‘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.
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