While the beer running out and the distance to the venue made it a little bit of a slow burner, once they’d treated the crowd to classics like “North Country Boy” and “The Only One I Know” then there was no looking back, with a positive response to new stuff like “Smash the System.”

But it was the encore that really tore up the place with the epic last song ("Sproston Green") offering a frenetic slightly psychedelic finale that had the audience jumping along to the Charlatans distinctive swaggering sound.

Setlist

1. Then
2. Weirdo
3. Can’t Get Out of Bed
4. Blackened Blue Eyes
5. Smash the System
6. You’re So Pretty We’re So Pretty
7. One to Another
8. Your Pure Soul
9. Tellin’ Stories
10. My Beautiful Friend
11. Oh Vanity
12. My Foolish Pride
13. Intimacy
14. The Misbegotten
15. The Only One I Know
16. North Country Boy
17. This is the End

Encore

18. Love is Ending
19. Sproston Green
 

Catch The Charlatans featuring Pete Salisbury from The Verve on Nov 23, 8pm at The Warehouse, Scape, 2 Orchard Link, 6521-6565. $75 from Sistic.