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‘When it went double platinum, Andy Burnham gave us the award’: how Courteeners made Not Nineteen Forever
‘In nightclubs, I’d be the dude scribbling lyrics in the corner while everyone else was dancing or copping off’ I had the lyrics to Not Nineteen Forever before the band existed. They were in a little red book of poems and scribbles that got me a place on the creative writing course at the University of Salford. Most of what became the songs for our first album, St Jude, were in that book. As well as uni, I was working five nights a week at the Night & Day bar in Manchester, but in a nightclub I’d be the dude scribbling in the corner while everyone else was dancing or copping off. Continue reading...
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‘In nightclubs, I’d be the dude scribbling lyrics in the corner while everyone else was dancing or copping off’ I had the lyrics to Not Nineteen Forever before the band existed. They were in a little red book of poems and scribbles that got me a place on the creative writing course at the University of Salford. Most of what became the songs for our first album, St Jude, were in that book. As well as uni, I was working five nights a week at the Night & Day bar in Manchester, but in a nightclub I’d be the dude scribbling in the corner while everyone else was dancing or copping off. Continue reading...
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According to The Guardian’s source item, ‘When it went double platinum, Andy Burnham gave us the award’: how Courteeners made Not Nineteen Forever, ‘In nightclubs, I’d be the dude scribbling lyrics in the corner while everyone else was dancing or copping off’ I had the lyrics to Not Nineteen Forever before the band existed. They were in a little red book of poems and scribbles that got me a place on the creative writing course at the University of Salford. Most of what became the songs for our first album, St Jude, were in that book. As well as uni, I was working five nights a week at the Night & Day bar in Manchester, but in a nightclub I’d be the dude scribbling in the corner while everyone else was dancing or copping off. Continue reading…
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