Kae Tempest - Perfect Coffee (Live on KEXP)

KEXP.ORG presents Kae Tempest performing "Perfect Coffee" live in the KEXP studio. Recorded March 28, 2017.
Host: Cheryl Waters
Audio Engineer: Kevin Suggs
Audio Mixer: Alex Gent
Cameras: Jim Beckmann, Alaia D'Alessandro & Scott Holpainen
Editor: Justin Wilmore
kexp.org
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[@traintrambus]

This is not a natural home for my age group (71) but the words are sad, beautiful, angry in fact every emotion you can conjure. My grow up children can't believe I enjoy this music but Miss Tempest has the art of musical poetry, always with a message. I do understand the frustration of youth and the difficulties that abound. Thank you for appearing on Radio 5 the first time I heard this wonderful music.

[@maggiezahn8936]

9999⁹9999⁹99⁹9999999😅😅

[@frankzappa951]

Some of the very best UK lyrics ever. More power to this wordsmith. Respect.

[@aliciakalyani4533]

Finally there is an artist I can truly relate to

[@scarfboy]

why is this so captivating?

[@barbarastanwyck4288]

such prescience. thank you kae for getting us ready

[@borekm4770]

She is really sick. Can't stop listening.

[@jacquelinepaul9731]

This is just brilliant....at many levels.

[@sbrian71]

Indigo Girls interview on NPR sent me here. Really glad it did.

[@mapachevivaz6592]

"the squats we used to party in are now flats we can´t afford"

[@carolcarrilero2407]

A poet!

[@karlasaavedra1745]

Epic!

[@IonaMackenzie]

you know what ? your genre or not, this expression is a-maze-ihng. Kate is a superb beautiful freak. like planet earth.

[@ekadow]

Phenomenal performance......

[@lunarwafer6988]

Kate Tempest just rocks

[@mikemilner8526]

sends chills

[@davemustabstain7093]

Outstanding!

[@warpscout]

My genre, and nontheless blown away. What an artist.

[@milan0vich]

Beautiful work ♥

[@LexiGoreLovesYa]

Christ this is on point.

[@redwest2761]

Amazing work! I am hooked lol. I love your style, the meanings hidden in your lyrics and the flow of the words is fantastic. By adding the music and a certain rap style to your work has given it that extra element. I am a poet my self and I wish I had half your talent.

[@whohasnine7853]

so beautiful

[@CabraFuriosa]

Fuck me this is pure raw power

[@davideaston6944]

Awesome stuff ... to the real

[@jonathanbehan2838]

So Cool... Love it!

[@KlanglaborBerlin]

This is it !

[@MissPixelsdotcom]

I'll be sipping perfect coffee ☕️ Thinkin', "This is pretty good," 👌 While the locals grit their teeth and hum 🦷 "Another fucking one has come." 👀 💪

[@midihooker]

amazing!

[@roodline]

FAN!

[@bigbeefybern]

fabulous

[@Th3Myst1cPug]

Kids are alright but the kids will get older, simple but blew me away so real

[@begbiefrancees6248]

Love, love, love Wonderful Kate Tempest Rocks.

[@borekm4770]

Miss London

[@hansdupiereux]

Una joya

[@xeniumxneum8006]

discovered tonite, wondered who was doing the tunes, now i know

[@JH-zb1ju]

FUXN YEAH

[@GoranZec]

"Yeah, the kids are allright, but the kids will get older."

[@Th3Myst1cPug]

Hell yeah min

[@iakusz]

All I see is luxury tenements, woebegone residents Redolent resin-heads puffing on pleasure Everyone's reckoning something is beckoning There's never been anything, there's only forever Towering tower blocks, scaffolding rattling The tube is prattering ram full of passengers Smashing its way into town, we are scavengers Scrapping around in the sludge for our sustenance Have a dash party life, rubbing our shoulders Into the mould, yes, we do what we're told We're Sisyphus pushing his boulder The kids are alright, but the kids will get older Holly shit man... just...

[@jacquelinepaul9731]

Jakub Nowak The thing is she will probably be moving into one of those luxury apts soon.

[@november662]

Her lyrics hits me deep and I'm Spanish native speaker, damn she's good...

[@samuelashdown7994]

I think you really overestimate how much money poets make. She lives near me in new cross.

[@davidkvarnberg3140]

i own a boat

[@Carlotta611]

@@jacquelinepaul9731 So What?

[@xeniumxneum8006]

and i like it even more watching the people behind her

[@batemitki4]

The most haunting and beautiful electronic piece of art since Kraftwerk's "Hall of Mirrors" Simply amazing.

[@faithmargaret6702]

She is amazing.

[@vincejelineo748]

Fierce.

[@Joecoleman84]

It's like an army of angry gameboys fighting gentrification.

[@dwaynetempest3433]

I'm here

[@Robert-nn8mp]

you're about fifty floors up from me, but keep going, continue. you're already a star!

[@Robert-nn8mp]

super fucking writing great band

[@GodmadeConscious]

SIIIICK

[@kitwest61]

Suffering is so hard to bare

[@silvia4903]

Amazing, all my rage is in that song. I' ve seen how some people prom Barcelona has been pushed to change their normal life and leave to another city,. Far from school, job, friend,... Their own life left to give a place to a fu___g tourist or to a Russian investor. Just insane, because of the money

[@mno4961]

Now just two doors down In the first floor flat And the old ramshackle house With the broken down porch and the novelty doorbell The lights are still on Zoe plays her music low, she's got a bottle on the go Everything's in boxes It's been a long night packing Clothes in black bin bags, Blu-Tack greasing the paintwork What the fuck is all this stuff? There's the road sign stolen from Quick Shag Street Shirts, and skirts, posters, CDs, comedy coasters, broken TV Birthday card that her sister made In the distant past when she turned 13 Hair stuff, books, love letters she can't bin And outside, the night, and inside, the last hurrah Limited edition Air Max 1 tens Che Guevara bust, complete with his ornamental glass cigar Naff for years, the landlord never fixed the shower And the mold kept growing up the kitchen walls He'll do it up nice now, sure Repaint it, it's triple the rent He's gonna get it, and all She's only got a few hours left to get the room all packed and clean Zoe goes to the window Looks to the street Lights up a smoke It's 4:18 The squats we used to party in Our flats we can't afford The dumps we did our dancing in Have all been restored Pints all up to quit The staff are beautiful and bored You think it's coming up 'round here It's falling on its sword It don't feel like home no more I don't speak the lingo Since when was this a winery It used to be the bingo I've walked these streets for all my life They know me like no other But the streets have changed I no longer feel them shudder Alright, alright, I get the gist Who's city is this? It doesn't want me no more In fact, I glimpse into the future, it stinks London's walled fort, it's all for the rich If you fall short, you fall, and you know where the door is Board up the broken, do it up, sell it back Make it bespoke, it's all out in the open It's fine, man, hike the price right up And smile with your friends in the posh new nightclubs My streets have been dug up, repaved New routes for commuters, the landscape has changed I'm lookin' for the old tags, the graffs that once meant safe territory But it seems every habitat gets whitewashed eventually And so I'm moving on I've got it all to play for I'll be the invader in some other neighbourhood I'll be sipping perfect coffee Thinkin', "This is pretty good," While the locals grit their teeth and hum "Another fucking one has come." All I see is luxury tenements, woebegone residents Redolent resin-heads puffing on pleasure Everyone's reckoning something is beckoning There's never been anything, there's only forever Towering tower blocks, scaffolding rattling The tube is prattering ram full of passengers Smashing its way into town, we are scavengers Scrapping around in the sludge for our sustenance Have a dash party life, rubbing our shoulders Into the mould, yes, we do what we're told We're Sisyphus pushing his boulder The kids are alright, but the kids will get older

[@lapierresandy8420]

Thx M No, U make it much easier to understand it all for french people like me ;)

[@silvia4903]

Thanks for the lirics, now I understand all the song.

[@paulmackilligin1754]

Thanks. Pretty good. A couple of small corrections: The squats we used to party in Our flats we can't afford [Should be: "ARE flats we can't afford"] The dumps we did our dancing in Have all been restored Pints all up to quit [Should be: "Pints all up two quid."] (Pints of beer in pubs have gone up in price by £2.) Also... There's never been anything, there's only forever [Should be: "There's never a minute, Man; there's only forever."] (We're all thinking of the future, planning, but don't have time in the present.)

[@ladedalounge]

Hmm algorithm fro a social media contact got me here...Chicago IL USA here.

[@jamaldaquarius]

Aint no way people are saying this is good

[@xeniumxneum8006]

what an ending

[@carlcollins7546]

If there was one person, just one person in this whole wide world i would give a humungous kiss to at this moment it would be Kate, it could be on the dance floor or in the back of a taxi or my be my best friends bedroom! XxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxX pucker up Kate X

[@PopeOfMope]

since when was this a winery? it used to be the bingo!

[@JH-zb1ju]

TIMES2020

[@hariseldon02]

I love the melody of "Che Guevara bust with its ornamental glass cigar"

[@mvdeano]

Philosophy a la Kate.

[@marccottom4685]

Who’s the bloke on keyboard?

[@thepostalcadet253]

That's Keith, keyboard Keith.

[@joeherbert4329]

KATE KATE KATE

[@ilovejendog]

Hipsters: @4:40 Me: @4:50 lol (not lol)

[@yeromirhuta1215]

:*

[@lukazorcic894]

shit im early

[@steveledger9482]

Never put bluetac on ur walls lol

[@thomasheinzel7343]

slow down lady. lol

[@mathewpinnock138]

if she was a man she would be huge!!!