Tickets go on sale for Courteeners 10th anniversary gigs in Manchester and London

Debbie Manley | 15th December 2017

The Courteeners 10th anniversary gigs 2018

Photo Elspeth Moore

Courteeners mark the 10th anniversary of debut album St. Jude – and a “decade of cavorting” – with two very special live gigs in Manchester and London in 2018.

The band will release a newly recorded and unplugged version of the album entitled St. Jude Re:Wired on Friday 6th April 2018, which is available to pre-order now here.

Tickets for the live shows, which see the band performing St. Jude in its entirety, will take place at  Manchester Arena on Saturday 7th April – and London’s Royal Albert Hall for Teenage Cancer Trust on Friday 23rd March.

Courteeners 10th anniversary gigs on sale 9am Friday 15th December 

You can also get your hands on a signed printed handwritten ‘Not Nineteen Forever’ lyric sheet, a signed exclusive limited edition picture disc vinyl, signed CD, signed LP and signed cassette versions of the album by pre-ordering at the web-store.

Courteeners St Jude 10th anniversary gigs

Frontman Liam Fray said: “We were looking for a way to mark the 10 year anniversary of the release of St. Jude … we thought it might be worth at least raising a little glass to celebrate the fact that we’re still here.

“I’d been out on an acoustic tour this autumn, re-working and revisiting tunes from the back catalogue, stripping them back, bigging them up and experimenting with some different interpretations.

“The string section were incredible and unknowingly nudged me into unlocking something special. I loved revisiting all the old songs and putting a new twist on them.

“So, the day after the final date of my solo tour, I gingerly prised myself out of bed, booked a studio, rang the band, brought in some string-players and we ‘re-did’ St. Jude in a few days. And it sounds fucking brilliant”.

Tickets for the Courteeners’ 10th anniversary gigs go on sale 9am Friday 15th December.

More details: thecourteeners.com

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Courteeners 10th anniversary gigs

Courteeners 10th anniversary gig at the Royal Albert Hall in London for Teenage Cancer Trust