Lily Allen subsequently featured Nash's MySpace page in her "Top 8"; by January 2007, Nash had taken part in writing sessions featuring
Paul Epworth,
Valgeir Sigurðsson, and Allen collaborator Future Cut. She 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; Nash's second single, June 2007's "
Foundations", spent five weeks at No. 2 on the
UK singles chart behind
Rihanna's "
Umbrella" and
Timbaland's "
The Way I Are", once missing out on No. 1 by 16 copies. The success of the single prompted the label to bring forward the release of her debut album by five weeks. Upon release in August 2007,
Made of Bricks charted at No. 1 on the
UK Albums Chart, having sold 56,000 copies in its first week. and also charted at number 36 on the US
Billboard 200 chart in January 2008. Among the album's tracks were "Birds", "Foundations", "
Mouthwash", "
Pumpkin Soup", and "
Merry Happy", the last three of which were also released as singles; "Mouthwash" and "Pumpkin Soup" made the UK singles chart. Nash also 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. In July and August 2007, Nash featured on
Lethal Bizzle's "Look What You Done" from his album
Back to Bizznizz and
Kano's "Me & My Microphone" from his album
London Town. The year after, following relentless touring and a lack of nutrition on tour, Nash developed
alcoholism and
candidiasis and suffered a breakdown in Germany, prompting her to take a year out, during which she developed
obsessive–compulsive disorder. She 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. She also spent time working at a refuge for survivors of domestic violence and self-harm. Jarman later introduced her to
Bernard Butler, who she began recording her second album with August 2009. She subsequently began playing
bass guitar in The Receeders, a punk band formed with two men who were supporting her solo content. In February 2010, Nash released "I Just Love You More" as a free download from her official website. She 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. Both "I Just Love You More" and "Do-Wah-Doo" appeared on her second studio album
My Best Friend Is You, which made the UK Albums Chart at No. 8 in April but left the chart quickly; the album also contained "
Kiss That Grrrl" which were subsequently released as singles. To promote the record, Nash embarked on a series of smallscale gigs, which lacked Nash's hits and caused walkouts; subsequent gigs were received more positively
2011–2014: Change of musical direction In April 2011, she set up Have 10p Records, an extension of an earlier performing arts trust fund she had set up which had funded works by
Sarah Solemani and Brigitte Aphrodite; Aphrodite and her single "I Dream Myself Awake" became the label's first signee and release. Nash released a cover of "
Last Christmas" with Jarman in December 2011, though broke up with him shortly after. which premiered at the
2012 Toronto International Film Festival. She 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. She 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. Nash contributed a cover of
Cub's "My Chinchilla", then a regular in her setlists, to the March 2012
Nardwuar and
The Evaporators' album
Busy Doing Nothing!. By June 2012, Nash was best known for gentle
indie pop music. That month, 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. The
punk rock track received mostly negative feedback and compelled Fiction Records to drop her in August 2012. That summer, she had recorded a small role for
Syrup with Aram Rappaport, who subsequently directed the music videos shot for her third album; the film was released the following year. and appeared as
Buffy in a production of the
Buffy the Vampire Slayer episode "
Once More, with Feeling" at
Hackney Picturehouse. She 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 Nash had suffered as a teenager. and the title track 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. In February 2013, she released her own single "3AM" and featured on
Watsky's "Hey, Asshole". By that March, she had written
Willow Smith's "I Am Me" and had produced the bulk of an album for Supercute!. That month, they released "Love Love Leave Love" from the album and she released her third full-length studio album,
Girl Talk. Released through Have 10p Records, it incorporated elements of
punk rock and featured the tracks "Death Proof", "3AM", "Fri-End", and "OMyGod!", the last of which was subsequently remixed for single release. For
Record Store Day 2013, she released "Free My Pussy" on heart-shaped vinyl, backed with "Free
Pussy Riot Now!". She subsequently released a video for the former. By December, she had released the Christmas EP
Have Faith with Kate Nash This Christmas, which featured "Faith" and a track by
The Tuts. That April, she and many others featured on "Go Forth, Feminist Warriors", a track released as the theme for the teen blog
Rookie. In July 2014, she appeared in the advert
The Distortion of Sound, which discussed declining sound quality caused by streaming, and uploaded to
SoundCloud the track "She Rules", which was accompanied by a video she recorded on her
iPhone.
2014–2020: GLOW and Underestimate the Girl Nash moved to Los Angeles in January 2014. After suffering from loneliness as a result of not having a label and finding that touring was expensive without a backer, she sought a new label, but took offense at the way she was treated in meetings. and co-wrote a number of songs as part of writing rooms including "
Poison" with
Julia Michaels, but found the experience demoralising. In March 2015, she played Bridget Bishop in the
HBO pilot
Devil You Know, which had been written by
Jenji Kohan about the
Salem witch trials but left unaired. That year, Later that year, and Nash stopped drinking alcohol as part of the fitness regimen. She has stated that the show was the first project she worked on that had a
human resources department First broadcast in June 2017 and recommissioned for three further series, and filming did not resume before the show's cancellation in October 2020. Nash was featured on
Holychild's "Rotten Teeth" in May 2016 and released a solo single that August, "Good Summer". She followed this in November with "My Little Alien", a track about her dog. In April 2017, she announced a
Kickstarter campaign to finance a fourth studio album, which raised $155,000, and released "Call Me" and
Agenda, a single and an EP. The latter featured four tracks including "My Little Alien", "Call Me", and a title track, for which a video was released in May. as she associated the album with negative criticism from old men journalists, before releasing the singles "Drink About You" in February 2018 Later that month, she released her fourth studio album,
Yesterday Was Forever; by the time of the album's release, Nash was living in
Atwater Village. and the tracks "Drink About You", "Life in Pink", and "Hate You", the last of which Nash released a video for in September 2018. 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, The 86-minute show depicted the aftermath of
Made of Bricks, her move to Los Angeles, her temporary move back to London after being defrauded, and ends with Nash crowdfunding and releasing
Yesterday Was Forever and then performing in front of a supportive audience. which premiered in July 2019. She then released the
grunge song "Trash" in January 2019, in which she condemned environmental
pollution.
2020–2024: Only Gold and Coffee Wars By April 2020, Nash had tired of regular social media and had created a
Patreon account, which she used throughout the
COVID-19 pandemic to livestream gigs. Nash started writing her fifth album that autumn over
Zoom with previous collaborator Frederik Thaae. her participation had been announced a year earlier. In March 2021, she began hosting ''Kate Nash's Lovely Music Programme'' on the
Highgate-based radio station Boogaloo Radio. 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 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. Her music during this period was largely released whenever she felt like it, The following month,
Wild Bitch, an absurdist thriller she had created with her
GLOW co-star
Rebekka Johnson and contributed music for, premiered at
SXSW's Midnight Shorts Competition. The pair later collaborated again on the same basis for
Bad Rabbit, which was released that October. In August 2022, she released a new single, "Wasteman", with a music video starring
Danny Dyer, his daughter Sunnie, and
Gaby Diaz.
Only Gold a musical she had developed with
Andy Blankenbuehler and Ted Malawer since 2010, premiered at the
MCC Theater in New York City, where it ran for three weeks. Directed and choreographed by Blankenbuehler and set in
Paris in 1928, the show focused on a rebellious princess, queen, and clockmaker's wife and also features their men chasing their childhood dreams.
Only Gold featured copious quantities of songs by Nash, who also wrote songs specifically for the musical and narrated it. Nash appeared in
Coffee Wars in March 2023. She played Jo, a struggling coffee shop owner who entered the
World Barista Championship, having adopted the practice in July 2017 after watching
Okja. In June 2023, she directed a video for
Skating Polly's "Tiger at the Drugstore"; the following month, she released a feature on
Baby Dave's "Telephobia". The month after that, she produced and occasionally appeared in the Edinburgh Fringe run of
The Retreat, a stage show by Johnson and
Parks and Recreation actress Anne Gregory. Nash announced that she had signed to
Kill Rock Stars in February 2024, her first label in a decade, who simultaneously released her single "Change". In subsequent months, Nash released the singles "Millions of Heartbeats", "Space Odyssey 2001", and "My Bile". She released her fifth album
9 Sad Symphonies in June 2024, which comprised ten tracks. and Europe, by which time she had become a
naturalized citizen of the United States.
2024-present: "GERM" and The Masked Singer Nash modelled a
Charlotte Colbert shirt in July 2024 for
Lewes F.C. Women, which had been made as part of their "See Us As We Are" campaign, which aimed to tackle misogyny within football. She released "Eyeconic" in September, a track inspired by the club and the campaign and about the history of women's football in England, and featured on "Slushy" in March 2025, a
Soft Play single from their album
Heavier Jelly. In May 2025, Nash released the single "
Germ", which she had written as an essay and then set to music in response to the result of a
recent ruling by the
Supreme Court of the United Kingdom. "Germ" took its name from an
acronym for "girl, exclusionary, regressive, misogynist", which Nash coined as an alternative to
TERF, and addressed multiple social issues including
domestic abuse,
men's mental health, and
transphobia. The track went viral shortly after release, causing Nash to suffer abuse. She then released an EP in November featuring a live acoustic version and remixes from
Peaches,
Charlieeeee,
Bimini Bon-Boulash, and Jaguar. Nash used an appearance at 2025's
Glastonbury to criticise multiple celebrities and an appearance at a
Transgender Day of Remembrance vigil to highlight increased crime rates against trans people. She appeared as a contestant on the
seventh series of
The Masked Singer in January 2026 as "Monkey Business", where she was fifth to be unmasked; among her performances was one of "
As Long as He Needs Me" from
Oliver!. She performed "Germ" at the March 2026 benefit concert
Trans Mission and released a version of
Sinéad O'Connor's
Universal Mother track "Famine" the month after. == Artistry ==