That Kiss, by The Courteeners (CD single on Polydor)

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Catalogue number:	1785867
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Rating: angry This record left our Clint feeling angry.

Finally from me before I go home and bury my head in my hands is a single by The Courteeners called 'That Kiss'. If you believe the press these lot sit somewhere in between The Smiths and Oasis. So does anyone remember The Burn? No thought not. Anyway for a more up to date description - remember those old Top of the Pops records where session musicians re-create the hits of the day so they don't have to pay the original artists? Well this is like a modern day version of that with Glasvegas the victims. This is so bad I want to scream and weep and hit anyone that comes within 5 miles of my vicinity. The B-side weirdly sounds like a bunch of 14 year old boys in the church crypt trying to be Siouxie and the Banshees.....or Bauhaus...or The Fall.....They haven't got a fucking clue what they are doing.

What the label says:

Since they announced their arrival with debut single (and NME single of the Week), ‘Cavorting’, The Courteeners have barely stopped. Repeated sold out tours throughout the UK, a string of chart singles and a Top 5 debut album in the shape of ‘St. Jude’ have been accompanied by a rapid rise to prominence for the band that were, only last year, Manchester’s best kept secret.

Now, with the dust barely settled on the release of the now gold certified ‘St. Jude’, Liam Fray has appeared from the studio with a new single. ‘That Kiss’, produced once again by Stephen Street, is a slice of modern balladry shot through with a Ronettes rhythm and a chorus sure to echo across the UK when the band embark on a further sold out tour in October. The strings were arranged by Liam and are played by the players heard on Blur’s ‘The Universal’. A completely new track, ‘That Kiss’ is yet to be aired live and is a stand alone single in the tradition of such band favourites as The Smiths and The Stone Roses amongst others.

The Courteeners will have played to over 60,000 people at the end of their forthcoming tour of the UK, a string of shows which includes two sold out shows at both London’s Shepherds Bush Empire and the Apollo in their native Manchester, a phenomenal achievement for a band on their debut album.