Tim Burgess

Wheels Off with Rhett Miller

Rhett Miller

Music, Performing Arts, Arts

4.9 • 609 Ratings

🗓️ 11 October 2022

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

Tim Burgess, frontman for The Charlatans joins Rhett from Manchester to talk about his new solo album Typical Music, how he unexpectedly created an online music community with his now-beloved Twitter Listening Party, and why he still considers himself lucky, even after 33 years of success in the music industry. Tim Burgess is a proper polymath, a hyperactive multi-talent whose long remarkable career encompasses over three decades as lead singer and frontman of The Charlatans, five diverse solo albums, three unique memoirs, the foundation of the prismatic O Genesis label, and more than 1000 installments of Tim’s Twitter Listening Party. Typical Music is available now Tim Burgess on Tik Tok: @timburgess535 Website: https://www.timburgessofficial.com/ Rhett on IG: @rhettmiller Website: Rhettmiller.com Wheels Off is brought to you by Osiris Media. Hosted and produced by Rhett Miller. Co-produced by Kirsten Cluthe in partnership with Nick Ruffini (Revoice Media). Editing by Matt Dwyer. Production Assistance by Matt Bavuso. Music by OLD 97’s. Episode artwork by Katherine Boils. Show logo by Tim Skirven. This podcast is available on Apple Podcasts, Stitcher, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts. You can also ask Alexa to play it. Please leave us a rating or review on iTunes. Revisit previous episodes of Wheels Off with Rosanne Cash, Rob Thomas, Will Forte, Lydia Loveless, Allison Moorer, Ted Leo, Paul F. Tompkins, Jen Kirkman, and more. Find Rhett's podcast #WheelsOff and other music-powered shows on @Osirispod Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	O'SIRMANN.
0:02.0	Welcome to Wheels Off, a show about the messy reality of the creative life.
0:09.0	I'm Rhett Miller.
0:10.0	That's when it got wheels off.
0:13.0	Started ugly, I ain't gonna stop.
0:16.0	Oh, she made me feel like a good God.
0:19.0	That's when it got wheels off. Well, here we are with another transatlantic wheels off.
0:26.1	Dialing in from across the pond, we have Tim Burgess.
0:31.6	Frontman for the alternative rock band, The Charlottons.
0:36.9	The Manchester Phenomenon that broke through in 1990.
0:41.6	Since then, the Charlottons have made more than a dozen albums, and Tim himself has made a handful of really great solo albums, most notably the brand new typical music, which is dropping any minute.
0:57.0	Tim is a active dude, a thoughtful dude.
1:02.0	He has a lot going on.
1:03.9	His listening party has been a staple of the COVID lockdown.
1:10.3	It created a community of music fans and musicians who wanted
1:15.5	to revisit albums, talk about their creation, talk about their effect on the populace and
1:22.4	people's lives. And it seems like Tim thinks about that a lot, the way music and art affects people's
1:30.4	lives on a daily basis. It was really lovely talking to him from the recording studio in
1:37.2	Manchester, where his band Charlottons was gearing up for some live shows, doing something called
1:43.5	rehearsal. I'm not quite sure what
1:45.7	that is, but he said they were getting ready to do some big shows out in the world. He had
1:51.8	his nine-year-old son in the next room. We talk about his son Morgan a little bit. It's a really
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