Kate Nash

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Kate Marie Nash (born 6 July 1987) is an Irish^[1] singer and songwriter from Dublin^[2]. She was born in Dublin but she grew up in Harrow, which is situated in West London. She first became interested in music during her childhood when she learned how to play the piano.

Contents 1 Moshi Moshi Records 1.1 First album 1.1.1 A side 1.1.2 B side 2 Fiction Records 2.1 Early career 2.2 Later career 3 Recognitions 4 Book 5 References

[change] Moshi Moshi Records

[change] First album

[change] A side

Nash's début single was a double-A side single (recorded in Iceland), was released through independent record label Moshi Moshi Records in February 2007. Only 1000 copies were released, and it was on available on 7" vinyl. Because the single was so popular, 1000 additional copies of the single were made and sold out extremely fast. The A-side was called "Caroline's a Victim", is an electronic sounding song about Kate Nash's friend Caroline. A video for the song was released and received a lotof airplay on the music television channel, MTV2. The video was directed by Kinga Burza and it featured Kate Nash playing different instruments at the same time that her friend "Caroline" sits in her room playing music, taking photographs, trying on different clothes, listening to David Bowie, putting on makeup and sitting at her computer checking a website.

[change] B side

The B-side to the single was "Birds", it is an acoustic song that tells the story of a boy's clumsy attempts to try and explain to his girlfriend how he feels about her, all the while the girl doesn't know what her boyfriend is talking about.

During the promotion for "Caroline's a Victim/Birds", Nash supported an English singer who goes by the name of Get Cape. Wear Cape. Fly on his national tour before leaving to go on her own headlining tour around the UK.

[change] Fiction Records

[change] Early career

In March 2007, Nash was signed to Fiction Records.^[3]

In April 2007, Nash and other up-coming London acts were mocked through a nasty imitation of Nash's song, "Caroline's a Victim" entitled "LDN Is A Victim." The song ^[4] mocked Kate Nash and Lily Allen, among others, for singing in a Cockney accent, despite their privileged backgrounds. ^[5]

Kate nash released a second song, but through a different recored label called Fiction Records, her second single that was named "Foundations", was released on June 25 2007 and reached number two in the official UK Singles Chart.

[change] Later career

Following the fast, and unpredicted, success of "Foundations", Fiction Records announced plans to release Nash's album earlier than expected, to August 6, 2007. The album, which was named: Made of Bricks, included many of the tracks which Kate Nash had been performing on her two nationwide tours, on her tours Kate Nash was supported by a British duet, called Peggy Sue & The Pirates. The album received mixed reviews, The Independent describing it as being in "pole position for worst album of the year."^[6].Kate Nash's album, Made of Bricks reached the UK Number 1.

In June 2007 Nash performed at many summer music festvals, for example, O₂ Wireless Festival, the Bestival, Electric Gardens, Glastonbury Festival and the Latitude Festival, she also played at the Reading and Leeds Festivals, Oxegen and T in the Park, as well as other festivals. Kate Nash made her first official Television performance on Later with Jools Holland, also appearing on other TV shows, for example: Popworld, The Friday Night Project, GMTV and This Morning during 2007.

[change] Recognitions

Nash was featured on the Top of the Pops Christmas special on December 25th, 2007. She performed her smash-hit single, Foundations.

Nash features on rapper, Kano's album which is called London Town, in a song titled "Me & My Microphone". She is also featured in the song "Look What You've Done" from Lethal Bizzle's latest albumwhich is named, Back To Bizznizz.

[change] Book

Nash stated in an interview with NME that she is writing a series of short stories influenced by Roald Dahl, including one based around a seven-foot transvestite named Roy, and would like to release a collection. Kate Nash will probably release her books under a false name.^[7][8]

[change] References