next thing we need to do is make her make another record that's that's that's uh i don't know before
it's going really well and then we and then we can then we can play for another 30 years
let's talk so you say nothing's written yet nothing's written really there's a
there's a couple that's been there that's that we've half demoed up
okay so we are backstage at the isle of wight festival 2022 joined by mark and tim from the
charlatans hello good to see you how are you doing you're right all good thank you lovely to see you
as well when the lineup came out i was like yes yes and i think you're definitely on the best day
for me musically as well some brilliant bands playing today aren't there yeah yeah
yeah just uh just been checking out checking out a few i've got one bun hosting before i was it where
i saw you beside your wet leg oh yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah what do you think oh well i mean i only
saw them from the back and i mean i i like some of their songs anyways so it sounded really good
from and the crowd was amazing yeah they pulled a big crowd yeah the crowd so i look forward to
to uh hopefully uh jumping on the back of that so you're at the big top later on tonight aren't
you as well yeah we i think we played there about five or six years ago didn't we yeah it was it was
great then so it's good i'm looking forward to yeah when you think of island white festival what
do you think of what's the first thing that kind of bob dylan uh no uh but that was a while ago
yeah um uh well uh we played the first one didn't we when we came back again yeah
uh that's a memory and i think uh yeah um uh robert plant yeah was playing as well
and he actually came into our dressing room and uh i got to sign a led zeppelin album he was very
very gracious and sweet yeah yeah yeah we played her a lot you know
quite a lot something quite um nice there's no about getting on the ferry and sort of
coming across it's like i don't know it seems like a marker in the sand isn't it we're going
to the alawite festival now yeah yeah i'm getting on the ferry it's certainly a thing
you know because if you missed that especially tonight if it's grouped it's great absolutely
um so i saw that you tweeted earlier um that you might play can't get out of bed tonight
is that definitely going to be included well it was it was like third or fourth to be mentioned
so i and i think we've got it up to number two didn't we yeah it's i think it's gonna it's gonna
feature tonight yeah so i think track two yeah lovely okay perfect do you do you all sit down
still and like do you design the setlist for every show or is there a kind of standard that
martin usually sends an email out a week before that nobody reads yeah yeah yeah and then we about
an hour before we go on yeah he says it reminds us that no one's ready to email with the set list
then we write it out okay fair enough on whatever scrap piece of paper you can find at the time
yeah but i can't get our buddies in there okay perfect i like the tease no it's good it's really
good um so i mean you've all been so busy doing lots of different things i know you've been um i
wanted to talk about the merchandise thing quickly if that's all right because i know that you were
very vocal about you know the splits that bands and artists were getting at live shows and it i
think it's a really important thing to talk about so do you want to sort of summarize that for those
watching at home and how how you've been getting on um well um yeah i mean obviously it just kind
of like brought it to the attention of some people um that uh just like 25 and taking on um
most venues for merch which um kind of when you break it down just like seems a little high
yeah yeah um some would say it needs scrapping all together um there's there's probably a discussion
to be had but it was really just um me and us bringing it to the attention of people
because we were on tour i mean it's happened you know we questioned it in the very early days um
but we're told by you know managers and that it's kind of that's the thing to do
and all that and i just felt that you know for the for the future oh that's the way it is that's
the way it is and i just felt that for the future generations of artists it might be good if it was
if it was changed a bit yeah yeah absolutely and while we're talking of merch i read somewhere you
were saying like the question that you get often is not like what's it like headlining a festival
which of course you know about plenty but also about a certain jacket from a single years ago
well they're working to get how high jacket from and uh so this one made the other day and
uh and but they've all saw that so oh that's good that's good so this is what was it 97
how that came out yeah i think so 96 97 yeah recording like six came out 97 97 yeah so this was
the jacket that tim wore in the video i know and so it's been a long time people asking me the same
question well you know not the same question but you know one of the same questions yeah exactly um
so with with the charlatans i mean we play your music so much on absolute radio and of course on
the decades stations as well you must have seen that the feeling that the music industry and the
and the audience and everything changed so much over the time when you get on stage now playing
as a band and the collective what do you think of music right now and sort of how does it feel to be
still playing as a charlatans for me uh i i it feels the same as it did 30 years ago in it
i i i can't really believe it's been that long it doesn't feel like it's been 30 years
and that sounds actually the more i'm saying it the worse it sounds
that's a hell of a long time that's him uh to be playing feels longer though as a group yeah yeah
but um i can't actually imagine what what else
other than this because i'm obviously drawn back to it and i think we all are uh and
i think i think the the next thing we need to do is make it make another record that's that's
so you say nothing's written yet nothing's written really there's a there's a couple that's
been there that we've uh half demoed up okay so we have got some things that have been recorded
on uh maybe it's on someone's iphone but it's like it's a start it is a start
it is a start we have actually been really enjoying playing live for the last year for
the last how well when did lockdown finish but we haven't stopped playing yeah great so
so we've been making up for a couple of years of not playing it is so nice for it all to be back um
you just did you were saying the record at rockfield right would you would you go back
to charlotte and stuff there for the next one do you think or if you've got anywhere in mind
we actually had rockfield book for october but uh we uh our japanese australian and new zealand
tours that were supposed to open in 2020 ended up happening in october so we can't okay so we think
we're gonna we might go back in so we're gonna put the recording on hold for a little bit because
okay i was gonna say is it such a hallowed place because when you read the write-up even on the
website i've never been there there is a sort of mention of a kind of spirituality of making
this holistic hello i think the word holistic issues that's good yes with the sort of amazing
world-class studio facilities as well it really is and i mean it's i mean when to look at it um
you know like especially the coach house it doesn't really look anything it doesn't really
look anything as spectacular but it's it's it's also the sound of spells you know um and um so
you look in this box and it's like but then you think all right aussies recorded here and
coldplay or uh you know oasis or stone roses or yeah you can kind of feel it in in there
you know it's all that kind of ingrained in the ingredients and if you don't want to do that you
can play darts and table tennis that's fine yeah games room upstairs yeah upstairs and stuff like
that so it's it's it's it's very exciting to go there and there's something amazing about
what it does for me anyway for the singing something that you just can't get anywhere
else oh i haven't been there but i've been into nigel godrich's studio in south london i was like
right blown away not that i really know anything does but i was just like this feels amazing
magical yeah well okay well i'm looking forward to it when it happens so yeah yeah
yeah we'll have it will happen it will definitely okay definitely next year right
oh well we were supposed to be recording this year but we've got six days we said if we can
do it in the next five years then we'll be up so the next five years okay well perfect we'll take
that as a headline we'll just use that one the pressure's off then that's good yeah yeah it's
fine it's totally fine thank you so much for coming in to see us and for your time so nice
to see you again have a wonderful show tonight thank you um we'll be side stage can't wait
amazing thank you so much thank you the charlatans live backstage at the isle of wight festival 2022