Clark - Totems Flare

As a 14-year-old in London satellite town St Albans, music was already Chris's only ambition: "like a lot of kids I wanted to be in a band, it seemed like an idyllic life, but that quickly formed into something more concrete where I started planning towards it with a constant thought of 'this could genuinely be wicked'", he says. His "left-wing intellectual" father and mother working in social services were not so keen. "I was passively discouraged," says Chris, "in that very English way that says 'this really isn't sensible', you know. But back then I was much more arrogant - I was probably a real little shit between 14 and 20, in fact - and I seemed to do nothing but go to parties, hijack the stereo and turn my tracks up loud. They were just noise really, then; I lost a few friends along the way, but I gained quite a few too..."
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