Chloe Slater in conversation with Tori Tsui
Join singer-songwriter Chloe Slater, ahead of the release of her debut album 'Riot Youth', in conversation with author and activist Tori Tsui. Recorded at Latitude Festival at Climate Live's solar-powered pink bus stage, sponsored by Fairtrade. The series explores the connection between climate justice, fairness and collective action, bringing together artists, campaigners and changemakers who are using their platforms to create positive change. The episode will explore Chloe's journey into music, her commitment to speaking openly about social and political issues, and why climate justice matters. Alongside this, Fairtrade will introduce its Do It Fair campaign and Fair on the Planet summer campaign, highlighting the need for government action to support farmers facing the impacts of climate change. Climate Live is a youth-led charity who engage a new audience young music fans in climate and intersectional social justice issues. They bring their pink solar-powered bus stage to festivals where they host live music and DJs from up-and-coming artists, alongside talks and creative workshops from youth activists. They create a joyful, creative and accessible space for young people to learn and become empowered to create change. Chloe Slater’s debut album ‘Riot Youth’ seems to unfold in the fleeting, chaotic moments before doomsday – a coming of age record fit for the modern world. Slater, though, is not one to lie down and surrender; instead, she offers up fragments of guidance, intertwined between stark observations on the environment she finds herself in. “I feel there's a lot of nostalgia for the past and fear of the future right now,” she muses. “That's the main theme of the whole album.” Our collective identity crisis is presented in the sense of urgency that runs through the record like a lightning strike. Across 10 tracks, Slater departs her signature, succinct commentary on the issues plaguing her generation: social divide, toxic internet culture, our dwindling sense of community, the climate crisis and, ultimately, the vampirish billionaire class cashing in on our collective misery. It arrives right on time in an era when hopelessness and nihilism run rife, with Slater painting the truest portrait of what it is to be young and British and brave enough to be hopeful today. Growing up in Bournemouth – a sleepy, overlooked town nestled between patches of jagged coastline – Slater sought refuge from the mundanity surrounding her in literature and music. It was in 2019 when, frustrated that she was too young to vote against the Tories in the general election, she began viewing music as both a creative and political outlet, and started writing her own songs, steadily carving out a witty yet pointed take on protest music. Tori Tsui is a campaigner, author, producer and DJ from Hong Kong. She campaigns against the fossil fuel industry having worked with the Fossil Fuel Treaty and Stop Rosebank. And in music and impact space from working with Brian Eno’s Earth Percent, In Place of War’s Earth Sonic, Billie Eilish’s Overheated and the Wembley Arena show Together for Palestine.
