aaamusic | On 23, May 2012

Released in 1997, when it went straight to the top of the album charts, this year marks the 15th anniversary of Tellin’ Stories.

 

Building on the sound of their eponymous,previous release (The Charlatans – also a No.1), the band’s performance has the feel of a classic British Rock band, (the type which also contain ‘Roll’ in the music), combined with the more focussed songwriting of ‘Britpop’. It has aged well. The Charlatans will be playing a series of dates this summer, performing the album in its entirety and to mark the occasion Archive / Beggars Banquet are releasing a special expanded edition on vinyl and CD along with the original album on real HD download.

 

The disc one is the original album, remastered and cut from the analogue studio tapes, while the second disc is a collection of the single B sides plus an unreleased early version of ‘Don’t Need A Gun’, originally titled ‘Rainbow Chasing’. Of the eight B sides only half were re-issued on the anthology ‘Songs From The Other Side’.

 

The Charlatans will also be playing the following shows, playing ‘Tellin’ Stories’ in full on the first three dates:

 

1^st June: Manchester Apollo (Tellin’ Stories)

8^th June: Hammersmith Apollo (Tellin’ Stories)

9^th June: Barrowlands, Glasgow (Tellin’ Stories)

Tickets can be purchased here: http://thecharlatans.net/gigs.html

Disc One

North Country Boy

Tellin’ Stories

One To Another

You’re A Big Girl Now

How Can You Leave Us

Area 51

How High

Only Teethin’

Get On It

Rob’s Theme

 

Disc Two

Two Of Us

Reputation

Don’t Need A Gun

Down With The Mook

Title Fight

Keep It To Yourself

Rainbow Chasing (Don’t Need A Gun)

– initial first take

Clean Up Kid

Thank You (Live)