Twenty years after forming in Middleton, Courteeners bring the anthems of Liam Fray’s seven albums to the Great Hall at Alexandra Palace.
Courteeners, the Manchester indie band formed in 2006, play the Great Hall at Alexandra Palace in Wood Green on Saturday 14 November 2026. It is the London night of their God Bless The Band anniversary tour.
The band formed in Middleton, Greater Manchester, around songs written by Liam Fray, a creative writing student at the University of Salford who had been playing open-mic nights. His friend and neighbour Michael Campbell took up the drums.
The 2008 debut St. Jude reached number four, with “Not Nineteen Forever” in the top 20. Six more studio albums followed, from Falcon to Pink Cactus Café. In 2023 a reissue of St. Jude topped the UK Albums Chart almost fifteen years after its release, the longest wait for a number one the chart has recorded.
Their home shows grew to 25,000 at Heaton Park in 2015 and 50,000 at Emirates Old Trafford in 2017.
The tour follows God Bless The Band, a retrospective released in August 2026 that draws on all seven albums. It adds two new songs, among them “The Luckiest Man Alive”. Fray wrote every song in the headline set, as on every Courteeners record.