He's taking the film on a short tour of British cinemas at the end of August and then the band are off on an extensive international tour in the autumn. You take that step, jump in the water and just start swimming." From that moment, I've always tried to be brave about doing arty things. But I knew how sounds went together and it worked. The first time I was in a studio was when Laura asked me to produce an EP and I was terrified I thought everyone would realise I didn't know anything. "At school, you get this idea drummed into you that art is unobtainable, so initially I thought my little songs were irrelevant. A good first effort is the best way to describe it, but Fink's very proud of it and wants to make more. It's interesting, but too confusing and stilted to stand on its own two artistic feet. "In your last moments of life, what are you going to think about?"įink's main character in the film thinks about Daisy Lowe quite a lot and driving around in a red 2CV. "The film's about a character's final memories," he says.
They capitulated, though, and even part-funded the film he's created to complement the music.
He was exasperated that, despite watching him cry at the album's first playback, his record company wondered if he couldn't get a little happier about his experience and add another song to the album which would make a nice, radio-friendly single. He sees The First Days… as a united whole – he's miffed it's not locked on iTunes, accessible only as one track. These new songs were planned from one master document detailing all the ideas to be explored and the tracks were recorded in their album running order. This album's so precious to me that I'll always try to be true to it."Īnd Fink has put up a fight for his music. I don't really talk about any of this stuff, so the music has been very therapeutic. Singing it to the band for the first time was awkward, but if you decide to do a project like this, you have to embrace it. "It was very cathartic to make the album, force myself into a horrible moment and bring up that emotion again. Won't it be hard to relive his heartbreak night after night for an audience?
He already has a recurring dream about his teeth falling out while he's on stage ("Apparently it's to do with awareness of your public perception") and finds it hard to talk to his audience ("I get this fear of disappointing people. There wasn't much personal satisfaction for me in that situation."īut listening to his misery laid so bare, it's hard to imagine what satisfaction he'll gain on this autumn's tour. "I've got good memories of that time," says Fink, "but there's this WH Auden quote I heard the other day: 'Fame can make a writer vain, but it doesn't make him proud.' I think that's true. Fink also produced Marling's debut album, the Mercury-nominated Alas, I Cannot Swim.
Their 2008 debut album, Peaceful, the World Lays Me Down, sold more than 100,000 copies.
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NATW's top 10 single "5 Years Time", with its "fun, fun, fun, sun, sun, sun" refrain, was inescapable on car adverts, radio and TV shows. This time last year, Fink's band (comprising his older brother Doug on drums, violinist Tom "Fiddle" Hobden and Matt "Urby Whale" Owens on bass, all old friends who grew up in Twickenham) were enjoying great commercial success. "Stranger" finds him in bed with one, "regretfully lying naked, I reflect on what I've done, her leg still forced in between mine sticking to my skin". Violins and doomy guitars have replaced the nu-folk ukuleles and glockenspiels to great, if gloomy, effect and the lyrics are bleak but brilliant: "Now my heart's been broken there's nothing you can do, I'm impenetrable to pain/ You can't break my broken heart," he explains on "My Broken Heart". It would be unbearable if it wasn't so accomplished. The pair had worked, toured and lived together and every facet of misery of their partnership's demise is here: initial despair, the epiphany that life can go on and the fumbling struggle for recovery through regretted one-night stands and false bravado. Co-produced by Fink and Emery Dobyns, best known for his work with Patti Smith and Antony and the Johnsons, it's a concept album charting the singer's emotional meltdown after his relationship with singer Laura Marling ended last year. But you won't be surprised by his response once you've heard their album The First Days of Spring.
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