‘“I always wanted to do a film with this album,” he reveals. “The idea was obviously that you want the film to evolve the same themes and ideas as the record. My initial idea was to have it about a band’s last show. So it was a teenage band, a coming of age story, and then I went through various ways of trying to imagine where it could be, where that could take place.
“The thing about an album, what’s great about it is, your imagination builds the set for the stories in the songs. I didn’t want to set it anywhere that was too familiar, so I got this idea of setting it in this kind of fictional world. And once I started that, the idea just evolved and evolved.”
The film and the album tie together thematically, as you might expect. “A lot of the album is about the end of adolescence, and becoming a man,” he explains, “I wanted something that, to me, serves as a metaphor for that, and that’s just an experience I’ve had, of being in bands that end. In fact, I remember the initial idea was that I wanted to make the last waltz for a teenage band no-one gives a shit about. I thought that would be really cool, and it kind of went from there.”
Noah And The Whale fans, don’t panic – this most definitely isn’t a sign of the band gearing up for their own final hurrah. Charlie’s very positive about it all: “I’m still enjoying playing in the band a lot, I don’t envisage wanting to do it anywhere else.” And when we point out that the band’s big breakthrough, ‘5 Years Time’, coincidentally came out a whole five years ago, he seems pretty confident that he wouldn’t change much.
“I try not to think about things like that. The funny thing is, I see my friends who have careers in music, and see things change so quickly; you start out very young and you live a pretty long life. The things that feel significant at one time, another time won’t be. That was when we started getting opportunities. It was a great moment for us. There’s no way we’d have had the opportunities to make the albums and films that we have if we hadn’t had that. I feel good about it.”’ (x)
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