The Charlatans "Some Friendly" LP Situation Two (UK)

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Track Listing:

A1You're Not Very Well3:40A2White Shirt3:25A3Opportunity6:40A4Then4:11A5109 Pt 23:16B1Polar Bear4:57B2Believe You Me3:43B3Flower5:32B4Sonic3:30B5Sproston Green5:10

The Charlatans (known in the United States as The Charlatans UK) are an English indie rock . The band's line-up currently comprises lead vocalist , guitarist , bassist  and keyboardist .

Former members of the band include vocalist Baz Ketley (1989); guitarist Jon Day (Jonathan Baker) (1989–1991); keyboardist  (1989–1996), who died in a  during recording of their fifth album; and drummer Jon Brookes (1989-2013), who died after being diagnosed with a brain tumour in 2010.

In the UK, all of the band's twelve studio albums have charted in the Top 40 in the , three of them being number ones. They have also achieved seventeen Top 30 singles and four Top 10 hits in the .

Formation (1988–1989)

The band were originally formed in the  by  Martin Blunt, who recruited fellow   (), Jon Brookes (), Jon Day (Jonathan Baker) () and singer/guitarist Baz Ketley (who later left the band to be replaced by ).

Although the Charlatans would later become popularly associated with the  scene, the band's early demos recorded in 1988 in  and already evidenced the sound that the band ultimately became famous for, dominated by Collins'  but underpinned by the driving rhythm section of Blunt's powerful running bass and Brookes's drumming. With their sound – fusing 1960s ,  and  – inherited from Blunt's earlier 1982 band Making Time, the band saw themselves firmly in the West Midlands tradition of hard-edged soul and R&B that included Birmingham bands  and early .

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 , . This is because the band relocated to the home town of new lead singer  (who was born in Salford, but lived in Northwich from an early age) before the 1990 release of The Charlatans' debut  "Indian Rope", on the band's own Dead Dead Good Records . Thus based on the definition of hometown used by  the band was formed in Northwich, and consequently Northwich is recorded as their home town in such publications as  - although the founding members are actually from Walsall.

Early years (1990–1993) The Charlatans during their early days

The debut single "Indian Rope" proved to be an   and the group soon found a major label in  off-shoot  in time for the release of "", which reached the  in the . A further single "Then" and their debut   were released later that year. Around this time The Charlatans were forced to add UK to their name for an American tour due to competing claims by a 1960s rock band also known as .

Baker left the band after 1991's "Over Rising" single to be replaced by  (no relation to Rob). The band brought in  for their second album  (named after the address of the  Marquee, the site of the group's first  ). Released in early 1992, the album failed to reach the  in the , but the Top 20 success of lead single "Weirdo" and a double weekend of gigs ('Daytripper') in  and  together with  would keep them in the public eye.

The band suffered a major setback later that year, when Rob Collins was charged with armed robbery after a friend had robbed an  while he was waiting in the car outside. Collins claimed to have no foreknowledge of the robbery until he heard a gunshot inside the shop and his friend exited, although he later admitted that he should not have picked up his friend after he had realised what he had done. In court he pleaded guilty to the lesser charge of "assisting an offender after an offence" and served four months in prison.

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