If you ever attended Club Cool, a rave held in the heart of Shoreditch around 2007, you might have seen a 14-year-old Charli xcx performing at one of the events.
Accompanied by her parents, she would travel from the leafy suburbs of Hertfordshire to share a bill alongside DJs with names like Trash Fashion and Neon Skullz.
This was during the peak of new rave, a U.K. scene that ushered in a wave of glow stick-waving riotous dance music buoyed by cheap drugs and the last vestiges of affordable university education..
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