BIOGRAPHY
Charlotte was a working rock guitarist even before she left her West London high school. Working towards her A levels during the day, the 15-year old was playing loud, scungy gigs round the London club scene with the proto-riot girl group, Nightnurse.
Aged 17, Charlotte joined Northern Irish rockers Ash, her guitars adding beef to their heavy schedule of live performances. She had two weeks in a rehearsal studio before making her Ash debut at the V97 Festival in front of an audience of 50,000!
Her first studio recording with Ash was on the 1997 single 'A Life Less Ordinary', then on the 1998 album 'Nu-Clear Sounds'. Just as touring the world became normal for her, so did Charlotte's cool persona and driving talent become a solid feature of the 'new Ash'.
In the Summer 2004 when Charlotte commenced an 18 month tour of the world with Ash, her own website 'charlottehatherley.com' was launched with a free download single 'Kim Wilde' to a fantastic response. Her next single 'Summer' was released in the UK in August 2004 and entered the UK national chart at 31.
PHOTOS / REVIEWS
Gigwise.com (Grey Will Fade)
It’s a beautiful freak of an album. Veering wildly from the quirky, XTC-style pop of opener ‘Kim Wilde’, through the female-troubador PJ Harvey territory of ‘Summer’ to the tender wistfulness of ‘Where I’m Calling From’ (a track originally intended for Ash’s ‘Free All Angels'); thirty something dinner party music this is not. Thank god it isn't, as then you wouldn’t have songs as frenetic and downright exciting as ‘Paragon’, which makes a combination of frazzled Syd Barrett 60’s sensations with Beefheart being played at the wrong speed seem blindingly obvious. Confused? You will be. The parallels with the good Cap’n and Harvey are understandable, what with PJ’s drummer Rob Ellis beating the pans, and Magic Band member Eric Drew Feldman at the production controls.
DISCOGRAPHY
Albums
Grey Will Fade
Grey Will Fade (US Version)
Singles
Summer
Kim Wilde
Bastardo
