Kate Nash

Only a year ago, Kate could never have dreamed her honest lyrical reflections on the world would make it to a huge audience. In an uncanny twist of events Kate discovered her flair for song writing when she found herself bed-bound for three weeks with a broken foot.

Kate explains: “Until February 2006 I was auditioning on the reserve list of the Bristol Old Vic theatre as an actor - I got a rejection and the same day I went to the cinema to watch Brokeback Mountain on my own feeling really depressed. Same day I fell down some stairs and broke my foot. My Mum and Dad bought me a guitar to perk me up because I couldn’t do anything so I spent three weeks writing and recording with it on my laptop, I was itching to do something creative.”

On countless occasions Kate has been compared to outspoken pop princess Lily Allen. Rumours began to circulate that the two were pals when Lily put Kate on her top eight friends list on Myspace last year.

However, Kate exclusively told SHOW ME HOW TO PLAY that the two are not really friends, as they barely even know each other.

“I don’t know her really, she just put me in her top friends sometime last year. She sent me a few emails and I met her twice but I don’t know her. It’s cool though, it’s good, I like her. I like her music, its fun pop isn’t it? She’s funny I think.”

As if she came from nowhere - Kate skyrocketed on to the music scene. Her debut single Foundations shot to the number one spot on the iTunes chart. The song may have been about bitter lemons and bad boyfriends, but the sound was certainly sweet to the ears of her growing numbers of fans. In fact the overwhelming media response even took Kate’s record company by surprise, so much so they had to rush the release of her album Made of Bricks forward by a month.

At the time of talking to us, even though she didn’t know it, Kate was just about to crack the big time.

It was the calm before the storm and the media furore surrounding Miss Nash was gently swirling beneath the surface. Vogue had already spotted a star in the making, tipping the songstress as the next big thing, describing her music as “Honest and experimental... her simple reflections capture the essence of teenage London life”.