Kate Tempest dives deep and dark in Dublin gig

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Kate Tempest’s Vicar Street show began with the mother of all selfie moments. The 33-year-old poet and rapper disapproves of mid-concert photography and instructed the audience to get their snap-happy impulses out of the way at the outset. What was to follow would, she promised, be intense. We should give ourselves to the here and now and leave our phones in our pockets.