Good news for anyone who’s been spinning The Charlatans UK on repeat since roughly 1990: the Tim Burgess-led British institution is coming back to North America this fall, and they’re bringing a couple of seriously enviable friends with them.

The band has just announced a full North American run in support of their acclaimed 14th studio album, We Are Love, out now via BMG. The tour kicks off September 3 at The Observatory in Santa Ana, CA and wraps September 26 at Brooklyn Steel in Brooklyn, NY, hitting nearly every market you’d want in between. The two opening West Coast dates — Santa Ana on September 3 and the iconic Hollywood Palladium in Los Angeles on September 4 — will feature direct support from The Dandy Warhols, plus additional special guests to be announced. If that pairing alone doesn’t sell you, check your pulse.

Local pre-sales begin Wednesday, April 22 at 12:00 noon local time, with the general on-sale starting Friday, April 24 at 10:00 AM local. Full ticket details are available at thecharlatans.net.

To mark the occasion, the band has also dropped a gorgeous new remix of the album’s title track, “We Are Love,” reworked by none other than Ride’s Mark Gardener. It’s a shoegaze-meets-Madchester summit that frankly should have happened decades ago — Gardener swirls the original into something hazier, more cinematic, and perfectly suited for late-summer headphone listening.

Stream “We Are Love” (Mark Gardener Remix) on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/artist/4CrNHrF3uLMWKQHlEQRYqk

We Are Love itself has been racking up the kind of reviews most bands four decades in can only dream of. Mojo gave the record a four-star rave, calling it “joy-sparking” and praising the way it “gently distorts the Charlatans’ songwriting surfaces with sudden psychedelic sun-spots and experimental flares.” Recorded between Wales’s legendary Rockfield Studios and the band’s own Big Mushroom studio in Cheshire, the album was helmed by a murderer’s row of producers: Dev Hynes (Blood Orange), Fred Macpherson (Spector), and the legendary Stephen Street (The Smiths, Blur, The Cranberries). The result honors the band’s mighty legacy — 13 albums, 22 UK Top 40 singles, three #1 UK albums, and anthems like “The Only One I Know,” “North Country Boy,” and “One to Another” — without being bound by it.

Singles “Deeper and Deeper” and “We Are Love” have already earned electrifying live performances on Later…with Jools Holland, and the band — Tim Burgess (vocals), Martin Blunt (bass), Mark Collins (guitar), Tony Rogers (keyboards), and Pete Salisbury (drums) — is currently gearing up for a mostly sold-out UK and EU run beginning April 24 at Norwich UEA, followed by summer festival stops in Spain, Ireland, and the UK.

THE CHARLATANS UK — NORTH AMERICAN TOUR DATES 2026

September 3 – Santa Ana, CA – The Observatory ^
September 4 – Los Angeles, CA – Hollywood Palladium ^
September 5 – San Diego, CA – House of Blues
September 7 – San Francisco, CA – The Castro Theatre
September 10 – Portland, OR – Wonder Ballroom
September 11 – Vancouver, BC – Commodore Ballroom
September 12 – Seattle, WA – The Showbox
September 16 – Minneapolis, MN – Fine Line
September 17 – Chicago, IL – Park West
September 19 – Detroit, MI – El Club
September 20 – Toronto, ON – Danforth Music Hall
September 21 – Montreal, QC – Fairmount Theatre
September 22 – Boston, MA – Paradise Rock Club
September 23 – Philadelphia, PA – Union Transfer
September 25 – Silver Spring, MD – The Fillmore Silver Spring
September 26 – Brooklyn, NY – Brooklyn Steel

^ with The Dandy Warhols and Special Guests TBA

Bottom line: if you’ve ever shouted along to “The Only One I Know” in a sweaty club, this is your fall plan. Set your alarms for Friday’s on-sale — these rooms are not large, and the demand is going to be.