ones
Manic Street Preachers predicted setlist for Castlefield Bowl
- You Love Us
- Everything Must Go
- Motorcycle Emptiness
- Suicide Is Painless (Theme From MASH – Johnny Mandel cover)
- You Stole the Sun From My Heart
- To Repel Ghosts
- Little Baby Nothing (withThe Anchoress)
- Your Love Alone Is Not Enough (withThe Anchoress)
- Elvis Impersonator: Blackpool (Richey Edwards dedication)
- A Design for Life
- La tristesse durera (Scream to a Sigh)
- Walk Me to the Bridge
- Tsunami
- Orwellian
- From Despair to Where
- No Surface All Feeling
- Today (The Smashing Pumpkinscover – would this be a treat!)
- If You Tolerate This Your Children Will Be Next
Again, we’re not soothsayers, so please take all of this with a pinch of salt and just trust we did our best to give you a rough average at the very least.
How to get to Castlefield Bowl
Castlefield Bowl (M3 4JR) is on Rice Street just down Liverpool Road which cuts off the main Deansgate strip in thecity centreand you can enter Manchester’s much-loved outdoor amphitheatre via Duke or Castle Street.
It’s just a short walk from Deansgate train station or the Deansgate-Castlefield tram stop, where you’ll find regular trams running all over Greater Manchester.
If you’re driving there, Great Northern Warehouse’s (M3 4EE) car park, as well as two other NCPs near Bridgewater Hall and on Quay Street in Spinningfields.
Read more:
- Mayor Andy Burnham to play special indie DJ set at Band on the Wall
- The Lottery Winners surprise Mancs with a pop-up set and ticket giveaway at The Castle Hotel
- Courteeners announce seventh studio album along with lead single and new music video
That should be just about all you need to know but do keep an eye out on socials for updates on the event night and we’ll do our best to keep you in the loop on our end too.
Last but not least, please feel free to read our reviews of Avril Lavigne’s opening night at Sounds of the City as well as Loyle Carner’s Castlefield Bowl chiller earlier this week.
The venue is as great as ever and we’ve been thoroughly enjoying ourselves this year:
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