Charlotte Plank: Amplifying the Sound of a Generation 

Each track, she says, is its “own little world of an experience,” and she wants listeners to feel like they’re slipping into a private moment: “A lot of the songs are those in-between moments. On the way to a night out, or on the way back... where you’re coming down on the bus and you realise how you feel about someone.” She doesn’t mince her words: “Not all sad songs have to be a fucking ballad on the piano. You can dress them up in a dance tune that you can lose yourself in.” Her debut 2022 single ‘Hate Mate’ tapped into this feeling: self-sabotaging and raw, but delivered with a bouncy, irresistible rhythm. “It’s a running theme in my music – deeper, darker stories you can either take at surface level, or dive into properly.” 

The club, naturally, is both a backdrop and metaphor in her music. But it’s one she worries is fading fast. “I’ve done some uni shows and chatted to promoters, and they’re like, yeah, they’re just so poorly attended now. It’s so sad.” For her, clubbing isn’t just escapism – it’s a cultural cornerstone. “Kids are isolated at home. These industries are being starved of income and being forced to close. It’s really concerning.” Even festivals, she says, feel uncertain. “It used to be a rite of passage - you’d go to a festival at 16 after your GCSEs. Do kids even do that anymore?” She’s fiercely vocal about the decline of nightlife, working with grassroots campaigners like George Fleming (Founder of Save Our Scene) to fight for the ecosystem that raised her. “He’s been really great at campaigning for the night-time industry... We need more people like that. More artists need to step up to support these venues.” She also champions safer, more inclusive spaces – especially in dance music. “A lot of music lineups can be very male-heavy – especially in the DnB world. But that’s changing. There are a lot of amazing females making waves now.”