The Gig Cartel - Artist profiles: Charlatans

THE CHARLATANS have announced their (Covid) delayed 30th Anniversary tour and a 6 vinyl LP Box Set. The limited box set has just been released (15 October) and will be followed by an extensive UK & Ireland tour with an extra date added due to demand at Exeter’s Great Hall on Tuesday 14 December 2021. ‘A Head Full Of Ideas’ is a five album, and exclusive 7”, career-spanning box set that sums up their remarkable progress from 1990 Manchester scene hopefuls to one of the UK’s most enduring and best-loved bands. The band have notched up 13 Top 40 studio albums - three of them number ones - alongside 22 hit singles, four of them top 10 including "The Only One I Know" and "One to Another". The classic Charlatans sound - driving Hammond organ, Northern Soul and house-influenced rhythms, swaggering guitars and Tim Burgess’s sunny yet somehow yearning vocal - is instantly recognisable.