The Charlatans News

Who: The Center for the Arts presents What: Holidaze in Hicksville with Dan Hicks and the Hot Licks When: 8 p.m. Saturday Where: The Center for the Arts, 314 West Main Street, Grass Valley Tickets: $22 in advance, $25 at the door.

Ocean Colour Scene frontman Simon Fowler and drummer Oscar Harrison return to Brighton's Concorde 2 with their acoustic show on December 17.

Ocean Colour Scene frontman Simon Fowler and drummer Oscar Harrison return to Brighton's Concorde 2 with their acoustic show on December 17.

The Strokes and Jay-Z will headline next year's Isle of Wight festival, with Blondie and Pink appearing as special guests.

Tonight the London-based rock outfit, Scanners , will be bringing their melodic, yet bittersweet indie music to 93 Feet St East.

You have to either have a pretty big belief in yourself or a heck of a command of power-pop's fundamentals and advanced theory to even think about taking a name as celebratory as The Parties.

THE Charlatans are booked in to play Middlesbrough's Empire next month. Few would argue The Empire is Teesside's most prestigious venue.

A LONGRIDGE DJ is to star alongside music legend Tim Burgess at a club night in Preston next month.

The Stone Roses' 1989 self-titled debut remains one of the most essential rock albums of all time.

While Beyonce was rocking a sold-out concert on Yas Island, at least 3,000 people on the Abu Dhabi Corniche were entertained by a different award-winning musical line-up - entirely free.

There are a few things we still remember from Youth Club - how much cider is too much cider, that luminous cycling shorts will never be flattering, and sitting in the car of a boy named after a cartoon character listening to tapes of The Charlatans .

A group of local pals of Asim and Isha Abdullah went to Paris for Fashion Week to watch their Emanuel Ungaro spring 2010 runway show, including high-end real estate agents Joel Goodrich and Olivia Hsu Decker , interior designer Sophie Azouaou , and Victoria Yeager Sawyer , corporate counsel at Genentech.

AN indie band featuring members of hit 90s rockers Wide Eyed Wonder is launching its first EP at Mansfield Old Library this weekend.

A MOTHERWELL singer/songwriter is fast becoming the next indie legend with a hot new ep and host of celebrity fans.

A ROCK band from Burton will hit the stage at one of the country's top live venues after defying the odds to reach the final of a national talent contest.

Singer gets 'FAC.33' in homage to their single 'Ceremony' The Charlatans ' Tim Burgess has had a tattoo representing New Order 's first single 'Ceremony' . Depicting the Factory Records catalogue number 'FAC.33' , the frontman said he was undecided on which catalogue number to get.

Don't worry if you're not a big Charlatans fan - or, indeed, can't stand the lips-and-fringe-and-organ combination at all; I'm probably not going to work through all of The Charlatans album-by-album. Probably not.

One of those songs which earns its place in history by inspiring over-excited young people to steal street signs, this is a hymn to part of semi-rural Cheshire.

You don't just do one big splurge of video when it has Tim Burgess in it. You savour it, slowly, however much you might want to rush forward to the Jesus Hairdo one where he's smeared in bodypaint.

WE wondered where those blue curtains had gone. Ex-WAG Elen Rives, 31, got dolled up for a night out in a selection of indoor furnishings.