When Karen Dió was growing up, if the kids were drinking and smoking round by the petrol station, it surely meant one thing: there was a show happening. It was a way of socialising and getting hyped for the night, before heading to the venue round the corner for some high-octane live music.

“It was great,” she recalls of that time. “I knew loads of people from that scene and we basically grew up together. Some of them are still doing music now, which is awesome.”

That scene, which she was immersed in for almost two decades, helped make Karen into who she is now: an icon of the future with a knack for playfulness, quick wit and kicking ass. For the uninitiated, she burst onto the scene in 2023 with the viral hit Sick Ride, a sassy punk tale of a girl stealing her cheating boyfriend’s ca

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