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From Jurassic World Rebirth to Kae Tempest: your complete entertainment guide to the week ahead

There’s another dino crisis as the cold-blooded megafranchise roars on, and the rapper-poet returns with a hugely personal new album

The Guardian - UK

"A reintroduction to the artist as his truest self." Kae Tempest's fifth album Self Titled cements his status as one of the most essential voices in UK music

Kae Tempest's follow-up to 2022's acclaimed The Line Is A Curve is another hard-hitting, incisive triumph

Louder

Kae Tempest: Self Titled review – the rhythms in his lyrics are still so distinct

Despair runs through the Londoner’s fifth album but, in what is essentially a love letter to the trans community, his home town and partner, a strange beauty breaks through

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On Self Titled, Kae Tempest delivers power and truth in his weary clarity

4/5 Some tracks tend to border on prosaic, but others sparkle with Tempest’s cheeky wit

The Independent UK

“If it was my piano, I’d chop it up and use it for kindling”: The ‘not great’ instrument that created Adele’s Set Fire to the Rain

Fraser T Smith reveals the gear behind his work with Adele, Kano, Dave, Kae Tempest and more

MusicRadar

“When I started I didn't really know what a producer was. I just thought artists would produce themselves, because that's what I would have done”: Adele, Stormzy and Kae Tempest collaborator Fraser T Smith on the shifting definition of a ‘producer’

The award-winning producer on his Future Utopia project and the need to be a ‘Swiss Army knife’ in the studio

MusicRadar

Kae Tempest review – a brave, intimate set where the personal is political

The laser-focused spoken-word performer returns to the musical stage with new tracks focusing on their identity – but wider concerns are never far away

The Guardian - UK

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Kae Tempest at Village Underground review: spitting bars and radiating trans joy

5/5 An intimate gig allowed the poet and rapper to debut new songs — and a new voice

Evening Standard

RAYE scoops top prize at Ivors while Bruce Springsteen receives lifetime honour

Rapper Dave, songwriter Bernie Taupin and grime legend Skepta among other artists to take home major awards

The Independent UK

Evenings and Weekends by Oisín McKenna review – a love letter to London under pressure

The precarity and dreams of thirtysomething Londoners are adroitly explored in this tender portrait of contemporary queer life

The Guardian - UK

Sampha, Yussef Dayes and Daniel Pemberton top Ivor Novello award nominations

Sampha and Dayes get nods for best album and share in nomination for Sampha’s song Spirit 2.0, at awards for British songwriting and composition

The Guardian - UK

Kae Tempest: ‘I used to read David Icke. Imagine that’

The poet on being inspired by rappers, learning from Ursula K Le Guin, and the life-saving Leslie Feinberg

The Guardian - UK

‘A hero to millions’: Benjamin Zephaniah remembered by Michael Rosen, Kae Tempest and more

The acclaimed writer and poet for children and adults has died aged 65. Here, leading contemporaries pay tribute

The Guardian - UK

The week in TV: The Couple Next Door; Slow Horses; Being Kae Tempest; The Doll Fctory – review

Kink meets kitchen sink in C4’s swinging neighbours thriller; Gary Oldman takes dishevelment to the next level; inside the ‘ferocious’ mind of Kae Tempest; plus, some full-tilt gothic Victoriana

The Guardian - UK

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Being Kae Tempest review – an extremely well-deserved good news story

This pleasingly hype-free documentary about the rapper and writer’s life shows them in a far happier place than in recent years. It’s very nice to see – even if it can tend towards the dull

The Guardian - UK

TV tonight: how Kae Tempest became the voice of a generation

We delve into the world of the spoken-word poet. Plus: more delicious, cringe-worthy family drama from Kat Sadler. Here’s what to watch this evening

The Independent UK

The shyest producer in music? How Fraser T Smith found his way into the spotlight

Stormzy loves him, Dave brought him on stage to collect a Brit Award, and he’s behind hits by Adele, Britney and Gorillaz. But now self-effacing super producer Fraser T Smith is putting himself centre stage, he tells Roisin O’Connor

The Guardian - UK

On my radar: Alabaster DePlume’s cultural highlights

The musician on a dark version of Oklahoma!, amazing art from Palestine, and why jiujitsu works wonders for his state of mind

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The Independent UK

‘I used to be associated with music that wasn’t in demand’: Producer Dan Carey on Speedy Wunderground, Fontaines DC and his new band, Miss Tiny

Megan Graye visits the in-demand producer at his home studio where Carey opens up about his good luck blessings, facing setbacks, and his tried and true ‘formula’ when it comes to producing records for south London’s buzziest bands

Bristol Post

Bristol's award-winning masked rapper B of Briz talks hip-hop, feminism and Buffy the vampire slayer

B of Briz was recently crowned the winner of Audiotarky's 'Future Sound of Bristol' competition

ABC News

Sydney WorldPride headliner Kae Tempest on how coming out as non-binary transformed their life and art, and their Australian tour

It took many years and a health crisis for Kae Tempest to realise they’d been trying to escape themselves; ahead of Sydney WorldPride, they explain how coming out as non-binary was not only transformative but essential.

The Guardian - AU

The best things to do in Sydney in February: our handpicked guide to the hottest tickets in town

From Sydney WorldPride parties to live music, great plays, and family-friendly events – here are the best things happening in your city in February

The Guardian - UK

Brit awards: all-male best artist category reveals wider music industry sickness

Out of the 71 acts eligible for the gender-neutral award, only 13 were female or non-binary. The dearth exposes the British industry’s inability to develop anyone but young men

The Independent UK

Glastonbury 2022 full lineup and set times by day

Festival returns to Worthy Farm with major UK and international artists

The Independent UK

Glastonbury 2022 full lineup and set times by day

Festival returns to Worthy Farm with major UK and international artists

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