New York, NY – 13 September 2024 – In case you missed it, UK’s Courteeners have released “Pink Cactus Café” – listen HERE. It’s the title track from their forthcoming new studio album Pink Cactus Café, that’s due out October 25th via Ignition Records. A melancholy daydream of a song that arrives just in time to soundtrack these last disappearing days of summer, “Pink Cactus Café” is three and a half minutes of indelible melody and evocative lyrics that wistfully plan escape from the here and now.
Courteener’s Liam Fray on the single, “I guess on a basic level, it’s about escape. Finding a bit of time for yourself. Trying to find that perfect place; the idea that things are better on holiday. It’s about the tea houses of Morocco, the beaches in Marseille, breakfast at home with a loved one…It’s the utopia, really. Does it really exist? Maybe not. Doesn’t stop us chasing it though, does it?”
Pink Catcus Café is Courteeners’ seventh studio album and has Liam Fray co-producing all tracks. It also features contributions from friends of the band such as DMAs, Brooke Combe, James and Ian Skelly (The Coral), Pixey, Charlie Salt (Blossoms), Ola Modupe-Ojo (Bipolar Sunshine) and Theo Hutchcraft (Hurts) amongst many more. Pink Cactus Café is the sound of a band pushing at all of the edges of what they do whilst retaining the core DNA of what makes their songs work so brilliantly, to so many: indelible melody and choruses purpose built for arenas and festival fields. Basically, it’s Courteeners at their very best.
“Take a single listen to Pink Cactus Cafe – the seventh album from the Manchester band – and you’ll understand exactly how Fray has managed to manifest this new found assuredness into a record that Fray believes to be ‘song for song, the best we’ve ever done.’ There’s a newfound sense of freedom in the breezy pop of lead single ‘Solitude Of The Night Bus,’ but it’s an album defined by collaborations too” – Rolling Stone
Pink Cactus Café features the previously released single “Solitude Of The Night Bus” which received widespread national radio playlist support in the UK and the album is out on 25th October 2024 on Ignition Records. The LP will be available on CD, cassette, signed and limited-edition colored LPs versions featuring an exclusive bonus track. Digital formats will include a Dolby Atmos version of the album. Pre-order and pre-save here.
Following a huge summer of shows including a massive 25K capacity headlining set at Lytham Festival and a high profile slot at TRNSMT in Glasgow, Courteeners are due to play a series of headline arena dates this autumn, dates below and tickets are available here.
Nov 14 in Glasgow at OVO Hydro
Nov 15 in Manchester at Co-Op Live (SOLD OUT)
Nov 16 in London at 02 Academy Brixton (SOLD OUT)
Nov 21 in Leeds at First Direct Arena
Nov 22 in Cardiff at Utilita Arena
Nov 23 in Birmingham at Utilita Arena
Pink Cactus Café is Courteeners’ first new music since 2020’s More. Again. Forever. – a record that received critical acclaim and was widely regarded as one of the band’s most confident and consistent records. More recently, a reissue of Courteeners’ debut album St. Jude reached No 1 in the UK Album Charts in 2023, fifteen years after its original release. One of the most cherished bands in Britain, across their 16-year career, the band have had consistent commercial success achieving BPI certified Platinum (x1), Gold (x3) and Silver (x2) awards for their albums. Earlier this year, Courteeners were awarded Band of the Year at the Nordoff Robbins Northern Music Awards.
