![]() That was OK but we still needed something strong for the front and back sleeves. At least I had some control over the stage lighting while that was happening. So I tried shooting some stuff at The Lyceum during the sound checks and back-stage in the afternoon. The big problem was the lighting at the studio, the fluorescent tubes turned everything green on film, and try as I would I could not succeed in correcting it with filters, but I didn't want to annoy people by using flash. I must have heard "Starship Trooper" at least 50 times but I still enjoy listening to it to this day. I'm inclined to believe now that it was probably more due to a suggestion that Jon may have made, rather than any fans I may have had in the band, but it felt good, and like everything in the music industry it had to be ready yesterday.įirst thing was to start, so I spent several nights hanging out at Advision Studios taking photos at the recording and mixing sessions. Jon had mentioned that although David Bailey had worked on their previous sleeve, Yes, whose new sleeve he had been commissioned to do, had asked for me to do the photography for the new one. He was always a real gent to work with, he gave me a very warm welcome to San Francisco, and graciously invited me to stay at his house there when I visited the United States later that year. ![]() Talent, artistry and above all workmanship oozed out of that guy. Jon Goodchild was in London taking some time out from his regular job as Art Director at Rolling Stone magazine in San Francisco to play at Associate Editor of Friends magazine. (This site works best with JavaScript enabled!) The Yes Album Sessions Because without him none of this would have been. June 1999 this web page is dedicated to his memory. Since Jon Goodchild's passing on Saturday 5th. Charles has also recently composed the score for 'Youngstown', the forthcoming indie feature film from director Pete Ohs (Everything Beautiful is Far Away) due for release in late 2021.This page was originally created and written in 1996. In recent years Charles has worked as a composer, writing the music for acclaimed Netflix & Channel 4 production 'Feel Good' which led to the show's creator, Canadian comedian Mae Martin, becoming a fan. This record is the start of untangling all of those feelings and stepping forward.”Īlongside his solo career, Charles is known for his work as one half of the band Slow Club and as a member of the garage-rock super group The Surfing Magazines. I feel like I’ve come so far in the space of two albums and can already see I’m not the person I was when I was writing this album, just as I’m no longer the person I was when I made the first album. I want to project the purest form of what I want to say. “And now, I’ve arrived at a place of not wanting to carry my insecurities on to a record. “I felt like I had been hiding for so long, behind reverb, behind certain effects and tricks, and that was a hang-up from when I was in Slow Club,” he explains. In addition, Watson was buoyed by the positivity directed at certain songs from Now That I’m a River - the title track, particularly. “The confidence to simplify things, to strip back where I would have added more, to be more direct.” “I think it’s about having the confidence to be myself,” he says. In their stead - lyrics of joy, minor keys, and a direct, stripped back approach Watson had always shied away from. Out went major keys, swampy reverb, gloomy imagery and the kind of layered production which characterised Now That I’m a River. “With the last record (Now That I’m a River, 2018), I didn’t really know what I was doing - I just wanted to make something that felt like me,” reflects Charles, as he prepares to release his second solo album Yes. While it might seem branching out with a solo album after a decade in a band would provide that clean start, in reality, more time must pass before the real change, movement and progress can occur. Not all new starts offer a fresh beginning. ![]() London based songwriter, producer and multi-instrumentalist Charles Watson announces his second album Yes, released via Moshi Moshi Records on 29 April 2022.
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