The Charlatans Announce 30th Anniversary Vinyl Box Set and Tour

Posted on April 26, 2021 at April 26, 2021 by northernchorus

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The Charlatans have announced their COVID-delayed 30th Anniversary Best of Tour and confirmed that 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.

This limited edition box set is a diverse collection portrayed over five blue vinyl LPs, spanning their hits, classic live performances, unheard demo’s and 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. Their ‘Best of’ tour dates are as follows:

November 2021 Tour Dates
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, O2 Academy
December 2021 Tour Dates
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, O2 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.