The
UK indie band were, I believe, "The Charlatans U.K." for a while, because in
1960s San Francisco (
Haight-Ashbury) there had been a band, out of the same scene as the
Jefferson Airplane and the
Grateful Dead, called the Charlatans. They were not nearly as successful as their
psychedelic friends, but were moderately well-known for their "
acid-
rock-
western" sound and look.
(Descriptive phrase from "The Music of Haight-Ashbury" at http://www.rockument.com/haimg.html.)