If you're planning on seeing Kate Tempest live anytime soon, be prepared to be hit by an avalanche of words.
Like an exploding dictionary, Tempest is full of them. So many spill out of the London-based beat-poet at her first Auckland show, you have to wonder how she keeps them contained when she's not on stage.
Despite suffering through some killer humidity in the venue, the playwrite, author and rapper held the sold out Kings Arms crowd spellbound.
This wasn't any old rap show. Yes, Tempest, who has had several collections of poetry published, delivered plenty of brilliant moments from her Mercury Prize-nominated debut Everybody Down, like Marshall Law's warning call, The Beigeness' street stories or Lonely Daze's downbeat drama.
But more captivating were the moments when Tempest stopped the music delivered by her two-strong band to deliver acapella raps or spoken word poetry.
