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Jez Kemp
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Designer, musician, creator of Horned Warrior Friends webcomic. He/him 🦖🦄💖🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️
www.jezkemp.co.uk
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Advance tix £8 for Wed 19th Nov at Hope & Anchor, featuring MOLARS + Open Palms + Fly Fly Triceratops + Jez Kemp (me!):
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#hopeandanchor #london #livemusic #londonmusic
Gig flyer for Wed 19th Nov at Hope And Anchor Islington, London , featuring Molars, Open Palms, Fly Fly Triceratops, and Jez Kemp
November 10, 2025 at 1:43 PM
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"Dinosaurs And My Feelings" live at The Black Bull Chelmsford 🤘🦖💖
See me next week Wed 19th Nov at Hope & Anchor Islington!
Video by Jemma ✨
#livemusic #jezkemp #rock #indierock #poprock #indie #dinosaurs #dinos #dinosaursong #essex #essexmusic
November 10, 2025 at 1:43 PM
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Hey friends! Check out my designs as a present for your loved ones or yourself – including my stunning sunset works, colourful patterns, unicorn designs and the #HornedWarriorFriends on cards, prints, phone cases and much more:
fineartamerica.com/profiles/jez...

#independentdesigner #design #prints
A screenshot of one of Jez Kemp's sunset science photo collage designs on a large print above a sofa A promo image of Jez Kemp's "Attempted Murder" design, with 2 crowss in white, on a black t-shirt A screenshot of the Horned Warrior Friends webcomic episode "Guitar Legend" on a large framed print A screenshot of Jez Kemp's design "Fun Colourful Giraffe Pattern" mocked up on a duvet cover
November 2, 2025 at 3:49 PM
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Happy 1st November to all who celebrate
A photo of UK pop group All Saints from 1997
November 1, 2025 at 1:15 PM
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BBC headlines these days are literally clickbait Tory propaganda. Lazy propaganda at that. "The NASTY COMMUNIST drove a CAR instead of a bicycle to the FIELDS OF WILTSHIRE. HYPOCRITE!"
Screenshot of a BBC news article preview, headline: "Just Stop Oil activist drove petrol car to Stonehenge, court told"
October 30, 2025 at 8:30 AM
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Wake up babe, new AI nightmare just dropped for designers 🤖💩
Forgive me Spreadshirt if I don't want people using AI to remix my designs to say "Nazis are great!"
Screenshot from a blog/information post by print-on-demand website Spreadshirt titled "AI function for customers in Product Designer". Text reads: "With our new AI function, our customers can individually customize designs created by partner designers like you using a self-chosen prompt. This makes it easier for them to choose designs and is intended to help increase sales. The function is available in our product designers in the 'Design' area and for customizable designs on the marketplace."
October 3, 2025 at 8:45 AM
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Autumn gigs!
🤘 Fri 24th Oct: Shakey's Sessions @ Black Bull, Chelmsford
🦕 Wed 19th Nov: Hope & Anchor, Islington
🍋 Sat 13th Dec: Lemon Curdmas @ Hot Box, Chelmsford

Stay weird and see you all down the front 🤘🦄🚀⚡🦕
www.jezkemp.co.uk/music

#Londonmusic #Essexmusic #livemusic
Promo post for Jez Kemp gigs in Autumn 2025: 24th October at Black Bull Chelmsford; 19th November at Hope & Anchor Islington; and 13th December at A Very Lemon Curdmas at Hot Box in Chelmsford. The design features a brachiosaurus unicorn in bright lurid pink and green!
October 2, 2025 at 7:28 PM
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New sunsets design! "007: Run" Just 9 sunsets really opens up the stunning skies above the London skyline, while still showing the sunset's journey from solstice to solstice 🌇 Available on prints, cards & more:
fineartamerica.com/featured/lon...
#London #design #sunset #photography #fineartamerica
Promo image for Jez Kemp Design "London Sunsets 007: Run", a portrait design made of 9 panoramic photos of the London skyline stacked on top of each other. Each photo shows the sunset in a different place on the horizon, illustrating the sunset's journey from winter solstice in the southwest (top left) to summer solstice in the northwest (bottom right).
September 22, 2025 at 8:51 AM
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London Sunsets 005 "Grow" and 006 "Home" stacked vertically, showing the London sunset travelling from Winter solstice in top left, to Summer solstice middle right, and then back again.
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#London #sunsets #solstice #equinox #science
Two designs by Jez Kemp stacked on top of each other vertically: "London Sunsets 005: Grow" and "London Sunsets 006: Home". Both of them are photo collages made up of 17 panoramic photos stacked on top of each other, showing the sunset moving across the London skyline. Together they form 34 panoramic photos of the London skyline, showing the sunset moving throughout a whole year, from winter solstice in the top left, to summer solstice in the middle right, and back to winter solstice in the bottom left. A tree silhouette on the right can be seen from bare branches at the top (winter/spring) through to full leaves (summer/autumn).
September 12, 2025 at 12:12 PM
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[2/3] Sunset designs 005 and 006 look amazing together, showing a full calendar year/solar cycle. You can even see the trees come to life from Winter through Spring into Summer. The view is facing West from Stave Hill in Russia Dock Woodland in Rotherhithe
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#London
Two designs by Jez Kemp shown next to each other horizontally: "London Sunsets 005: Grow" and "London Sunsets 006: Home" Both of them are photo collages made up of 17 panoramic photos stacked on top of each other, showing the sunset moving across the London skyline. The design on the left 005 shows the sunset moving from winter solstice in the top left to summer solstice in the bottom right, and the design on the right 006 shows the opposite; together they show a full solar cycle, and visually it looks like a big golden "V" shape.
September 12, 2025 at 12:12 PM
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[1/3] New design! "London Sunsets 006: Home" is finally here 🎉 So proud of this, the twin to 005, showing the London sunset coming back from Summer solstice (topright) to Winter solstice (bottomleft). Prints & cards here:
fineartamerica.com/featured/lon...
#sunset #London #art #design #science
"London Sunsets 006: Home" a photo collage design by Jez Kemp, made up of 17 panoramic photos stacked on top of each other, showing the London sunset moving from summer solstice in the top right to winter solstice in the bottom left. Many of them are colourful yellows and oranges with some pink and blue too.
September 12, 2025 at 12:12 PM
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Out now on streaming! Hit the big link to hear the Friendly Demons EP now on your favourite platform:
linktr.ee/jezkemp
4x upbeat pop-rock-indie-punk bangers, grateful if you can listen and give it a share 🦖🤘🚀
#poprock #punkrock #indierock #newmusic
Cover art for Jez Kemp's EP "Friendly Demons", featuring a cheeky pink demon on a purple background, with artist and title in garish green and orange text Screenshot of links to Jez Kemp's EP "Friendly Demons" on different streaming platforms, with garish pink and green stickers from artwork of the EP
August 25, 2025 at 10:04 PM
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COZFEST. Thank you so much, it's always such a treat to be here. Thanks Jemma for the photo 💖
Photo of Jez Kemp, a white guy with spiky hair and huge eyeliner, playing a red SG guitar on stage, without a top on. The lighting looks banging
August 24, 2025 at 6:37 PM
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Maybe it's the all the racism, just a thought
Screenshot of a BBC article preview, headline reads: "Why have thousands of St George's flags gone up in cities and towns?" The photo is of a leafy street which does not really look like a town and definitely not a city.
August 21, 2025 at 11:13 AM
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Another typical BBC News headline: even when the issue is a transphobe, a person who hates and despises trans people, even when trans people aren't the subject, the headline is still made vague enough to suggest that actually maybe the nasty transes are to blame. "Trans controversy" lmao
Screenshot of BBC News promoted in Chrome, with a photo of disgraced author John Boyne – John Boyne, the author ridiculed and eviscerated by the Holocaust Foundation for his misrepresentation of the Holocaust in his book "The Boy In The Striped Pyjamas"; John Boyne the laziest author in the world, who, when researching a historical fiction book, took a Legend of Zelda recipe from a Google preview suggestion for the search "red dye" and put it in his book; persistent hate speech enthusiast who has never apologised for his attacks on trans people and smears against them. The gutless and misrepresentative article headline reads "Polari prize organisers cancel book prize over trans controversy", suggesting that trans people either are the controversy, or caused it.
August 18, 2025 at 11:31 PM
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It's COZFEST! I'm playing CozFest 2025 in Essex on Saturday this Bank Holiday Weekend 23-24th August 🦖🎸 Playing tracks off my new EP FRIENDLY DEMONS, with incredible other acts. Tickets on Eventbrite, can't wait to see you there 🤘
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/cozfest-25...
#Cozfest #Cozfest2025 #livemusic
Promo flyer of Jez Kemp playing at Cozfest 2025 on Bank Holiday weekend 23-24th August 2025. It's a high contrast black and white photo of Jez Kemp playing guitar on stage, wearing all zebra and cow print. Some kitsch graphics from Jez Kemp's new EP "Friendly Demons" have been pasted on top in lurid pink & green colours.
August 5, 2025 at 11:47 AM
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Every day's a school day. I heard the "single stick vs bundle of sticks" analogy as a kid, specifically told as a Good Thing, and grew up assuming it was an analogy about trade unions. Turns out: fascism!
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fasces
Excerpt from Wikipedia article on the fasces, a bundle of sticks tied together to make an axe, which was a symbol of power in the Roman Empire and more recently in fascist Europe in the 20th century. "...and it was the origin of the name of the National Fascist Party in Italy (from which the term fascism is derived). During the first half of the twentieth century, both the fasces and the swastika (each symbol having its own unique ancient religious and mythological associations) became heavily identified with the fascist political movements of Benito Mussolini and Adolf Hitler.[2][3][4][5][6] This is due to Mussolini's more active usage of the symbol and the campaigns of Hitler, Nazis, and anti-fascists alike to make various allusions and comparisons between the two dictators to associate Hitler with Mussolini and his symbolism.[2][3][4][5][6] During this period the swastika became deeply stigmatized, but the fasces did not undergo a similar process outside Italy. The fasces remained in use in many societies after World War II because it had already been adopted and incorporated into the..."
July 4, 2025 at 10:43 AM
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Astonishing that it's been over 6 years and a whole pandemic since the BBC's "both sides" internal memo on climate change, and yet it seems to be even worse now at deliberately laundering bad actors and both-sidesing some of the most important issues that need factual reporting
Screenshot of a Guardian article from September 2018 called "BBC admits 'we get climate change coverage wrong too often'. Subheading says "Briefing sent to editorial staff on global warming says ‘you do not need a denier to balance the debate’". The photo is of Nigel Lawson, who was Margaret Thatcher's Chancellor of the Exchequer (in the 1980s!), and was featured on a BBC news panel as one "side" (despite no experience or scientific background) against an expert on climate change
July 1, 2025 at 1:48 PM
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More dregs by the BBC. In an article both-sidesing RFK's own conspiracy garbage, zero mention of Vani Hari's years as the "Food Babe" who claimed Subway were putting yoga mats in bread & a million other conspiracies. She is simply "food blogger and former Democrat" @jimreedbbc.bsky.social
Title screenshot of a "BBC In-depth" article both-sidesing RFK Jr's conspiracy theories and laundering his garbage. Title is "Is RFK Jr's divisive plan to Make America Healthy Again fearmongering – or revolutionary?" Astonishing that years after BBC admitted both-sidesing climate climate in 2017, articles like this are still being produced, which desperately avoid reporting facts and the truth (that RFK Jr is a con artist and conspiracy-peddler) Text from the BBC article both-sidesing RFK Jr – it's a paragraph quoting Vani Hari, without mentioning her extensive years as the "Food Babe" fearmongering and pushing conspiracies. Text reads: ""What's happening in this administration is really interesting," says Vani Hari, a food blogger and former Democrat who is now an influential voice in the Make America Healthy Again (MAHA) movement. "MAHA is all about how do we get people off processed food, and one way to do that is to regulate the chemicals companies use.""
July 1, 2025 at 1:38 PM
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This BBC article about invasive hornets is from and for Guernsey, but in a cynical attempt to get clicks from anywhere, you wouldn't know apart from vague references to "the States". Halfway down, you finally get "More news stories for Guernsey". It's deliberate, shameless & dishonest. 2/2
Screenshot of a BBC News article about Asian hornets in Guernsey. I've added a green highlight under "The States". Text reads: "People are being asked to track the location of Asian hornet nests rather than destroy them. It comes as Queen Asian hornets are set to leave their primary nests alongside worker hornets to build their large main nests in new locations, capable of holding up to 2,000 hornets. The States is asking members of the public to submit photos and information about where they find nests so the Asian hornet team can come and remove them. The Asian hornet is described as a non-native invasive species, which poses a threat to biodiversity, pollinating insects and beekeeping activities. During this year's "Spring Queening" phase, more queen Asian hornets were trapped than any previous year with 69 queens caught and five primary nests destroyed." Screenshot from a BBC News article about Asian hornets in Guernsey. I've added a green highlight around links in the middle of the text which specifically highlight this article is about Guernsey. Text reads: "Hundreds of volunteers took part in "a comprehensive island-wide programme" to trap queen Asian hornets as they emerged from hibernation in the spring or as they arrived from France and possibly other islands. "We are really grateful to our trapping volunteers for their support and commitment to this project." said Francis Russell, the States' Asian Hornet Strategy project coordinator. "We're also grateful to members of the wider public who have played a vital role in reporting potential Asian hornet or nest sightings to us. "If you spot what you think might be a hornet, take a photo, observe where it goes, send the information to us and we'll do the rest.""
June 28, 2025 at 4:20 PM
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Media bugbear: when BBC News (and others too) deliberately hide that a news report is *from* and *for* a particular area, when they used to display it very clearly. Giant hornets?! Omg!! Oh wait, this is literally news for & from Guernsey. 1/2
Screenshot of a BBC News article "Report Asian hornet nests, don't destroy them". I've added a green highlight under "The States" in the image caption: "The States say experts destroyed five primary nests in this year's 'Spring Queening'"
June 28, 2025 at 4:20 PM
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You said expect cringe but I did not expect nuclear levels of cringe like "fighting the 2nd presidency of open fascism by dressing up as a clown"
Text from the Democrats Abroad webpage on "No Tyrants" (renamed from the US event "No Kings"): "As we stand up for democracy and resist authoritarianism, Donald Trump is marking the same day with a four-mile military parade in Washington, D.C. to honor — himself. Here in London, Indivisible UK is organizing a powerful and creative counter-rally. The twist? Dress as a clown. Yes, seriously. 🤡"
June 15, 2025 at 8:52 PM
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Absolutely soaked, totally worth it. What a band, what an afternoon! #BrockleyMax #MaxInThePark #Brockley
Selfie by Jez, a white guy soaked through from the rain with a happy grin, in front of a 13-piece soul band on stage at Max In The Park community festival in Brockley
June 7, 2025 at 5:39 PM
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YES MATE 🤘💖 huge thanks to everyone who came & @newcrossinn.bsky.social for having me, what an absolute treat. Come see me do it all again this Sat 2pm, opening the Engine Rooms anniversary all-dayer! Tix here:
skiddle.com/e/40942638/?...
#London #music #livemusic #newcross #newcrossinn #Londonmusic
Photo of Jez Kemp, a white guy with spiky hair and a dark red guitar, rocking out on stage at New Cross Inn. There's dinosaur fairy lights hanging off the mic stand! Photo of Jez Kemp, a white guy with spiky hair and a dark red guitar, rocking out on stage at New Cross Inn. There's dinosaur fairy lights hanging off the mic stand! Photo of Jez Kemp, a white guy with spiky hair and a dark red guitar, rocking out on stage at New Cross Inn. There's dinosaur fairy lights hanging off the mic stand! Photo of Jez Kemp, a white guy with spiky hair and a dark red guitar, rocking out on stage at New Cross Inn. There's dinosaur fairy lights hanging off the mic stand!
May 1, 2025 at 10:24 AM
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Tomorrow! Tickets are £10 door or £7 adv here:
pit.live/events/molars
Genuinely excited for this, @newcrossinn.bsky.social is a great venue, can't wait to bang out the tunes from the new EP. Let's goooooo 🤘🚀🎸
#NewCrossInn #SouthLondon #London #livemusic #newcross
Gig flyer for New Cross Inn on Wednesday 30th April 2025 featuring MOLARS + IS THIS OK + JEZ KEMP
April 29, 2025 at 5:46 PM