Let Them Eat Chaos Kate Tempest's new long poem written for live performance and heard on the
album release of the same name is both a powerful sermon and a moving play for voices. Seven
neighbours inhabit the same London street but are all unknown to each other. The clock freezes
in the small hours and one by one we see directly into their lives: lives that are damaged
disenfranchised lonely broken addicted. Then a great storm breaks over London and brings
them out into the night to face each other - and offers them a chance to connect. Tempest
argues that our alienation from one another has bred a terrible indifference to our own fate
but she counters this with a plea to challenge the forces of greed which have conspired to
divide us and mend the broken home of our own planet while we still have time. Let Them Eat
Chaos is a cri de coeur and a call to action and both on the page and in Tempest's electric
performance one of the most powerful poetic statements of the year.
