The Courteeners played Nottinghams Rock City this week, and the local rags seem impressed by Manchester’s finest.
A dangerous path,
Hyping yourself up can be seriously dangerous. Get it wrong and you’ll be cast into the fiery belly of indie hell for eternity. So it’s a treacherous route that The Courteeners’ cocksure motor-mouth Liam Fray has chosen.
A Libertine dreamer,
Fray’s voice nudges close to Pete Doherty’s rolling rasp, while his band mates play with all the jangly excellence of Babyshambles covering The Jam covering The Kinks. It’s stirring stuff.
But the Doherty similarities don’t end there. The expectant atmosphere and sheer excitement is comparable with the explosive fervour which gripped the nation’s indie scene when The Libertines first crawled out of an East London bedsit and into the hearts of Albion’s dreamers.
Quotes from This is Nottingham.
The Courteeners were pretty immense at rock city, i didnt think he was alike Pete Doherty tbh, i saw him at leeds fest, they are really diff. Liam is so much better. Great gig. The whole crowd was going; lots of sweaty indie kids haha. I think the crowd were glad to see them on stage after Ida Maria, after enduring her rather; one song was truely enjoyed, her hit; the others weren’t so much. Great song choice as the last song “What Took You So Long”, had everyone walking out whilst chanting it, in the streets; well good.
Shall be going again.