The Courteeners Music

Origin: Manchester, England

Decades: 2000's

Hailing from Manchester and featuring a frontman, Liam Fray, with a penchant for both talking up his own positive attributes and getting into verbal scraps with other bands, the Courteneers have gotten regular comparisons in the UK music press to the leading lights of three previous waves of Manc Britpop, the Smiths, the Stone Roses and Oasis. And to be fair, the band's alternately jangly and bombastic brand of indie guitar rock bears the influence of all three acts, as well as comparisons to contemporaries... Read More