Kate Nash
Kate Nash performing in June 2007.
Background information
Birth name	Kate Nash
Born	6 July 1987 (age 20)
Origin	North Harrow, London , England
Genre(s)	Pop
Instrument(s)	vocals, guitar, synth, keyboard
Years active	2006–present
Label(s)	Moshi Moshi, Fiction
Website	KateNash.co.uk

Kate Nash (born 6 July 1987) is an English singer and songwriter from Harrow, London.

Contents 1 Background 2 Music career 2.1 Moshi Moshi Records 2.2 Fiction Records 3 Discography 3.1 Albums 3.2 Singles 4 References 5 External links

Background

Growing up in Harrow, Nash first became interested in music during her childhood when she learnt to play the piano. She attended St. John Fisher school and moved onto the St. Joan of Arc School in Rickmansworth. Her musical talents were harnessed further when she was required to write songs for her GCSE in Music and her time studying at the BRIT School for Performing Arts and Technology in Croydon,South London. Her first love was acting and she made moves to start a career in acting by auditioning at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School but was rejected. In the days after her rejection she fell down a flight of stairs, breaking her foot. During her recovery Nash was unable to move and found solace in songwriting. She began to write some new songs, finished old ones and decided that she would book herself a gig at a local bar to showcase her songs, and subsequently decided to start a career in music.

Nash's early live performances saw her play a number of cover versions, including a skiffle reworking of Robbie Williams' Rudebox and an interpretation of the One Foot In The Grave theme tune. After a few gigs, Nash uploaded her music to the popular website MySpace. Her music soon began to receive support from users of the site, and Nash found herself a manager, proceeding to look for producers for her music.

Fellow MySpace star Lily Allen has stated that she believes Nash is the "next big thing", and she has also garnered support from publications such as Vogue and NME, the latter dubbing her as "chavtronica". Nash has been compared to Lily Allen, because of their storytelling lyrics, the dry sense of humour that fuels their songs as well as distinctive London accents. Some people have commented that Nash sounds like Catherine Tate when she sings. Others have compared some of her songs to music by Regina Spektor.

Music career

Nash has stated that her biggest influence has been Regina Spektor and has en extensive list of influences on her myspace page. Some of her influences include, "London, punk, Bored Teenagers and John Cooper Clarke".

Moshi Moshi Records

Nash's debut was a double-A side single released through independent record label Moshi Moshi in February 2007. The release was limited to 1000 copies and was available on only 7" vinyl. The A-side, "Caroline's a Victim", is a synth-fuelled song about Nash's friend Caroline. A video for the song was released and received notable airplay on MTV2. The video, directed by Kinga Burza, featured Nash playing a variety of instruments at the same time that "Caroline" sits in her room "playing killer beats", taking photographs, trying on different outfits and sitting at her computer checking a social networking website.

The B-side to the single was "Birds", an acoustic number that tells the story of a boy's inept attempts to try and explain to his girlfriend how he feels about her, all the while the girl remains despondent about the situation.

During the promotion for "Caroline's a Victim"/"Birds", Nash supported Get Cape. Wear Cape. Fly on his national tour before embarking on her own headlining tour, which took her around the UK.

Fiction Records

In March 2007, Nash was signed to the Polydor offshoot Fiction Records, a label which holds acts such as Snow Patrol, The Maccabees and Delays.

In April 2007, Nash and other up-coming London acts were attacked through a parody of Nash's song entitled, "LDN Is A Victim." The unknown acts posted the song on their MySpace profile [1]. Lily Allen responded via MySpace, stating "Kate Nash is well better than you."

Nash's second single, her first through Fiction Records, "Foundations", was released on June 25, 2007 and reached number 2 in the official UK singles chart, despite being ignored by commercial radio, and BBC Radio 1 and Radio 2, who both added the song to their playlists in the week of release.

Following the rapid, and somewhat unpredicted, success of "Foundations," Fiction announced plans to bring forward the release of Nash's debut album to August 6, 2007. The album is titled Made of Bricks, and will include many of the tracks she has been performing on her two nationwide tours, which have seen her play with supporting act, Peggy Sue & The Pirates.

She recently played at the O₂ Wireless Festival, the Isle of Wight Festival, the Glastonbury Festival and the Latitude Festival, and is set to play at the Carling Weekend and T in the Park, as well as others. She made her official TV performance debut on "Later with Jools Holland", as well as being on "The Jack Daniels Set", "Popworld" and "The Friday Night Project" in July 2007. Kate Nash will make an appearance on Kano's up and coming album London Town, to be released in September on a song titled "Me & My Microphone".

She is featured on the song "Look What You've Done" from Lethal Bizzle's latest album, Back to Bizznizz. They are both featured on the same day at the Carling Weekend, prompting speculation that they may duet live.

Discography

Albums

• Made of Bricks (2007)

Singles

• "Caroline's a Victim/Birds" (2007) UK #151
• "Foundations" (2007) UK #2, ROI #12
• "Mouthwash" (2007)

References

External links

• Official Kate Nash website
• Kate Nash's Fansite
• Kate Nash's MySpace page
• Kate Nash Article