Mpls: The Charlatans at Fine Line (Sep 16, 2026)

September 16, 2026 Wednesday
The Charlatans UK
with Frankie Rose
at Fine Line
first-avenue.com

Former Manchester’s The Charlatans (billed as The Charlatans UK for the USA market) have announced the North American leg of their tour, which includes a stop at the Fine Line, in Minneapolis, on September 16, 2026.

We saw The Charlatans in Feb 2023 and noted, “When The Charlatans took First Avenue’s stage, you can clearly tell that singer Tim Burgess was having a blast! He’s video-taping the audience with his phone, he constantly had a massive smile on his face (see special vuart), he’s overly animated, he’s doing his funky hand-wheeling dance, he’s inciting the audience to clap… it’s like Tim just stepped out a beach college and he’s going to teach us how to have fun. Looking at the setlist, you can see that the band left the song Subtitle off their setlist. I’m not entirely sure why they decided to do this, perhaps it was done for creative reasons… much like how the song The End of Everything was moved to the end of the song order.”

Frankie Rose to open. We previously mentioned the former Dum Dum Girls and Vivian Girls member earlier this month talking about her new album Hila (available September 18, 2026, via Born Losers / Night School).

We saw Frankie Rose, with JAMC, in Oct 2024 and wrote, “We’ve seen Rose many times, with the first at 7th Street Entry in April 2012, then as Franz Ferdinand guest at the Skyway Theatre in Oct 2013, and, most recently at the Turf Club in May 2023: “And it has been over six years since she last released an album. She actually completed one close to three years ago, but due to the pandemic and being a victim to vinyl production backlogs, she is finally on the road promoting Love as Projection, which The Big Takeover Magazine thought could be part of the Stranger Things soundtrack. It is a retro love letter to the type of electronic pop that would find a home in any John Hughes movie.” Rose is joined by a guitarist and bassist, the latter is Matthew Hord of Running, Fine Place, and Gift Horse. Since Frankie Rose’s latest is called Love As Projection, the band did play in near-darkness in front of a projection (a similar setup from her previous appearance). In addition to playing some tracks from the new album (“DOA” and “Sixteen Ways”), the band also played a few from their debut album, Interstellar, which got an extended reissue in September 2024.”