Kate Tempest •ั Wise Ones Know (Live at Tongue Fu with the Tongue Fu Band) HD
Genres :
Hip Hop,
Acapella,
Words and music
Origin :
South East London
Website :
http://katetempest.co.uk/
Influences :Wu tang, Buhamadia,
Carson Mccullers,
Roots Manuva,
Bob Dylan,
Lauryn Hill,
MF Doom,
James Joyce,
Milan Kundera,
Kafka,
Samuel Becket,
Anna Kimber,
Nina Simone,
Homer,
Gabriel Garcia-Marquez, Orwell, W. B
Yeats,
William Blake,
William Shakespeare,
Dali,
John Coltrane, every poet, every artist and every musician i've ever jammed with
... New Cross Philharmonic Orchestra... Zingaro...
Bones of Contention... also
Dylan Thomas,
Sylvia Plath, the poem
Howl by
Allen Ginsberg,
Bjork,
Bobby Herb,
Mos Def, Kwake,
Gravediggaz, the Sunday
Sounds collective,
Sarah Bear,
Sophocles, the
Bible, Lao Tzeu, Talmud,
Sound of Rum,
Mythology,
Human Beings...
Kate Tempest grew up in
South-East London, where she still lives. She started out as a rapper, toured the spoken word circuit for a number of years, and now works as a poet and playwright too. Her work includes '
Balance', her first
album with her band Sound of Rum, '
Everything Speaks in its Own Way', her first collection of poems, published on her own imprint Zingaro, which comes with a CD and
DVD of live performance; 'GlassHouse', a forum theatre play for
Cardboard Citizens; and the plays 'WASTED' (Published by
Methuen Drama) and '
Hopelessly Devoted' for new writing theatre company
Paines Plough.
Her epic poem
Brand New Ancients won both the
Ted Hughes Prize for innovation in poetry and a
Herald Angel Award. It is published by Picador and is touring nationwide until
April 2014. After a sell out show at
St Anne's
Warehouse,
Brooklyn, Brand New Ancients received a rave review in the
New York Times and came to international attention.
She continues to work with music, and featured on the track
Our Town, a collaboration with producer duo letthemusicplay (Greco-Roman.) She also featured on the track
Hot Night Cold Spaceship (
Speedy Wunderground) and has collaborated with
Sinead O’Connor,
Damien Dempsey and
Bastille.
Her debut solo album came out on
Big Dada in 2014, which she made with acclaimed music producer
Dan Carey.
She has performed at
Glastonbury and all major UK festivals, as well as performing internationally. She sold out the
Old Vic Theatre in
London for the launch of Everything Speaks… and has appeared on
BBC TV and radio many times performing her poems. She has been commissioned to write for
The Royal Shakespeare Company,
Amnesty International,
Barnado’s and
Channel 4 Television.
Her second poetry collection will be publisher by Picador in
Autumn 2014 and her debut novel
The Bricks that
Built the Houses will be published by
Bloomsbury in
2015.