“WHEREVER YOU PLAY IN MANCHESTER, YOU’RE GOING TO HAVE A GOOD TIME” | KATE NASH IN PICTURES
PHOTO GALLERY | KATE NASH | MANCHESTER NEW CENTURY HALL 26/11/2024 by Bella Proudfoot
Whilst Kate Nash might be making more headlines for her posterior than her music lately, there’s no denying that the British singer-songwriter known for her indie pop hits and distinctive style, has made waves in more than one facet of the entertainment industry.
Whilst she continues to gain acclaim through her long standing career in music, her presence on platforms like OnlyFans has sparked interest and discussion among fans and critics alike. After 18 years of keeping her head above the water in a dog eat dog industry, Nash has more than earned her megaphone rights to critique the failing music industry – and rightly so. But, yet here we are – talking about Kate’s bum and not her music. But we are talking about the ‘why’ in it all, and that ‘why’ is an entire essay worth of unravelling holes in the broken music industry. So, instead we shine the light on Kate Nash the musician, and the live performances subsidised by that now notorious behind.
Currently performing the final run of shows on Kate’s UK/Europe headline tour in support of her latest album, 9 Sad Symphonies, we caught the singer-songwriter at her Manchester show.
Speaking to us about ‘9 Sad Symphonies’, Kate shared with us:
“I think it’s quite soft in a way, it’s quite like cinematic sounding and there’s some really beautiful string arrangements on the album.”
Kate achieved huge commercial success with 2007’s debut Made of Bricks which featured the No.1 hit single ‘Foundations‘.
She continues: “When me and the producer, Frederic, made it, we purposely wanted to make something that sounded beautiful and so we focused on things being a little bit softer than I’ve made previously. But in a weird way also I feel like it has a connection to ‘Made of Bricks’ because it was sort of going back to piano and orchestration in a way that I hadn’t for a while and storytelling because I’d been working on a musical in New York and that really inspired the song writing process. So, it has a bit of a theatrical influence as well.”
Ahead of her Manchester headliner show, Kate Nash told us,
“Wherever you play in Manchester, you’re going to have a good time because the crowd is always just so up for it. I feel that I’ve got quite an emotional relationship with my Mancunian fans. I feel they’ve been really open with me. I remember fans from the area and stories they’ve told me and stuff when I played there. It’s always some of my favourite shows. I remember every time I played there.”
Kate’s latest album 9 Sad Symphonies was released in June this year and reached a peak of No.1 in the Official UK Independent Album Chart. The EU leg of the tour continues this month and the singer can be seen at London’s O2 Kentish Forum on April 9th – tickets are on sale now!
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