Pick a night, any night, and Tim Burgess and friends will be there, guiding you through the stories and memories behind some of the greatest albums of the past few decades.
#TimsTwitterListeningParty was set up by The Charlatans frontman to bring music lovers "together, apart" during the lockdown. But as lockdown eases, the party doesn’t stop, with many great bands and albums in the calendar for the foreseeable future.
So, that’s why we’re hoping the OMBLES can help us spread the word even further to get even more people listening in and joining the conversation on Twitter, to help bring people together through the power of music.
Please tweet your entries to @OneMinuteBriefs, @Listening_Party & @Tim_Burgess with the hashtag #TimsTwitterListeningParty
You can also tag in bands, artists and their albums or let us know your own requests for a listening party!
Prizes:
1st Prize:
Runner-Up:
The Top 5 entries will also each receive a special enamel pin badge like the one in the pic below.
Tim Burgess has hosted social media listening parties before, to mark anniversaries of Charlatans records, but with the country stuck at home he decided it might be a nice thing to bring them back as a distraction in difficult times.
What started as a plan to get fans listening to a few albums has snowballed, with scheduled listening parties pinned to the top of the musician's Twitter profile almost every night!!!
The idea is simple: stream or play the chosen album, bang on the start time, and follow Tim and the relevant artists as they tweet away. Ask questions and share memories using the hashtag #timstwitterlisteningparty. And listen. That's it.
Tim has hosted over 300 listening parties so far, including Blur drummer Dave Rowntree hosting Parklife, and former Oasis guitarist Bonehead talking fans through Definitely Maybe, as well as his own, on The Charlatans' first record, Some Friendly.
He has also had on the likes of the Super Furry Animals, Oasis, New Order, Chemical Brothers and Doves, as well as The Libertines, Supergrass and The Style Council taking part. With plenty more to come.
Maybe you’d like to include those bands in your OMB entries.
Here are a few more in the list below who have also been featured previously.
Find them and those mentioned above, as well as many more, on the Replay page here.
David Bowie
New Order
Biffy Clyro
Joy Division
The Pogues
The Vaccines
Faithless
Madness
Supergrass
And, of course, The Charlatans!
