Kae Tempest remains one of the few people that can make spoken word cool. Their career reads like an artist’s fever dream of success. The prize-winning poetry collections, Mercury Music Prize nominated albums, a bestselling fiction book and a highly acclaimed play.
But despite all the accolades, until a few years ago it sounds like they were having a pretty miserable time of it. While on the 2019 tour for their 2016 album Let Them Eat Chaos they were struggling through panic attacks on stage to perform, grappling with an ADHD diagnosis and a lingering sense that something wasn’t right.
