The Courteeners
Falcon

From the ingeniously titled first track, ‘The Opener’, you can already establish that The Courteeners are on familiar ground. An acoustic, plucked int...

In their effort to deliver a more ‘mature’ sound on their second album, Manchester’s The Courteeners instead give us Falcon, an overly safe, bland dad...

Two years on and you may have mediated that the man who described himself “a Morrissey with strings” with his boyish swagger, beer-swilled lad-rock an...

Perhaps there's something in the water in Manchester or maybe by some sheer coincidence a ludicrously large number of talented artists just happen to ...

There's absolutely nothing wrong with ambition and let no one say differently. Without ambition, there's nothing to aspire to, no goals to achieve and...

Second album from new bigmouths of Manchester.From lad rock wannabes to genuine contenders, The Courteeners seem to finally be living up to the hype. ...

Are you Blur or Oasis A semi-metaphorical question that bizarrely seems almost as relevant in divvying up Britain’s indie fans today as it did sat ar...

There's a lot of expected of this second album from The Courteeners. Certainly, if you believe the publicity it?s a huge leap forward from their debu...

Vacancy. One Mancunian guitar band with a cocky, feather-cut singer called Liam. If the Courteeners didn't exist, the music industry would have had to...

To say that the Manchester quartet's new album represents a step forward from their 2008 debut is about as damning as faint praise gets. There's a dev...