This album is definitely the album I’m most proud of lyrically, and the lyrics were something I took a lot of time over and really tried to craft to make sure they were telling a story. I think the main thing was about storytelling.
Charlie fink interview tv#
It’s quite a post-modern trope that happens in TV particularly, like in ‘Curb Your Enthusiasm’ where you have a character who’s playing themselves but it’s a character of that person, and not really who they are. I think there are a lot of similarities between us but I think there are also some quite stark differences. I think there’s elements of me in the character we’ve created and I think that’s something we always thought would be fun. Is there any element of autobiography in it?ĭefinitely. I came up with the basic idea and through conversations with the writer and director we developed the story together, and then eventually the writer took it in a magical direction and added a lot of very smart layers. And those songs give her some insight into why they disappeared and where they might be. One of them disappears and the story is mostly about the person who’s been left behind searching to find the person who’s disappeared, and finds a notebook of their songs. So the story is about two people who meet and fall in love and form a band. For the benefit of anyone who hasn’t seen the production, can you recap the plot? Me, Max and David all worked on ‘The Lorax’ together and then Jade came into the project.
So David Greig wrote the script, and Max Webster directed it and it stars me and a girl called Jade Anouka. Can you tell us about the personnel involved in this project? The emphasis is always “Are we telling the story clearly and is this interesting?” so that’s quite different to making an album for a standard commercial release. I thought it was really inspiring to develop an album with the emphasis is on telling a story, and making that all the things it needs to be. How did you find the experience of writing to a narrative? (Laughs) You know, we have a phone in our pocket that’s the most entertaining thing that’s ever existed and contains every song ever written, and I think it does make you think how can you add something to that, that feels different, and doesn’t just feel like the same thing of another album, another tour. And also I think we live in this strange time where there’s just so much stuff. So I was thinking it would be exciting to develop an album in the same way as we’d developed this show.
One of the things that I was thinking about after finishing ‘The Lorax’ was how much I loved making it and loved working in a theatre, in terms of the people I was working with and the level of collaboration we had. And now you’ve created a new album and theatre project, Cover My Tracks. Theatre wasn’t something that I had worked in before, but then it seemed like the perfect thing an opportunity to keep writing but in a different way and to not have to perform. I think it would be the same for anyone who had had the same job for 10 years and was then faced with a blank canvas, you know? But I guess I got quite fortunate in that when I was trying to figure out what I wanted to do, The Old Vic wrote to me and asked if I would write some songs for a show they were doing called ‘The Lorax’. Having spent a decade – and pretty much all of your 20s – in Noah and the Whale, it must have been a huge deal to call time on the project. I see performing live as the tax I have to pay to allow myself to write. I still really like the guys and enjoy working with them, so I think if the right songs came then I definitely wouldn’t say no. Is that chapter of your life over, or might you pick it up again I guess I just felt like I needed a new challenge. We’d had 10 years together, four albums and it had been pretty intense: write a record, tour a record, write a record, tour a record etc. I definitely think I felt I needed a break. Can you tell us about the circumstances around Noah and the Whale disbanding?
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