{"id":27013,"date":"2017-03-22T09:46:05","date_gmt":"2017-03-22T17:46:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/?p=27013"},"modified":"2017-03-22T13:11:20","modified_gmt":"2017-03-22T21:11:20","slug":"check-out-kate-tempests-riveting-non-rosy-performance-on-the-tonight-show","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/2017-03\/check-out-kate-tempests-riveting-non-rosy-performance-on-the-tonight-show\/","title":{"rendered":"Check Out Kate Tempest&#8217;s Riveting, Non-Rosy Performance on The Tonight Show"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/katetempest.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-large wp-image-27017\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/katetempest-600x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/katetempest-600x600.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/katetempest-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/katetempest-400x400.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/katetempest-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/katetempest.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We first caught wind of talented English rap-poet <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.katetempest.co.uk\/\">Kate Tempest<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/2015-02\/we-missed-another-one-check-out-kate-tempest-playing-the-echo-on-314\/\">in early 2015<\/a><\/strong>. Since then this brilliant, frenetic teapot (apologies) has continued to throw-down, and is finally getting the recognition she deserves on this side of the pond (in addition to home). Check out below her recent American TV debut on<strong> The Tonight Show<\/strong>. <strong>Tempest&#8217;s<\/strong> a riveting tour de force not for the weak-of-heart. She means to get into your head and fire some synapses, and for you to aerial some (brain) waves. And to think. And to act. Different.<\/p>\n<p>Check out below her raving\u00a0performance of her piece\u00a0<em><strong>Europe is Lost<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0(poetry in full, at bottom) off of last year\u2019s phenomenal album\u00a0<strong><em>Let Them Eat Chaos<\/em><\/strong>. We love the clacking backing band and the 1:56 break when <strong>Tempest<\/strong> goes off (on her own) and exhorts until 3:59 when the band renews and she finishes indomitably. A powerful message (the trappings of our conflicted, consumer society and our gracelessness towards &#8220;others&#8221;\/immigrants) and performance from the gallant\u00a0<strong>Tempest<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Tempest<\/strong>\u2018s North American tour started this week (you can catch her tonight at the <strong>Constellation Room in Santa Ana<\/strong> or tomorrow night at <strong>Slim&#8217;s in SF<\/strong>). Check out the dates below the video and get ye there.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/oyffJnlCPfE\" width=\"625\" height=\"425\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>Kate Tempest \u2013 2017 Tour Dates<\/strong><br \/>\nMarch 20 San Diego, CA Casbah<br \/>\nMarch 21 Los Angeles, CA Echoplex<br \/>\nMarch 22 Santa Ana, CA Constellation Room<br \/>\nMarch 24 San Francisco, CA Slims<br \/>\nMarch 26 Boise, ID Treefort Festival<br \/>\nMarch 27 Seattle, WA Neumos<br \/>\nMarch 28 Portland, OR Mississippi Studios<br \/>\nMarch 29 Vancouver, BC Fortune<br \/>\nMarch 31 Calgary, AB Commonwealth<br \/>\nApril 2 Minneapolis, MN 7th Street Entry<br \/>\nApril 3 Chicago, IL Lincoln Hall<br \/>\nApril 5 Toronto, ON Mod Club<br \/>\nApril 6 Montreal, QC Sala Rossa<br \/>\nApril 10 Boston, MA Brighton Music Hall<br \/>\nApril 11 Philadelphia, PA Boot &amp; Saddle<br \/>\nApril 12 Washington, DC U Street Music Hall<br \/>\nApril 13 New York, NY Le Poisson Rouge<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Europe Is Lost<\/strong><\/em>:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In the basement flat, by the garages<br \/>\nWhere people dump their mattresses<br \/>\nEsther&#8217;s in her kitchen, making sandwiches<br \/>\nThe slats on her blinds are all wonky and skewed<br \/>\nYou can see her from the street before she moves out of view<br \/>\nTo kick her boots off tired feet<br \/>\nShe wipes her forehead with her wrist<br \/>\nShe&#8217;s just back from a double shift<br \/>\nEsther&#8217;s a carer, doing nights<br \/>\nBehind her, on the kitchen wall<br \/>\nIs a black and white picture of swallows in flight<br \/>\nHer eyes are sore, her muscles ache<br \/>\nShe cracks a beer and swigs it<br \/>\nShe holds it to her thirsty lips<br \/>\nAnd necks it till it&#8217;s finished<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s 04:18 AM again<br \/>\nHer brain is full from all she&#8217;s done that day<br \/>\nShe knows that she won&#8217;t sleep a wink<br \/>\nBefore the Sun is on its way<br \/>\nShe&#8217;s worried &#8217;bout the world tonight<br \/>\nShe&#8217;s worried all the time<br \/>\nShe don&#8217;t know how she&#8217;s supposed<br \/>\nTo put it from her mind<\/p>\n<p>Europe is lost, America lost, London lost<br \/>\nStill we are clamouring victory<br \/>\nAll that is meaningless rules<br \/>\nWe have learned nothing from history<br \/>\nThe people are dead in their lifetimes<br \/>\nDazed in the shine of the streets<br \/>\nBut look how the traffic&#8217;s still moving<br \/>\nSystem\u2019s too slick to stop working<br \/>\nBusiness is good, and there\u2019s bands every night in the pubs<br \/>\nAnd there\u2019s two for one drinks in the clubs<br \/>\nAnd we scrubbed up well<br \/>\nWashed off the work and the stress<br \/>\nAnd now all we want\u2019s some excess<br \/>\nBetter yet; a night to remember that we\u2019ll soon forget<br \/>\nAll of the blood that was bled for these cities to grow<br \/>\nAll of the bodies that fell<br \/>\nThe roots that were dug from the earth<br \/>\nSo these games could be played<br \/>\nI see it tonight in the stains on my hands<br \/>\nThe buildings are screaming<br \/>\nI can&#8217;t ask for help though, nobody knows me<br \/>\nHostile, worried, lonely<br \/>\nWe move in our packs and these are the rights we were born to<br \/>\nWorking and working so we can be all that we want<br \/>\nThen dancing the drudgery off<br \/>\nBut even the drugs have got boring<br \/>\nWell, sex is still good when you get it<\/p>\n<p>To sleep, to dream, to keep the dream in reach<br \/>\nTo each a dream, don\u2019t weep, don\u2019t scream<br \/>\nJust keep it in, keep sleeping in<br \/>\nWhat am I gonna do to wake up?<\/p>\n<p>I feel the cost of it pushing my body<br \/>\nLike I push my hands into pockets, and softly<br \/>\nI walk and I see it, this is all we deserve<br \/>\nThe wrongs of our past have resurfaced<br \/>\nDespite all we did to vanquish the traces<br \/>\nMy very language is tainted<br \/>\nWith all that we stole to replace it with this<br \/>\nI am quiet, feeling the onset of riot<br \/>\nRiots are tiny though, systems are huge<br \/>\nTraffic keeps moving, proving there\u2019s nothing to do<br \/>\n&#8216;Cause it\u2019s big business, baby, and its smile is hideous<br \/>\nTop down violence, a structural viciousness<br \/>\nYour kids are dosed up on medical sedatives<br \/>\nBut don\u2019t worry bout that, man, worry &#8217;bout terrorists<br \/>\nThe water level&#8217;s rising! The water level&#8217;s rising!<br \/>\nThe animals, the elephants, the polar bears are dying!<br \/>\nStop crying, start buying, but what about the oil spill?<br \/>\nShh, no one likes a party pooping spoil sport<br \/>\nMassacres, massacres, massacres\/new shoes<br \/>\nGhettoised children murdered in broad daylight<br \/>\nBy those employed to protect them<br \/>\nLive porn streamed to your pre-teen&#8217;s bedrooms<br \/>\nGlass ceiling, no headroom<br \/>\nHalf a generation live beneath the breadline<br \/>\nOh, but it&#8217;s happy hour on the high street<br \/>\nFriday night at last lads, my treat!<br \/>\nAll went fine till that kid got glassed in the last bar<br \/>\nPlace went nuts, you can ask our Lou<br \/>\nIt was madness, road ran red, pure claret<br \/>\nAnd about them immigrants? I can&#8217;t stand them<br \/>\nMostly, I mind my own business<br \/>\nThey\u2019re only coming over here to get rich, it\u2019s a sickness<br \/>\nEngland! England! Patriotism!<br \/>\nAnd you wonder why kids want to die for religion?<br \/>\nIt goes, work all your life for a pittance<br \/>\nMaybe you\u2019ll make it to manager, pray for a raise<br \/>\nCross the beige days off on your beach babe calendar<br \/>\nThe anarchists are desperate for something to smash<br \/>\nScandalous pictures of fashionable rappers<br \/>\nIn glamorous magazines, who\u2019s dating who?<br \/>\nPolitico cash in an envelope<br \/>\nCaught sniffing lines off a prostitutes&#8217; prosthetic tits<br \/>\nNow it&#8217;s back to the house of lords with slapped wrists<br \/>\nThey abduct kids and f@#ck the heads of dead pigs<br \/>\nBut him in a hoodie with a couple of spliffs<br \/>\nJail him, he\u2019s the criminal<br \/>\nJail him, he\u2019s the criminal<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s the BoredOfItAll generation<br \/>\nThe product of product placement and manipulation<br \/>\nShoot &#8217;em up, brutal, duty of care<br \/>\nCome on, new shoes, beautiful hair, bullshit!<br \/>\nSaccharine ballads and selfies, and selfies, and selfies<br \/>\nAnd here\u2019s me outside the palace of ME!<br \/>\nConstruct a self and psychosis<br \/>\nMeanwhile the people were dead in their droves<br \/>\nAnd, no, nobody noticed; well, some of them noticed<br \/>\nYou could tell by the emoji they posted<\/p>\n<p>Sleep like a gloved hand covers our eyes<br \/>\nThe lights are so nice and bright and let&#8217;s dream<br \/>\nBut some of us are stuck like stones in a slipstream<br \/>\nWhat am I gonna do to wake up?<\/p>\n<p>We are lost, we are lost, we are lost<br \/>\nAnd still nothing, will stop, nothing pauses<br \/>\nWe have ambitions and friendships and courtships to think of<br \/>\nDivorces to drink off the thought of<br \/>\nThe money, the money, the oil<br \/>\nThe planet is shaking and spoiled<br \/>\nAnd life is a plaything<br \/>\nA garment to soil<br \/>\nThe toil, the toil<br \/>\nI can&#8217;t see an ending at all<br \/>\nOnly the end<br \/>\nHow is this something to cherish?<br \/>\nWhen the tribesmen are dead in their deserts<br \/>\nTo make room for alien structures<br \/>\nDevelop, develop<br \/>\nAnd kill what you find if it threatens you<br \/>\nNo trace of love in the hunt for the bigger buck<br \/>\nHere in the land where nobody gives a f@$ck&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We first caught wind of talented English rap-poet Kate Tempest in early 2015. Since then this brilliant, frenetic teapot (apologies) has continued to throw-down, and is finally getting the recognition she deserves on this side of the pond (in addition to home). Check out below her recent American TV debut on The Tonight Show. 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