Seriously, this was one hell of a show
You remember Kate Nash, right? The twee, bubbly singer-songwriter who tore up the charts in the Noughties, released a couple of albums’ worth of bubblegum pop classics – and then disappeared completely?
The twenty-something from Southern England who was so ubiquitous in the summer of 2007 that you couldn’t walk down the street without hearing Foundations? Oh, and lest we forget: the lyricist who was responsible for one of pop music’s finest couplets: “you said I must eat so many lemons, ‘cus I am so bitter / I said, I’d rather be with your friends, mate, ‘cus they are much fitter‘.
So, yes, we think it’s fair to say that you probably do remember Kate Nash. Now, we’d like to humbly invite you to sit back, relax, and forget everything you thought you knew about her.
YEAH, INTELLIGENT INPUT, DARLIN’, WHY DON’T YOU JUST HAVE ANOTHER BEER THEN
We’ve spoken to Kate a couple of times over the years, so we knew what to expect when she rolled up to Bristol’s The Fleece for the first night of her sold-out UK tour; but, to the uninitiated, it must’ve come as something of a shock when she burst onto the stage and unleashed a squeal of feedback that could’ve come straight out of a Metallica concert. Yes, that’s right, dear reader: Kate Nash has gone punk.
That’s not to say that she’s completely left behind her pop-star roots, though. We still got Foundations, of course – and, of course, the ever-amazing Dickhead. The highlights of the set, though, weren’t the chart-topping pop smashes: instead, they were the heavy new tracks; the ones that allowed Kate to scream, shout, thrash and thrust her way through two-and-a-half minutes of vaguely chaotic pop-punk perfection.
Because, y’know, that’s just what noughties-pop-stars-come-Netflix-stars-come-punk-powerhouses do in 2019.