Stereo Embers The Podcast 0162: Imogen Clark

"Don't Let People Mess With You" Self empowerment isn’t easy. We tend to think of other people and how they’ll receive us so we try to mold our responses and desires to that expectations. But by doing that, we forget about one thing; ourselves. It’s true. You can go a whole lifetime forgetting that what you feel is important. So, the basic punk rock version of empowerment is this. Don’t let people mess with you. And if they do, mess with them right back. Nobody can mess with Imogen Clark. Not anymore. The Australian singer songwriter has felt that over the course of her career she was carrying out an image of what other people expected of her and the fact is, she got sick of it. Imogen starting playing gigs in bars at 13, so it’s understandable that someone so young could get caught up in catering to what other people thought she could be artistically, but by 25 she’d had enough. Nothing like romantic wreckage, stoning self doubt and artistic frustration to make someone state themselves down and take ownership of what happens next. And that’s what Imogen Clark did. Weathering all those storms, taught Imogen something. She could do it. And if she could do it she could do a nothing. and so she did. Her new EP The Making of Me is an exhilarating rebirth of an artist whose taken command of her career and is burning with confidence. Imogen clark is no longer feeling artistic claustrophobia. She’s staring at the open road and she’s pushing the petal to the floor. And it sounds awesome. In this conversation she talks to Alex about taking command of her life, her love of Gang Of Youths and her friendship with Emma Swift. She also talks about her bold new rebirth, gives a little relationship advice and talks about life during lockdown….