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| Birth Name(s) : Kate Nash |
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Full Kate Nash Biography
Nash was born to an English father, and Irish nurse mother, hailing from Dublin. She grew up in Harrow, and first became interested in music during her childhood when she learned to play the piano. She attended St. John Fisher Roman Catholic First and Middle School, and moved onto the St. Joan of Arc School in Rickmansworth. She then went to the BRIT School for performing arts and technology, where she studied theatre. Her first love was acting, and she unsuccessfully auditioned at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School.
In the days after her rejection, around the time of being a sales assistant at River Island during her gap year, she fell down a flight of stairs and broke her foot. For three weeks during her recovery Nash was unable to move, and found solace in songwriting. Her parents bought her a bass guitar; she began to write some new songs, finished old ones, and booked herself a gig at a local bar. She subsequently decided to start a career in music.
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" sits in 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.
In March 2007, Nash was signed to the Polydor offshoot Fiction Records, a label which holds acts such as Snow Patrol, The Maccabees, Delays and The Cure.
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 almost completely ignored by commercial radio. The BBC Radio 1 and Radio 2 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, which was brought forward 6 weeks, Made of Bricks, included many of the tracks she has 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. It has received mixed reviews. The Independent describing it as being in "pole position for worst album of the year.". Made of Bricks reached the UK Number 1.
She recently played at the O2 Wireless Festival, the Isle of Wight Festival, the Electric Gardens, Glastonbury Festival and the Latitude Festival, and also played at the Carling Weekend, Oxegen and T in the Park, as well as others. At the Carling Festival in Reading, Nash managed to fill the Carling tent as well as draw a crowd that stretched well beyond the tent's borders. She made her official TV performance debut on "Later with Jools Holland", as well as being on "The Jack Daniels Set", "Popworld", "The Friday Night Project" (in July), "GMTV" and "This Morning" all in the space of 2007
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.
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
- Navy Taxi
- Old Dances
- Habanera
- Stitching Leggings (Studio Version)
- Take 'Em Back (erroneously printed as "Take 'Em Out")
Collaborations
- Biscuit Factory (Kate Nash with Dockers MC)
- Look What You've Done (Lethal Bizzle ft. Kate Nash)
- Me & My Microphone (Kano ft. Kate Nash)
- Rainy Days (The Derelict Projekt ft. Kate Nash)
Covers
- Fluorescent Adolescent (Arctic Monkeys)
- Hang Me Up to Dry (Cold War Kids)
- Hound Dog (Elvis)
- Irreplaceable (Beyoncé)
- Men's Needs (The Cribs)
Other
- Like Maybe (unreleased)
- So Much Older (unreleased)
- This House (live version)
- We Get On (live version for the BBC) |
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