beginnings lead to shitty heartache and then redemptive reclamation), it’s an album that encourages the same self-belief as its author. “There’s been a storyline in my life that’s been going on for the past few years and I feel like it came to a head last summer. I think letting go is really important because I’m a fucking crab, a Cancer baby, moon child and I was just like, ‘No! Don’t leave!’ But you’ve got to let go,” she nods. “It’s putting yourself first and understanding that if you see a vision of your future that’s positive and something that you want, then you actually have to make that happen.” Undeniably, Kate is someone who practices what she preaches. When it came to recording ‘Yesterday Was Forever’, the singer put herself on the line and raised the money via Kickstarter – an industry-swerving tactic placing her back in the hands of the fans, like her early days. Now, she’s also carving out a second string to her bow as Rhonda Richardson in GLOW: a liberating new career path that’s giving her life in all sorts of ways. “As a girl you’re always being told to take up a small amount of space and cross your legs and not touch your vagina and be quiet. But in wrestling it’s like, everything you’ve been told that you’re not supposed to do your whole life, this is the opposite of that,” she says. “Now is the time to be big, take up space, use your strength, use your power. It’s amazing what you can do with your human self and that’s what everybody needs to be taught: that just being yourself is fucking great and you can do so much with that.”
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“ s a girl you’re always being told to take up a small amount of space and cross your legs and not touch your vagina.” A Nash-ional Treasure.
Like we said, Kate could run a mean line in self-help. But while we wait for The Nash Guide to Self-Confidence to make its way onto shelves, there’s enough enthusiasm and ambition in the real living, human Kate to make you realise that those first days of ‘Mouthwash’ and bitter lemons weren’t the peak but merely the stepping off point for the singer. “I just think, don’t look back at the past and think, ‘Oh, that was the best’. I like to look back and think, ‘Oh, that was fucking great but I’m going to make the best thing ever now’. And I think it’s never too late to do that,” she enthuses. Ten years in, you sense that Kate Nash is only really just beginning. ‘Yesterday Was Forever’ is out 30th March via Kickstarter. DIY Clothing: Zeynep Kartal, Tess Metcalfe.
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