She has played gigs at every festival going, including Glastonbury, Reading and Leeds, the Big Chill and Latitude as well as having gigged all over London, in venue's as grand as Camden's Koko and London's Barbican Centre, and as humble as Deptford's Birds Nest Pub. She has supported legendary punk poet John Cooper Clarke, firebrand Billy Bragg and afrobeat legend Femi Kuti, as well as touring the UK with label mates Dan le Sac VS Scroobius Pip. Her poetry has been commissioned by Louis Vuitton, children's charity Barnado's and the Royal Shakespeare Company. One of her poems was illustrated by Turner Prize winning artist Chris Offilli. Her debut spoken word release 'Broken Herd' - a limited edition boxset - came out in December 2009 on PureGroove Records and sold out within 3 months. Her second spoken word release 'Patterns' - an independently produced and published book of poetry and cd of live performance - sold out of its first edition print run in three days. The second edition is in production and will be released in summer 2011.
Kate Tempest
Kate Tempest is a poet and rapper from South East London. As well as writing and performing poetry as a solo artist, she also fronts the hip hop inspired live three piece Sound of Rum - who have recently signed with UK independent label Sunday Best and whose first single 'Slow Slow' was released in February 2011, with debut album 'Balance' following in April 2011.
