“Charlotte” by Air Traffic

"Charlotte" is the song that introduced Bournemouth's Air Traffic, and it later landed on their debut album, Fractured Life. Before EMI's Tiny Consumer imprint got its hands on it, the track had already surfaced on the band's first single, a double A-side shared with "Just Abuse Me", pressed as the fifth in a run of black-and-white vinyl releases from Label Fandango, the indie label of the promoters Club Fandango and the band's home at the time.

Reissued as their first proper single, it picked up moderate airplay on radio and music TV, above all on MTV2, through the chart it ran with NME and its "Spanking New Music" show, and spent a single week on the UK Singles Chart at 33. Four writers share the credit: David Ryan Jordan, James Richard Maddock, Tom Pritchard and Christopher Michael Wall.

Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.