Liam Fray says Lou Reed was a fan of the Courteeners’ ‘Bide Your Time’
Liam Fray has shared his reminiscence of assembly Lou Reed and revealed that the late rock icon was a fan of the Courteeners’ tune ‘Bide Your Time’.
The singer was showing on BBC Radio 2’s Tracks Of My Years with Vernon Kay when he shared the anecdote about The Velvet Underground frontman, which you’ll see within the clip beneath.
“I used to be fortunate sufficient to satisfy Lou, the person himself,” Fray mentioned. “Yeah, it’s mad. I used to be on vacation. His spouse Laurie came visiting and mentioned, ‘Oh Lou says you play’. And I used to be like, yeah I do play, I do play!”
“She mentioned, ‘Oh do you need to play his arts membership in New York?’,” he continued. “I used to be like, yeah!”
Fray added that the eventual second got here three weeks later, after he had reached out to former Courteeners stay keyboardist Adam Payne. “I mentioned [to him], ‘Hear, you’ve bought to save lots of my bacon right here, as a result of I can’t play acoustic guitar alone to Lou Reed’.”
“So, we get down there, no crew, no sound engineer, I had somewhat amp, I borrowed a guitar from my buddy Keith from We Are Scientists. So I had this guitar I’d by no means performed earlier than, singing by a Bluetooth speaker or one thing, and within the nook, you could possibly inform it was a piano was below a canopy, and I used to be like, ‘Oh, it’d be improper for us to not play it, if we get in bother, we get in bother’.”
“So what higher approach to demo your third album that no-one’s heard earlier than? He was on the entrance row, Lou. He was a giant fan of [2008 Courteeners song] ‘Bide Your Time’, apparently. He instructed me afterwards.”
On October 25, Liam Fray and co. will launch their seventh album ‘Pink Cactus Café’. You’ll be able to pre-order/pre-save it here. They’re additionally hitting the highway in November for various UK headline dates – visit here for remaining tickets.
Final month, Liam Fray spoke to NME in regards to the upcoming album, and recalled the way it felt totally different to the entire band’s previous releases.
“It did take me some place else the place I’ve by no means been with the band, by way of my strategy”, he mentioned, additionally describing the “psychedelic dream” vibe that underpins ‘Pink Cactus Café.’ “I do really feel lots of strain, I used to be fearful of failing a lot that I forgot to get pleasure from it. Possibly this album is the embracing of what we do. Relaxed, however nonetheless meticulous within the strategy.”
In different Courteeners information, the band topped the albums charts final 12 months after they reissued their breakthrough 2008 album ‘St. Jude’ LP in celebration of its fifteenth anniversary. The frontman would later share that the re-release of the file gave the band a lift after the business had “washed its arms of us”.
Earlier this week, The Courteeners have been introduced because the headline musical act for the 2024 Legends Of Soccer charity occasion. They’ll play the JW Marriott Grosvenor Home on October 7, the place Wayne Rooney and Fara Williams will probably be celebrated for his or her achievements within the recreation.