INTERVIEW


We found out more from Kate Tempest ahead of her gig at Nick Rayns LCR on Friday 8th November.


When you were writing the new album, did you jump into it with the intention of creating one big narrative through the album or did this come about later? When we started to write it, we had absolutely no idea what we were doing. When I say ‘we’ I mean Dan Carey and I who writes the music with me and I had been called up by Rick Rubin who said “I’ve seen you doing your poetry, I’d like to make a


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record with you”. Rick had this vision that he wanted us to do. What led the way with the album was us trying to write demos that would infuse Rick. He couldn’t tell us what he wanted us to do, he could only tell us when we weren’t doing it right, and point out the way for certain things. He didn’t know how to explain what it was that he wanted; he needed us to discover it ourselves. It’s not like we began being like “right I’m going to make


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