Bio.
Kier Kemp
When I began trying to pull the common threads of my life together I struggled.
I love so many things. From music to nature, fantasy to food and for some time I couldn't see any common themes. People love a theme these days you see, they want a story that can be put neatly in a box and I didn't seem to fit.
Then one day I did what I usually do when stuck and decided to ask Jen and immediately she said: "Well it's obsession isn't it? You don't just like things a bit, you're consumed by them..." as if it was just really obvious.
I realised she was right of course. I'm obsessed with the things that I make and that becomes my edge. The result has been an interesting life. From my band to my food business or the clients I help with their marketing, with each new venture that I turn my mind to I seem to attract likeminded people, other obsessives, other maniacs and a cult brand is born.
Things that have happened.
1989 - 2006
Born in Beccles, Suffolk and named after Keir Hardy. Go to school, am not cool but find amazing friends. Play Wonderwall in assembly, get hooked on music.
2007 - 2008
Move to London, Fearless Vampire Killers founded.
2009 - 2011
Play every youth centre around the M25, Kerrang! Magazine reviews FVK's London headline, given introducing feature, I meet Jen (My wife).
2012
Named 20th Greatest Rockstar in the World, asked to write a halloween song by Blue Peter.
2013
Nominated for 2 Kerrang! awards, interviewed by Jon Snow on Channel 4 about hate crime directed at sub-cultures.
2014 - 2015
Sign with Calvin Harris' management company, fire Calvin Harris' management company, tour the world, record an album in the USA.
2016
Booked to play Reading Festival, lose a close friend, leave Fearless Vampire Killers.
2017 - 2018
Diagnosed with Generalised Anxiety Disorde. Sign a record deal with Marshall Records.
2019
Condimaniac founded.
2020 - 2021
Condimaniac wins 2 Great Taste awards and is featured in The Independent, Grazia, Readers Digest, Daily Mail and The Chris Moyles Show.
2022
Fearless Vampire Killers return.
2023
Appear on BBC1's Future Food Stars, Play Download Festival, Every FVK show sells out, Condimaniac goes very viral (again).
Appearances.
Condimaniac wins 2 Great Taste awards and is featured in The Independent, Grazia, Readers Digest, Daily Mail and The Chris Moyles Show. Lose my lovely Grandad.