Kae Tempest broadcasts large 2025 UK and European tour

Kae Tempest has introduced an enormous tour of the UK and Europe for October and November this yr – see all of the dates under.

The rapper, poet and playwright introduced his fifth studio album, which shall be self-titled, on the finish of final month. It's set to be launched on July 4 by way of Island Data, and has been co-produced by Fraser T Smith (Adele, Stormzy, Dave). The file can even function the likes of Pet Store Boys’ Neil Tennant, Younger Fathers and Connie Constance.

Final March, Tempest shared the putting lead single ‘Statue within the Sq.’, and that has since been joined by the celebratory ‘Know Your self’.

On Thursday (Might 8), Tempest revealed the accompanying tour on his Instagram. Dates will kick off on October 12 in Brussels’ Bozar, whereas Tempest will arrive within the UK for an enormous present at O2 Academy Brixton in London on November 8. Reveals then comply with in Bristol, Manchester and Edinburgh, earlier than wrapping in Dublin on November 13. Tickets go on common sale at 10am on Might 16 and you'll find yours here.

“We’re occurring tour!” Tempest wrote. “Come see us. I’ll be bringing the brand new songs to life, weaving them in with the outdated songs to make a brand new present. Up there on stage in entrance of you, taking part in dwell appears like a conjuring of mutual feeling; it’s so highly effective and therapeutic and deeply linked. And likewise these songs are bangers. So there’s that too!”

Kae Tempest will play:

OCTOBER 
12 – BRUSSELS Bozar
13 – PARIS Elysee Montmartre
16 – BILBAO Kafe Antzokia
18 – LISBON LAV Lisboa ao Vivo
19 – MADRID Sala Riviera
21 – CENON Le Rocher de Palmer
22 – CLERMONT FERRAND La Cooperative de Mai
23 – LYON Transbordeur
25 – ROME Hacienda Roma
26 – BOLOGNA Estragon
27 – MILAN Fabrique
29 – ZURICH Kaufleuten
30 – LAUSANNE Les Docks

NOVEMBER
01 – BERLIN ASTRA Kulturhaus
02 – HAMBURG Uebel and Gefahrlich
03 – COLOGNE Stay Music Corridor
05 – UTRECHT TivoliVredenburg
06 – EINDHOVEN Effenaar
08 – LONDON O2 Academy Brixton
09 – BRISTOL O2 Academy Bristol
10 – MANCHESTER Albert Corridor
12 – EDINBURGH Corn Alternate
13 – DUBLIN Vicar Road

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Tempest not too long ago spoke to NME concerning the new album and the duty he feels as a non binary particular person within the public eye. “It’s not like I really feel the load of a duty,” he mentioned. “It was necessary for me to point out up for my group, to point out up for myself being a trans man and a non binary particular person. These are simply essential components of my make-up.

“If I’m being celebratory and sincere and uncompromising about expressing myself, there’s some freedom that can come by way of different folks’s personal emotions about what they might not really feel snug expressing amongst associates, household or in public.”

Tempest’s final full-length launch was 2022’s ‘The Line Is a Curve‘. In a four-star overview of the album, NME described ‘The Line Is A Curve’ as “continuously dazzling”. “The method of letting go has resulted in a file on which an acclaimed voice can discover human emotion with extra breadth and depth than ever earlier than,” it learn.