49 Facts About Kate Nash

Kate Nash funded the latter two using PledgeMusic and Kickstarter and documented the making of Yesterday Was Forever for the 2018 documentary Under-Estimate the Girl.

Kate Nash's music was initially compared to that of Lily Allen, with tabloids criticising both it and her personally.

Kate Nash co-wrote "Poison", a hit for Rita Ora, and featured on works by Lethal Bizzle, Kano, Fidlar, Watsky, Holychild, Baby Dave, and Soft Play.

Kate Nash has been involved in a wide range of philanthropy efforts.

Kate Marie Nash was born on 6 July 1987 and grew up in an Irish community in North Harrow as the second of three daughters to a hospice nurse mother from Dublin and a systems analyst father from Dartford.

Kate Nash began playing the piano aged eight and writing music in her free time aged 15.

Kate Nash attended St John Fisher Catholic Primary School in Pinner and enrolled on a theatre course at the BRIT School after hearing that a girl in the year above her had transferred to a free musical theatre school.

Kate Nash studied there until summer 2005, after which she handed out flyers at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, took a gap year, and applied unsuccessfully to several drama colleges.

At the time, Kate Nash held a post at the Harrow branch of Nando's; she subsequently transferred to the Watford branch of River Island.

Kate Nash released her debut single, a double-A-side single comprising the industrial track "Caroline's a Victim" and the acoustic track "Birds", the following month on Moshi Moshi Records; she signed to the Polydor offshoot Fiction Records the month after that.

Kate Nash won the Q Award for Breakthrough Artist in October 2007, the Best British Female Solo Artist award at the 2008 Brit Awards and the NME Award for Best Solo Artist in February 2008.

Kate Nash cut out wheat and dairy on the advice of a specialist and then meat before moving into a rented flat in Bethnal Green she later bought with her boyfriend Ryan Jarman, who she met in 2007.

Kate Nash spent time working at a refuge for survivors of domestic violence and self-harm.

Kate Nash subsequently began playing bass guitar in The Receeders, a punk band formed with two men who were supporting her solo content.

In February 2010, Kate Nash released "I Just Love You More" as a free download from her official website.

Kate Nash released a music video for "Do-Wah-Doo" in March 2010, with the song receiving a physical release the month after; the track made No 15 on the UK singles chart.

Kate Nash released a cover of "Last Christmas" with Jarman in December 2011, though broke up with him shortly after.

Kate Nash wrote her third album between August 2011 and February 2012 in her Bethnal Green studio and recorded it in Paramour Mansion in Los Angeles in March.

Kate Nash recorded the album and several music videos at her expense as Fiction Records had told her they would reimburse her after her contract was renegotiated.

That month, Kate Nash embarked on a 12-date Faster Pussycat Run Run Tour across the UK and released the song "Under-Estimate the Girl" for free on her website, which she had written, recorded, and made a video for in under 24 hours.

Kate Nash announced and released on Have 10p Records the EP Death Proof in November 2012, a stopgap between her second and third albums.

The EP comprised five tracks including a slower take on The Kinks's "All Day and All of the Night" and the title track, which had been written about a heart condition Kate Nash had suffered as a teenager.

Kate Nash released the Christmas song "Faith" in December 2012, by which time she had filmed for the film Powder Room, which was released in December 2013.

Kate Nash later settled with her manager out of court.

Later that year, Kate Nash returned to LA after Kohan offered her a part in a subsequent series, which would become Rhonda "Brittanica" Richardson of GLOW, a Netflix series based on the 1980s TV series GLOW: The Story of the Gorgeous Ladies of Wrestling.

Kate Nash has stated that the show was the first project she worked on that had a human resources department and has credited her nude scenes with increasing her body confidence.

Kate Nash was featured on Holychild's "Rotten Teeth" in May 2016 and released a solo single that August, "Good Summer".

Nash was the subject of the September 2018 documentary Kate Nash: Underestimate the Girl, which premiered that month at the LA Film Festival in September 2018 and was aired by BBC Three in June 2019 as part of its Storyville strand.

Kate Nash then released the grunge song "Trash" in January 2019, in which she condemned environmental pollution.

Kate Nash started writing her fifth album in autumn 2020 over Zoom with Frederik Thaae, with whom she had worked on Yesterday Was Forever and Only Gold, a musical she had cowritten with Andy Blankenbuehler and Ted Malawer.

Kate Nash played Mary in Truth Seekers in October 2020; her participation had been announced a year earlier.

Kate Nash released "Misery" in May 2021 and "Horsie" that September; both were written about the lethargy she was suffering from during lockdown.

The music video for "Horsie" had been shot at the Grand Canyon, one of several stops Kate Nash had visited earlier that year on her Safely Out of the Bedroom tour, which she had streamed from places she found interesting such as national parks.

Only Gold featured copious quantities of songs by Kate Nash, who wrote songs specifically for the musical and narrated it.

Kate Nash appeared in Coffee Wars in March 2023, a production which used the working title Higher Grounds and had been filmed in Belgrade and Bogota in summer 2019.

Kate Nash played Jo, a struggling coffee shop owner who entered the World Barista Championship, and had been explicitly hired due to her veganism, having adopted the practice in July 2017 after watching Okja.

In July 2023, Kate Nash released a different duet; a feature on Baby Dave's "Telephobia", the second single from his second album, Different Gravy.

Kate Nash announced that she had signed to Kill Rock Stars in February 2024, her first label in a decade.

Kate Nash came to the label's attention after posting a video to TikTok outlining her career and pondering how to release her album.

Kate Nash promoted the record with a tour of North America and Europe, by which time she had become a naturalized citizen of the United States.

When Kate Nash started out, she was frequently compared to Lily Allen, as both sung with London accents.

Kate Nash's success was the subject of ridicule by tabloids, who considered her hair, clothes, and weight acceptable topics for articles and regularly filled their sidebars of shame with her pimples.

Kate Nash stated in July 2019 that Buzzcocks were the reason she began writing songs due to their ordinary topic matter; she stated in that interview that she was influenced by Celine Dion, the Spice Girls, Nirvana, Misteeq, the Beatles, and UK garage.

Kate Nash has stated that she is attracted to men and women and is attracted to people for who they are.

Kate Nash became one of the founding members of Featured Artists' Coalition in March 2009 and supported the Office of Fair Trading's Just Tick It campaign that September.

Kate Nash became a global ambassador for Because I Am a Girl in January 2013, with whom she later mounted her own campaign, Protect a Girl; her campaign was named with the intention of gaining support from men.

Kate Nash set up Girl Gang in 2015, a YouTube and Tumblr community encouraging people like her to be themselves.

Kate Nash then became an ambassador for Keychange in 2019, a PRS-funded initiative campaigning for gender equality in music festivals.

Kate Nash became a patron of Music Venue Trust in February 2025.