The words - I'm already biased towards - but I caught the accompanying video to one of her tracks today - which impressed me as also provokingly brilliant.. IMO obviously. Always stirs the words in me - as you'll see.
I caught her last year, performing her latest work up on the Bristol Downs - supporting a Massive Attack tour on their riotous return to home turf.. My intro to this: (As I posted to YouTube)
Picture a Vacuum.
Storming the Establishment battlements, a word whirl wind sacrament.
Blowing the ills, on showing good will, spelling true human fulfilment out - louder than a shout for revolution.
The evolutionary Kate Tempest.
Massive Attack killed it, Kate Tempest stole it - This is her new piece (as much as I have) from the Bristol gig up on the downs: 03.09_2016 It was a last minute decision to record - hand held, perched on the wet ground with inadequate view - plus my silly camera only records 12m stretches at a time - I even started in portrait & rotated to landscape after half a dozen minutes - SO shambolic.
Anyway, I've stitched 'em together - to present a wobbly incomplete sneaky-preview of her latest poem. 'Picture A Vacuum' In one word - Superb! Enjoy..
We all grew a little - and no, it wasn't just the torrential rain.
Pre-order her new album 'Let them eat Chaos' now; I have!
http://shop.lexrecords.com/products/let-them-eat-chaos-digital
The video I shot of her very raw performance in Bristol:
https://www.bitchute.com/video/o2HVFQAdGHA/
Luckily the BBC had decided to film her later in the year - her home turf - London - so you have a second copy - with musical accompaniment as intended. My intro to this YouTube upload:
Let them eat Chaos. A call to you all. PLEASE LISTEN - and share if you will. Poetry on the TV is short in supply - & this quality is hard to find anywhere.. please click & watch & if you haven't got tears in your eyes at the end, then maybe I am living alone, in a Matrix.
Firstly I beg your pardon for my keen but lacklustre entreaty, she inspires me:
You tube-viewers can wait to see - but I plea, pray, play immediately.
Hope you agree - unflinching she, hits the nail on the head, Definitely deadly accuracy,
Deftly delivering, a cure, us, see;
hail, hear and heed, Enjoy the Tempest, word whirlwind,
take a lead and with me, storm those establishment battlements;
unconditionally.
.. and if you find it hard going - cannot cope with the astounding delivery and want to give up - I urge you to stay with it - or skip to the climax approx 46.30m in - because you / she / we - are worth it.
She I think is one of the reasons for hope, one of the chances for looking at the future with a glimmer of positivity. Haven't been bowled over by an artist like this for a long time - and only just.. in time.
Big UP! to Kate. - and thanks to the BBC for the excellent prog.
(I've posted links to bitchute - the YouTube alternative - if for any reason they don't work they are still available with the original post-censoring media monolith)
The BBC performance:
https://www.bitchute.com/video/3xu5HL1Xl64/
And the video that sparked this post:
https://www.facebook.com/85226185974/videos/10154345354195975/?pnref=story
Enjoy.