COURTEENERS @EmiratesOT Manchester.
Saturday 25th September 2021.
Special Guests@Johnny_Marr, @BlossomsBand, @TheBigMoon & @ThisIsZuzu.
Tickets on sale 9am Friday 11th June from https://t.co/iKfDfoTIWy pic.twitter.com/DrdMyuKkb9

— Courteeners (@thecourteeners) June 8, 2021

Courteeners who formed in 2006 quickly became popular and from starting off playing in small clubs, they now selling out big arenas. They debuted in 2008 with the album “St Jude” that peaked at No.4 in UK Charts. After that they have released six more studio albums, where the last one “More.Again.Forever.” from 2020 reached No.2 on the Charts.
The latest album received great reviews, with NME award it four stars and calling it: “their most focussed and adventurous work to date” and The Guardian described it: “a solid and dependable, rather than a source of head-spinning shocks and thrills: it knows its audience, and it knows better than to confound them if you want to keep bucking trends and filling arenas”.
Meanwhile, Liam Fray has partnered with The Smithfield Social and opened a new restaurant on 12th April in Manchester’s Northern Quarter. He partnered up with friends – Jobe Ferguson of the Liar’s Group and TNQ, and Anthony Fielden also of TNQ. Fielden commented on the project: “We’ve all had a huge input in all elements of the project, Liam and Jobe have got really involved in the food side. We’ve basically done everything together.”

This year Courtneeners will also play at the TRNSMT festival on the 10th of September alongside Little Simz, The Ninth Wave and more. Tickets to that show can be purchased here.

Sports Team are set to be the Friday headliners, bringing their brand of indie bangers to Norfolk. Sports Team are gearing up for the release of a demos and unreleased material LP, ‘Plant Test’ that is available only through independent record shops. Sports Team also recently dropped a new single, ‘Happy (God’s Own Country’).

The Big Moon are due to take part, their second album ‘Walking Like We Do’ was released as the country was on the verge of lockdown, so they’re doubtlessly itching to get their groove on in the live arena again. Post-punkers Do Nothing are on the line up, their second EP ‘Glueland’ was a real hit amongst fans, plus some other superb bands including Regressive Left, Vanity Fairy and many, many more.

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deep tan are on the bill, another band setting up for a tour and an EP release. The trio are set to drop their debut EP in the coming weeks. Buzzard Buzzard Buzzard are exciting additions to the bill, BBB play a superb blend of glam rock and classic rock, Bowie and Stones-esque – its bound to be a huge party.

Wild Paths is a multi-venue festival set to take place over four days. There are upwards of 200 acts on the bill, set to be spread over 20 stages. The genres represented are eclectic, from hip-hop to jazz, via post-punk and soul, there is really something for everyone here.

Wild Paths is due to celebrate art as well as music, with drag queens, tattoo artists and speakers all taking part. It’s an incredibly exciting weekend coming up and a celebration of live music. As the date for the resumption of live music draws ever closer, announcements like this really kicks the excitement up a notch.

Their statement explained that all tickets will remain valid, although ticket-holders can receive a refund from their point of purchase if required. They continued, “We can’t wait to see you and will try and figure other things out for the long months in between. Stay safe. We miss and love you very much.”

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Hello moonbeams. We managed to make a video in lockdown even though we haven’t been together for four months! Hope our fantasy seaside trip takes you somewhere else for a few mins and gives you that break so you can keep doing what you need to do. We certainly enjoyed covering ourselves with green paint. Big big thanks to @jonjolowe @robrear and their wonderful team for the hard work and wizardry. Also, we’ve moved our autumn tour to March 2021 (swipe for the new dates). All tickets are still valid or can be refunded at point of purchase. We can’t wait to see you and will try and figure other things out for the long months in between. Stay safe. We miss and love you very much. ❤ Link in bio for tickets and video.

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Originally set to take place in October, the tour will now move to March 2021, so fans will have plenty to look forward to. As the group said in a post from March when some of their European shows were cancelled, “Our industry is built on bringing people together and making you feel less weird or alone or scared. While physical social distancing is important right now please continue to find ways to support each other and the musicians who bring you joy.”

After The Big Moon’s sophomore album ‘Walking Like We Do’ was released earlier this year, the tour was arranged to follow, with performances of all eleven tracks including singles ‘It’s Easy Then’, ‘Your Light’, ‘Take A Piece’, and ‘Barcelona’. The album reached number 19 on the UK Albums Chart, with a wonderful reception from fans.

Along with the tour announcement, The Big Moon shared their homemade music video for ‘Why’ – another track from the record. While they were unfortunately unable to film anything prior to lockdown, the four members – Juliette Jackson (lead vocals, guitar), Soph Nathan (guitar), Celia Archer (bass), Fern Ford (drums) – have worked with director and editor Jonjo Lowe to create a music video which has already reached 2,500 views.

Besides this, from isolation the band has been working to save live music and change the future of the music industry since it’s been hit hard by the Covid-19 pandemic. As an all-girl band themselves, The Big Moon have been working with Girls Rock London to provide music education for “girls, women, trans and non-binary people in London,” and help them find their voices. Both bassist Celia Archer and lead vocalist and guitarist Juliette Jackson are offering lessons in their respective instruments to followers for just £20, with all proceeds going to Girls Rock London.

Check out The Big Moon’s full rescheduled UK tour dates below.

01/03/2021 – The Garage – Glasgow
02/03 – Riverside – Newcastle
03/03 – Academy 2 – Manchester
05/03 – The Leadmill – Sheffield
06/03 – O2 Academy 2 – Birmingham
07/03 – The Tramshed – Cardiff
08/03 – Concorde 2 – Brighton
10/03 – O2 Forum – London

The festival will be held in iconic music venues in Camden, London, namely Roundhouse, Electric Ballroom, Dingwalls, and Fest Camden from Friday, 6 March to Sunday, 8 March. Tickets to all shows will be available on Friday, 24 January on the festival’s official site.

Apart from the aforementioned artists, Róisín Murphy, Kate Tempest, and Brittany Howard are also unveiled as part of the line-up. Furthermore, Ed O’Brien from Radiohead’s EOB will debut his performance in the festival as well. He has just released “Santa Teresa” and its music video, the very first solo work off the rumoured debut album.

The leading name like Michael Kiwanuka not long ago released his sophomore album KIWANUKA, which received rave reviews from music critics. Meanwhile, Bombay Bicycle Club also dropped their fifth studio album Everything Else Has Gone Wrong, the record that marks the end of the band’s three-year hiatus from the music scene. Moreover, all-female indie band The Big Moon is set to release Walking Like We Do, the second album after 2017’s Mercury Prize-shortlisted album Love in the 4th Dimension.

Check out the complete line-up from the post below.

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Tickets for our festival are on sale on Friday at 10am. Here’s who’s joining us this year. #6MusicFest

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In addition to the live of numerous artists, the attendants will get to join Q&A sessions and DJ sets from Mike Skinner, Mary Anne Hobbs, DJ Yoda, and many more.What’s more exciting is that on March 8, the festival will celebrate International Women’s Day by holding an all-female line-up at Roundhouse with the appearances from the likes of Kate Tempest, Kim Gordon, Nadine Shah, Jehnny Beth to name a few.

For more information about 6 Music Festival, click here.

The annual event is hosted by Angela Scanlon and sees Jayde Adams, 2014’s Funny Women champion, curate the day’s comedy acts. Rae Morris, who released her acclaimed second album ‘Someone Out There’ earlier in the year, is returning and is one of the festival’s first acts to be announced.

The ninth edition of Festifeel which is produced by breast cancer awareness charity CoppaFeel. This year’s event is the last stop on a UK festival takeover as they take their Summer Boob Tour around the country.

Kristin Hallenga, who was diagnosed with advanced breast cancer at the age of 23, and her twin sister Maren founded CoppaFeel in October 2009. The aim of the charity is to educate young people on the importance of checking their boobs, on a regular basis, and knowing the signs and symptoms of breast cancer.

Speaking about the festival, CoppaFeel patron Fearne Cotton, said: “I can’t wait to be part of yet another amazing FESTIFEEL. It’s such a pleasure curating the line up for CoppaFeel each year, bringing together so many of my favourite artists for a cause I truly love! This year will be our biggest and best yet.”

Major announcement. I am playing FESTIFEEL 2018. 06/10 @HouseOfVansLDN Tickets are criminally cheap (>>>https://t.co/2y3vK5oZBP or my faves @dicefm) I couldn’t love this charity more. Let’s have a massive party ❤️❤️❤️ @CoppaFeelPeople pic.twitter.com/psebT1EMVT

— RAE MORRIS (@raemorrismusic) 27 July 2018

 

 

Formidable is a song the band have had in the bank for some time. They made it part of their live set before eventually releasing it as a single earlier this month. Speaking to DIY, Jules Jackson said that the track is, ‘one of our favourite songs to play, and it’s also one of my favourite songs that I’ve written.’ She added, ‘Sometimes when you write things, the lyrics might clash with the music; one might be happy, while the other’s sad. But I love it when it all ties together. The song is about being strong for someone who’s going through a hard time, and it’s saying ‘I’m here, you can talk to me, I’ll be strong for you, you don’t have to hold it inside. The music feels like that. It feels big and chesty, like someone scooping you up in their arms.’

The band also explained, via Clash, their inspiration for the new video; ”Formidable’ is a song that’s important to us all and it felt like for once, it wasn’t appropriate to make a mega fun, LOLZ video. That said, we didn’t want to make a super earnest band video either. We had a day off in between cities on our autumn tour so we drove to the beautiful Peak District and smashed out the song in the back of the van. It’s a van that we’ve spent more time in than our own beds over the last year. The wonderful Louis Bhose was once again the creative visionary at the helm of this video. We hope you like it.’ You can check out the video, which, true to The Big Moon’s word, prominently features a van, below and find out if you do:

The news comes after the group confirmed the forthcoming release of their debut album, ‘Love In The 4^th Dimension’, earlier this month. The album, which was co-produced by Juliette Jackson, of The Big Moon, and Catherine Marks, who has previously worked with artists including The Killers, Foals and Wolf Alice, will be released on 7^th April on Fiction Records. The album will include ‘Formidable’, which now has a video obviously, as well as previously released singles, ‘Sucker’, ‘Cupid’ and ‘The Road.’

As well as a new video, The Big Moon have also revealed they will embark on a 10 date UK Tour next year, beginning a couple of weeks after the release of ‘Love In The 4^th Dimension.’ The full schedule can be found below:

20/4 – The Haunt – Brighton

21/4 – Clwb lfor Bach – Cardiff

22/4 – Sub 89 – Reading

23/4 – Electric Circus – Edinburgh

25/4 – Oh Yeah Music Centre – Belfast

26/4 – Academy 2 – Dublin

28/4 – Deaf Institute – Manchester

29/4 – Live at Leeds – Leeds

30/4 – FestEvol – Liverpool

2/5 – Village Underground – London