Kate Nash

**Kate Marie Nash** (born 6 July 1987) is a British singer and songwriter and actress.

## Early life

Nash was born in Brent. She grew up in Harrow, North West London. Her father is English; her mother is Irish. She first became interested in music during her childhood when she learned how to play the piano.

#### A side

Nash's début single was a double-A side single (recorded in Iceland),  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", an electronic sounding song about Kate Nash's friend Caroline. A video for the song was released and received a lot of  airplay on the music television channel, MTV2. The video was directed by Kinga Burza and it featured 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.

#### 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 does not know what her boyfriend is talking about.

## Fiction Records

In March 2007, Nash was signed to Fiction Records.

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  mocked Nash and Lily Allen, among others, for singing in a Cockney accent, despite their privileged backgrounds.

Her second single named "Foundations", was released on 25 June 2007 and reached number two in the  UK Singles Chart.

Following the success of "Foundations", Fiction Records announced plans to release Nash's album earlier than expected, on 6 August 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.". _Made of Bricks_ reached the UK Number 1.

In June 2007 Nash performed at many summer music festvals, including O<sub>2</sub> 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. She made her first official television performance on _Later with Jools Holland_, also appearing on other TV shows, _Popworld_, _The Friday Night Project_, GMTV and _This Morning_ during 2007.

On 4 March 2013 she released her third album _Girl Talk_. She released it on her own record label 10p Records. It was not as successful as her first two albums and reached No.85 in the UK Albums Chart.

## Recognitions

She was featured on the Top of the Pops Christmas special on 25 December 2007.  She performed her 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_.

## Book

She stated in an interview with NME that she was 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. Nash would probably release her books under a false name.

## Filmography

|Year|Title|Role|class="unsortable"|Notes|
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|2012|_Greetings from Tim Buckley_|Carol|||
|2013|_Syrup_|Beth|||
|2013|_Powder Room_|Michelle|||

## Infobox (musical artist)

- **name**: Kate Nash
- **image**: 13-06-07_RiP_Kate_Nash_2.JPG
- **caption**: Nash performing in June 2013
- **background**: solo_singer
- **birth name**: Kate Marie Nash
- **birth place**: London Borough of Brent, Brent, London, England
- **instrument**: Vocals, guitar, synth, keyboard, bass, drums
- **genre**: Indie pop, indie rock
- **occupation**: Singer-songwriter, actress
- **years active**: 2006–present
- **label**: Have 10p Records
Fiction Records/Universal Island, Universal
Moshi Moshi Records, Moshi Moshi
- **associated acts**: The Receders
- **website**: [http://www.katenash.co.uk/ www.katenash.co.uk]