Charlatans(UK) C/D

Is that a Durutti Column cover on disc 2?

Guessing the desk "Blue Monday" was recorded on is probably well-drained of hit-making nectar.

Listening to this now. Unexpectedly great... "Love Is Ending" could be a Prisoners/Thee Milkshakes track.

Yeah I just finished playing this, first impressions are this might be their best album in a very long time. I'm just addicted to Love is Ending but there isn't really a bad track.

I love the Crass connections going on -- I remember Burgess talking about being a fan of theirs back in interviews from 1990/91 so talk about flying the flag still!

Yeah, I love the s/t one as well. It's probably a tie between that and Up to Our Hips for me.

― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 20 July 2010 05:20 (1 month ago) Bookmark

Yeah

It's been bugging me over the last 24 hours what the second track My Foolish Pride reminds me of and it just hit me, the verse where he sings "I wander streets belonging but to no one" sounds exactly like the verse of Open your heart by The Human League. Anyone else noticed this?

I have been playing this a lot and I can't help but think it might be their best album since the self titled one. I really didn't have much interest in this album until Johnny Fever put up the new single earlier in the thread but I'm so glad I bought it, great production, songs and Tim's voice has never sounded better.

Pete Salisbury fills in

The Verve drummer Pete Salisbury has joined The Charlatans as a temporary replacement for brain tumour victim Jon Brookes.

Brookes collapsed onstage during the band's Philadelphia gig earlier this month (September 15), and has now flown back to the UK to receive further treatment for a brain tumour.

Speaking to NME, frontman Tim Burgess said Brookes's ordeal had been "a lot to take in" for the band.

"We were having the best American tour we've done for a long, long time and it was going so well and then this happened," he explained.

The band play their first show with Salisbury to launch Oxfam's Oxjam festival on Monday (September 27) at a charity shop in London. He will also perform with them on their forthcoming UK tour.

Yeesh, sad news (but good guy to have fill in). Wanted to go to the Tuesday night show down here but a cold has tripped me up this week.

i almost went Tuesday night as well. the problem was i only found out about it on Tuesday and wasn't able to get everything organized and ready to go in time.

i do hope to see these guys soon as i have had fun at their gigs.

Yah, I was going to go to the Wednesday show at the El Rey. Hope they can reschedule the west coast dates eventually

http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5053/5533599301_f3a62cf5b5_z.jpg

Yes, that's Kevin Shields.

Cool.

That's Tim on the mic, right? My eyes are telling me that doesn't look a bit like him.

Yes, his hair was long and tied back. He came out on stage wearing sunglasses and looked disturbingly like late-stage Michael Jackson until he took them off.

The weirdest Charlatans-related story you'll read this week: http://www.adweek.com/adfreak/kellogg-creates-totes-amazeballs-cereal-response-single-tweet-138447

Meanwhile R. Stevie Moore just posted this photo:

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I listened to Up To Our Hips for the first time in at least ten years the other day.

http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/media/images/59751000/jpg/_59751041_burgess_getty.jpg

I'm definitely not digging David Cross's new wig.

Anyone hear Tim Burgess's version of Don't Talk (Put Your Head On My Shoulder)? He hits the notes pretty well IMO.

one for the sticker

hah

"one for the sticker" remains one of my favorite snarks of all-time, I don't think there's a context where it isn't hilarious

so, at last we begin to learn about the long-term effects of ecstasy

wait, is that last picture actually not David Cross in a wig? i swear i've only just realised

yeah the David Cross thing is kind of uncanny

odd, acoustic versions of North Country Boy and The only one I know

but with new tunes

on Sky's coverage on the IOW festival

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D6F1cl5pwN0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qj-24V1txtQ

Well this sucks. RIP Jon.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-23682282

Very sad.

Totally sad.
Did an instore with them a week or so before the Philly gig where he collapsed - was a nice fella. Fine drummer too.

Yeah, a damn shame. He was just the drummer for the band, great player, a little flair, never steamrolled over the band but worked with everyone just so.

At first I was like "that's sad" and now it keeps nagging at me and I'm starting to get really down about his death. Gonna listen to some more Charlatans and work through it, I guess. Rest in piece.

urm, PEACE.

Yeah it's really sad, I've read a few things now from people that met him and said he was a great guy.

I decided to throw on a few of their albums today. Started with Between 10th and 11th and will go for the self titled next (probably my favourite) The first five albums are a great and totally underrated run of albums.

Up to Our Hips and the s/t are my favorites, and Between 10th and 11th is up there as well, but I've never spent as much time with Some Friendly. I'm doing that now.

I find Some Friendly a bit more dated in places but still a really enjoyable album. It's all about Sonic and Sprosten Green at the end, two of my favourite songs of theirs.

gah RIP

always been partial to Us & Us Only, some great drum parts on there

Kinda love this photo of him.

http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Music/Pix/pictures/2013/8/13/1376393627155/Charlatans-drummer-Jon-Br-008.jpg

still amazing

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZoNbrkCQfcs

Yes! I should have added earlier Wonderland is another one of their great albums and A Man Needs to be Told is the highlight, it should have been a huge hit for them.

this is sad news, RIP.

going to play their self titled tomorrow, my favorite of theirs. just counted and i actually own nine albums and a few singles by them.

the new album is dope.

God, I didn't hear a whisper about the album. Was just revisiting "Oh Vanity" (which is utterly great) and then found Modern Nature sitting on Spotify, like a forgotten Christmas present that suddenly turns up mid-year. Did anyone in the US write anything at all about this?

Tried to but my various pitches were turned down. Tim Burgess ended up following me on Twitter a while back -- very flattered, not sure why he did! -- so I've followed him in return and it seems like they've had a very good year of it.

Can't stop won't stop

https://thecharlatans.lnk.to/DifferentDaysPR

The Charlatans have released their new single "Plastic Machinery," available now for download and streaming. The song is from the band's thirteenth album entitled Different Days, due out May 26, 2017 via BMG. Co-produced by Jim Spencer, the album was recorded at the band’s studio in Cheshire and features contributions from an array of friends... from Paul Weller and Johnny Marr to crime writer Ian Rankin and writer/actress Sharon Horgan.

Fuckin' hell, this band are still going!?

The longest time they've ever been between albums has been three years. Most times it's been two, sometimes one.