Courteeners Review and Set List

Hey!

As part of my 18^th Birthday present, I got Courteeners tickets for the Manchester Apollo!

Firstly, the boys came on stage to Oasis – Morning Glory, which instantly got the crowd geared up for a cracking set. Their persona as soon as they walked on stage was incredible – really rock and roll with a ‘let’s f***ing have it’ attitude – isn’t that what we love about them?

This was the set list for the night:

·        Morning Glory - Oasis

·        Are You in Love With a Notion?

·        Cavorting

·        Acrylic

·        How Good It Was

·        Please Don't

·        Kings of the New Road

·        Lose Control

·        Bide Your Time

·        You Overdid It Doll

·        Winter Wonderland

·        Take Over the World

·        Small Bones

Liam Solo

·        Hometown One

·        Yesterday, Today & Probably Tomorrow

·        No You Didn't, No You Don't

·        Smiths Disco

Full Band

·        Next Time You Call

·        Here Come the Young Men

·        Beautiful Head

·        Not Nineteen Forever

·        What Took You So Long?

The first 4 songs of the set are really well known as well as rocky and quite heavy/punchy which meant that people were able to jump around and sing their lungs out – and you could see Liam basking in the glory that is people singing your own songs at you.

In the middle of the set, Liam performed a short solo acoustic set which was absolutely beautiful. It was really quite emotional actually; and it was even lovelier that the Apollo is fairly small, so, whilst having seated tickets, it still felt like an intimate performance.

Additionally, I was kind of worried about new bassist Joe Cross playing this tour as I wasn’t sure what I was going to make of him – I’ve got to hand it to him – he smashed it. It’s made me really look forward to hearing some new stuff, because I really think he can bring something new to The Courteeners.

Highlights of the night consisted of:

·        Cavorting (because it reminds me of V Festival)

·        Lose Control

·        You Overdid It Doll

·        No You Didn’t, No You Don’t

·        Smiths Disco (which I’d not heard previously, so was nice to hear for the first time!)

·        Not Nineteen Forever (Do I even need to give a reason?!)

·        What Took You So Long (Which everyone continued to chant as we left)

I also love the bromance that Fray and Moores have on stage – everyone seems to have a laugh on the stage, but those two especially just make my heart melt when Liam goes over and plays next to him.

The lads didn’t bother going off for an encore (what’s the point in them anyway? We all know they’re going to come back, play 3 more songs, then leave again), but they did say a few heart felt words and continued the set.

The only negative I will say, is that I’m gutted they didn’t perform Fallowfield Hillbilly; I guess they can’t play everything though!

I’m going to post the photos sometime this week or next hopefully – depends on how quickly I can get them edited!

Thanks for reading!

Bethan xx