Kate Nash: ‘I don’t want to exploit my fans just because I’ve been exploited’
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Hello and welcome to How Do You Cope with me, John Robbins. This is the show where I speak to fascinating guests about the hardships they've overcome. and the coping mechanisms that allowed them to do so. Today's guest is our final guest of the series, and it's the musician and actor Kate Nash. Kate shot to fame in 2007 after gaining considerable attention on Myspace. Her debut album, Made of Bricks, went to number one in the UK charts. The following year, she won the award for best female solo artist at the Bricks. Kate's slingshot into the spotlight led her to having a breakdown one night whilst touring in Germany. She started suffering from panic attacks and developed symptoms of OCD. A few years later, whilst living in LA, she realized that her manager had misappropriated her money to pay for his wedding, leaving her almost bankrupt.
Increasingly critical of the music industry, Kate turned to crowdfunding to pay for her music. And in 2024, set up an OnlyFans account to subsidise her touring losses. Do follow Kate Nash on social media for a big announcement coming soon. Kate has worked as a musician in many different ways and in our conversation we spoke about the differing pressures that come from operating as a young star, an independent musician, an actor and an employer. We talked about moments in her career where connecting with her body had a huge impact on her mental health. Before we get started, don't forget you can watch this episode and every episode of this series of How Do You Cope on YouTube. Just search for How Do You Cope Pod.
And you can, of course, listen to all episodes wherever you get your podcasts. For more information or to let us know your reflections on this series, head to HowDoYouCopePod.com. But for now, here's our final guest of this series, Kate Nash. I do hope you enjoy our conversation. So it's a very warm welcome to How Do You Cope to Kate Nash. Kate, thank you so much for joining us.
Thanks for having me.
How are you doing today?
I'm okay. I'm a little hot.
Yeah. A little bothered. We are in a heat wave. Yes. And if you're watching this on YouTube, I apologize for the shorts. I usually have a zero short policy, but there was just no choice today.
Yeah, fair enough.
So I think we're going to talk... Well, I'd like to ask quite a lot about sort of creativity and money and how they interact and the sort of the pressures of both. And I guess the positives of both. But maybe we start with where you're at now creatively. What sort of projects are bubbling away?
Yeah, I've been working on new music for quite a long time as a project that's very important to me and sort of about my family, exploring my Irish roots and family heritage. And it has been really interesting because it's changed my process quite drastically. and my feelings about process in general and how to approach albums and music and creativity going forward. So that's been a really cool experience because I feel like everything's sort of brand new and I've had hyper focus about this work. And it's also been a little bit scary because it's like cracked open a new unknown or something. Yeah. I feel as though I don't really know what is next or how to go forth, which is strange for me because I'm always like, normally I have this going on and then in the back of my mind, like the next thing ticking away.
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