Kimmortal - UK Tour dates + 10 Questions
Picture Credit: Jonny vu
Kimmortal doesn’t just make music they challenge who gets to be seen, heard, and remembered.
Ahead of their first ever UK run, the Filipino Canadian artist continues to carve out space on their own terms. Blending hip hop, R&B, and experimental pop punk, their work resists easy labels, pairing sharp cultural insight with humour, vulnerability, and a deep focus on identity, belonging, and self definition.
Joining them is Berlin based Sherryaeri, a queer, genrefluid DJ and producer known for high energy sets that fuse Arab bass, Jersey Club, Baile Funk, and more, all rooted in creating safer spaces for queer BIPOC FLINTA communities. Together, their live show leans into collaboration and contrast, moving between tension and release.
Their UK debut with stops in London, FOCUS Wales, and The Great Escape feels like a natural extension of that ethos, diasporic, unapologetically queer, and resistant to industry expectations.
Kimmortal has built momentum independently, cultivating a loyal audience through performance, storytelling, and community. With chart success across Canada and a self driven touring history, they’ve sidestepped traditional gatekeeping in favour of something more intentional.
On stage, that intention is palpable. The distance between artist and audience dissolves, shifting from high energy catharsis to quiet, connective moments, less performance, more shared experience.
With new collaborations on the horizon and a growing global presence, this tour marks not just an arrival, but an expansion, across borders, communities, and the narratives that shape them.
Catch Kimmortal doing several dates in the UK during May:
May 7th, 8th and 9th @ FOCUS Wales in Wrexham
May 13 & 15th @ The Great Escape Festival 2026
You can cop tickets to Kimmortal’s shows via their website here.
Kimmortal sat down with Wordplay Magazine to answer our infamous 10 Questions:
1. So tell me, how did it all begin? What sparked your love for music?
Growing up, my parents worked all the time..these were pre-internet days, my siblings and I would fill our days of boredom with making home videos, writing our own scripts, and acting. I have early memories of watching my dad paint portraits in his kitchen studio and hearing him sing. In highschool, I was always walking around with my sketchbook and was heavy into hip hop dance. I remember being very quiet in class but writing emo songs on my guitar and if I ever performed them for my friends, i’d have them face the wall! lol. I had a voice impediment in my last few years of highschool and I would cry myself to sleep listening to Lauryn Hill’s MTV Unplugged. I so badly wanted to flow. It wasn’t until university that I began hitting up open mics inspired by spoken word artists and activists in Vancouver. I used to go by Kim Possible, but it wasn’t till my first album in 2014 that I renamed myself Kimmortal.
2. Who are some artists that influence you and that you want to work with in the future?
I would love to work with Peaches and Saul Williams one day. There is frankly no one like Peaches - she combines performance art, rage, punk, raunchy pop and theatrics and doesn’t give a fuck. Saul Williams has never not spoken the truth about revolution. Many look to him in navigating these crazy times where we are watching an empire crumble. I love his poetry books, his film neptune frost, and his music and acting. Both artists are powerful to me and examples of how you can stay doing your thing because it is you.
3. What projects do you have coming up and can you give us any info on them?
I have a song called “Swoletarian” coming out in May with my friend and amazing artist/rockstar Superknova (New York). I’m filming a music video for the film right now, that the world will see in late May featuring a bunch of queers pumping iron, boxing, and looking hot and buff. I also have a remix EP coming out for my track “This Dyke” that features an international roster of queer/trans artists coming this summer. I CANNOT WAIT FOR THE WORLD TO SEE THIS NEW WORK!
4. How would you describe your sound?
I hit people in the gut and I get at people’s hearts. My rap cadence is dynamic fire, and I have a soothing flow in my singing. I make ‘em dance and think. Influences are hip hop, rap, and more recently my rage sits well in pop punk/rock.
5. What's your proudest moment to date so far as an artist?
I wrote and performed a 20 minute one person play based off my album “Shoebox” in 2023. The play was called “Family Tree” and unpacks intergenerational trauma and mental illness in my family through the lens of Filipino folklore. Each night I shared it I would wake up weeping. I don’t think i’ll ever pick that play back up and perform it but it did its work and healed a part of me that needed to be witnessed.
Picture Credit: Jonny vu
6. Do you have any advice for our readers who may be trying to play the mad game of music?
I don’t really see it as a game. I think it’s a journey that you choose and that chooses you. I think that it is a work of courage to put yourself out there. Waiting for people to walk through a door for a show you put on, hoping your music reaches people that need to hear it, writing about your feelings, not trying to please people - it’s quite vulnerable heart work that it is relentless and hard and healing and fulfilling and fucking fun. Two words of advice: be audacious.
7. Are there any artists on your radar right now that we should check out?
Gulod Tanawin, Otis Mensah, Kerosin, Gündalein, Siddhu Sneh, Bobby Sanchez, Prado Monroe, Leo de Johnson.
8. What albums are on heavy rotation on your Spotify playlist currently?
Peaches - no lube so rude
Samara cyn - Detour
Deathcab for Cutie - Plans
9. What do you like to do when you're not making music?
Driving around seeing where I end up, good coffee and a place to doodle, laughing so hard with friends, getting cozy watching a movie with my lover, chismis (Filipino for “gossip”). “One of the most powerful things that women can do to keep one another safe is gossip about men who rape/abuse. That’s how we tell each other who is safe to be in relationship and who is dangerous. Chisme can be powerful community care” - A really good quote from Myriam Gurba.
10. Name Three things you can't live without when in the studio?
Lip chap
Coffee
Lemon ginger tea
