ALREADY this year, Madchester baggy legends The Charlatans have played a 20th anniversary series of Some Friendly dates and an autumn tour of 13 shows that took in the Leeds 02 Academy and Brixton 02 Academy in London.

On Thursday, Tim Burgess leads his enduring band in an exclusive club date at Fibbers in York, and predictably all the £27 tickets were snapped up quickly.

In September, The Charlatans released their 11th studio album on Frinck Recordings through Cooking Vinyl. Produced by Youth, Who We Touch features such highlights as the ambient You Can Swim and the single Love Is Ending, recorded on the same desk as New Order’s Blue Monday at London’s Britannia Row.

Formed in Northwich in late 1989, the band first charted in 1990 with the single The Only One I Know, and through the years they have added Britpop, falsetto vocals, underground dance and techno to their initial template of dance-orientated rhythm and Sixties’ psychedelic Hammond organ on a bed-rock of Rolling Stones R&B.

After fellow Madchester luminary Ian Brown’s show last week, followed by The Charlatans on Thursday, the relaunched Fibbers is ending 2010 on a high note.