Liam Fray has announced that he will be hosting a live listening party for the band’s 2008 debut album, ‘St Jude’, on Friday March 27, at 9pm. The Courteeners frontman also announced that during the Instagram Live session he will also be conducting a Q&A.
In uncertain times for the arts industry, artists are looking for alternative ways to connect with their fans as they self-isolate amid the continuing coronavirus outbreak, Fray has decided to host a live playback and a Q&A for the band’s 2008 debut album, ‘St Jude’.
Right. Spoke to @BoneheadsPage
He’s on 10pm doing Defintley Maybe with the legend that is @Tim_Burgess – think LG is too?
So…let’s do St. Jude at 9pm over on INSTA LIVE and get you in the mood.
Friday Night. St Jude Playback and Q&A live with yours truly. Insta Live. 9pm. pic.twitter.com/2PKDEe2rO6
— Liam Fray (@What_Liam_Said) March 26, 2020
Taking to Twitter to announce the news, Fray wrote: “Right. Spoke to @BoneheadsPage. He’s on 10pm doing Definitely Maybe with the legend that is @Tim_Burgess – think LG is too? So…let’s do St. Jude at 9pm over on INSTA LIVE and get you in the mood. Friday Night. St Jude Playback and Q&A live with yours truly. Insta Live. 9pm.”
Fray asked his social media followers if they would be interested in a listening party on Friday night (March 27), which was originally first suggested by a fan. The response was overwhelmingly in favour of the playback one fan pointed out that it would clash with an Oasis ‘Definitely Maybe’ listening party, which will be hosted by Bonehead.
The announcement comes after The Courteeners released their sixth studio album, ‘More. Again. Forever’, earlier in the year. Speaking about the album, Fray, said: “It’s a miracle this album got made, if I’m honest. I just couldn’t get myself or my head together. My confidence completely dropped. I couldn’t write a riff. I couldn’t write a couplet. I had nothing, for the first time ever. I was like, ‘This could be it’. It was a slow fucking process.”
Describing the sound on the new album Fray said they were going a bit ‘LCD Soundsystem’ with ‘More. Again. Forever’ and you can hear this new sound most prominently on the tile track, ‘More. Again. Forever’. “”More. Again. Forever’ is probably the weirdest thing on there in terms of what ‘the fanbase’ will like.
“That’s what’s great about putting things out there on streaming websites: you can showcase what you can do to other people and turn them onto your band. It affords you to be braver, rather than putting out the song that people perceive to be ‘you’ – whatever that means,” said Fray speaking about the track.
