Kae Tempest
(Picture: Matt Writtle)When it comes down to it, being on stage is a lot of people’s worst nightmare. Imagine, then, having to do it, night after night, in the grip of a near-breakdown. “It was such a weird time,” Kae Tempest tells me, talking about the tour for their 2016 studio album Let Them Eat Chaos – a time when they were dealing with depression, a panic disorder and ADHD.
“I was on tour, and I had to keep going on stage. I was having these intense panic attacks and I had one on stage. I was behind the keyboard player in f***ing floods of tears, getting up, going back to the mic and just carrying on. I was in a lot of pain and that’s really where this album comes from, that experience of crisis.”
