Courteeners celebrate 15 years of St Jude with homecoming show at Heaton Park
10 June 2023, 11:16 | Updated: 19 June 2023, 15:10
Liam Fray and co played an epic set to a crowd of 40,000 fans. Find out what went down and what they played on the setlist.
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Courteeners made a triumphant return to Manchester's Heaton Park this Friday (9th June) to celebrate 15 years of their seminal debut album St. Jude.
The epic day of music kicked off with supporting sets from the likes of The Snuts and DMA'S.
The West Lothian rockers kicked off their set with California, before playing likes of The Rodeo, Glasgow and Praise You.
Meanwhile, the Aussie modern rockers - who were coined by Liam Fray as adopted Mancs - treated the crowds to a mini-set, which included the likes of Silver, Everybody Say's Thursday's The Weekend and their stirring cover of Cher's Believe.
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When The Middleton rockets took to the stage, Liam Fray and co launched into their St. Jude album opener, Aftershow, before treating fans to the likes of Cavorting, What Took You So Long? and Not Nineteen Forever.
Their 23-track setlist also included the likes of That Kiss, The 17th a cover of It Must Be Love and Smiths Disco.
See the full setlist below.
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Courteeners at Heaton Park, Manchester on 9th June 2023:
1. Aftershow
2. Kimberley
3. Cavorting
4. Acrylic
5. Kings of the New Road
6. If It Wasn't for Me
7. Please Don't
8. No You Didn't, No You Don't
9. Bide Your Time
10. That Kiss
11. Fallowfield Hillbilly
12. How Come
13. Smiths Disco
14. It Must Be Love (Labi Siffre cover)
15. Are You in Love With a Notion?
16. Lose Control
17. Summer
18. Small Bones (Dedicated to Millie Bristow)
19. The 17th
20. Hanging Off Your Cloud
21. Modern Love
22. Not Nineteen Forever
23. What Took You So Long? (with Tomorrow by James snippet)
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