Charlie Fink
Charlie Fink is a British songwriter, producer and film maker best known for fronting the indie folk-rock band Noah and the Whale. Fink formed the band in 2006 along with violinist and former classmate Tom Hobden, bassist Matt "Urby Whale" Owens and his brother Doug. Fink has the sole writing credit on the first three Noah and the Whale albums that collectively sold over a million copies worldwide, including two gold records and one platinum record. He has been described as "one of Britain’s most daring and inventive songwriters" by the Sunday Times. He toured with the band from 2006 to 2014 including a sold out show at The Royal Albert Hall and festivals such as Coachella, Lollapoloza and Glastonbury as well as headlining Wilderness Festival in 2013. They also toured with Arcade Fire, Vampire Weekend and Phoenix. He has appeared with the band on The David Letterman Show as well as Later... with Jools Holland, The Graham Norton Show and The Andrew Marr Show.[citation needed] Fink produced Laura Marling's first album Alas I Cannot Swim, which was nominated for the Mercury Music Prize. He has also produced music for Charlotte Gainsbourg, Jay Jay Pistolet and Rae Morris. Since 2014 he has co-written and produced music with artists such as Foxes, Rhodes, Gabrielle Aplin and Eliot Sumner. He has directed a number of his band's music videos and a short film that accompanied their second album 'The First Days Of Spring' and another film that accompanied their fourth album 'Heart Of Nowhere'. He featured at number 18 on NME's Cool List as well as GQ's best dressed lists.