Kate Nash says promoting photographs of her backside on the X-rated website OnlyFans has allowed her so as to add an additional crew member to her tour employees.
The 37-year-old singer says the actual fact she is having to subsidise her reveals on this method reveals that the music trade is “completely broken”.
She introduced she was launching her OnlyFans account final week as she started the UK leg of her tour, and has beforehand mentioned on Instagram that, “touring makes losses not profits”.
Talking about her new enterprise to BBC Radio 4’s Right now programme she mentioned it was “very funny” and “fun to do,” including, “My industry is completely broken, I don’t think it’s sustainable, and I think it’s a complete failure, I think it will collapse as well”.
Happening to speak about “people finding solutions to fund their art,” she mentioned: “I feel it is fairly empowering, and I am additionally creating jobs with my bum now.
“For example, I couldn’t bring a crew member that’s on tour with me in the UK to Europe, but now I can, because of my OnlyFans website.”
She has beforehand described the profession transfer as a “punk protest,” containing “lots of comedy”.
Talking to LBC final week, she mentioned: “The price of touring has gone up. Identical to the price of dwelling disaster, there is a cost-of-touring disaster – the place the price of journey, lodging, crew wages, bus rental, all of the issues that you must pay for whenever you go on tour, the whole lot’s gone up.
“But a lot of bands’ and artists’ fees for gigs have not gone up, whereas ticket prices have gone up.”
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Nash additionally mentioned music was an “exploitative industry,” including, “I have had lots of experience of being exploited”.
She mentioned it may “learn a lot from the sex industry”.
Starting her profession in 2005, Nash has had one UK prime 10 single – 2007’s Foundations – and two UK prime 10 albums.
She has simply completed a three-week US tour and is now touring the UK earlier than transferring on to Europe. Her London gig later this week is offered out.
And Nash is not the one one branching out to herald money. Lily Allen mentioned earlier this yr that she had joined OnlyFans to promote pictures of her ft.
The 39-year-old Smile singer, who moved to the US in 2020, says she has “very strict guidelines” and is charging subscribers $10 (£8) a month to view photos of her ft on the platform.
