'Do they give a f**k?': Kate Nash slams Live Nation and Spotify over 'broken' music industry in London protest

Kate Nash took her frustrations straight to Live Nation’s London offices connected Thursday, protesting successful her underwear to item issues successful the euphony industry.

The Foundations singer, 37, has been vocal astir her struggles arsenic an artist, including launching an OnlyFans page to assistance subsidise her UK and Ireland tour, which she says makes a connection astir the deficiency of bureau and the “broken” authorities of the euphony business.

Ahead of her sold-out amusement astatine Camden’s KOKO, Nash led her "Butts for Tour Buses" run done London, calling retired Live Nation and Spotify for their relation successful what she described arsenic an unsustainable industry.

Speaking extracurricular Live Nation’s office, she told The Standard: “Do they springiness a f**k? I cognize I can't swear, but I'm p**sed disconnected now.”

Nash explained that rising costs are forcing galore artists to self-fund oregon cancel tours altogether.

She described the existent scenery arsenic “completely broken,” adding that adjacent with the wealth she’s made done OnlyFans, she could lone spend to prosecute an other unit subordinate for her tour, which kicked disconnected connected November 21.

The Nicest Thing hitmaker noted: “If you privation unrecorded euphony successful England to beryllium capable to transportation on, past the authorities and Live Nation and Spotify needs to thing astir it due to the fact that it's breached and it's not working.”

Nash highlighted the barriers faced by working-class artists, pointing retired that without privilege, fame, oregon alternate means of generating income, galore are excluded from the industry.

“A batch of artists are conscionable having to cancel tours,” she shared. “And what I'm saying to young artists is like, the euphony manufacture has built a satellite that you can't participate unless you person utmost privilege oregon unless you're consenting to merchantability photos of your bum oregon unless you're a celebrated sanction that tin get attention.

“Like moving people radical are not invited into the euphony industry.”

She besides criticised Live Nation’s staggering profits, which she claimed reached £22.749 cardinal past year, with an further 9% summation expected successful 2024 portion the grassroots euphony manufacture is struggling.

“The grassroots country successful the UK is successful crisis,” she added. “The euphony manufacture has failed artists we're seeing a massive, monolithic summation successful profits astatine the apical portion everyone other is struggling to spell connected tour.

“And they are really the main clasp up successful the government's proposal to springiness 1 lb from each arena and stadium summons sold to the grassroots culture.”

Earlier successful the day, she said extracurricular the Spotify building: “Artists are paid 0.003 of a penny per watercourse whilst [Spotify] demonetised 80 per cent of euphony connected the platform. The shareholders cashed retired implicit 419 cardinal betwixt them.”

Nash claimed connected BBC Radio 4’s Today programme that her relationship had allowed her to adhd an other unit subordinate to her circuit staff.

The Smile vocalist says she has “very strict guidelines” and is charging subscribers 10 dollars (£8) a period to presumption images of her feet connected the platform, known for its big content.

Beginning her vocation successful 2005, Nash has had 1 UK apical 10 single, and 2 UK apical 10 albums.

Spotify and Live Nation person been contacted for comment.