The Charlatans Archives - Backseat Mafia

Live Review: Liam Gallagher / The Charlatans / Just Mustard – Royal Hospital Kilmainham, Dublin 27.08.2022

Words & Photos: Max Falvey. Closing out a busy summer of gigs in Dublin’s Royal Hospital Kilmainham, Liam Gallagher made his long awaited return to the southern part of the…

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News: UK legends The Charlatans announce ‘A Head Full Of Ideas, 32nd Anniversary ‘Best Of’ Australian/New Zealand Tour’.

One of the best and most enduring indie bands out of the UK, The Charlatans have released some of the most epic albums over thirty years that has seen tragedy…

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Live review: The Charlatans and Martin Carr, Exeter University, December 14th, 2021 plus gallery

A GREATEST hits tour, from The Charlatans, you say? Actually, I thought: with the increasingly Kafkaesque qualities of everyday life in the political, viral and, it being December, the actual…

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Live Review: The Charlatans / Aoife Nessa Frances – Dublin, 3Olympia 23.11.2021 plus galleries

As the irrepressible Charlatans roll into Dublin, those of us at the 3Olympia early enough are the as Dublin singer-songwriter Aoife Nessa Frances takes to the stage. Taking tunes from…

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Live Review: The Charlatans – Manchester Gorilla, 15.11.2021

November 18, 2021

If you asked the average music fan what Fatboy Slim, JLS, Rick Astley, Manic Street Preachers and Liam Gallagher have in common, it’s unlikely that their answer would be that…

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News: The Charlatans reveal music box in support of ‘The Music Venue Trust’

Who doesn’t love those little wind up music boxes of yesteryear, and also The Charlatans anthem ‘The Only One I Know’. Well certainly not us here at Backseat Mafia, and…

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Album Review: Tim Burgess – I Love The New Sky

If it wan’t enough that Tim Burgess fronts one of the most beloved, successful and long lasting indie bands The Charlatans, or that he has singularly redefined music in the…

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Track: Eskobar – When Your Heroes Fall

There is no doubt that Sweden’s Eskobar have a genetic code that can be clinically traced back to the sounds of Manchester in the nineties – The Stone Roses, The…

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Meet: Tim Burgess is Telling Stories in aid of flood relief

When The Charlatans frontman Tim Burgess agreed to play a DJ set at the Hebden Bridge Trades Club on Saturday he couldn’t have forseen the Boxing Day floods that flooded…

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Live Review: Tramlines 2015: Main Stage – 24.7.15 including Charlatans gallery

Tramlines 2015 style kicked off on Friday 24th July this year, and we took a stroll down to the new Main Stage, now situated in Ponderosa Park, a little out…

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