King Charles
Saturday
As a boy, Charles learned the cello, sang in the school choir and trained his voice classically as a treble. He fell in love with country music, took up the guitar and started listening to Bob Dylan who he says, “made the world bigger for me.” Charles started writing country-style songs at seventeen when he also began writing poems. “Music was a good way to take the edge off the cliché of the young poet”, jokes Charles.
Following a year at Durham University, he returned to London without a Degree but with the nifty new moniker of King Charles. He formed a band, Adventure Playground who, along with other like-minded souls made West London scene hotspot Bosun's Locker their base. Adventure Playground were soon touring with Laura Marling, Noah and The Whale alongside Mumford and Sons.
His latest single, “Love Lust/Mr.Flick” is a double A-side which was released late 2009. “Love lust” proves his maturity as a lyricist, born from his poetic nature, but also as a supremely talented songwriter with catchy hooks and arrangements. “Mr. Flick” is more a demonstration of his rock roots, but still has the contemporary, melodic, exciting, signature style of any King Charles track stamped all over it.
King Charles has picked up huge press, online and radio support gaining radio plays from the likes of Rob Da Bank, Zane Lowe, Lauren Laverne, Tom Robinson, Huw Stephens and is now a hotly tipped act for 2010. He’s also received rave reviews from a summer’s worth of gigs such as Field Day and Glastonbury Festival, where he supported Laura Marling.
