Kate Nash updated fans on her blog at MySpace on Sunday (July 12), talking about progress on the follow-up to her 2007 debut ‘Made of Bricks’. The English singer songwriter tells readers:

I’m properly and most definitely back to work now! I’ve started recording my album. It’s very exciting. I was a little scared at first, just at the thought of it being finished and complete once the session is over and wondering what that will be like. But after just 3 days hard graft and roughly laying down 5 tracks I feel very excited and happy to be doing it. I’ve had a great time taking a much needed break, i needed the rejuvenation and i needed to find inspiration and things to write about again and to feel passionate about life and music again. And taking the time out did help me write, i have loads of songs to go into the studio with, so the album is written, it just needs transferring into special sounding recordings. The studio I’m working in has a lovely old desk and 2 great big live rooms and lots of instruments have been brought down by myself and bernard & friends so there’s lots to play with. It’s going to be a good few weeks! fingers crossed.

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Kate Nash updated fans on her blog at MySpace on Friday (March 27), talking about her tour with The Cribs and her work with the Featured Artist Coalition, which got her a chance to meet The Beatles legend Paul McCartney. The British singer songwriter tells readers:

I’ve been fairly busy the last couple of months. I went on tour with The Cribs for their UK dates which were fu**ing great. You should be very excited about their new album. Then I went to Portland for a wedding. I knew a couple once who got married in space. They took off their space helmets and their heads popped exploding confetti into the universe. That, is how stars were made.

I’ve also been working very hard as a board member and director of the Featured Artist Coalition. You may or may not have seen a few things in the press about it, we had our launch a couple of weeks ago now. I got involved last September and we’re basically a coalition run by artists for artists to protect artists rights and to give them (us) a seat at the table… to have relationships with governments and get a say basically in what should happen to our music and how it’s used/exploited etc. and how the industry is run. It’s essentially taking responsibility for the work that you do. There’s great people involved who I’ve been lucky enough to work with including Billy Bragg, Dave Rowntree and Ed O’Brien. It’s been so educational and I’ve really got my politics head on, which my mum is pleased about. I even got a chance to have a sit down meeting with Paul McCartney. A cup of tea with Macca, I felt like ‘Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds’ I tell you, sitting there and talking about his experiences and listening to stories about him and John signing their deal and making ‘Sgt.Peppers’. Wow wow wow. Very happy indeed, what a privilege. Anyway we had a very successful launch, I did a podcast with the Minister of Culture and we had a meeting a couple of days ago with a bunch of MPs and people in the industry. I’m happy to say I think we’re really being heard.

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Kate Nash checked in with fans on her blog at MySpace on Sunday (January 25), talking about how she’s kept busy lately watching YouTube videos and offering a couple web sites to check out, as well as her feelings about January. The British singer songwriter tells readers:

So it’s cold and it’s nearly not January anymore (hooray!) I forgot how depressing it can actually be in January. The grey days and fears and insecurities and the effort needed to get out of bed in the morning. Last year I was all flying around Australia on the Big Day Out thinking January was the probably the best month in the year but being in London and trying to figure out what to do is… less inspiring… anyway, it hasn’t been all that bad, I’ve been getting involved with lots of things to keep my mind off feeling weird in January. I’ve been writing new songs and demoing them and reading venus zine. Which is the only magazine I like at the moment. It supports a lot of female artists and independent artists/shops/designers/photographers etc. It always has a great list of little online shops that sell nice things. I’ve also become heavily involved with setting up the Featured Artists Coalition, we have the launch meeting next week. It’s going to be run by artists for artists, to look after artists rights in this strange old industry. I find it so surprising that this hasn’t already been set up seeing as you have so many other organizations looking out for a lot of people in a lot of industries. But it hasn’t, and we are, and that’s exciting.

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Kate Nash checked in with fans on her blog at MySpace on Friday (December 12), talking about her online and offline Christmas shopping, and an update on her follow-up to her 2007 debut album ‘Made of Bricks’. The London based singer songwriter tells readers:

I hope everyone is feeling Christmas spirited, it’s nearly here I guess. I’ve done minimum amount of shopping. I go in for 15 minutes and have to leave cause it freaks me out, too many people, too many things etc.

I bought some stuff off ebay, I’m very excited, being about 5/6 years behind everyone else when it comes to technology. I’ve never done this before. Once I got my friend to bid on some Polaroid cameras and we won, that was good. But this time I just clicked on the buy now buttons, this is much less stressful than bidding.

So I was in the studio last week doing some demos, we did 10 tracks in 4 days and I figure the less time you spend on something the more work you do, there’s no time for messing around so you get on with stuff. I’m really happy with the tracks, I’ve also got 4 other songs that I demo’d in the summer, happy with those too. I’m still down at my rehearsal room writing, rehearsing, playing with candles and thinking too much. I got some pretty good skull lights for 8 pounds in Woolworths that keep my amp company (so sad about Woolworths, I guess it’s a generation thing). So anyway hopefully I’ll do some more writing. Then have a bunch to chose from, or I guess I’ll just run out of things to say and start writing rubbish and then realize my album must be done. (but I feel like it could be there, really nearly there) but I still have to figure out who to record it with and then record it after that, so still a while before you’ll be hearing any of it. Thought I would just update you regardless.

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Kate Nash checked in with her MySpace friends on Tuesday (March 11) with the following bulletin:

I’ve just got back from tour. Last night I played Hammersmith Apollo which I can’t quite believe. So much has happened in the past 3 months that it’s difficult to get my head around and there’s been absolutely no time to sit down and attempt to do that. Thanks so much for the Brit and NME award and also for coming on tour and making it so much fun! I’ve got lots of pictures to put up, and I’m actually going to be at home for a change for the next couple of days so I’ll have time to do a blog! I’m going to bed now as I’m shattered.

Goodnight.x

p.s I think someone hacked into this account so if you got anything funny from me I apologize.

p.p.s I really appreciate all the messages and comments you guys are sending. The support I get from all of you really keeps me going.

Kate Nash checked in with her MySpace friends on Wednesday (January 6) with the following bulletin:

I’m back from Australia! The Big Day Out has been the most amazing tour. I’ve been singing with Billy Bragg, swimming with sharks, hanging out with kualas, watching Arcade Fire, Dizzy Rascal, Operator Please, LCD Soundsystem, Brand New, Unkle and many more. The people from all the places we have visited in the past month have been so cool and I’ve loved meeting everybody. We had so much fun and I’ll get a new blog up with pictures form everthing in a few days. Thanks to anyone who came to the gigs.

Now I’m back home with decent cups of tea, soup jumpers & TV trying to stay awake so I can get over my jet lag and then I’m back to work next week. There’s a few things coming up, most of which I cannot remember but I think there’s a live lounge session and maybe some TV, then merry happy comes out.

I’ve also been nominated for some Brit Awards! Which is a little bit surreal. Very grateful for the nominations. You can help by voting here http://www.brits.co.uk/vote/ – if you’re from the UK.

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