As the Game Over screen recaps each fatal hit, Charlie turns to us, eyes wide, pointing at her high score with shock. Though she\u2019s tallied up countless hours on games such as Elden Ring, complete with Electric Callboy\u2019s Nico Sallach laughing and barking advice at her through her headphones, high-stakes, combat-focused games have always left her feeling a little frazzled. But today, under the neon glow of Soho\u2019s NQ64 bar\/arcade, she\u2019s finally locked in.<\/p>\n
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Typically, Charlie likes to lose herself in cosier roleplaying games and fantasy worlds. Whenever reality gets a little too hard, she finds comfort in the escapism of the post-apocalyptic mysteries of the Fallout series universe, or a calming sense of control when embodying the role of an omniscient god caring for a Sims family.<\/p>\n
As Everything Unfolds\u2019 third album, Did You Ask To Be Set Free?, centres around these kinds of worlds \u2013 and questions how healthy they actually are. Following the sudden death of her partner, As Everything Unfolds drummer Jamie Gowers, in 2024, real life became too difficult for Charlie to handle. She found solace elsewhere.<\/p>\n
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\u201cI was maladaptively daydreaming a lot, creating universes in my head,\u201d she explains. \u201cMy brain couldn\u2019t cope with the fact my life had changed so drastically overnight, so dream worlds felt safer. They were something I could control.\u201d<\/p>\n
Unfortunately, that sense of control soon soured, with her reliance on dreams turning into something \u201cexcessive and obsessive\u201d. Rather than trying to rebuild her life, she found herself in bed hours before sunset, floating off into another realm.<\/p>\n
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Watch On <\/a><\/p>\n As Everything Unfolds\u2019 story began in a Co-Op car park in Buckinghamshire in 2013. Initially making contact with the band members via Joinmyband.co.uk, Charlie met them in public to make sure \u201cthese boys weren\u2019t going to kill me\u201d.<\/p>\n We went from playing to 30 people in High Wycombe, straight to Download Pilot. Talk about a baptism of fire!<\/p>\n Charlie Rolfe<\/p>\n Eventually, they settled on a sound that combined riotous metalcore and buoyant alt rock, with their debut album, 2021\u2019s Within Each Lies The Other, earning them an invite to play for 10,000 punters at the historic Download Pilot festival that year.<\/p>\n \u201cWe went from playing to 30 people in High Wycombe, straight to that\u2026 talk about a baptism of fire!\u201d Charlie jokes.<\/p>\n What to read next<\/p>\n Two years later, they released Ultraviolet, breaking out from their home town for their first headline tour across the UK and Europe, and continuing to play shows into 2024. The future was looking bright. Then, only a few weeks after they performed at Wacken, Jamie died, and their lives were thrown into chaos. Due to support Bury Tomorrow in just three months\u2019 time, they had a decision to make: continue As Everything Unfolds without him, or call it quits. They pushed on.<\/p>\n \u201cIf you step away for too long, the easier it is to just walk away,\u201d Charlie explains of their decision to get back on the road so soon. \u201cWe lost so much, so we knew that we couldn\u2019t lose this band too.\u201d<\/p>\n Bury Tomorrow toured with Architects<\/a> after guitarist Tom Searle died from cancer, and knew how hard it was for a band to lose someone.<\/p>\n \u201cThe whole touring party was so supportive,\u201d Charlie recalls. \u201cWe were given space, but they also didn\u2019t treat us like we were \u2018wounded\u2019. They were still making jokes, winding us up\u2026 it was hard, but it was what we needed.\u201d<\/p>\n Setting Sun is about the universal experience of mourning.<\/p>\n Charlie Rolfe<\/p>\n Meanwhile, As Everything Unfolds were halfway through writing their third album, and opted to stick with it, rather than burying Jamie\u2019s creative efforts with him. Charlie struggled to write under such difficult circumstances, but immersing herself in her first love, music, was a blessing. As a child, she\u2019d perform to imagined crowds from her room, singing Busted into a hairbrush, and that excitement has never gone away.<\/p>\n She praises master-producer Rick Rubin\u2019s \u2018bible\u2019, The Creative Act: A Way Of Being, for teaching her how to find direction even in times she felt lost \u2013 his focus on \u201cunconscious\u201d creativity was her saving grace.<\/p>\n \u201cHe teaches you to write as a secondary action, while you\u2019re doing another primary action,\u201d she explains. \u201cI wrote Edge Of Forever on a 25- minute drive, just singing into my phone! It was a blessing to take the pressure off, and realise how creative I could be without much thought.\u201d<\/p>\n
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