Watch Courteeners spread the love at massive Manchester Wythenshawe Park gig

Courteeners spread the love at a huge homecoming show at Manchester’s Wythenshawe Park last night – check out footage and the full setlist below. READ MORE: Liam Fray talks Courteeners’ legacy, survival and unfinished business: “20 years is not to be sniffed at” The sold-out show took place in front of 30,000 fans yesterday (August 29), one day after Courteeners released their first ‘best of’ compilation, ‘God Bless The Band’. They were joined at the South Manchester park by The Vaccines, who performed their 2011 debut album ‘What Did You Expect From The Vaccines?’ in full, as well as The Coral, Getdown Services and Girl In The Year Above. After walking out to Oasis’ ‘Round Are Way’, Courteeners opened with ‘Sweet Surrender’ before tearing through a career-spanning set that drew from all seven of their studio albums, as well as ‘Plus One Forever’, one of two new tracks included on ‘God Bless The Band’. Frontman Liam Fray greeted the enormous crowd with: “Let’s fucking have you, Wythenshawe!” Later, he told them: “This is mad. Never, ever, ever in our wildest dreams did we think we’d be playing a crowd this big!” (via Manchester Evening News). Fray also played his own solo acoustic ...