Kate Nash

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

This is an old revision of this page, as edited by Bhhhhb (talk | contribs) at 14:10, 3 April 2008 (→‎Fiction Records). The present address (URL) is a permanent link to this revision, which may differ significantly from the current revision.

Kate Nash

Kate Marie Nash[2] (born July 6 1987) is a BRIT Award and NME Award winning English[3] singer songwriter best known for her UK number 2 hit "Foundations" in 2007, followed by the platinum selling UK number 1 album Made of Bricks.

Career

Early years

Kate Nash was born in London, England to an English father and Irish mother; she lived in North Harrow. Nash first became interested in music during her childhood. She learned how to play the piano at Sandbach School. She attended St. John Fisher School (Pinner) and moved onto the St Joan of Arc Catholic School, Rickmansworth. She was taught guitar by guitar teacher Louis Michelle who "gave help to write her songs, ending up with a #2 single and #1 album," [4] and became her first love. Her musical talents were harnessed further when she was required to write songs for her A levels in Music and her time studying at the School for Performing Arts and Technology in North London. 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 housebound and unable to move. Using this time to focus on her 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. After several gigs, Nash uploaded her music to the popular social networking website MySpace. Lily Allen placed Nash in her top eight, attracting attention from potential fans. Nash found herself a manager before proceeding to look for producers for her music.

Moshi Moshi Records

Nash's début was a double-A side single (recorded in Iceland), released through independent record label Moshi Moshi in February 2007. The release was limited to 1000 copies, and was available on only 7" vinyl. Due to popular demand another 1000 copies were made and sold out extremely fast. 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 herself sits in what appears to be her room "playing killer beats", taking photographs, trying on different outfits, listening to David Bowie, putting on makeup 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 April 2007, Nash was signed to the Polydor offshoot Fiction Records.[5] A month later, in May 2007, Nash and other up-coming London acts were mocked through a parody of Nash's song, "Caroline's a Victim" entitled "LDN Is A Victim." The song [6] mocked Nash and Lily Allen, among others, for singing in a Cockney-drawl, despite their privileged backgrounds. [7]

Nash's second single and first through Fiction Records, "Foundations", which she co wrote with producer Paul Epworth, was released on June 25 2007 and reached number two in the official UK Singles Chart.

Following the success of "Foundations", which she co wrote with producer Paul Epworth, Fiction announced plans to bring forward the release of Nash's debut album to August 6, 2007. The album, Made of Bricks, produced by Paul Epworth which was brought forward 6 weeks, included many of the tracks she had been performing on her two nationwide tours, supported by Peggy Sue & The Pirates. The album was leaked to filesharing networks days before its commercial release, and has received mixed reviews, The Independent describing it as being in "pole position for worst album of the year."[8]

During the summer of 2007, Nash performed at numerous festivals including O2, Bestival, the Electric Gardens, Glastonbury, Latitude, Reading and Leeds, Oxegen and T in the Park. At the Reading Festival, she drew a crowd that stretched well beyond the Carling Tent's borders. She made her official TV performance debut on Later with Jools Holland, also appearing on The Jack Daniels Set, Popworld, The Friday Night Project, GMTV and This Morning during 2007. On November 30 2007 Nash appeared on Friday Night with Jonathan Ross.

Nash was featured on the Top of the Pops Christmas special on December 25th, 2007. She performed her smash-hit, Foundations. On December 16th 2007 she visited Northwick Park Hospital where she was born, and visited patients and also met a chartity based school called Shishukunj.

Nash features on rapper Kano's album 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 album, Back To Bizznizz.

On 31 December she performed a New Year's Eve gig at the Chalk Farm Jamboree singing "Mouthwash" among many others.

Nash is working on her second album and has already written two songs entitled 'Paris' and 'Doo Wah Doo'. Nash also stated speaking to NME she had been inspired by The Supremes and has written a song called Cat Song in their honour.[9] She has also fixed her second UK tour and intends to start in February 2008. [citation needed](http://www.nme.com/news/brit-awards-2008/34537)On the 20th of February Nash received an award at the BRITs for Best Female.

Wikipedia and Robbie Williams

On January 15 2008, Nash responded to reports on Wikipedia that she had covered songs made famous by Robbie Williams. She told Spinner magazine, "I'd never do that. Ever. Badly manufactured pop is why I wouldn't want to cover Robbie Williams' songs. In my eyes, it's just a totally different world from what I know. I'm just not really interested in it."[10]

Personal life

She has family in Dublin, Sligo, Cavan and Galway, Ireland. Kate's mother is Irish and works as a nurse in the UK. Kate has two sisters Clare and Helen. Her sister Clare Nash is studying photography. She is also dating Ryan Jarman from The Cribs.

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 Dave Alcock, and would like to release a collection, likely under a pseudonym.[11][12]

Discography

Albums

File:KateNashAlbum.jpg
Nash's 2007 debut album, Made of Bricks.
  • On December 24th 2007, Nash released her platinum debut album on a strictly limited 300 LP

Singles

Year Song UK IRE CRO BEL NTH GER USA USA Pop AUS EU Album
2007 "Caroline's a Victim" 153 - - - - - - - - - Made of Bricks
"Foundations" 2 12 1 13 49 43 116 - 59 9
"Mouthwash" 23 - - - - - - - - 70
"Pumpkin Soup" 23 40 - - - - - - 84 76
2008 "Merry Happy" - - - - - - 112 97 - -

Other tracks

Demo versions

  • "Caroline's a Victim"
  • "Home Is Where the Heart Is/Dirt"
  • "Like Maybe"
  • "Mariella"
  • "Merry Happy"
  • "Nicest Thing"
  • "Play"
  • "Stitching Leggings"
  • "We Get On"

B-Sides

  • "Habanera"
  • "Navy Taxi"
  • "Pistachio Nut" (poem)
  • "Old Dances"
  • "Stitching Leggings (studio version)
  • "Take 'Em Back" (erroneously printed as "Take 'Em Out")
  • "Don't You Want to Share the Guilt"
  • "Model Behaviour"
  • "The Lion the Devil and the Spider"
  • "Skeleton Song"

Collaborations

Covers

Other

  • Like Maybe (Demo)
  • Right Before My Eyes (live version)
  • So Much Older (unreleased)
  • This House (live version)
  • We Get On (live version for the BBC)
  • Paris (written for second album)
  • Doo Wah Doo (written for second album)
  • The Cat Song (written for second album)
  • Pick Pocket (written for second album)
  • Crash Song (wriiten for second album)
  • I Hate Seagulls (written for second album)
  • I Heart A2M (written for second album)
  • Sloppy seconds (written for second album)
  • Opposition direct hit (written for second album)
  • Caroline's A Victim (Tapedeck Revised Remix)

Awards

Year Award Category Title Result
2007 Q Awards Breakthrough Artist Won
XFM Awards Best New Album Made of Bricks Nominated
2008 BRIT Awards British Female Solo Artist Won
British Single Shortlist Foundations Nominated
British Breakthrough Act Nominated
NME Awards Best Solo Artist Won
Best Dressed Nominated

References

  1. ^ Kate Nash and Adele | Rock | guardian.co.uk Music
  2. ^ ASCAP: American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers
  3. ^ From nowhere to Number One: Why Kate Nash is the sound of the summer - Features, Music - The Independent
  4. ^ Guitar Tuition in Harrow
  5. ^ You couldn't make it up: Nash signs with Fiction, (link)
  6. ^ MySpace.com - LDN is a Victim - UK - Christian Rap / Pop coréen - www.myspace.com/ldnisavictim
  7. ^ ""Guardian Unlimited: Arts blog - music: LDN Is A Victim: are you?"". 2007-05-13. Retrieved 2007-04-28. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
  8. ^ ""The Independent - Reviews: Album - Kate Nash"". 2007-08-17. Retrieved 2007-08-17. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
  9. ^ Taylor, C (2007-09-12). "Kate Nash Working On New Album". GIGWISE. Retrieved 2008-02-04.
  10. ^ Channel 4 | Kate Nash Won't Do A Robbie | Music News | 4Music
  11. ^ NME issue 15 December 2007 Page 11
  12. ^ NME: Kate Nash planning to release bookKate nash caught my chiken fillet... Cait de Barra.

External links

Template:CommonsCat

Retrieved from "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Kate_Nash&oldid=203045553"