FOLLOWING their stellar performance at Oxegen, The Charlatans are to play Belfast's Spring and Airbrake, as part of their nationwide tour, on October 1.
Tickets, priced £25 excluding booking fee, are on sale from today (Friday) at 9am.
The Charlatans are on their way to Belfast.
The Charlatans' tenth studio album, 'You Cross My Path', is the latest triumph in a career which has been stuffed with them.
It was one of the most talked-about records in recent years, before anyone had even heard a note of it. It was first released in early March in MP3 format, via alternative radio station Xfm's website - and you didn't have to pay.
"I know some people have given their music away free before, like Throbbing Gristle, and Pete Doherty," says Tim Burgess, the band's singer, "but we're the first to give a brand new album away free. The idea was just to get the music into people's iPods. We came to the conclusion that we didn't really care how people got it, just as long as they got it."
Within a week, 'You Cross My Path' had been downloaded 60,000 times. Had those transactions taken place within "official" channels, it would've been sufficient to send the album to Number Two in the UK charts. Another week later, the album was posted for download on the band's own website, www.thecharlatans.net, again for free. At the last count, approximately 90,000 MP3 copies of the album were out.
Tickets are on sale from Katy Daly's, Zavvi & all usual Ticketmaster outlets. Credit card bookings and information are available on 0870 2434455 or book online at www.geturticket.com/ www.ticketmaster.ie.
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