Video: The Charlatans - Can't Get Out Of Bed

You know I still have a soft spot for the Charlatans, as much as a man of a similar age can have for a band led by a 40-something still sporting a pudding bowl haircut anyway. I pretty much lost them way back in the early nineties, mostly after 'Some Friendly' and on a graduated scale thereafter. Have seen them bags of times live and they always gave good value but their albums became increasingly colourless after that glorious debut. It got so bad that I didn't even acknowledge their new arrivals, that was until I read about their novel [...]

• The Charlatans - My Name Is Despair

It wasn't until '94 that I discovered The Charlatans with their Up to Our Hips album, but like many Brit bands of the time, I was hooked from that day on. This was the first song I heard from them and it remains one of my favorites. Some of you may be skeptics, but You Cross My Path , which was released last year, is actually quite good.

Does this one sound familiar? MP3: The Hospitals - Getting Out of Bed No? Maybe this will jog your memory. After hearing "Getting Out of Bed," by The Hospitals you shouldn't be too surprised to learn their family tree branches off to some other notable acts in the new lo-fi noise scene including Times New Viking , Eat Skull , and Sic Alps . In their devious hands, The Charlatans' ode to sleeping in is hardly recognizable. With [...]

• The Hospitals - Getting Out of Bed