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Kate Tempest

Brighton Dome, Brighton, Saturday, October 19

KATE TEMPEST is a critically acclaimed musician, poet and playwright.

She has written for not only Channel 4 and BBC but also the Royal Shakespeare Company and Barnado’s.

Now Kate has announced as extensive tour of the UK.

She will play Brighton Dome on Saturday, October 19.

Tickets go on sale on Friday.

Kate has made a name for herself in numerous art forms and is a popular figure in both the music industry and the theatre world.

She has worked with Amnesty International to create a schools pack helping secondary school children

write their own protest songs.

Kate is a popular figure in Brighton, having been the guest director of the Brighton Festival in 2017.

In 2013 she won the Ted Hughes Award – an honour given to a UK poet for their work in the field.

In music she has been nominated for two Mercury Prizes, once in 2014 for her album Everybody Down and then again in 2017 for her next release Let Them Eat Chaos.

Everybody Down was written with a nod to Kate’s 2013 book.

Each track on the album correlated with a chapter in her debut novel, The Bricks That Built The Houses, which focuses on tales of life in the capital, drugs, desire and belonging.

She was also nominated for Best British Female Solo Performer award at the 2018 Brit Awards.

This newly announced tour, in which she will visit 13 cities across the country, is in support of her newest release The Book Of Traps And Lessons.

Kate will kick off the tour in Oxford on October 14 before visiting London, Birmingham, Leicester, Brighton, Bristol, Norwich, Sheffield, Manchester, Leeds, Cardiff, Glasgow and Newcastle.

For tickets and more information, visit www.katetempest.co.uk.