Uploaded August 2023 | Updated September 2026, 3 days ago
When Clash is introduced to Emmeline she has just performed her first ever headline gig. “I’m still kind of riding an adrenaline high. It was so much fun. It was scary. And it felt like a big thing to do,” she beams. But Emmeline is no stranger to putting on a performance. As a teenager, she was drawn to slam poetry before music, and words still come first in her process.
“I’ll be working on a concept or a theme or trying to write about a certain feeling or mood and the lines will come out of order; I’ll get a word or a phrase stuck in my head. And then I’ll get a phrase that might rhyme with it, or would pair with it, and it expands outwards from there”.
It was a chance meeting with producer Fraser T. Smith that pushed Emmeline to take the leap to pursue music seriously. “We almost always start with a voice note – we’re big voice noters, I’m talking 10-minute recordings – we talk about everything that’s going on: music, where we’re at, and sometimes send tracks that we’re listening to and influenced by and interested in.”
Read the full interview here: clashmusic.com/next-wave/next-wave-1128-emmeline
When Clash is introduced to Emmeline she has just performed her first ever headline gig. “I’m still kind of riding an adrenaline high. It was so much fun. It was scary. And it felt like a big thing to do,” she beams. But Emmeline is no stranger to putting on a performance. As a teenager, she was drawn to slam poetry before music, and words still come first in her process.
“I’ll be working on a concept or a theme or trying to write about a certain feeling or mood and the lines will come out of order; I’ll get a word or a phrase stuck in my head. And then I’ll get a phrase that might rhyme with it, or would pair with it, and it expands outwards from there”.
It was a chance meeting with producer Fraser T. Smith that pushed Emmeline to take the leap to pursue music seriously. “We almost always start with a voice note – we’re big voice noters, I’m talking 10-minute recordings – we talk about everything that’s going on: music, where we’re at, and sometimes send tracks that we’re listening to and influenced by and interested in.”
Read the full interview here: clashmusic.com/next-wave/next-wave-1128-emmeline
