I would imagine being at Rockfield Studios carries mixed emotions. Rob Collins, Tim Burgess, Jon Brookes and Martin Blunt.(Photo by Mick Hutson/Redferns) Redferns Group portrait of The Charlatans, backstage at Reading festival 28th August 1992, L-R Mark Collins.
Storytellers in other works… Sharon Horgan, who tells the greatest stories I think. And I’ve liked stuff that she wrote with Gerry Goffin, stuff that she did with her band The City and obviously the stuff she wrote for other people - and Tapestry onward. Well, they all have stories don’t they? I like Carole King. Who are some of your favorite writers or favorite storytellers whether it’s in a song, a book or anything else?īurgess: Gosh. Certainly, there’s a storytelling arc on Typical Music. There’s the Charlatans album Tellin’ Stories.
So I thought that it would be great to put all 22 on and we found a way to do it. We thought, “Well, let’s color them all in and give them all the attention to detail that we can possibly give them and just finish them off and give them all a chance.” Then I just couldn’t leave any off. And they were all about at the three minute mark - a couple were a little bit over that. We’ve got way more than that.” We counted them up and there were 22. And they said, “We’re well past that already. Because I thought that was a good place to start. I suggested to Thighpaulsandra and Daniel O’Sullivan, who I was working with, that when I got to 16, they should give me a shout. TIM BURGESS: Well, I was very keen on an album called Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me by The Cure. How did you kind of treat that idea as you started putting together a double album? I love the idea of the double album but sometimes people have these preconceived notions of it - they think about excess or these sprawling opuses. So that I guess made me fall in love with the world as well, because that can do that. Plus, I actually fell in love with somebody during that time too. Everybody thought that it was a good idea and wanted to be involved and wanted to help and give of their time and all of that kind of stuff. Literally pulling over on the side of the road on my way to the studio. I remember having to pull over while I was driving around - pulling over so I could organize listening parties for Kylie Minogue and Paul McCartney. And I just think that the braver I got in my asks, and the more responses that I’d get, it was just fantastic. And I was doing work 10 hours a day on that, especially the first three weeks, trying to get everything organized. How were you falling in love with the world again?īurgess: Well, I think my world was definitely the Listening Party. Here you’ve got tumultuous times politically in both the U.S. You’ve said that during COVID, you fell in love with the world again and that that idea sort of informed Typical Music. A transcript of our phone conversation, lightly edited for length and clarity, follows below.
solo dates about Tim’s Twitter Listening Parties, making Typical Music, the ability of music to connect people and much more.
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I spoke with Tim Burgess ahead of a series of November U.K. And I feel that he’s still here with me somewhere, you know?” He invited me to be in The Charlatans so I owe him a lot - he taught me a lot. Now I just walk up to the gate and sort of like just think about him. But, you know, as time goes by… That was 1996. “We didn’t really want to go back there because we couldn’t face up to the reality of what actually happened. There’s something amazing there,” said Burgess over the phone. And I’d been wanting to go back for a long time.
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