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When: 7.30pm on Thursday 3 September 2026
Where: YES Basement, 38 Charles Street, Manchester, M1 7DB
We’re excited to welcome The Courettes to YES – with special guest Edgar Jones!
The Courettes is an explosive Wall of Sound group from Denmark and Brazil! Flavia Couri on vocals and guitar, Martin on loud drums and together they are the perfect blend of Wall of Sound, Girl Group Heartbreaks, Motown and R&B. Imagine The Ronettes meeting The Ramones at a wild party at the Hitsville echo chamber!
The latest album, The Soul Of The Fabulous Courettes, is out on legendary Damaged Goods Records, London and Rough Trade, London.
Special guest is Edgar Jones. Back in the 90s Edgar was bass player, singer and songwriter for Liverpool’s cult psychedelic garage band The Stairs, whose seminal track Weed Bus was played on high rotation on Radio 1 for three weeks, before they realised its subject matter, and subsequently banned it. Concurrently and since, he’s lent a session hand as bassist and singer for some of Britain’s finest, including Paul Weller, Johnny Marr, The La’s, Cherry Ghost, Ian McCulloch, Ocean Colour Scene and St. Etienne amongst others.
His love of soul, jazz and blues has led his solo career to run the entire gamut of such, all the way from big city northern soul productions, to one-man gutbucket blues numbers on lathe-pressed 45s. His solo show presently is a tastefully varied collection of the latter, performed with gusto and hearty optimism. Guaranteed to bring a smile to any who catch it.
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