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The Charlatans (British band)

The Charlatans (British band)

Overview
The Charlatans (known in the United States
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

 as The Charlatans UK) are a British
United Kingdom
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland is a sovereign state located off the northwestern coast of continental Europe. It is an island country, spanning an archipelago including Great Britain, the northeastern part of Ireland, and many small islands...

 alternative rock
Alternative rock
Alternative rock is a genre of rock music that emerged in the 1980s and became widely popular in the 1990s...

 band. The band's line-up is comprised by Tim Burgess
Tim Burgess
Timothy Allan Burgess is the lead singer of the British rock/indie act The Charlatans. They have their origins in the Mad-chester boom of the late 80's early 90's...

 (vocals), Mark Collins
Mark Collins (musician)
Mark Collins is an English guitarist best known as a member of the British indie/rock band The Charlatans.-Career:...

 (guitar), Martin Blunt (bass), Tony Rogers
Tony Rogers (musician)
Tony Rogers is the keyboard player for the English band The Charlatans....

 (keyboards) and Jon Brookes (drums and percussion).

Former members of the band include guitarist John Baker (1989-1991), vocalist Baz Ketley (1989) and keyboardist Rob Collins
Rob Collins (musician)
Rob Collins was an English musician best known as the original keyboardist of the The Charlatans.-The Charlatans:...

 (1989-1996), who died in a car accident during recording of their fifth album.

The band are credited for their expansive sound, ambiguous lyrics of frontman Tim Burgess and for their participation in the Britpop
Britpop
Britpop is a subgenre of alternative rock that originated in the United Kingdom. Britpop emerged from the British independent music scene of the early 1990s and was characterised by bands influenced by British guitar pop music of the 1960s and 1970s...

 movement, when their most acclaimed albums were released.

The band originally formed in the West Midlands
West Midlands (region)
The West Midlands is an official region of England, covering the western half of the area traditionally known as the Midlands. It contains the second most populous British city, Birmingham, and the larger West Midlands conurbation, which includes the city of Wolverhampton and large towns of Dudley,...

 by bassist
Bass guitar
The electric bass guitar is a stringed instrument played primarily with the fingers or thumb , or by using a plectrum....

 Martin Blunt, who recruited fellow West Midlanders
West Midlands (county)
The West Midlands is a metropolitan county in western central England with a population of 2,591,300. It came into existence as a metropolitan county in 1974 after the passage of the Local Government Act 1972, formed from parts of Staffordshire, Worcestershire and Warwickshire...

; Rob Collins
Rob Collins (musician)
Rob Collins was an English musician best known as the original keyboardist of the The Charlatans.-The Charlatans:...

 (keyboards
Keyboard instrument
A keyboard instrument is any musical instrument played using a musical keyboard. The most common of these is the piano. Other widely used keyboard instruments include various types of organs as well as other mechanical, electromechanical and electronic instruments...

), Jon Brookes (drums
Drum kit
A drum set is a collection of drums, cymbals and sometimes other percussion instruments, such as cowbells, wood blocks, triangles, chimes, or tambourines, arranged for convenient playing by a single person . The term "drum kit" first became used in the 1700s in Britain...

), John Baker (guitar
Guitar
The guitar is a musical instrument with ancient roots that adapts readily to a wide variety of musical styles. It typically has six strings, but four-, seven-, eight-, ten-, eleven-, twelve-, thirteen- and eighteen-string guitars also exist. The size and shape of the neck and the base of the guitar...

) plus vocalist Baz Ketley, who was almost immediately replaced by Tim Burgess
Tim Burgess
Timothy Allan Burgess is the lead singer of the British rock/indie act The Charlatans. They have their origins in the Mad-chester boom of the late 80's early 90's...

.

Although the name The Charlatans was used when original members of the band were located in the West Midlands, many sources state that they formed in Northwich
Northwich
Northwich is a town and civil parish in the unitary authority of Cheshire West and Chester and the ceremonial county of Cheshire, England. It lies in the heart of the Cheshire Plain, at the confluence of the rivers Weaver and Dane...

, Cheshire
Cheshire
Cheshire ; also known, archaically, as the County of Chester) is a ceremonial county in North West England. The traditional county town is the city of Chester, although Cheshire's largest town is Warrington. Other major towns include Congleton, Crewe, Ellesmere Port, Widnes, Runcorn, Macclesfield,...

.
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The Charlatans (known in the United States
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

 as The Charlatans UK) are a British
United Kingdom
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland is a sovereign state located off the northwestern coast of continental Europe. It is an island country, spanning an archipelago including Great Britain, the northeastern part of Ireland, and many small islands...

 alternative rock
Alternative rock
Alternative rock is a genre of rock music that emerged in the 1980s and became widely popular in the 1990s...

 band. The band's line-up is comprised by Tim Burgess
Tim Burgess
Timothy Allan Burgess is the lead singer of the British rock/indie act The Charlatans. They have their origins in the Mad-chester boom of the late 80's early 90's...

 (vocals), Mark Collins
Mark Collins (musician)
Mark Collins is an English guitarist best known as a member of the British indie/rock band The Charlatans.-Career:...

 (guitar), Martin Blunt (bass), Tony Rogers
Tony Rogers (musician)
Tony Rogers is the keyboard player for the English band The Charlatans....

 (keyboards) and Jon Brookes (drums and percussion).

Former members of the band include guitarist John Baker (1989-1991), vocalist Baz Ketley (1989) and keyboardist Rob Collins
Rob Collins (musician)
Rob Collins was an English musician best known as the original keyboardist of the The Charlatans.-The Charlatans:...

 (1989-1996), who died in a car accident during recording of their fifth album.

The band are credited for their expansive sound, ambiguous lyrics of frontman Tim Burgess and for their participation in the Britpop
Britpop
Britpop is a subgenre of alternative rock that originated in the United Kingdom. Britpop emerged from the British independent music scene of the early 1990s and was characterised by bands influenced by British guitar pop music of the 1960s and 1970s...

 movement, when their most acclaimed albums were released.

Formation (1988-1989)


The band originally formed in the West Midlands
West Midlands (region)
The West Midlands is an official region of England, covering the western half of the area traditionally known as the Midlands. It contains the second most populous British city, Birmingham, and the larger West Midlands conurbation, which includes the city of Wolverhampton and large towns of Dudley,...

 by bassist
Bass guitar
The electric bass guitar is a stringed instrument played primarily with the fingers or thumb , or by using a plectrum....

 Martin Blunt, who recruited fellow West Midlanders
West Midlands (county)
The West Midlands is a metropolitan county in western central England with a population of 2,591,300. It came into existence as a metropolitan county in 1974 after the passage of the Local Government Act 1972, formed from parts of Staffordshire, Worcestershire and Warwickshire...

; Rob Collins
Rob Collins (musician)
Rob Collins was an English musician best known as the original keyboardist of the The Charlatans.-The Charlatans:...

 (keyboards
Keyboard instrument
A keyboard instrument is any musical instrument played using a musical keyboard. The most common of these is the piano. Other widely used keyboard instruments include various types of organs as well as other mechanical, electromechanical and electronic instruments...

), Jon Brookes (drums
Drum kit
A drum set is a collection of drums, cymbals and sometimes other percussion instruments, such as cowbells, wood blocks, triangles, chimes, or tambourines, arranged for convenient playing by a single person . The term "drum kit" first became used in the 1700s in Britain...

), John Baker (guitar
Guitar
The guitar is a musical instrument with ancient roots that adapts readily to a wide variety of musical styles. It typically has six strings, but four-, seven-, eight-, ten-, eleven-, twelve-, thirteen- and eighteen-string guitars also exist. The size and shape of the neck and the base of the guitar...

) plus vocalist Baz Ketley, who was almost immediately replaced by Tim Burgess
Tim Burgess
Timothy Allan Burgess is the lead singer of the British rock/indie act The Charlatans. They have their origins in the Mad-chester boom of the late 80's early 90's...

.

Although the name The Charlatans was used when original members of the band were located in the West Midlands, many sources state that they formed in Northwich
Northwich
Northwich is a town and civil parish in the unitary authority of Cheshire West and Chester and the ceremonial county of Cheshire, England. It lies in the heart of the Cheshire Plain, at the confluence of the rivers Weaver and Dane...

, Cheshire
Cheshire
Cheshire ; also known, archaically, as the County of Chester) is a ceremonial county in North West England. The traditional county town is the city of Chester, although Cheshire's largest town is Warrington. Other major towns include Congleton, Crewe, Ellesmere Port, Widnes, Runcorn, Macclesfield,...

. This is because the band relocated to the home town of new lead singer Tim Burgess
Tim Burgess
Timothy Allan Burgess is the lead singer of the British rock/indie act The Charlatans. They have their origins in the Mad-chester boom of the late 80's early 90's...

 (who lived in Northwich) before the release of The Charlatans' debut single
Single (music)
In music, a single is a short recording of one or more separate tracks. This can be released for sale to the public in a variety of different formats.-History:...

 "Indian Rope" in 1990 on the band's own Dead Dead Good Records label
Record label
In the music industry, a record label is a brand and a trademark associated with the marketing of music recordings and music videos. Most commonly, a record label is the company that manages such brands and trademarks, coordinates the production, manufacture, distribution, marketing and promotion,...

. This means that, based on the definition of the hometown used by Guinness World Records
Guinness World Records
Guinness World Records, known until 2000 as The Guinness Book of Records , is a reference book published annually, containing an internationally recognised...

, the band formed in Northwich and consequently Northwich is recorded as their home town in "Guinness World Records: British Hit Singles and Albums."

Early years (1990-1993)


The debut single, "Indian Rope" proved an indie
Indie (music)
In popular music, independent music, often generally abbreviated as "indie", is a term used to describe independence from major commercial record labels and an autonomous, Do-It-Yourself approach to recording and publishing....

 hit and the group soon found a major label, Beggars Banquet
Beggars Banquet Records
Beggars Banquet is an English independent record label that began as a chain of record shops owned by Martin Mills and Nick Austin, and is part of the Beggars Group of labels...

 off-shoot Situation Two
Situation Two
Situation Two, aka Situation 2, was a record label which began life in 1981 as an offshoot of the larger Beggars Banquet label. At the time, Beggars Banquet records were distributed by Warner Bros.; so, to appeal to the indie audience and to get releases into the indie charts, the Situation Two...

, in time for the release of "The Only One I Know" which reached the Top 10 in the UK singles chart
UK Singles Chart
The UK Singles Chart is compiled by The Official Charts Company on behalf of the British record industry. The full chart contains the top 200 singles based upon combined record sales and download numbers, though some media outlets only list the Top 40 or the Top 75 of this list...

 and is still regarded as an indie classic.

A further single, "Then", and debut album
Album
An album or record album is a collection of related audio or music tracks distributed to the public. The most common way is through commercial distribution, although smaller artists will often distribute directly to the public by selling their albums at live concerts or on their websites.-...

 Some Friendly
Some Friendly
Some Friendly is the debut album by the British band The Charlatans , released in 1990 ....

, were released later that year. Around this time The Charlatans were forced to add UK to their name for an American tour due to competing claims by a 1960s rock band also known as The Charlatans
The Charlatans (U.S. band)
The Charlatans were an influential psychedelic rock band that played a role in the development of the San Francisco music scene in the 1960s and are cited as being the first group to play in the style that became known as the San Francisco Sound...

.

Baker left the band after 1991's "Over Rising" single to be replaced by Mark Collins
Mark Collins (musician)
Mark Collins is an English guitarist best known as a member of the British indie/rock band The Charlatans.-Career:...

 (no relation to Rob), and the band brought in producer
Record producer
In the music industry, a record producer has many roles, among them controlling the recording sessions, coaching and guiding the musicians, organizing and scheduling production budget and resources, and supervising the recording, mixing and mastering processes...

 Flood for their second album Between 10th and 11th
Between 10th And 11th
Between 10th And 11th is the second album by the British band The Charlatans , released on March 23,1992. The single "Weirdo" was to be the band's biggest U.S. hit, charting at #1 on the Modern Rock Tracks....

(named after the address of the New York
New York
New York is a state in the Mid-Atlantic and Northeastern regions of the United States and is the nation's third most populous. The state is bordered by New Jersey and Pennsylvania to the south, and Connecticut, Massachusetts and Vermont to the east...

 Marque
Marque
A marque is a brand name, especially in the automobile industry. For example, Chevrolet and Buick are marques of their maker, General Motors . A company may have many marques: GM has used more than a dozen in the North American market alone.-Differentiation:There are huge economies of scale in...

, site of the group's first U.S.
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

 gig). Released in early 1992, the album failed to reach the top twenty in the UK
United Kingdom
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland is a sovereign state located off the northwestern coast of continental Europe. It is an island country, spanning an archipelago including Great Britain, the northeastern part of Ireland, and many small islands...

. However, the top 20 success of the lead single "Weirdo" and a double weekend of gigs ('Daytripper') in Blackpool
Blackpool
Blackpool is a seaside town in Lancashire, England. Situated along the coast of the Irish Sea, it has a population of 142,900, making it the fourth-largest settlement in North West England behind Manchester, Liverpool and Warrington...

 and Brighton
Brighton
Brighton is a town in the city of Brighton and Hove in East Sussex on the south coast of Great Britain...

 with Ride
Ride
Ride may refer to:* Riding* An amusement ride* Ride, a 1998 comedy by Millicent Shelton* Ride, a 2002 novel by David Walton* Reduce Impaired Driving Everywhere, or RIDE, a system used by police in Canada for DUI spotchecks* R.I.D.E...

 kept them in the public eye http://www.ukmix.org/articles/1999/charlatans.html.

Later that year, the band suffered a major setback when Rob Collins was charged with armed robbery after his friend had robbed an off licence while he was waiting in the car outside. Collins claimed to have no foreknowledge of the robbery until he heard a gunshot inside the shop and his friend exited, although he later admitted that he should not have picked his friend up after he realised what he had done. At court, he pleaded guilty to the lesser charge of "assisting an offender after an offence" and served four months in prison.

Mid-nineties resurgence (1994-1997)


The follow-up album, Up To Our Hips
Up to Our Hips
Up to Our Hips is the third album by the British band The Charlatans , released on March 21,1994. "Can't Get Out of Bed" was used as the soundbed of Benylin's 2009 television commercial campaign....

(1994) reached number 8 in the UK albums chart
UK Albums Chart
The UK Albums Chart is a list of albums ranked by physical and digital sales in the United Kingdom. It is compiled by The Official UK Charts Company and published in Music Week magazine and on the OCC website ; the full Top 200 is published exclusively in ChartsPlus.To qualify for the UK albums...

.

In 1995 the band's self-titled
The Charlatans (album)
The Charlatans is the fourth album by the British band The Charlatans , released on 28 August 1995. It went to the top of the UK Albums Chart the same year...

 fourth album saw them become major UK stars again, topping the UK albums chart and spawning the top 20 single "Just When You're Thinkin' Things Over".

But, just as things seemed to be going well for the band, keyboard player Rob Collins was killed in a car  crash during the recording of fifth album Tellin' Stories
Tellin' Stories
Tellin' Stories is an album by the British band The Charlatans , released on April 21,1997. It was the first album released by the band following the death of founder-member and keyboard player Rob Collins...

on July 22 1996. The Charlatans decided to continue and Primal Scream
Primal Scream
Primal Scream are a Scottish alternative rock group formed in 1982 in Glasgow by Bobby Gillespie and Jim Beattie. The current lineup consists of Gillespie, Andrew Innes , Martin Duffy , Gary "Mani" Mounfield , and Darrin Mooney...

 and former Felt
Felt (band)
Felt were a 1980s British alternative rock band, named after the way Tom Verlaine enunciated the word "felt" in the Television song "Venus", and led by Lawrence...

 keyboardist Martin Duffy
Martin Duffy (musician)
Martin Duffy is the keyboardist with Scottish band Primal Scream. Duffy formerly played keyboards in the indie band Felt and also played with The Charlatans following the death of founder-member Rob Collins, appearing with the group at Knebworth supporting Oasis in 1996 and contributing keyboard...

 was drafted in for The Charlatans high-profile support slot with Oasis
Oasis (band)
Oasis were an English rock band that formed in Manchester in 1991. Originally known as The Rain, the group was formed by Liam Gallagher , Paul Arthurs , Paul McGuigan and Tony McCarroll , who were soon joined by Liam's older brother Noel Gallagher...

 at their Knebworth
Concerts at Knebworth House
The grounds of Knebworth House near the village of Knebworth has become a major venue for open air rock and pop concerts since 1974 when The Allman Brothers Band attracted 60,000 at the first large concert held at the venue...

 gigs in summer 1996 until a permanent replacement for Collins could be found.

Tellin' Stories
Tellin' Stories
Tellin' Stories is an album by the British band The Charlatans , released on April 21,1997. It was the first album released by the band following the death of founder-member and keyboard player Rob Collins...

was released in 1997 featuring contributions from both Rob Collins and Duffy and in the singles "One to Another", "North Country Boy" and "How High" the group had their biggest UK hits to date.

New record label/new keyboard player (1998-2004)


After releasing the career-spanning compilation Melting Pot
Melting Pot (The Charlatans album)
Melting Pot is a greatest hits collection by the British band The Charlatans . Featuring tracks from their time on Beggars Banquet Records between 1990 and 1997 the album was released on February 23,1998...

the band's contract with Beggars Banquet
Beggars Banquet Records
Beggars Banquet is an English independent record label that began as a chain of record shops owned by Martin Mills and Nick Austin, and is part of the Beggars Group of labels...

 was up, and they signed to Universal Records
Universal Records
Universal Records is an American record label owned by Universal Music Group, and operates as part of the Universal Motown Republic Group.-History:...

 with Burgess stating that, although he and the band had enjoyed their time on the independent record label
Independent record label
An independent record label is a record label operating without the funding of or outside the organizations of the major record labels.-Overview:...

 they had made next to no money in the eight years since their first release. Relations with 'Beggars' remained strong however, and the band helped put together the b-sides collection Songs From The Other Side
Songs from the Other Side
Songs from the Other Side is a compilation album featuring selected B-sides released by the British band The Charlatans during their time on the Beggars Banquet label from 1990–1997. The album was released on May 20, 2002.-Track listing:# "Imperial 109"# "Everything Changed"# "Happen to Die" #...

and DVD
DVD
DVD, also known as Digital Versatile Disc or Digital Video Disc,is an optical disc storage media format, and was founded in 1995. Its main uses are video and data storage...

 Just Lookin' 1990 - 1997
Just Lookin' 1990 - 1997
Just Lookin' 1990–1997 is a DVD by British band The Charlatans. All The Charlatans promotional videos for singles issued during their time on the Beggars Banquet record label until 1998 are included as well as thirteen live performances from four shows spanning the era...

showcasing all their promo videos and a selection of live recordings from that era.

Us And Us Only
Us and Us Only
Us and Us Only is an album by the British band The Charlatans , released on October 18,1999 .-Track listing:All songs by Blunt/Brookes/Burgess/M...

saw the start of a new era for The Charlatans. Their first release for Universal
Universal Records
Universal Records is an American record label owned by Universal Music Group, and operates as part of the Universal Motown Republic Group.-History:...

 saw new keyboard player Tony Rogers make his Charlatan's album debut (he had previously toured in support of Tellin' Stories
Tellin' Stories
Tellin' Stories is an album by the British band The Charlatans , released on April 21,1997. It was the first album released by the band following the death of founder-member and keyboard player Rob Collins...

and contributed to b-sides "Keep It to Yourself" and "Clean Up Kid" from the "How High" single) and the band took on a slightly country
Country music
Country music is a blend of popular musical forms originally found in the Southern United States and the Appalachian Mountains...

 sound, heavily influenced by Burgess's love of Bob Dylan
Bob Dylan
Bob Dylan is an American singer-songwriter, musician, poet and painter who has been a major figure in popular music for five decades. Much of his most celebrated work dates from the 1960s when he was, at first, an informal chronicler and then an apparently reluctant figurehead of social unrest...

. The soul
Soul music
Soul music is a music genre originating in the United States combining elements of gospel music and rhythm and blues. According to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, soul is "music that arose out of the black experience in America through the transmutation of gospel and rhythm & blues into a form of...

 influenced Wonderland followed in 2001 before the more traditionally 'Charlatans' sounding Up At The Lake
Up at the Lake
Up at the Lake is an album by the British band The Charlatans , released on May 17,2004. It is the band's only album to have never received a U.S. release.-Track listing:...

was released in 2004.

The Sanctuary years (2005-2007)


The band released their ninth full-length album on April 10, 2006, their first for new label Sanctuary Records
Sanctuary Records
Sanctuary Records is a record label based in the United Kingdom and a subsidiary of Universal Music Group. Until June 2007, it was the largest independent record label in the UK and the largest independent music management company in the world. It was also the world's largest independent owners of...

. Titled Simpatico, the reggae
Reggae
Reggae is a music genre first developed in Jamaica in the late 1960s.While sometimes used in a broader sense to refer to most types of Jamaican music, the term reggae more properly denotes a particular music style that originated following on the development of ska and rocksteady. Reggae is based...

 and dub
Dub music
Dub is an instrumental subgenre of reggae music, that involves revisions of existing songs. The dub sound consists predominantly of instrumental remixes of existing recordings and is achieved by significantly manipulating and reshaping the recordings, usually by removing the vocals from an existing...

 tinged album featured tracks like the fan favourite "NYC (There's No Need to Stop)", first single "Blackened Blue Eyes
Blackened Blue Eyes
"Blackened Blue Eyes" is the first single from the album Simpatico by British band The Charlatans , released on April 3, 2006....

", and was produced by Jim Lowe
Jim Lowe
Jim Lowe , is an American singer-songwriter best known for his 1956 number-one hit record, "The Green Door." A million seller and gold record recipient, "Green Door" was written by Marvin Moore and Bob Davie. The song reached number 8 in the UK Singles Chart in November 1956...

.http://www.nme.com/news/charlatans/21941 The single charted at number 28. The album reached the top 10 in its first week of release, but dropped out of the charts shortly after.

Their follow-up to Simpatico was the career-spanning singles compilation entitled Forever: The Singles
Forever: The Singles
Forever: The Singles is a greatest hits album featuring selected singles released by the British band The Charlatans spanning their entire career from 1990 to 2006. The album was released on November 13, 2006...

which was released on CD
Compact Disc
A Compact Disc is an optical disc used to store digital data. It was originally developed to store sound recordings exclusively, but later it also allowed the preservation of other types of data. Audio CDs have been commercially available since October 1982...

 and DVD
DVD
DVD, also known as Digital Versatile Disc or Digital Video Disc,is an optical disc storage media format, and was founded in 1995. Its main uses are video and data storage...

 on November 13, 2006. It was preceded by the re-recorded (remixed by Youth
Martin Glover
Martin Glover, also known as Youth, is a record producer and a founding member and bassist of the UK band Killing Joke. He is a member of The Fireman along with Paul McCartney. Glover was born in Africa.-Early career:...

) song "You're So Pretty We're So Pretty" which appeared originally on their 2001 album Wonderland. The band seem in a good place now, happy with their level of success and keen to record their next album in 2007, as they told STV
STV
STV is the brand used by both ITV licensees in Northern and Central Scotland, formerly known as Grampian TV and Scottish TV respectively. The brand was adopted on Tuesday, 30 May 2006 replacing both franchises' identities. Its positioning, identity and brand guidelines were developed by Elmwood...

 in this interview in November 2006. In an interview for their Simpatico album, the band mentioned lack of shower facilities and bad bus drivers as the worst aspects of touring. "[Bus drivers] get so bloody moody. They don't want you on the bus, yet you're paying them a fortune to drive you. They'd rather drive around the whole of the country with nobody in the back."

The band played a number of high-profile supporting gigs during the summer of 2007, including for The Who
The Who
The Who are an English rock band formed in 1964. The primary lineup consisted of guitarist Pete Townshend, vocalist Roger Daltrey, bassist John Entwistle, and drummer Keith Moon. They became known for energetic live performances including the pioneering spectacle of instrument destruction...

 and The Rolling Stones
The Rolling Stones
The Rolling Stones are an English rock band formed in 1962 in London when multi-instrumentalist Brian Jones and pianist Ian Stewart were joined by vocalist Mick Jagger and guitarist Keith Richards. Bassist Bill Wyman and drummer Charlie Watts completed the early lineup...

, at venues including Wembley Stadium
Wembley Stadium
The original Wembley Stadium was a football stadium in Wembley, a suburb of north-west London, standing on the site now occupied by the new Wembley Stadium that opened in 2007.-History:...

 and Twickenham Stadium
Twickenham Stadium
Twickenham Stadium is a stadium located in Twickenham, in the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames. It is the largest rugby union stadium in the United Kingdom and has recently been enlarged to seat 82,000...

 in London, as well as the Bingley Music Live
Bingley Music Live
Bingley Music Live is an annual music festival held in Myrtle Park, Bingley, West Yorkshire, England. The festival features a range of musical genres including rock, alternative rock, indie rock and pop music...

 event, Nass festival 2007, and at Delamere Forest in Cheshire. A recording of Live At Delamere Forest
Live at Delamere Forest
Live at Delamere Forest is a live album by the British band The Charlatans , it is a limited edition released over five parts as a download only album, via the bands official website...

was released as a download only via the official website in five parts for a very limited time only.

On an independent label (2008-present)


In an October 2007 issue of the NME
NME
The New Musical Express is a popular music magazine in the United Kingdom which has been published weekly since March 1952. It was the first British paper to include a singles chart, which first appeared in the 14 November 1952 edition. The magazine's commercial heyday was during the 1970s when it...

, the band contributed the song "Blank Heart, Blank Mind" to the magazine's free Love Music, Hate Racism compilation CD. Later the same month, the new single "You Cross My Path" was released as a free download exclusively through the XFM
Xfm
Xfm is a brand of commercial radio stations focused on alternative music, primarily indie pop, and owned by Global Radio in the United Kingdom. Xfm was created in London in 1992 by Sammy Jacob Xfm is a brand of commercial radio stations focused on alternative music, primarily indie pop, and owned...

 website. On the 3rd March, 2008, The Charlatans teamed up with Xfm again to become the first UK band to release an album completely free to download via a radio station. This was preceded a week earlier by the second single from the album, "Oh! Vanity". The album, titled You Cross My Path
You Cross My Path (album)
You Cross My Path is the tenth album by British band The Charlatans, released on March 3, 2008 as a free download from the XFM website. The album was then released, in the form of CD and 12" vinyl on May 12, 2008...

, is The Charlatans tenth studio album and received a physical CD/LP release on 19 May 2008 on the Cooking Vinyl
Cooking Vinyl
Cooking Vinyl is a UK-based independent record company, founded in 1986. Its original orientation was toward contemporary folk music -- notably Billy Bragg, and Michelle Shocked's Texas Campfire Tapes, recorded on a Sony Walkman, one of its first releases...

 label, coinciding with a full UK tour.

Discography


  • Some Friendly
    Some Friendly
    Some Friendly is the debut album by the British band The Charlatans , released in 1990 ....

    (1990)
  • Between 10th and 11th
    Between 10th And 11th
    Between 10th And 11th is the second album by the British band The Charlatans , released on March 23,1992. The single "Weirdo" was to be the band's biggest U.S. hit, charting at #1 on the Modern Rock Tracks....

    (1992)
  • Up to Our Hips
    Up to Our Hips
    Up to Our Hips is the third album by the British band The Charlatans , released on March 21,1994. "Can't Get Out of Bed" was used as the soundbed of Benylin's 2009 television commercial campaign....

    (1994)
  • The Charlatans
    The Charlatans (album)
    The Charlatans is the fourth album by the British band The Charlatans , released on 28 August 1995. It went to the top of the UK Albums Chart the same year...

    (1995)
  • Tellin' Stories
    Tellin' Stories
    Tellin' Stories is an album by the British band The Charlatans , released on April 21,1997. It was the first album released by the band following the death of founder-member and keyboard player Rob Collins...

    (1997
  • Us and Us Only
    Us and Us Only
    Us and Us Only is an album by the British band The Charlatans , released on October 18,1999 .-Track listing:All songs by Blunt/Brookes/Burgess/M...

    (1999)
  • Wonderland (2001)
  • Up at the Lake
    Up at the Lake
    Up at the Lake is an album by the British band The Charlatans , released on May 17,2004. It is the band's only album to have never received a U.S. release.-Track listing:...

    (2004)
  • Simpatico (2006)
  • You Cross My Path
    You Cross My Path (album)
    You Cross My Path is the tenth album by British band The Charlatans, released on March 3, 2008 as a free download from the XFM website. The album was then released, in the form of CD and 12" vinyl on May 12, 2008...

    (2008)

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