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CONTENTS
May 2014 ISSUE 410
12 Lou Read passes away. We take
FEATURES:
14 Black Sabbaths new ‘13 3D
17
Mick Jagger: My life in 20 songs
20
SMOKING We find out about the
young artist who holds rock n’
roll in both hands. Charlie Chalk
exclusively talks to us about his past
and passion for music (new album
TUBELINE review found on P.60).
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Fearless Vampire Killers chats about
future plans.
32
Slash Speaks of his style and of his
pick of the best guitars.
a look back on a legend.
maze’ opens in Hollywood.
15 Ben Keaton disscuss Reading
and his role as head judge on X
Factor.
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SMOKING Blast from the past, as
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Elvis Presley and how he changed
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“Since 1993,
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11 We’re offering three tickets to
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16 Charlie Chalk, teenage ASBO
who has captivated the nation, speaks
to SABRE of his rise from the underwrorld, to his love for a bit of Rock
N’ Roll.
23 from Punkers to Rollers, we talk
about the youtube that rule social
emdia, their rise to fame, and who
really is our champion artist.
34 It’s now come to that time of
year of which SABRE holds its very
own annual award cermony to the
bands, artists, and musicians.
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photos and articles written by Zak Labaid
I
t’s six o’clock in the morning and I’m sitting in a star bucks in London, the heavy whistling of tube wheels howling in the distance, a bus passing by. Then appears a young rock
god... erm...with a coffee. Leather jacket, Combat boots, he slumps in a chair, handing
me one of the two drinks, pulling out the earphones from his IPod as he does so, The voice of
Keith Richards slowly sinking in the pocket of a pair of torn battered jeans.
for days- mum having trouble to tear me off
He yawns, making me yawn too, and we both
the thing’ he smiles at the thought ‘but of
laugh, he having had explained that this is
course,
the only free time he gets, thanks to other
creative projects he is relentlessly working on
my music now, I don’t paly the drums- which
including a tour, and a secret album.
is kinda odd, don’t you think? But I suppose
the
After a few slurps I ask him about his success
drums where a gateway into my love of muin the music industry and at such a young
sic.’
age. He shrugs with a slight smile; ‘I don’t
know how it really happened to be honest…
He slurps part of his coffee, before I ask him
it just… kind of happened- and I’m very
on his school life and his musical influences.
grateful that it did’.
‘It was tough time at school. I weren’t very
popular, scrawny and spotty, so there was no
I then asked him on how he had got into muchance I was gonna pull any time soon. But I
sic and how he has now become the young
do remember going up for music club’ at this,
rock warrior that he is today. ‘I was a little
a full joker like smile appears on his face. ‘ I
shit, that’s why. Always running around,
went singed up into a little music club at my
kicking scratching… biting, I was a bloody
school, not a massive popular thing I can tell
nightmare. But I think it all started on when
you, so you didn’t even really need any real;
I got given a drum kit’ he thinks for a second
musical talent to get! But I did, there was only
or two ‘for my six or seventh birthday.’ I rea few lot, and I wasn’t keen to make friends.
member banging and banning on that drum
They’d never bothered to try with me, so why
61
6. should I bother to try with them?
Bu any, because I had a drum kit,
I played that for a bit. And it was
alright- until I got the guitar.’
Its here that I see giddy teen, taken
back to the day of his true love, ‘It
was true love. The teacher who was
running the place. Daft as anything.
He said that the school had raised
enough money for new guitars, I
think there were about three of them
altogether. I played it for a bit at the
beginning. You know, just fiddling
with the strings and all that. But this
was all before I discovered music
itself.’ He sits, now fully engaged ‘it
was a new word I had stepped into
on when I heard Hendrix, or the kiss,
or any of the other grates. And I fell
in love. I mean these guys where my
idols; they got the chicks, the money
and the talent to make others happy
with their skill. And that’s exactly
what I wanted to do.’ I spent most of
my teenage years locked in my room
(as should any healthy teenager)
listening to Presley or any other rock
god and just listening. The word, lyrics tone. Every single detail I thought
about.’
We take a few more slurps of our
coffee before I raise the question on
his past drug addiction; he slumps
back in his chair. ‘Well you see, I
suppose that music, although it is a
passion and a sincere love- it was my
downfall. Because I always focused
my music, and that I wasn’t even a
particularly good at school in the first
places, I think I knew deep inside
that I was gonna flunk all GCSE’s. So
I suppose I needed some air, some
relief from the stress and panic that
there was high chance that I was too
fail at life, as doing so taking drugs,
ticking off that typical rock n’ roll box
as I did so. Now all I needed was to
smoke and drink and I’d have done
the bloody set! And shortly followed.’
I came from North London, growing
up in a school on where the teachers
62
cared as much about education as
the pupils. At the time it wasn’t a big
deal to being snorting the white stuffeverybody was doing. Pretty sure
some of the teachers were too.’
A second or two passes before we
both laugh at the thought, then the
laughter dies and we go back to the
seriousness of the conversation. ‘No,
but it was a serious, serious dark time
for me, my addiction was getting out
of the control so much that I was asking money of friends and family. And
then… Well I guess it was inevitable
that I was caught by the fuzz. But
cause I was young at the time, I didn’t
have stay the amount of years that I
should have.
I asked him on what it was like to
be inside, he shrugs his shoulders;
‘Tough. Don’t do it’.
‘When I got out, I knew I didn’t want
to waste another second of my life. I
wanted to go for my goals and grab
them by the ruddy neck. So I did. It
wasn’t easy at first either. My first job
was manual labour, moving bags of
cement on building sites. Meanwhile
why I was doing that I was creating
YouTube videos in the hope of being
noticed.’
Of course, this is how chalk came to
fame, through the simple act of putting up a couple of videos on the page
YouTube. ‘I think I was very lucky to
get noticed by that record company.
At the time, between the building and
the videos, I was busking in Baker
Street station. The money crap, but
at least after a few months of saving
I managed to wangle a decent second-hand guitar.’
To this day he still holds ownership of
the guitar, he having played it on his
new album ‘TubeLine’. ‘Well a guitars
a guitars, yet that guitar taught me
a lot, as fucked up as it sounds. T
taught me that life can be hard, it can
kick you down, but you’ve just
get to plough on with life with
your passion, or the things you
love. For me that was music.’
But now we lead to Tubeline, the
new hit album that has caused a stir
of success for the artist. ‘Well it’s my
debut album as I’m sure you know.
Erm.. I can’t really give too much
away, but I can say that if you like the
rebellious goddess that is rock, than it
is she who helped me in my album’
Wet talk, more before
he has to get going to
attend meetings with
the matter of a certain
Glastonbury Festival. We head out of
costa, that familiar
London traffic
welcoming us
into a cold winter breeze. Then
from out of nowhere Charlie
chalk appears
with a Harley
Davidson
(would it
be any other
bike?). He asks if I
need a lift to the nearest tube station, but I
humbly deny. I dare
not intervene with a
god of rock. With
this the screeching
of the Harley bids
farewell.
TUBELINE
releases
Friday
15th
