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Fink

Introduction:

Ninja Tunes artist Fink is a real allrounder - with a lifetime spent mixing, Dj'ing and producing already behind him, you could say what Fink doesn't know about music isn't worth knowing. But all that Dj'ing and traveling wasn't enough. His second solo album "Distance and Time" is out now and epitomises Fink's very own brand of stripped-bare-no-bullshit-soulful acoustica.

You know when sometimes you just seem to meet people who you feel like you've known a lifetime? Well meeting Fink was just like that. Within minutes of our coffees being brought to the table we had already shared our views on the music industry, the fashion industry and decided to join together to try to make a difference! With such a mutual understanding about what was important it was only natural that Fink became endorser for the Fenchurch Friendly collection. He is also a good friend to boot.

Here his stream of consciousness flows as he grabs a minute before hitting the stage for one of his sellout UK concerts.

Fink, tell us about the new podcast you have done just for us, your radio show on Juice FM and life in general:

I do a radio show down in Brighton called the Future Rock N Roll Show, it's a Friday night show that specialises in trendy, angular indy, twisted disco, skreamo, skinny jean stuff....it's the only show like it down here - and i do it with the journo James Kendall (editor of Source and regular contributor to various dance mags). We get a lot of music for the show - i started doing it because, as an artist who was changing, i made the decision to retire from DJ'ing in the clubs....but i really missed the new music element....i missed being ahead, being aware. So when the opportunity to do a weekly fm radio show came up i really grabbed it. There is so much creative, amazing, groundbreaking indy dance rock 'n' roll out there right now, all over the world. I'd say the show is probably at least 25% foreign stuff - the new french scene, the Montreal scene. James is more dance, i'm more indy. This podcast is pretty much the tunes around right now that were playing on the show, that we really love....that's the only criteria really, that we love it. Why we love it is a deeper question, and sometimes we play stuff we don't love, but we think it's really cool

You've had a long and sinuous path through the whole music industry, tell us about it.

The making music side of things started at college - i met some people who kinda persuaded me to try and make music for a living, and we made techno, and it was great (not the music, obviously, but being signed at college and being part of a great scene)......My first song was written to impress a girl when i was 16 - it totally worked! When i hit London after college i got a job temping as the tea-boy at one of the big majors in Soho, then I signed to Ninja - hectic times, that haven't really slowed down yet !

When did you realise you wanted to perform your own stuff?

To be honest, when i started singing a few years ago i didnt want to go live with it at all. At the first gigs i was like a rabbit in the headlights, but after 50 gigs or so you get really into it, and now i love being on stage....if i'm good. If i suck - well - it sucks big time, and you share your suckiness with 500 others who paid to see you NOT suck, which seriously sucks, so i try really hard not to....erm.....suck.....

Where is it leading?

Onwards and upwards, to infinity and beyond, you take the high road and i'll take the low road! Performing in Europe is a real buzz for us right now, and the second album has just come out in the USA. I am also writing with some others artists for their albums, gigging, and starting to write on the new album.