Kat Kennedy

I’ll be speaking at @soundcityplus this Friday, chatting about my career in management and what a joy it is to work with artists like @katenash (who will be giving the keynote conversation a bit later on the same day). I might even throw in some Jazz Summers stories in honour of Big Life’s upcoming 40th anniversary. If you’re up in Liverpool come along!

Back for Ed & Lily’s one football match per year, Spurs Women v Man U Women at the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium!

Melbourne & the Australian Open A total dream come true ☀️🌇🚋🤘🏼☕️🎾🇦🇺🦘

Tasmania! All kinds of weather, all kinds of wildlife 🐧⛰️🌅🐬🦅🦜🦔

Great Ocean Road 🏖️ 🐨 🦜 🦘☀️ 🔥

Sydney Part 2! 🇦🇺Aussie Kennedy fam assemble! 🇦🇺 🏖️ Beaches ☀️ 🌉 more Harbour Bridge & Opera House 🌉 🏏 a day at the Ashes 🍻

Kennedys on tour! Sydney part 1 🇦🇺

I had a wonderful day on Friday at the Music Week Women In Music Awards where I was enrolled into the 2025 Roll Of Honour. To receive this honour and join the ranks of the incredible women who have been enrolled before me is a highlight of my career (so far!) and I’m truly grateful. Big thanks to Music Week and especially editor George Garner for this award. George runs an incredible event here every year and yet took time & care throughout this process to be considerate of how emotional it would be for me, particularly, after losing my husband @jamesjammcmahon almost a year ago. I wish so much that James could have been there to see it, but I’m grateful to have been joined by so many wonderful people on the day who made it extra special for me. Huge thanks and love to the team at Big Life for nominating me and for celebrating with me on the day, alongside with someone I’m proud to call a client and friend, the amazing Skin from Skunk Anansie (who presented the Inspirational Artist Award to fka twigs)- and my mum and dad! It was a day I’ll never forget. #mwwim #musicweek #womeninmusic @musicweekinsta @biglifemanagement

So proud and delighted to be added to the Roll Of Honour at the 2025 @musicweekinsta Women In Music Awards! Massive thanks to my amazing team at @biglifemanagement for nominating me and to everyone who wrote lovely words about me in testimonials. James would’ve been so proud and I’m so very grateful.

Hello! @conormcnicholas has organised this lovely event for former NME colleagues & peers of @jamesjammcmahon to get together and remember him tomorrow. A few people have been asking me if it’s open to everyone and it certainly is, and I’d be delighted to see any of you there. But just to be clear it’s principally for people who knew James during NME days (colleagues, PRs, anyone really!). So although anyone else is totally welcome, you need not feel obliged.

Now That’s What I Call A Week Off So much love to my incredible friend @gemmarebecca22 who took me to beautiful Mallorca to celebrate both my 40th and 41st birthdays and gracefully indulged my Rafa Nadal nerd-dom. Then back home I got to see Emma Raducanu win on the Andy Murray Arena, and Pulp! Twice!! Probably the band most firmly at the centre of the Venn diagram of mine and James’s shared taste, I wished so much that he was here to see it. Rounded off the week with lunch today with my lovely family. Thanks to everyone who made my birthday week so special. I’m not where I thought I’d be this year, but I know I have many blessings to count. ‘Ain’t it time we started living?’ 🩷🩷🩷

Happy album release day to @officialskunkanansie ! The Painful Truth is out now. It’s been an honour to work on this incredible record. Here are just some of the great reviews rolling in: “Has a raw, experimental feel… creating a record that has a bleak, sonically rich beauty” – MOJO “From proudly queer love songs to spine-tingling piano weepies to stadium-sized lust confessionals this is Skunk Anansie’s most musically ambitious album yet… lively, adventurous, emotionally raw” – Classic Rock “Confronts issues with candour and defiance. Songs hurtle through electronic rock, ska, dub and even tinkling pianos in moods from urgent to ethereal [with a] sense of creative rejuvenation” – The Guardian “Defiant synth-punk… they dabble in dub, rock and disco. [Skin’s] voice is still stunning” – Daily Mirror “Vibrant and vital… a band reborn” – Daily Star “[An] extraordinary new album” – The Independent