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Kae Tempest

Kae Tempest is a person from London, active since 1985.

Person London since 1985 spoken word hip hop political hip hop
TOTAL PLAYS
1,213
SONGS PLAYED
115
STATIONS
4
FIRST PLAYED
2020-08-26 13:11 · 6 Music — "Don't Fall In"
LAST PLAYED
2 months ago · 6 Music — "Europe Is Lost"
BIO · WIKIPEDIA

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◦ ACTIVITY

Plays per year

2020 — 2026
500 375 250 125 0
'20 '21 '22 '23 '24 '25 '26
◦ WHERE

By station

6 Music 1,091 90%
Radio 2 59 5%
Radio 1 58 5%
1Xtra 5 0%
◦ WHEN

Common hour

0006121823

Peak hour: 03:00

◦ THE SONGS

Top tracks

BY PLAY COUNT
#TITLEPLAYSLAST
1 More Pressure (feat. Kevin Abstract) 160 2026-05-08
2 No Prizes (feat. Lianne La Havas) 96 2025-10-20
3 Know Yourself 90 2025-12-14
4 Statue In The Square 69 2025-12-21
5 Nice Idea 65 2024-07-17
6 Don't You Ever 61 2026-05-16
7 Diagnoses 60 2026-03-28
8 Move Rework (feat. Kojey Radical) 60 2023-09-22
9 Firesmoke 46 2025-11-05
10 I Stand On The Line 43 2025-12-04
11 Circles 40 2025-11-06
12 The Beigeness 39 2025-06-03
◦ THE LOG

Recent plays

2026-05-23 11:19 Europe Is Lost 6 Music
2026-05-16 21:23 Don't You Ever 6 Music
2026-05-08 06:20 More Pressure (feat. Kevin Abstract) 6 Music
2026-03-28 00:37 Diagnoses Radio 2
2026-01-19 20:32 Diagnoses Radio 2
2025-12-24 07:41 More Pressure (feat. Kevin Abstract) 6 Music
2025-12-21 06:56 Statue In The Square 6 Music
2025-12-14 22:50 Know Yourself Radio 1
2025-12-12 00:11 Statue In The Square 6 Music
2025-12-04 03:18 Statue In The Square 6 Music
2025-12-04 03:17 More Pressure (6 Music Festival 2025) 6 Music
2025-12-04 03:15 Know Yourself 6 Music
◦ EVERY TRACK

All songs played

115 UNIQUE TRACKS · A–Z
▶
Bad Place For A Good Time — 14 ▶
Breakfast — 11 ▶
Breaks — 1 ▶
Breathe — 1 ▶
Brews — 1 ▶
Circles — 40 ▶
Circles (Mike Skinner remix) — 1 ▶
Diagnoses — 60 ▶
Diagnoses (6 Music Festival 2025) — 1 ▶
Diagnoses (Sofa Session, 9 Jul 2025) — 3 ▶
Diagnosis — 2 ▶
Don't Fall In — 7 ▶
Don't You Ever — 61 ▶
Don't You Ever (Sofa Session, 20 July 2022) — 1 ▶
Europe Is Lost — 5 ▶
Europe Is Lost (6 Music Session, 11th April 2022) (feat. Lianne La Havas) — 1 ▶
Europe is lost (Clean Version) — 1 ▶
Everything All Together — 1 ▶
Firesmoke — 46 ▶
Firesmoke (6 Music Festival 2025) — 3 ▶
Firesmoke (6 Music Festival, 08 Mar 2020) — 1 ▶
Firesmoke (6 Music Festival, 8 Mar 2020) — 1 ▶
Firesmoke (6 Music Session, 11th April 2022) — 2 ▶
Firesmoke (6 Music Session, 17 Jun 2018) — 8 ▶
Firesmoke (6 Music Session, 17 Jun 2019) — 1 ▶
Firesmoke (Glastonbury 2022) — 4 ▶
Firesmoke (Glastonbury 2025) — 1 ▶
Freed From Desire (Radio 2 Session, 20th July 2022) — 1 ▶
Freed From Desire (Sofa Session, 20 July 2022) — 2 ▶
Freedom (Sofa Session, 9 Jul 2025) — 2 ▶
Freedom! '25 — 10 ▶
Grace — 12 ▶
Grace (6 Music Festival 2025) — 1 ▶
Grubby — 1 ▶
Grubby (6 Music Session, 4 May 2017) — 1 ▶
Happy End (6 Music Session, 8th July 2014) — 1 ▶
Hold Your Own — 6 ▶
Holy Elixr (6 Music Festival 2025) — 1 ▶
I Saw Light (feat. Grian Chatten) — 6 ▶
I Stand On The Line — 43 ▶
I Trap You — 1 ▶
Keep Moving Don't Move — 9 ▶
Keep Moving Don't Move (Instrumental) — 6 ▶
Ketamine for Breakfast — 1 ▶
Know Yourself — 90 ▶
Know Yourself (6 Music Festival 2025) — 1 ▶
Lessons (6 Music Session, 17 Jun 2018) — 1 ▶
Lion Mouth Door Knocker (6 Music Session, 4 May 2017) — 1 ▶
Lionmouth Door Knocker — 4 ▶
Lionmouth Door Knocker (6 Music Festival 2025) — 1 ▶
Lonely Daze — 3 ▶
Lonely Daze (6 Music Session, 21 May 2014) — 6 ▶
Love Harder — 6 ▶
More Pressure (6 Music Festival 2025) — 6 ▶
More Pressure (6 Music Session, 11th April 2022) — 1 ▶
More Pressure (feat. Kevin Abstract) — 160 ▶
More Pressure (Glastonbury 2025) — 2 ▶
Move — 6 ▶
Move (6 Music Festival 2025) — 1 ▶
Move (6 Music Session, 11th April 2022) — 1 ▶
Move (feat. Kojey Radical) — 1 ▶
Move (rework) (feat. Kojey Radical) — 6 ▶
Move / More Pressure (6 Music Session, 11th April 2022) — 1 ▶
Move Rework (feat. Kojey Radical) — 60 ▶
Nice Idea — 65 ▶
No Prizes (6 Music Festival 2025) — 3 ▶
No Prizes (6 Music Session, 11 Apr 2022) (feat. Lianne La Havas) — 4 ▶
No Prizes (6 Music Session, 11th April 2022) (feat. Lianne La Havas) — 4 ▶
No Prizes (feat. Lianne La Havas) — 96 ▶
No Prizes (Radio Edit) (feat. Lianne La Havas) — 3 ▶
Nothing To Prove — 1 ▶
People's Faces — 31 ▶
People's Faces (6 Music Festival 2025) — 2 ▶
People's Faces (6 Music Session 2022 ) — 1 ▶
People's Faces (6 Music Session, 11th April 2022) — 2 ▶
People's Faces (Glastonbury 2022) — 1 ▶
People's Faces (Glastonbury Festival, 24 Jun 2022) — 1 ▶
People's Faces (Radio 2 session, 17 Dec 2019) — 1 ▶
People's Faces (Radio 2 Session, 17 Jun 2019) — 1 ▶
People's Faces (Sofa Session, 20 July 2022) — 1 ▶
People's faces (Streatham version) — 19 ▶
Perfect Coffee — 1 ▶
Perfect Coffee (6 Music Festival 2025) — 1 ▶
Picture a Vacuum — 1 ▶
Prayers to Whisper (6 Music Festival 2025) — 1 ▶
Priority Boredom — 4 ▶
Priority Boredom (6 Music Festival 2025) — 1 ▶
Salt Coast — 9 ▶
Salt Coast (6 Music Festival 2025) — 1 ▶
Salt Coast (6 Music Session, 11th April 2022) — 2 ▶
Smoking (6 Music Festival 2025) — 1 ▶
Statue In The Square — 69 ▶
Statue In The Square (6 Music Festival 2025) — 3 ▶
Statue in the Square (Sofa Session, 9 Jul 2025) — 1 ▶
Sunshine On Catford — 3 ▶
Sunshine On Catford (Instrumental) — 1 ▶
The Beigeness — 39 ▶
The Beigeness (6 Music Festival 2015) — 1 ▶
The Beigeness (6 Music Festival, 08 Mar 2020) — 1 ▶
The Beigeness (Glastonbury 2015) — 1 ▶
The Heist — 13 ▶
The Heist (6 Music Session, 21 May 2014) — 6 ▶
The Truth — 1 ▶
The Truth (6 Music Session, 8 Jul 2014) — 6 ▶
Theme From Becky — 20 ▶
These Are Days (6 Music Session, 11th April 2022) — 4 ▶
These Are The Days (6 Music Session, 11th April 2022) — 1 ▶
Till Morning — 1 ▶
Till Morning (6 Music Festival 2025) — 1 ▶
To the Victor the Spoils — 1 ▶
Tunnel Vision — 15 ▶
Unholy Elixir — 9 ▶
Unholy Elixir (Live on Mary Anne Hobbs 2019) — 6 ▶
Water in the Rain (feat. Assia) — 5 ▶
Whoops — 6 ▶