St Jude

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in the UK Album Charts and quickly cemented the band’s position as one of the UK’s most beloved rock’ n’ roll bands, combining sharp wit, warmth, and irresistible melody to dazzling effect. powered by a 15th anniversary edition containing remastered tracks, rarities and previously-unreleased works. Jude won the inaugural Guardian's First British Album Award, beating out albums by Glasvegas, Duffy, Adele, and Noah and the Whale. The first song released from the album was "Cross My Heart and Hope To Fly", making its radio debut on Zane Lowe's BBC Radio 1 show as his Hottest Record in the World.

‎St. Jude (15th Anniversary Edition) - Album by Courteeners

It was produced by Stephen Street and has been remastered for its 15th anniversary by John Davis at Metropolis Studios, who also mastered the album back in 2008. But while one struggles to review this album without mentioning the Arctic Monkeys (lyrical content, northern sneer, minimal guitar effects) or even the Kaiser Chiefs (musical bounce on the opener, Aftershow) there's still something about this band's drive that suggests that they may have more to offer. It features a new single, their first Christmas song "Winter Wonderland", a collection of unreleased acoustic versions of Concrete Love album tracks and rare EP tracks. It references " Hand in Glove" (1983) by the Smiths, and features guitar riffs evoking the work of Oasis.They also played a headline show at Haigh Hall, Wigan in June of that year with support from The Coral and Cherry Ghost. The atmosphere is more football match than pop gig, with massed chants, flares (to the chagrin of security), people staggering with trays of beer and a jacket used as a beach ball.

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Their popularity gets – as Spinal Tap would say – more “selective” as one travels further away from Manchester, but especially in Scotland and the upper half of England they are so huge that this sold out 21,000-seater hometown concert is their smallest in the north-west for some time. Chiefly, one suspects, his reticence is down to the fact he’s(knowlingly or otherwise) amped up expectation for this record to gargantuan levels. They also appeared at the 2009 T in the Park Festival as second headliners in the King Tut's Wah Wah Tent. His full length debut on Daptone Records is equal parts raw feeling and elegance and exudes confidence and charm.All the band's profits from the release of this single were donated to UK housing and homeless charity "Shelter". Courteeners' Liam Fray on how jamming to The Strokes and nights out in Manchester inspired 'Not Nineteen Forever' ". I can’t think of any better way to celebrate than to make the pilgrimage to Heaton Park with like-minded souls and lose ourselves like it’s 2008. In support of the album the band embarked on a UK and European "Anna Tour" with 22 shows in England, Scotland, Ireland, Wales, France, Austria, Italy, Germany, the Netherlands and Switzerland. Over the next few months, the band performed at various festivals, including T in the Park, Ibiza Rocks, Wireless and V Festivals.