Tour

Nov 30 Bournemouth O2 Academy

Dec 2 Oxford O2 Academy
Dec 3 Cambridge Corn Exchange
Dec 4 Manchester O2 Victoria Warehouse
Dec 6 Lincoln The Engine Shed
Dec 8 Liverpool Invisible Wind Factory
Dec 9 Newcastle Upon Tyne O2 City Hall
Dec 10 London O2 Academy Brixton
Dec 12 Norwich UEA LCR
Dec 14 Exeter Great Hall
Dec 16 Nottingham Rock City
Dec 17 Leeds O2 Academy
Dec 18 Glasgow O2 Academy
Dec 20 Aberdeen Music Hall
Dec 21 Edinburgh Corn Exchange

2022

Jun 10 London Kenwood House

Biography

The Charlatans are an English rock band formed in the West Midlands in 1988. The current line-up comprises lead vocalist Tim Burgess, guitarist Mark Collins, bassist Martin Blunt and keyboardist Tony Rogers. All the band’s thirteen studio albums have charted in the top 40 of the UK Albums Chart, three of them being number ones. They have also had twenty-two top 40 singles and four top 10 entries in the UK Singles Chart, including the hits ‘The Only One I Know’ and ‘One to Another’.

The band were formed in the West Midlands by bassist Martin Blunt, who recruited fellow West Midlanders Rob Collins (keyboards), Jon Brookes (drums), Jon Day (Jonathan Baker) (guitar) and singer-guitarist Baz Ketley. Ketley left the band and was replaced by singer Tim Burgess.

Although the Charlatans would later become popularly associated with the Madchester scene, the band’s early demos recorded in 1988 in Birmingham and Dudley already evidenced the sound that the band ultimately became famous for, dominated by Collins’s Hammond organ but underpinned by the driving rhythm section of Blunt’s powerful running bass and Brookes’s drumming. With their sound - fusing 1960s soul, R&B and garage rock - inherited from Blunt’s earlier 1982 band Makin’ Time, the band saw themselves firmly in the West Midlands tradition of hard-edged soul and R&B that included Birmingham bands The Spencer Davis Group and early Dexys Midnight Runners.

Although the name The Charlatans was already being used when the original members of the band were still located in the West Midlands, many sources state that they formed in Northwich, Cheshire. This is because the band relocated to the home town of new lead singer Tim Burgess (who was born in Salford, but lived in Northwich from an early age) before the 1990 release of The Charlatans’ debut single “Indian Rope”, on the band’s own Dead Dead Good Records label. Thus based on the definition of hometown used by Guinness World Records the band was formed in Northwich, and consequently Northwich is recorded as their home town in such publications as British Hit Singles & Albums. One of the band’s earliest known live performances was supporting The Stone Roses at the London School of Economics on 2 December 1988.

https://www.allmusic.com/artist/the-charlatans-mn0000068283/biography

How High

How high! oh i can kiss the sun
Run a minute mile while you hitch hike
Love shines a light I’ll be a winner cup
And I’m lookin’ for the one who cut you up
You’re not having me you know the skies are mean
And I’m hopin’ for a way to free you, love
I’m fixing holes the ones you break up come in from your drive
And the hand that rocks you cuts you up like lyrics of your life
I can’t buy what I’ve done before
I want to open up another door
I’m going to let you pass I’m on another path
I want to be the king while you zig zag
On a holy road like caine from kung fu
How high oh! I can kiss the sun
Hang on to your hopes my darlin’ don’t let it slip away
And the hand that holds you keeps you warm and helps you live today
Love shines a light and it takes and it hurts I know I’m right
I can bend till I burst and love shines a light and repays you with us
Yeah too right I’m gonna pledge my time till the day i die
How high oh! I can kiss the sun run a minute mile while you hitchhike love shines a light
I’ll be a lovin’ up I’ll be down when you’re down I’ll be up when you’re up
You’re not having i know the skies are mean and I’m looking for a way to free you love

Forever

Forever you’re my foundation
I know I can keep
Told I was good for nothing
Branded a cheat
Now I know why you listen
I can help you anytime
Love is all there is
I wonder what people do with our lives

https://www.thecharlatans.net/

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