The Charlatans / Some Friendly reissue

The Charlatans’ 1990 debut album Some Friendly is to be reissued in 2CD and 2LP editions in March – with the 2CD version featuring exactly half as many bonus tracks than a 2CD edition released just four years ago.

A press release states that singer Tim Burgess has “especially curated” the nine bonus tracks on the new edition, yet most of these were also included on a 2CD set featuring 18 additional songs released in 2022.

Some Friendly features The Charlatans’ classic debut single ‘The Only One I Know’ as well as ‘Then’, the follow-up single which reached No 12 in 1990. It’s also notable for instrumental closing track ‘Sproston Green’, which was the band’s regular live closer for decades afterwards.

The album has been newly remastered by Frank Arkwright at Abbey Road, with a new Dolby Atmos mix also available. This mix will however only be available on streaming services Apple Music, Amazon Music and Genie.

The nine bonus tracks, which include the B-side ‘Taurus Moaner’ in both its vocal and instrumental version, as well as the seven-inch single version of ‘Then’, also feature on the 2LP edition. This is on white vinyl, in a gatefold sleeve. This is the first time an expanded version of Some Friendly has been available on vinyl.

Although the album was released in 1990, the 2CD from 2022 was billed as a 20th anniversary edition. This featured eight songs from Radio 1 sessions for Mark Goodier and John Peel, including ‘You Can Talk To Me’ for Peel, which was a B-side of ‘The Only One I Know’. None of those sessions feature on the new set of bonus tracks.

The songs Burgess has chosen which weren’t on the 2022 CD are the seven-inch mix of ‘Then’, the instrumental version of ‘Taurus Moaner’ and an Edit of ‘Happen To Die’.

The new edition of Some Friendly follows Beggars releasing 2CD and 2LP versions of 1994’s fourth album Up To Our Hips in new artwork in 2024, which included 10 bonus tracks on each edition. 

Since then, The Charlatans have released new album We Are Love in 2025, which reached No 8. They will tour during April and May, before playing Forest Fest and Lakefest this summer.

Some Friendly is released on 27 March 2026, via Beggars Banquet.

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Tracklisting

Some Friendly The Charlatans /

• 2CD
  • CD 1
    1. You’re Not Very Well
    2. White Shirt
    3. The Only One I Know
    4. Opportunity
    5. Then
    6. 109 Pt 2
    7. Polar Bear
    8. Believe You Me
    9. Flower
    10. Sonic
    11. Sproston Green
  • CD 2
    1. Then (7” Mix)
    2. Taurus Moaner
    3. Then (Alternate Take)
    4. Taurus Moaner (Instrumental)
    5. Over Rising
    6. Happen To Die (Edit)
    7. Way Up There
    8. Opportunity Three
    9. Happen To Die (Full Length)
• 2LP vinyl
  • LP 1

    Side one

    1. You’re Not Very Well
    2. White Shirt
    3. The Only One I Know
    4. Opportunity
    5. Then
    6. 109 Pt 2

    Side two

    1. Polar Bear
    2. Believe You Me
    3. Flower
    4. Sonic
    5. Sproston Green
  • LP 2

    Side three

    • Then (7” Mix)
    • Taurus Moaner
    • Then (Alternate Take)
    • Taurus Moaner (Instrumental)
    • Over Rising

    Side four

    • Happen To Die (Edit)
    • Way Up There
    • Opportunity Three
    • Happen To Die (Full Length)