Courteeners On Course to be No 1 in the UK Album Charts on Friday with the 15th Anniversary Reissue of their debut album St. Jude
UK Music News
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Desh Kapur UK-Editor/Photographer
Deluxe 15th anniversary reissue of Courteeners’ classic debut album St. Jude is No 1 on Official UK Chart midweeks
Watch 4k versions of original videos for St. Jude tracks Not Nineteen Forever, What Took You So Long, Acrylic and That Kiss + Not Nineteen Forever (live at Heaton Park 2015)
Courteeners are on course to be No 1 in the Official UK Album Charts on Friday with the 15th anniversary reissue of their classic debut album St. Jude. The album is comfortably outselling new entries by Gaz Coombes, Clavish and Circa Waves and recent big releases by Taylor Swift and SZA. The band have had seven Top 10 albums, including all six of their studio albums; 2010’s Falcon (6), 2013’s Anna (6), 2014’s Concrete Love (3), 2016’s Mapping The Rendezvous (4) and 2020’s More. Again. Forever. (2)
Originally released in April 2008, St. Jude reached No.4 in the UK Album Charts and quickly cemented Courteeners’ position as one of the UK’s most beloved rock’n’roll bands, combining sharp wit, warmth, and irresistible melody to dazzling effect. The album would go on to win the inaugural Guardian First Album Award, beating debut records released in the same year by Adele, Noah and the Whale, Fuck Buttons and Wild Beasts. It would also see the band embraced by legions of fans, at their own live shows and on festival bills everywhere.
St. Jude was produced by Stephen Street (The Smiths, Blur); it contains three Top 40 singles (Not Nineteen Forever, What Took You So Long? and No You Didn’t, No You Don’t) that have since gone on to become enduring anthems at gigs up and down the country. Not Nineteen Forever was recently certified as having 1 million sales. Manchester mayor Andy Burnham presented Liam Fray with an award to recognise this achievement.
Courteeners will properly celebrate St. Jude’s 15th anniversary with a massive hometown headline show at Heaton Park on Friday 9th June 2023 where they will perform the album in full as well as all the hits from the last decade and a half. This will be the band’s third headline show at Heaton Park, like each of the others, it sold out within hours of going on sale. The band have sold over 760,000 tickets in the UK over the past decade.
Double Album – New Release Date: 13/01/23 Grey vinyl Limited edition
TRACK LISTING
LP1 Side A
1/ Aftershow
2/ Cavorting
3/ Bide Your Time
4/ What Took You So Long
5/ Please Don’t
6/ If It Wasn’t For Me
LP1 Side B
1/ No You Didn’t, No You Don’t
2/ How Come
3/ Kings Of The New Road
4/ Not Nineteen Forever
5/ Fallowfield Hillbilly
6/ Yesterday, Today & Probably Tomorrow
LP2 Side A
1/ Cavorting (Original Recording)
2/ No You Didn’t, No You Don’t (Original Recording)
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