Thanks to DMC for filming my brother Anthony’s funeral service. They handled it with care and respect, kept a low profile, and captured the day exactly as it was.
I am grateful to them for preserving those moments for our family.
They filmed the service, the burial and the wake ar the Irish Club . Massive respects to David from DMC Media x
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.A New Year: Grief and Keeping On
We laid my brother Anthony to rest on the thirtieth of December.
When a Legend Knows the Score: Chris Salewicz Reviews Nightmare in Jamaica
Legendary music journalist and author Chris Salewicz reviews Nightmare in Jamaica. Read why the man who wrote the book on Bob Marley and Joe Strummer calls Tommy Kennedy’s prison memoir an "extraordinary story."
The Dub Side of Life
You write a book and you send it out into the world. You hope it lands. You hope someone picks it up and understands that the ink on the page is actually blood and sweat and years of your...
Ossie Clark: The Rise, Fall, and Legacy of a British Fashion Icon
Ossie Clark was one of the most influential British fashion designers of the twentieth century. At his peak in the late 1960s and 1970s, he redefined how women dressed, moved, and were seen. His fall was as sharp as his rise, shaped by addiction, financial collapse, and an industry that moved on without him.
This is the full story of Ossie Clark. The genius, the damage, and the legacy he left behind.
dqni19z7dxwkgereawhtbpd0w7si63.68 KB Mandasue Heller, Manchester Grit, and Why She Backed Nightmare in Jamaica It hits different when a real one backs your work.
Mandasue Heller championed my book Nightmare in Jamaica, and she did it without theatre or ego. Just straight recognition from someone who knows the cost of telling the truth on the page.
That kind of support tells you you are walking the right road.
Mandasue writes the way she lives. Honest. Unfiltered. Grounded in places most people...
I’ve seen plenty of autumn leaves in my time. They’re the sort of people who drift in when the sun’s out and the beer’s flowing, only to blow away the second the wind picks up and the clouds turn grey. You find them everywhere. They’re common as muck and just as fleeting.
But the diamonds? They’re the ones who stay. They’re the ones who stand their ground when the grit gets under your fingernails and the world starts to squeeze.
Chapel of Rest Anthony John Kennedy Born: 12 January 1966 Died: 3 December 2025
For those who wish to pay their respects to Anthony John Kennedy, the Chapel of Rest will be open on Tuesday 17 December, Wednesday 18 December, and Thursday 19 December.
Anyone wishing to spend some quiet time with him is kindly asked to contact Mears and Jackson Funeral Directors to arrange an appointment. They will ensure that visitors are given the privacy, care, and time they need.
I don’t write one book and vanish. I build. Over time. On this site, you’ll find ten books I’ve published—autobiographies, fiction, biography, and flash fiction. Together, they form a continuous body of work that defines my voice as an author.
Autobiographies
Nightmare in Jamaica – My first autobiography. Raw, unfiltered, and lived.
Notting Hill Ponces – Second autobiography, direct follow up to Nightmare in Jamaica. Same voice,...
Meat Space Explained: What It Means and Why Younger Generations Use the Term Meat space is a term increasingly used by younger generations to describe the physical world, the offline world, the place where bodies exist and consequences land. It exists in direct contrast to cyberspace, which is everything that happens online.
This is not tech jargon or theory. It is a practical word for a real divide that now shapes everyday life.
What Meat Space Actually Means Meat space is the world you can trip...
Nightmare in Jamaica by Tommy Kennedy IV A memoir of survival, consequence, and place
Nightmare in Jamaica is a memoir by Tommy Kennedy IV. It is not a novel and it is not fiction.
This book comes from lived experience. It comes from pressure, memory, and the slow weight of consequence. It is about survival inside an unforgiving social ecosystem, where crime grows out of necessity, loyalty, and history rather than ambition.
I travelled the world before finding myself imprisoned in Jamaica for...
RIP ANTHONY JOHN KENNEDY: OUR KID’S COLOURFUL LIFE CAME TO ITS END ON 3RD DECEMBER 2025 Fly High, Our Kid
12 January 1966 – 3 December 2025
Shit news hit our family on Wednesday.
Our kid, Anthony John Kennedy, has died.
He was a superstar. A family legend. Full of life and full of fun. He could blag his way in and out of anything. He lived everything larger than life. He possessed a generous heart and gave freely to everyone he met. He would do anything for anyone and he loved a proper party.
tztdf4br8ei13zkxps713ng67a8j351.21 KBFLASH FICTION FRIDAY: Jezabelle’s Descent in Blackpool
In a seaside town, a story unfolds about a woman named Jezabelle. Her journey takes her through darkness and tests her limits of redemption. She is consumed by addiction, haunted by betrayal, and torn by her forbidden love for a priest. Her struggles play out on the streets of Blackpool, and her tale is so shocking that it defies belief.
"LUCIFER"
My twins have finally left home, leaving me to rot in...
When Cancer Came for Our Kid, 7 Months Later. Our kid took the worst words a doctor can fire at you back in April 2025. Stage four oesophageal cancer. No warning. No soft landings.
It hit right after he flew home from Dubai, the place he’d called home since 2008. His insurance blocked treatment over there so he packed what he could, swallowed the fear and came back to the UK with that dread clinging to him.
Something shifted in the wreckage. He came back to us. Properly. The whole tribe. The...
9333nyl6ems0fnmuztd3hfoo6tf6351.21 KBTen things nobody tells you about creative writing degrees
You imagine a creative writing degree teaches you how to become a writer. It doesn’t. What it really does is strip you down, hand you a mirror, and tell you to stop lying on the page. I learned that in the first fortnight and kept learning it every week after. Nobody warns you about any of this. So here it is, straight.
1. You won’t graduate with a book. You’ll graduate with questions People outside...
6lh8iraoak0ccdz0r7oour8dbnhp27.5 KB2i6jm9qfpp4zha4iwzhrpnih5xhh296.35 KBJimmy Cliff: Rest in Paradise By Tommy Kennedy IV
Sad news travels differently when it carries a voice you grew up with. Jimmy Cliff has passed, and something in the world feels thinner for it. A proper giant gone. A man who pushed Jamaican music into every corner of the planet.
I carried The Harder They Come album for years. The sleeve got worn soft at the edges from being handled so much. That record wasn’t just a...
3vyym02e6v1f8fca323tf5fwjdgv351.21 KBBook Review: The Rich Get Richer and the Poor Get Prison By Tommy Kennedy IV
Introduction:
Why I Read The Rich Get Richer and the Poor Get Prison I picked up The Rich Get Richer and the Poor Get Prison expecting a grim lecture on inequality. What I found instead was a clear and steady voice showing how the American justice system protects wealth while turning poverty into a lifelong sentence. I’m reading it from the UK, yet every page felt close enough to...
Papillon Ignited My Love of Adventure The book Papillon sparked my lifelong love of travel and adventure. Henri Charrière’s story of imprisonment and daring escapes in 1930s French Guiana captivated me as a youngster in the 1970s, and it shaped how I saw the world. Every page felt like a ticket to...
q0s177q4p9eya7tpn01o8tc7wawu351.21 KBOscar Wilde and Me: A Life Laced With Strange Parallels
A Birthday Shared With Oscar Wilde Oscar Wilde was born on 16 October 1854, and so was I, more than a century later. That date has always followed me, a quiet link between my life and his. I did not chase it. It found me. Over the years the connection grew stronger and stranger, until Wilde became a kind of shadow figure standing at the edge of my writing life.
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