Posts Tagged Kate Tempest

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August 25, 2019 by Simon Sweetman

RNZ Reviews: August (2) 2019

Once a month or so I have a chat on RNZ on their Afternoons show with Jesse Mulligan. These things start – randomly and stop in much the same way. I hope to keep doing this. For a while at least. I think I started in December of 2015, so now four years into  it or so… This […]

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August 20, 2019 by Simon Sweetman

Kate Tempest: The Book of Traps and Lessons 

Kate Tempest  The Book of Traps and Lessons  American Recordings/UMG  Kate Tempest has been dazzling audiences with both words for the page and words meant for a stage – via volumes of poetry, plays, a novel and albums – and most often there’s been a rage to her voice that is palpable.   She delivered one of the finest shows […]

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January 17, 2016 by Simon Sweetman

Gig Review: Kate Tempest (January 14, Wgtn)

Kate Tempest Bodega Thursday, January 14 Kate Tempest is a British poet, playwright, storyteller, rapper and force of nature. She is all at once Linton Kwesi Johnson, Ani DiFranco and Bob Dylan – and as likely to have been deeply influenced by all of them, or to have sprung up on her own, loving words […]

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November 16, 2015 by Simon Sweetman

Kate Tempest: Two NZ Shows (Jan, 2016)

Ask Kate Tempest what her job is – or who she is – and she might tell you she’s a rapper. Listen to her wonderful 2014 release, Everybody Down, and it’s true. She’s a rapper. A damn good one. But that’s selling her short. Tempest is an award-winning poet and performer, playwright and novelist. In […]