Interview - Charlie Drinkwater, TV Priest

“There’s a reason why I’ve done this when I’m 32. Whatever’s been done before failed to connect on an audience level or a personal level. Not to say I think all of it was bad, but it’s not connected because I haven’t been truthful in some way. I couldn’t have made this record at any other time.”

Rock and roll is generally regarded as being a young person’s game. As well as the power it has over each generation of adolescents, the urgency, honesty and vitality required to spread the word are at their most effective when delivered by those who have barely experienced real life. So they say.

Paul Weller split up The Jam, at the time the biggest band in Britain, aged 24 as he felt he had little else to say to that generation. The 27 Club is the ultimate example of living fast and dying young, as legend and mythology has deemed it so.

It’s nonsense, of course: Messrs Cocker and Kapranos were in their early 30s when Pulp and Franz Ferdinand hit the mainstream and, more recently, Idles hit their stride as Joe Talbot entered his fourth decade.

Experience has its uses, and for TV Priest frontman Charlie Drinkwater, the passing of time has demonstrated just how important friendship and music are for his own personal well-being.

“So much of our friendship, and the foundations we bedded down into, were formed around music,’ he told Live4ever over Zoom earlier this month.

https://www.live4ever.uk.com/2021/01/live4ever-interview-charlie-tv-priest/