The Charlottes were a female fronted
indie pop
Indie pop (also typeset as indie-pop or indiepop) is a music genre and subculture that combines guitar pop with DIY ethic in opposition to the style and tone of mainstream pop music. It originated from British post-punk in the late 1970s and sub ...
band from
Huntingdon
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,
Cambridgeshire
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in England, formed in 1988.
History
The band formed in 1988, initially as The Giant Polar Bears, comprising Petra Roddis (vocals), Graham Gargiulo (guitar), David Fletcher (bass), and Simon Scott (drums).
[Strong, Martin C. (2003) ''The Great Indie Discography'', Canongate, ] After a debut single "Are You Happy Now?" in 1988, their debut album, ''Love Happy'', was issued by
The Subway Organization
The Subway Organization was a British independent record label founded in 1985 in Bristol by Martin Whitehead.
Indie pop and ''C86''
The label was associated with the indie pop movement and the seminal ''NME'' cassette tape ''C86'', that incl ...
the following year.
They were a favourite band of
John Peel
John Robert Parker Ravenscroft (30 August 1939 – 25 October 2004), known professionally as John Peel, was an English disc jockey (DJ) and radio presenter. He was the longest-serving of the original BBC Radio 1 DJs, broadcasting regularly fr ...
, for whom they recorded a radio session in 1989.
The Charlottes Peel session
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label. In 1990, drummer
and the band split up after releasing a second album, ''Things Come Apart'', in 1990 and now records as a solo artist.
Gargiulo later formed a new band, Barefoot Contessa.
*"Are You Happy Now?" (1988) Molesworth
*''Love in the Emptiness'' EP (1990) Subway
*"Liar" (1990) Cherry Red
*''Love Happy'' (1989) Subway
*''Things Come Apart'' (1991) Cherry Red
*''Liar: The Best Of The Charlottes'' (2006) Cherry Red