Kate Nash

Summer Stars

Added 2024-08-02 05:17:22 +0000 UTC

Does anyone have any good astrology sites?

Something in the air has been quite chaotic. I’m currently one boomie down & potentially an Emma for the upcoming shows, Boom was in a car accident, it was really very scary. Boom was hit as a pedestrian unpacking their own car when someone driving past lost consciousness and drove into their car. The car smashed into Boom’s car, flipped itself and Boom’s own car went over Boom. They are thankfully going to be fine. But obviously not in headbangin rockin shape right now. I’ve been taking Boom to hospital appointments this week and just feeling all emotional and stressed in the way you do when someone you love has a close call.

Emma has then had some stuff come up yesterday and so we need a bassist on standby. It’s strange and chaotic to play shows without my music famalam. Felt so weird to not be playing with Boom. I have a female, queer guitarist to fill in for the festival this weekend which feels good to have found someone that represents us and what we like to present on these stages. There is still so many dudes at all these gigs. So it’s nice to have representation. And I was already taking to some bassists about some of my tour dates in the autumn, our US tour run might be Emma’s last proper run with us, she is also a music therapist and it’s getting more difficult for her to split her time between shows and that. I think she will always be around for spot dates. But it does feel like change is afoot.

How is your summer going? England is hot, balmy and grey. Sunny with rain, a few sunny days but we’ve had so much rain. I really feel like I need a holiday. I’m still promoting the record hard, it’s nice actually that there’s so much to promote, I think cause I’m back in London properly for the first time in 10 years there’s quite a lot of demand in that sense. I have a cover of Gay Times coming out that I’m excited about. I talk a lot about the trans + feminist union I believe we need. I feel like I’ve found my voice in that sense. And I feel like I have the confidence to face JK Rowling terfs and the media. So be warned, the terfs might be coming for me!! But I’m hoping that I can build connection between feminists who feel scared to talk about gender in this way, give them tools & education and build community for people that don’t know how they feel because of how the media use it all against us. I want to help people and build connection because we truly need it and if that union doesn’t happen more there’s risk of people falling into ignorance. If we keep letting the media and JK being the only people anyone hears from it’s leaving Trans people so vulnerable. I have some ideas for the tours this autumn and I’m excited to be a loud voice.

Stella had a scan recently, that little image of her arm stretched out is so sweet and ugh! My heart!! Made me cry a lot thinking of her being vulnerable. She really is my soul mate. She has an injury, but nothing serious. So grateful for that. We are managing her pain and limiting exercise for a couple months. She is such a wild one.

We went to Tom’s work and walked around the gardens and forest acres there while he worked. It was so nice to see him in his work place where I know he’s so happy.

What else can I share?

I’m in therapy. Doing that whole thing. I am really enjoying a YouTube series about a lobster called Leon that a man rescued from a grocery store. I miss cd’s. And I saw a man with a cat in the basket of his bike.

What should I wear on tour in the autumn?

I love you guys!!!! I love trans people so much.

Ok please describe your summers to me as though it were a novel like an intro to some kind of murder mystery set in north America but in like the south and like it’s the balmy intro. Like ‘it was the hottest summer on record since 1996, the tar was melting in the road and kids played lazily in the street, only picking up the pace when they heard the ice cream truck song ringing through the neighbourhood. Jenny had a nickle and a pack of sticker cards that she swapped with me for a yoyo and a gobstopper. We drank from the hose and lay in the grass trying to find shade in the hot concrete filled dust bowl we grew up in. The horizon stretched out before us and our bodies stuck to the ground, chalk melting, oil dripping from cars, the smell of petrol and the sound of bugs. It was 9.00 am and already too hot to move too quickly when I heard my mother’s tone change as she picked up the phone and received the news that would change our boring little town forever. Know what I mean?

Jory I expect a long one from you!