Born out of the boom of baggy, Madchester guitar bands, The Charlatans swaggered
into the heart of Brit-pop and are still shaking their shaggy mops to the
jangling strut of their classic indie hits today.
On the coat-tails of the Stone Roses and the Happy Mondays, their 1990 debut
album 'Some Friendly' chimed with the times, shooting straight to number one in
the UK and producing the swampy, pysche-pop, indie classic 'The Only One I
Know'. Led by the ghostly strains of Tim Burgess, chiming 1960s guitars and
loose dance grooves, the band beefed up as the musical climate changed...