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KATE NASH

MCD.ie presents

KATE NASH

plus guests

VULKANO

Tickets on sale Friday at 9am

Kate Nash makes a welcome return to Dublin with a headline show in Whelans on the 15th of October. Tickets €17.50 including booking fee and go on sale this Friday the 31st of May at 9am from Ticketmaster outlets nationwide and online from www.ticketmaster.ie

‘Under-Estimate The Girl’ captured perfectly a moment in Kate’s life. A moment when she wanted to tear up the rulebook and buck the trend for making the kind of benign manufactured pop born of talent shows. The song, with its change of musical direction, immediately caused a minor furore.Kate was, as ever in the face of the press, phlegmatic. ‘Everyone was going crazy and I thought it was great. It created the perfect storm for a comeback. People were talking about me because I’d done something new and crazy and different. In the end the response to Under-Estimate The Girl just showed how conservative the music industry is.’

With her first two albums, 2007’s Made of Bricks and 2010’s My Best Friend Is You, she found both mainstream success and a legion of young female fans. It’s now seven years since Kate released her first single, ‘Caroline’s a Victim’. Her childhood growing up in Harrow, north London, seems a distant dream.

She was a MySpace phenomenon before she even had a record deal. Such was the excitement about her debut album that ‘Made of Bricks’ was released two months ahead of schedule. It went straight to number one.

Kate has just released her third studio album. ‘Girl Talk’ is a bold, passionate and personal album. ‘If My Best Friend Is You’ was about trust, honest, sexism and growing up, then ‘Girl Talk’ is ‘almost thoughtless’. By which Kate means instinctive. An immediate reaction to the world around her. ‘I wrote songs really quickly. They are ballsy. You can hear the anger. I’ve learned a lot about people. I used to be really naive and trust people too much. Not any more.’

While in LA Kate hung out with Willow Smith. ‘She’d been working with Rihanna and Beyonce’s songwriters, but then decided to write her own material and got in touch with me. She’s an amazing 11-year-old, a tiny shaven-head girl with mind-blowing wisdom. I couldn’t believe that she even knew my B-sides!

Inspired by Rock ‘N’ Roll Camp For Girls, an American bootcamp started in 2001 to show girls that they can ‘play any kind of music they want’, Kate set up Rock ‘N’ Roll for Girls After-School Music Club. She travels to schools around the country, talks to aspiring young female musicians, listens to their ambitions and fears. Kate also performed at London Fashion Week and cites Joan Jett, Karen O and Courtney Love as style icons.

After auditioning for the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School many years ago, Kate is now set to appear in two new films. “In Syrup”, based on a cult novel about a slacker hatching a million-dollar idea, she plays a receptionist and in “Greetings from Tim Buckley” she takes on the role of an English punk.

Tickets for Kate Nash live in Whelans on the 15th of October go on sale this Friday at 9am from Ticketmaster. Tickets are €17.50 including booking fee.

TICKETS

On sale Fri 31st May, 9am: €17.50 available online from WAV Tickets [Lo-Call 1890 200 078], prices may vary from other outlets. (50c per ticket service charge applies on phone or creditcard bookings)

AFTER THE GIG

Whelan’s Indie DJ from 11pm til late or you might even catch some live entertainment in the front bar (Free).