* PREORDER * YOUNG CHARLATANS - 1978 LP

* PREORDER * expected to arrive for 20th Feb release

Includes 4-pg booklet with extensive liner notes by author and friend/fan of the band, Clinton Walker. With photos, articles and ephemera provided by Bruce Milne and Phil Morland.

Highly recommended.

First ever official release from the legendary Melbourne post-punk band.

The band only ever existed for a number of months in 1978, but cast an important and influential light in Australian (and global!) music, influencing the likes of the Boys Next Door/Birthday Party and The Models, the group's membership and its diaspora reading like a who's-who of crucial Australian music of the past 50 years.

In the band was a young Rowland S. Howard, who would soon go onto join the BND/Birthday Party; Ollie Olsen (Whirlywirld, No, Max Q, Dogs In Space soundtrack); Janine Hall (Saints; Weddings, Parties, Anything) and Jeffrey Wegener (drummer extraordinaire for the Laughing Clowns and the Saints, among others).

The Young Charlatans recorded a demo with Ron Rude, and also surviving is a live recording from the Tiger Lounge in Richmond. With help from band manager Bruce Milne, these two recordings have been sourced to make up this LP, mixing the best of the both to document 45 minutes of inspired music as young players were still grappling with the fallout of punk rock, and wishing to push the music further into more experimental and adventurous directions.

13 original songs composed by Rowland and Ollie - including an early version of Howard's defining track, "Shivers" - remastered by Mikey Young.