How different has that experience been to this one? “Making the Lorax was such a joy and certainly inspired me to make Cover My Tracks”, says Fink. Unsurprisingly, the Lorax returns to The Old Vic in October before touring in Canada and America. Seuss’s The Lorax, at The Old Vic in 2015 which was nominated for an Olivier Award for Best Family Show.
In a way, the freedom to occupy another character and to mine something that feels like it has a universal truth and being part of a collaboration to create is something that feels really satisfying.”Ĭharlie is no stranger to London Theatre, his first flirtation with it was a collaboration with Greig on Dr. The idea that sometimes what might be the more valuable thing to do is to surrender yourself to a passionate dedication or love someone and maybe that’s more important. We live in an era of personal authentic expression and in a time very much focussed on the idea of the self. “Being able to step back and write in the voice of such fun characters reminded me of why I love writing. “It has been wonderful to fall back in love with writing for the sake of writing,” he says. Fink mentions the joy in bringing his debut solo album to stage.
Underscored by live music, it’s this emotional underpinning that turns an entertaining tale of two quirky characters into something deeper and more poignant. The thing he uses to save her from the brink at the end is that she has to look after her dog.” “The story is essentially about two characters who save each other at the start, she saves him from jumping off a balcony by bringing him a bacon sandwich. She uses clues in the musician’s songbook to attempts to piece together his life and locate him. With a book by David Greig and direction by Max Webster Cover My Tracksuses theatre and music to tell the story of a songwriter who sets out to write a 21st Century pop masterpiece before vanishing without a trace who is then sought out by an ex-bandmate-and-lover ( Jade Anouka). Both characters represent a sense of collectivism there are things he says that I can relate to around the challenge of making new work and art in the 21 st Century for sure.” “When there is so much available to you that it feels hopeless why do we need more? What’s the point? The key mistake this character makes is trying to find his satisfaction through his expression and on out his own. “I can relate to the idea of what that character has and represents,” says Charlie Fink.
I found Charlie in a chatty mood when we talked recently. Festival appearances of Cover My Tracks are set to follow throughout the summer. The album, produced by Fink, features studio arrangements of the music heard in the show with string arrangements by Trey Pollard (Natalie Prass, Matthew White), backing vocals from The Stavesand classical guitarist Laura Snowden. We’re told that selling your soul is a necessary reality of the modern music industry, but Charlie Fink has taken two steps to the left and defined his own reality: while peers are traipsing their way up the industry’s increasingly steep flight of stairs, he’s gliding up an escalator.Ĭover My Tracks premiered at the Old Vic in tandem with the release of ex Noah and the Whale frontman Charlie Fink’s debut solo album earlier this month.
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