Listen Live To 'The We Are Manchester' Concert Later Today

The Manchester Arena reopening concert, which will be headlined by Noel Gallagher, is to be broadcast live on three radio stations on Saturday.

Absolute Radio, BBC Radio Manchester, Key 103 and Radio X will all air the full show - the first at the venue since the bombing that killed 22 people on 22 May.

The line-up also includes Pixie Lott, Rick Astley, Louisa Johnson, Blossoms, The Courteeners and Bugzy Malone.

The We Are Manchester show will not be televised and tickets have sold out.

It is not yet known whether the audio feed will be available on the stations' websites as well as on air.

BBC Radio Manchester's Michelle Hussey and Natalie-Eve Williams will present coverage from the venue, while Dan O'Connell will do the same on Radio X.

All profits from the concert will go to the Manchester Memorial Fund, a charitable trust to set up a permanent memorial for the attack victims.

In an attempt to tighten security, all tickets will have the name of the ticket-buyer printed on them, and no backpacks or large bags will be allowed into the venue.

Source: www.bbc.co.uk

Various Radio Stations To Broadcast 'The We Are Manchester' Concert On Saturday

The Manchester Arena reopening concert, which will be headlined by Noel Gallagher, is to be broadcast live on three radio stations on Saturday.

BBC Radio Manchester, Key 103 and Radio X will all air the full show - the first at the venue since the bombing that killed 22 people on 22 May.

The line-up also includes Pixie Lott, Rick Astley, Louisa Johnson, Blossoms, The Courteeners and Bugzy Malone.

The We Are Manchester show will not be televised and tickets have sold out.

It is not yet known whether the audio feed will be available on the stations' websites as well as on air.

BBC Radio Manchester's Michelle Hussey and Natalie-Eve Williams will present coverage from the venue, while Dan O'Connell will do the same on Radio X.

All profits from the concert will go to the Manchester Memorial Fund, a charitable trust to set up a permanent memorial for the attack victims.

In an attempt to tighten security, all tickets will have the name of the ticket-buyer printed on them, and no backpacks or large bags will be allowed into the venue.

Source: www.bbc.co.uk

More Tickets Go On Sale Tomorrow For The 'We Are Manchester' Benefit Gig

A second wave of tickets for the We Are Manchester benefit gig will go on sale tomorrow at 9am (Wednesday 30 August).

The event was previously thought to have been sold out , with Manchester Arena stating they received an " overwhelming response " to the initial release date on August 17. But a spokesperson today confirmed that the size of production was smaller than expected, and therefore capacity has increased.

The tickets, priced at £25 and £30 (plus booking fee), will be available at www.eventim.co.uk or by calling 0844 847 8000 and at www.ticketmaster.co.uk or by calling 0844 844 0444.

The statement also revealed that stand-up comic Russell Kane is to host the We Are Manchester benefit benefit gig at Manchester Arena.

Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds, The Courteeners, Blossoms, Rick Astley, Pixie Lott, ‘Longfella’ poet Tony Walsh and others are already confirmed for the event that will officially reopen the venue on 9 September.

Source: www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk

Manchester Arena: Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds To Headline Reopening Concert

WE ARE MANCHESTER

Saturday 9th September, Manchester Arena will reopen with a special benefit concert to honour those impacted by May’s atrocities. The evening will feature NGHFBs & other top Manchester bands including The Courteeners & Blossoms.

Tickets go on sale 9am, Thursday 17th August here.

All profits from the concert will raise money for the Manchester Memorial Fund, a charitable trust overseen by the Lord Mayor of Manchester which will go towards establishing a permanent memorial honouring the victims of the 22nd May attack.

Liam Gallagher Brings House Down With Surprise One Love Manchester Performance

The former Oasis frontman flew in straight from his show at German festival Rock im Park

Liam Gallagher brought the house down with a surprise set at One Love Manchester tonight.

The former Oasis frontman flew in straight from his appearance at German festival Rock im Park to perform at Ariana Grande's huge fundraising show at Emirates Old Trafford.

Liam opened his set with Oasis hit Rock 'n' Roll star before performing new solo single Wall Of Glass.

He was then joined on stage by Coldplay's Chris Martin for a tearjerking duet of Oasis hit Live Forever.

Chris, who is said to have persuaded Liam to come and perform at the show, was earlier accompanied by Ariana as they performed Oasis hit Don't Look Back In Anger.

The song has become an anthem of Mancunian defiance in the wake of the terror attack that killed 22 people after her concert at Manchester Arena on May 22.

The Courteeners led 50,000 fans in a mass singalong at Emirates Old Trafford last weekend - and the scene was repeated at the venue tonight as the crowds chanted along.

There had been frenzied speculation that Oasis might reunite at tonight's show after Black Eyed Peas star Taboo Nawasha tagged the band in a tweet setting out the line-up - before quickly backtracking.

Liam said he would be 'up for it' when asked if he would be performing but said it clashed with a slot at the Rock im Park festival in Germany.

The rumours were reignited earlier tonight by a tweet from The Sun's showbiz writer Dan Wootton, who said he had been told Liam would appear.

Source: www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk

The Courteeners Play Oasis' 'Don't Look Back In Anger' Last Night In Manchester

Five days after the Manchester attack, 50,000 people turned out for one of the city's biggest concerts of the year. It was a chance for music fans to unite and remember the victims - but also to get lost in music for a while.

As the gig went on, Fray referred to the week's events again. "Never stop doing what you enjoy," he told the crowd between songs.

Later, he said to them: "I just want to say how incredibly proud I was to be Mancunian this week.

"Hearts were broken on Monday. And what I've seen of this city and you lot will stay with me for the rest of my life."

He recalled a woman who sang Oasis's Don't Look Back In Anger after the one-minute's silence in St Ann's Square on Thursday, with the rest of those present gradually joining in.

Inspired by that woman, Fray played the song that has now become an anthem of the city's resilience. Fifty-thousand voices joined him and echoed around the ground.



Source: www.bbc.co.uk

Liam Fray On Being A Pale Imitation Of Liam Gallagher

The Courteeners frontman has spoken out about the early comparisons that were made between Oasis and his band

The Courteeners frontman Liam Fray has admitted that he was “a pale imitation” of Liam Gallagher during the band’s early days.

As the Manchester band emerged in 2008 with their debut album ‘St Jude’, a number of commentators were quick to draw comparisons between the then-quartet and Oasis. However, those comparisons prompted a backlash from fans of the Britpop band following the release of that album.

Speaking about that time period in a new interview with The Independent, Fray opened up about how he “hated [The Courteeners’] ‘new Oasis'” tag and understood the backlash to those particular comparisons.

“I was never the new Liam Gallagher,” Fray admitted. “I was a pale imitation, but then it was never my intention to be an imitation at all.” Admitting that he may have been partly responsible for the comparisons, Fray said: “Oh, I tended to shout my mouth off, but who wouldn’t after seven pints on a Thursday night?

The Courteeeners will play a huge homecoming show at Manchester’s Old Trafford cricket ground later this month. Speaking to NME ahead of the gig, Fray declared that fans shouldn’t expect “bells, whistles and spaceships” come the big day.

“That’s not our game,” he said. “We couldn’t walk around Manchester Arndale if we had spaceships coming out the roof. We’d get hammered for it. They wouldn’t serve us in the chippy if we started doing things like that.”

Source: www.nme.com

The Tapestry Announce New Single To Coincide With 'This Feeling' Shows

"This band are so great. I love the vibe, which takes me back to CBGB's in New York in the late 70s” - Chris Difford, Squeeze

"If there was ever a band to fall instantly in love with, it is The Tapestry!” - John Robb, Louder Than War

“Fucking tune!” - Liam Gallagher

Flogging pictures of a well-known children's TV presenter caning chemicals in a nightclub isn't the usual way for a band to find start up cash. Most people just get a job in a guitar shop.

“We're not too proud of it but it was worth it to start the band and buy the instruments!”

The Tapestry are from Manchester. They are Liam Faherty (vocals/guitar) Katy Baker (Bass/vocals) Dyna (Guitar/vocals) and Zara Finnegan (Drums/vocals). Their tunes are both impossibly catchy and implausibly glamorous.

It's early days, but so far the guys have got stuck in to recording their debut album with Mr. Jim Spencer (Johnny Marr, New Order and The Charlatans) and cutting their teeth live. So far they've managed to attract the approval of Liam Gallagher.

“He showed up at a London show recently, we had a chin wag backstage and he was a total gent. Later we got the 'Fucking tune!' seal of approval.”

'Right As rain' is released on April 14th 2014. Watch the brilliant video below.



Having supported The Strypes, Pete Doherty,The View, Young Knives & The Courteeners, The Tapestry are set to play 2 headline shows in April. The band will play:

11th April - Ruby Lounge, Manchester (This Feeling)
12th April - Queen of Hoxton, London (This Feeling)

Details for tickets and more club nights all around the UK can be found here.

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What's Going On At 'This Feeling' This Weekend?

The Dexters play at 'This Feeling' in Milton Keynes tonight the band have done around 300 gigs in the last two years including tours with Miles Kane, The Rifles, The Courteeners, Glasvegas, Happy Mondays.

Check out the debut album, their music has been used on BBC2 sitcom 'Grown Ups', Soccer AM and more.



Visit www.thisfeeling.co.uk for tickets and infomation on club nights all over the UK.

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Guitar Signed By Oasis And Stone Roses Makes Almost £7K In Charity Auction

Oasis’ Gallagher brothers, The Stone Roses, The Charlatans, Johnny Marr and The Courteeners are among the stars who signed an acoustic guitar that made £6,600.

All proceeds from the Madchester Guitar auction are to be donated to chART, Children’s Hospice Arts, a charity which specialises in raising money for seriously ill children in hospices across the UK.

Using the donations they buy musical instruments for hospices in a bid to enlighten the lives of those children and their relatives.

A total of 39 bids were placed during the period when the guitar was up for sale, with the winning bid for the acoustic six-string guitar placed several hours before the completion of the auction.

Adam Masters, co-owner of South City Music in Altrincham, is also a patron of chART and it was his idea to create and auction the signed guitar following the death of a friend’s young daughter.

“I was working at PMT [Professional Music Technology] Manchester and I heard some news that changed my outlook on everything,” he said.

“A friend, colleague and legend of the Manchester music scene and his wife, lost a beloved daughter at the age of one – my daughter was the same age at the time and I was floored by emotion.

“Sadness, anger, confusion – how could this happen to someone so young?

“But most of all it made me for the first time really want to make a difference.”

He remembered how another signed guitar owned by Bryan Adams had sold for several million pounds and decided to try the idea out for himself.

“I thought that Manchester’s musical heritage is as big as it gets and this seemed the perfect opportunity to use the friends and connections I had made over the years to help raise money for seriously sick children,” he added.

“With the donations they buy musical instruments for the hospices, a small gesture that makes a huge difference for the kids and their families.

“Every artist who has signed it loved the idea and was happy to be involved in the project and have since been amazing in trying to help spread the word.”

Francis house, Manchester and Claire house, Liverpool are two of the main benefactors from the auction with a third recipient of donations yet to be announced.

“Music is everything to a lot of us, the soundtrack to life,” said Adam. “A few of us have been lucky enough to have made careers working around it and be part of some amazing moments, but it means nothing in the grand scheme of things.

Source: mancunianmatters.co.uk

Plan B And The Courteeners To Support Noel Gallagher At Teenage Cancer Trust Gig

Plan B and The Courteeners will join Noel Gallagher at his Teenage Cancer Trust gigs in London later this month.

The Courteeners will support the former Oasis star on March 25, while rapper-turned-singer Plan B is set to appear the following day.

The shows will mark Gallagher's first solo performances since his quit the Manchester band last summer.

The Teenage Cancer Trust concerts get under way at the Royal Albert Hall on March 22 with a performance from Them Crooked Vultures.

The US band, which features Dave Grohl and Josh Homme, will be joined by Little Fish.

Suede will be supported by These New Puritans on March 24 and Mystery Jets will join Arctic Monkeys on March 27.

Lemar and Diana Vickers are set to support JLS on March 28, while The King Blues will open for The Specials on March 29.

The charity concert series ends on March 30 with a performance from The Who, supported by Sweet Billy Pilgrim.

Source: www.gigwise.com

Courteeners Cover Oasis

Courteeners frontman Liam Fray overcame a bout of nerves to perform a special cover of Oasis' B-side D'Yer Wanna Be A Spaceman during the band's acoustic set which also included recent hit You Overdid It Doll.

The singer said: "It's quite daunting covering an Oasis song. There will be comparisons to them but we are not the new Oasis."

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