THE CHARLATANS 30TH ANNIVERSARY VINYL BOX SET & TOUR ANNOUNCED

‘A HEAD FULL OF IDEAS’  – ALBUM BOX SET  – 15TH OCTOBER 2021UK & IRELAND TOUR – NOVEMBER & DECEMBER 2021

THE CHARLATANS are proud to announce that their (Covid) delayed 30th Anniversary Tour will commence in November and they will release a special album box set on limited edition blue vinyl on Then Recordings through Republic Of Music on the 15th of October 2021.

‘A Head Full Of Ideas’ features five albums and an exclusive seven – inch single and is a career-spanning collection that sums up their remarkable progress from 1990 Manchester scene hopefuls to one of the UK’s most enduring and best-loved bands. The accompanying tour will visit eighteen cities and will kick off at The Limelight in Belfast on the 22nd of November and finish up in Aberdeen on the 20th of December 2021.

In a celebrated and genre bursting career, THE CHARLATANS have notched up thirteen Top 40 studio albums – three of them number ones – alongside twenty two hit singles, four of them Top 10. The rollercoaster highs have been accompanied by some shattering lows, any which one of them could have felled a less resilient band, from nervous breakdowns to near bankruptcy and the deaths of two founder members.

Somehow, they have not just carried on but adapted and transformed many times over the years. 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. And in spite of everything they have been through their music is now more relevant than ever, The Guardian described the most recent album ‘Different Days’ as “one of their best ever”.

 

This limited box set, is a diverse collection portrayed over five blue vinyl LP’s, spanning their hits, classic live performances, unheard demo’s, rarities and remixes from the likes of The Chemical Brothers, Norman Cook and Sleaford Mods. The package will will also include an exclusive seven inch single featuring demo versions of  ‘Indian Rope’/ ’The Only One I Know’, a signed print of a tour poster from the early 1990’s together with a booklet featuring unseen photographs and sleeve notes by friend and journalist Dave Simpson. .  There will also be triple vinyl LP version and 2CD deluxe of the box set featuring the hits albums plus the live album, and finally a cd or vinyl of just the hits albums.

Their iconic and hugely adored live track ‘One To Another’ (circa 1997) provides the titles for the individual vinyl collection within the box set. Each piece of vinyl is named after a lyric from the song.

Here is the full track listing:

A HEAD FULL OF IDEAS:  

Side A

The Only One I Know

Weirdo                                                                       

Can’t Get Out of Bed                                               

Jesus Hairdo                                                            

Just When You’re Thinking Things Over           

North Country Boy

Side B

Tellin’ Stories

One to Another

How High

Forever

Impossible

Side C

Love Is the Key

A Man Needs to Be Told                                         

Up at The Lake                                                         

Blackened Blue Eyes                                              

Oh Vanity                                                                   

Side D

My Foolish Pride

Come Home Baby

Let the Good Times Be Never Ending

Plastic Machinery

Totally Eclipsing

 

 

TRUST IS FOR BELIEVERS (LIVE): 

Side A

Polar Bear – Blackburn Kings Hall 1990

Indian Rope – Reading Festival 1992

Can’t Even Be Bothered– Reading Festival 1992

Can’t Get Out Of Bed– Glasgow Tramway, Sound City 1994

I Never Want an Easy Life (If Me & Him Were Ever To Get There) – Glasgow Tramway Sound City 1994

Then – Glastonbury Festival 1995

Side B

Here Comes Soul Saver– Hultsfred Festival , Sweden 1997

Just Lookin’– Hultsfred Fest Sweden 1997

My Beautiful Friend– Delamare Forest, Cheshire 2007

The Blind Stagger – Delamare Forest, Cheshire 2007

Sproston Green– Reading Festival 1999

 

 

PLEASED TO MEET YOU (DEMO’S):                                     

 

Side A

C’mon C’mon           (Demo)

Sleepy Little Sunshine Boy (Demo)                                   

Dardanella (Demo)                                                                

So Oh (Demo)                                                                        

Always On My Mind            (Demo)

Side B

Everybody Ha Ha (Demo)

Commuter Computer (Demo)

Crystal Eyes (Demo)

Polar Bear (Demo)

I Need You to Know (Demo)

                                                

 

ONE TO ANOTHER (REMIXES):

 

Side A

Plastic Machinery Sleaford Mods Remix

Nine Acre Dust Chemical Brothers Remix

Not Forgotten Brian Jonestown Massacre Remix

Tellin’ Stories The Go! Team Remix

Side B

Trouble Understanding Norman Cook Remix

My Beautiful Friend Jagz Kooner Remix

Hey Sunrise The Orb Remix

You’re So Pretty, We’re so Pretty Lo Fidelity Allstars Remix

 

BONUS DEMOS 7”:

 

Side A

Indian Rope (Demo)

Side AA

The Only One I Know (Demo)

 

To celebrate their anniversary and the box set the band have confirmed an extensive UK & Ireland tour.

 

November 2021

22nd               Belfast, Limelight

23rd               Dublin, Olympia

25^th                 Wrexham, William Aston Hall

26^th                 Bristol, O2 Academy

27^th                 Birmingham, O2 Academy

29^th                 Bexhill De La Warr Pavilion

30^th                 Bournemouth, Academy

December 2021

02^nd                Oxford, O2 Academy

03^rd                 Cambridge, Corn Exchange

04^th                 Manchester, O2 Victoria Warehouse

06^th                 Lincoln, Engine Shed

08^th                 Liverpool, Invisible Wind Factory

09^th                 Newcastle, City Hall

10^th                 London, O2 Brixton Academy

16^th                 Nottingham, Rock City

17^th                 Leeds, O2 Academy

18^th                 Glasgow, O2 Academy

20^th                 Aberdeen, Music Hall

 

Tickets go on sale 10am Friday 30^th April and will be available from www.gigsandtours.com / www.ticketmaster.co.uk. Ticket prices are £39.50 in Manchester and London, £35 in Birmingham and Leeds and everywhere else £30-£32.50.  Support to be announced.