Josh Kemp

JOSH KEMP is a singer-songwriter, composer, writer & filmmaker from Nottingham, UK. He exploded onto the UK music scene in 2012 performing for the Nottingham Olympic Torch Ceremony. This led to bookings at music festivals like Y Not Festival and headlining the UK Scout Jamboree. The same year, due to support from BBC Introducing, Josh received his first nationwide airplay for his Chatterbox EP and used the momentum to book his first tour. He began gigging extensively, clocking up over two hundred gigs a year around the UK and Europe over the next 4 years, culminating in the release of his A Wonderful World 🌍EP in 2016. Josh began a hiatus from touring in 2016 to complete his musical Breaking the Habit (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) and formed an independent film company called Chatterbox Films. The soundtrack for 'Breaking The Habit' was released on the 14th February 2020 and was the 6th most pre-ordered album in the UK, eventually placing at #3 in the soundtrack charts. The film is due to be released in 2021. His From Our Family to Yours: A Lockdown EP placed #2 in the Jazz Charts. The EP was arranged, recorded and released in the Covid 19 lockdown and was performed by Josh, his brother Tom Hopcroft and sister Chloe Hopcroft, both professional actors.In 2019, Josh and his long time collaborator George Pierson began work on a new project, a series of 4 interconnected EPs, with Crysylys, Pt. 1 being released in Nov '20 and Crysylys, Pt. 2 in July '21.