I’ve always been a bit sniffy about Kate Nash. Despite her middle-class background and attending the much lauded Brit School it would seem that Nash always yearned to have been brought up on a council estate in East London. She’s in good company, Jo Strummer was someone else from a highly privileged background who always struggled with his upbringing worried that this would detract from the authenticity of his music. OK this is not 1977 however I guess Rickmansworth will never wins any prizes in the cool stakes. Nash is not really in the same class as Strummer however for someone who criticized Robbie Williams for being manufactured commercial tat it would seem a bit rich considering she’s made her fortune writing songs about chip shops, bus queues and god knows what else!
Women, or should I say young girls love Kate Nash. I have never seen so many girls dressed in the most ridiculous outfits. The cutesy rockabilly outfits and 50’s inspired hairdos may be interesting enough however should not be replicated by hundreds of Londoners who just look plain sill and dare I say frumpy. Dressing like your granny is not big, clever or in the least bit attractive. Nash’s huge appeal with women is her absolute normality. She looks exactly the same as 90% of other girls her age and when she sings about nights out, loss and unrequited love there is something very believable in her songs.Her songs and performance tonight was very good and showed a great deal of maturity and confidence. She was a bit nervous however like Mark Ronson who played here a couple of weeks ago seemed to be in awe of such a large and prestigious venue.
Her debut album “Made of Bricks” which went to No.1 last year and her wins at the Brits and NME Awards demonstrate that her appeal in the media is pretty wide. Her fans certainly do love her and that certainly does seem to be expanding.
Written by John Rahim
March 11th, 2008 at 1:07 pm
after listening to what Neil Young managed to do there a couple of nights before I cannot imagine entering Hammersmith again for anything less influent than the Bad Seeds!
She is OK, photographed her when she hardly managed to gather 500 people, but her gig was OK.
passed hear to say hello, you look quite busy recently!
Vale
March 11th, 2008 at 1:17 pm
The gig was ok however the lighting was so bad it actually made her look worse. I missed the Neil Young gig as I was covering the Editors at Alexander Palace. Such was the pull of Neil Young only 4 photographers bothered to shoot the Editors! Yes have been pretty busy, how have you been? Any plans to do any more gigs in London? John