Courteeners - Heaton Park

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Courteeners - Heaton Park - June 5th 2015

With the potential to be the gig of the year, Courteeners will entertain a 20,000 crowd (no doubt sell out) at Manchester's Heaton Park.

With speculation of the venue, many on Twitter suggesting Old Trafford Cricket Ground as well as the more intimate venue of the Night & Day, it was confirmed this morning that Heaton Park will host Courteeners homecoming gig!

I (along with thousands more) were gobsmacked that a Manchester date wasn't announced on the Concrete Love tour of this year. Fray confirmed that this wasn't a tease but that something special would happen in Manchester next year.

He has followed up his word magnificently.

Being the first band to headline the venue since Manc legends The Stone Roses, the pressure is on to fill Roses' boots, as well as for the Courteeners to top their Castlefield Bowl gig.

After impressing the masses headlining the NME/Radio 1 tent at Reading & Leeds Festival over the summer, then blowing the crowd away at their own headline gigs over the past month or so, the least you can expect from Fray and the boys is a world class performance.

Throughout this past Concrete Love promoted tour the band walked off stage several times due to flare and smoke bombs being let off by the crowd. I assume that playing an outdoor gig will stop them from doing this. The atmosphere will be insane if pyrotechnics light up the Manchester sky.

If the line up is as impressive as their Castlefield Bowl gig then the crowd will be getting excellent value for money. Courteeners alone are worth the admission of £30, but there would be nothing worse than an announcement of disappointing support.

This could possibly the last time we see and hear from Courteeners for a long time so surely they will intend on going out with a bang. For a band who receive minimal airtime, Courteeners have established themselves through social media as well as playing as guests for Morrissey and the Killers to name just two.

With four albums released it is inevitable that Courteeners set list will consist of both quality and quantity.

The Heaton Park crowd has only been set as 20,000, however Heaton Park is much larger than this so expect an extended allocation if/when Courteeners sell out.

As far, it is between Foo Fighters' stadium tour and this Heaton Park Courteeners gig that will battle it out for gig of the year.

Tickets are on sale Friday at 9am from the usual ticket sites.

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