UNVEIL VIDEO FOR ‘LOSE CONTROL’ RELEASED ON 28TH JANUARY 

RELEASE THIRD ALBUM ‘ANNA’ ON 4TH FEBRUARY

WATCH: LOSE CONTROL 

Courteeners unveil the video for new single Lose Control released on 28th January through V2. The single is succeeded by the release of the bands third studio album ‘ANNA’ out 4th February. 

Shot and directed by Joe Connor, the video captures the band performing against a series of projected images against the backdrop of a Manchester warehouse.  The video, as with the Courteeners Lose Control [teaser] released last month, will be unveiled across the bands twitter and website at 12pm (GMT) today. (14th December 2012)

It has been two years since Courteeners last album ‘Falcon’, which charted at #6 and followed the bands #4 debut album ‘St. Jude’.  The band have been working hard at Manchester’s 80 Hertz Studios with producer Joe Cross (Hurts) and songwriter and frontman Liam Fray says, “ANNA is a new chapter sonically for Courteeners. Our music, like our minds, has evolved and expanded. We have re-arrived - Welcome to the rave”.

To coincide with the release of ‘ANNA’ Courteeners have announced an 18-date UK tour for February and March 2013, which will be their biggest UK tour yet culminating with a headline show at O2 Academy Brixton on Saturday 16th March.

Courteeners will be performing as part of XFM’s Winter Wonderland at O2 Academy Brixton on 17th December. Full February and March tour dates are as follows –

February:

Thu 21st                             Nottingham                          Rock City

Fri 22nd                                Leeds                                  O2 Academy

Sat 23rd                                Birmingham                        O2 Academy

Mon 25th                             Liverpool                              O2 Academy

Tue 26th                               Dundee                               Fat Sams

Thu 28th                              Inverness                             Ironworks 

March:

Fri 1st                                    Glasgow                              O2 Academy

Sat 2nd                                  Edinburgh                          Picture House

Mon 4th                                Portsmouth                         Pyramids Centre

Tue 5th                                 Cambridge                           Junction 

Thu 7th                                 Bristol                                  O2 Academy

Fri 8th                                   Blackpool                             Empress Ballroom

Sat 9th                                   Oxford                                 O2 Academy

Mon 11th                              Leicester                               O2 Academy

Tue 12th                               Cardiff                                  University Solus

Thu 14th                               Newcastle                            O2 Academy

Fri 15th                                 Sheffield                              O2 Academy

Sat 16th                                London                                O2 Academy Brixton

Tickets go on sale on today, Friday 14th December from 9am from www.gigsandtours.com.