The Charlatans review – 90s faves feel the love in spiritual second home
Tim Burgess plays to a devoted crowd with a high-spirited set that includes fan-favourite album Between 10th and 11th
September 2022
Tim Burgess: Typical Music review – freewheeling friskiness
Tim Burgess: Typical Music review – eclectic adventure shows boundless lust for life
August 2022
‘Music can save people’: Charlatans frontman Tim Burgess on success, sobriety and being a hands-on dad
As Tim Burgess releases his latest solo album, the indie star talks about the incredible success of his lockdown Listening Parties. By Johnny Davis
November 2021
How we made
The Charlatans: how we made The Only One I Know – ‘I’m still not sure which bit’s the chorus’
‘I came up with it on the way to the garage to get fags. I had to pelt back to my mum and dad’s to get my Dictaphone before I forgot it’
December 2020
My perfect Christmas playlist, by Michael Kiwanuka, Sophie Ellis-Bextor and Tim Burgess
Pop stars who lit up 2020 talk about their Christmas routines and share the tracks they turn to on the big day – scroll down to hear their choices
May 2020
On my radar
On my radar: Tim Burgess's cultural highlights
Tim Burgess: I Love the New Sky review – unabashedly uplifting
April 2020
Lockdown culture
My Twitter listening parties are like gigs - but nobody nicks your beer
Every night, the likes of Oasis, Flaming Lips and the Cribs have been joining in as we listen to their albums in full. It’s a welcome distraction in lockdown
August 2019
Guardian Sport Network
Bands FC: a bright idea that is raising thousands for vulnerable children
Two mates set out to design badges that pair bands with football clubs. Together they have raised huge sums for charity
September 2018
Festival No 6 review – au revoir to an eccentric, magical gem
The last Festival No 6 ‘for now’ has awkward cultural copyists, but is saved by Franz Ferdinand, The The and Anna Calvi
May 2018
The Charlatans review – north country boys make euphoric homecoming
One of the UK’s most enduring bands have weathered death, imprisonment and a nervous breakdown to bring their wildly varied music back to their spiritual home in Cheshire
June 2017
The best albums of 2017 so far
From Richard Dawson’s medieval Britain to Pixx’s super-contemporary take on pop – plus sharp records by stars such as Kendrick Lamar and Drake – 2017 is already shaping up to be a great musical year
May 2017
The Charlatans: Different Days review – their best album in 20 years
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September 2016
Tim Burgess and Peter Gordon: Same Language, Different Worlds review – beguiling and beautiful
June 2016
The best original photographs from the Observer
Original Observer photography: May 2016
Muscians Tim Burgess and Beth Orton, actress Isabelle Huppert and comedian Jo Brand all feature in this showcase of the best photography commissioned by the Observer in May
May 2016
This much I know
Tim Burgess: ‘My life before was sky high. These days it’s real and natural’
The Charlatans musician, 48, on sobriety, eating only crisps, and being more of a dad than a rock star
March 2016
How I survived my 20s
What would I tell my younger self? It doesn’t matter – he wouldn’t listen
Tim Burgess
Life in the Charlatans meant my 20s didn’t really finish until I was about 36. What got me through was not taking things too seriously
December 2015
New band of the week
New band of the week: Blossoms (No 84)
This Stockport five-piece give melodic, psych-inflected indie-pop a good name
July 2015
‘It’s a northern thing’: Tim Burgess of the Charlatans on Manchester, music and meditation
The city has seen a lot of changes since his band first emerged 26 years ago. On the eve of a show at the Manchester international festival, the self-styled ‘Zen artist’ takes us around some favourite haunts
