The Charlatans Some Friendly weekend: Polar Bear

I'm sure I've seen more than one Granada TV special where this appears as one of the songs the Charlatans do, but nothing which yet seems to have leaped from VHS to the internet. In the meantime, we'll continue in sound only:



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The Charlatans Some Friendly weekend: Opportunity

There's only something slightly depressing in the realisation that when The Charlatans played Opportunity last year in Sheffield, it was old enough to buy a drink in the bar:



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The Charlatans Some Friendly weekend: Sproston Green

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.

This bit, in fact:


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I don't know if the interest in name-pinching ever got so bad the local council had to resort - a la Penny Lane - to painting the name on a wall.



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The Charlatans Some Friendly weekend: The Only One I Know

The big hit from the album - although you'd suspect not as a result of investment in the video:

The Charlatans - The Only One I Know
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Embed and breakfast man: The Charlatans - Some Friendly

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

Today, then, just some bits and pieces from the tracks which formed the Charlatans' debut album Some Friendly. Released on their own Dead Dead Good label (Beggars Banquet wearing a hooded top, in effect) the album was a number one debutante. Hard to imagine the band being in that sort of position again, if you're honest.

Equally hard to believe is that there were only two singles lifted from the collection. This is one of them, then, and it's Then, performed on The Word back in 1990. Look! It's Big Brother and Would I Lie To You's Terry Christian and everything:



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More dipping in to the record to come
The Only One I Know
Sproston Green
Opportunity
Polar Bear