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[edit] 3.2 Fiction Records

Despite being ignored by commercial radio.

Is this a joke? This song is being played to death on commercial radio! E.g. Essex FM. This and James Fucking Blunt. Grrr! --194.176.105.40 15:13, 15 October 2007 (UTC)

Hey come on - I only heard it twice today --Dilaudid (talk) 09:26, 19 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Biography assessment rating comment

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Brief, but basically a B.

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[edit] Just Jack - LDN is a Victim

He even says at the end of the song he's in it and then sings a bit of Starz in Their Eyes in a sarcastic way, that makes me think a lot more than just a "few" people believe it is actually him. Andy86 13:13, 13 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Kiss me kate?

I heard a while back that her album was called kiss me kate. is that true!?!??!!?!?!?!? Thankipops Jimmy93211 22:57, 18 June 2007 (UTC)

No, that is false. It's in actual fact, called: "Born To Toffs But Speak Like My Head Is In A Trough".

[edit] Name of Album Chinese Democracy?

This is someone taking the piss right?

[edit] Dating James Kennedy

This claim is unverified and needs to be deleted unless proper sources are quoted. The reference given (http://www.myspace.com/misanthropyforbeginners) is an empty myspace profile. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 90.195.11.203 (talk) 10:10:27, August 19, 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Article Protection

This page is being vandalised a lot. We might ned to consider some level of protection if this goes on, which would be a great shame. Indisciplined 23:11, 31 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Indie

I think it is incorrect to both Indie and Indie Rock as genres. I will remove the term Indie. Also, do you think Indie Pop would be a good term to describe Kate Nash's musical style? Thundermaster367 15:02, 2 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] I think someone needs to sort out the spelling in this article.

"conpliments" being one example, also the inconsistant use of quotation marks.

Agreed. I had a go, but it still needs more work. Indisciplined 14:47, 22 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Nash attacking Lily Allen's compliments

At the end of the "background" paragraph it says "Nash has recently attacked Allen's compliments, stating she is "the total opposite of a chav" Did Nash mean that she herself is the total opposite of a chav or that Lily Allen is? The "she" should be replaced by a name. A source for that comment would be nice as well. --Janzomaster 07:05, 7 October 2007 (UTC)

I didn't add this, but I believe, from other articles, that she - Kate, that is - is saying that of herself. I'm not entirely sure how to rephrase that. Also, I've only seen similar articles on Orange World, and I've tried jeevesing for a source but it's proving difficult to find any article that uses those exact words. -- Torika 15:31, 7 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] 3.2 Fiction Records

Despite being ignored by commercial radio. Is this a joke? This song is being played to death on commercial radio! E.g. Essex FM. This and James Fucking Blunt. Grrr! --194.176.105.40 15:13, 15 October 2007 (UTC)

In agreement with this post, it is inaccurate to say Kate Nash's record 'Foundations' was 'ignored by commercial radio'. I work for a commercial radio station and can tell you that a more accurate (and fittingly colloquial) description of commercial radio's treatment of the record would be: Commercial radio absolutely rinsed it to death.

So much so that our station was mockingly referred to as 'Kate Nash FM' for the months in which the record was on heavy rotation.

--Joeljaggar 14:00, 18 October 2007 (UTC)


Except, of course, that the song was barely in the top 100 of the airplay chart when it was released, it was only when the song became a massive success that radio stations started playing it. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 81.145.242.56 (talk) 14:24, 1 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Book

Without having the referenced issue of NME to hand, I can't check, but I doubt that she would say that she "may release the book under a different name so that the millions of people who don't like her music might like her book." I did find a link to a summary of the interview [1] which mentions the seven foot transvestite but not the pseudonym thing- but I don't know off-hand how to add it as a reference. MorganaFiolett (talk) 17:59, 18 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Middlesex

Sorry to be pedantic but I see this mistake being made everywhere: Middlesex no longer exists as a place or a county and hasn't existed for the past forty years, only as a Royal Mail postal district (see http://www.sog.org.uk/prc/middlesex.shtml). Harrow is an outer borough of Greater London, not Middlesex. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 81.151.60.161 (talk) 00:31, 21 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Beware Small Minds

Removed yet another lazy use of "recently" and replaced it with a date. Stop using relative time descriptions that will make no sense to people in 10, 100 or 1000 years time. Think big! This is an encyclopaedia. As a geologist, recently means within the last few 100 million years to me. If I were a cosmologist it would mean a rather longer period. Although articles like this are about people or things with very transient appeal there is a danger that, in a few years when the regular updates stop, some of the uses of “recently” are left in and become more difficult to replace with absolute dates. This lowers the quality of the entire enterprise. Take a pride in your edits and long live anonymous editing. Try to exceed the guidelines not just keep within them. May all your thoughts be big ones!

[edit] Is Kate from Ireland or England?

I've seen this change a couple of times, and in the article's body it says she's from Harrow, but then in the infobox it says she's from Dublin, can someone please clear this up for good? A good reference is needed, for example an interview where she talks about it, or multiple mag refs?? Andre666 (talk) 15:03, 4 January 2008 (UTC)

She may well have been born in Dublin though I can't find any sources that verifies it, but since she's quoted herself as saying ' I'm an English rose ' you have to take it from the horses mouth. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 172.159.184.211 (talk) 21:02, 4 January 2008 (UTC)


Can I just second what the previous unsigned commenter stated. He has said that "she's quoted herself as saying ' I'm an English rose ' you have to take it from the horses mouth.". This is correct. Wikipedia should eb based on verifiable sources, and until I corrected it it stated that Kate Nash was Irish and then had a link saying she was English. Your place of birth is not as important as the nationality of your parents. For example a British couple on holiday in Turkey who gave birth over there would still have a British child. Similarly, Kate Nash, whilst being born in Ireland has grown up in England, and most importantly, describes herself as being English. -confusedmiked —Preceding unsigned comment added by 138.40.24.189 (talk) 11:40, 10 January 2008 (UTC)

the statement doesn't say she is irish it says she is irish born, which is correct and accompanied with a source. Skitzo (talk) 11:59, 10 January 2008 (UTC)

i've changed it to irish born english singer, as the source is actually about her quote calling herself 'English' and nothing to do with where she was born - is everyone in agreement with this?

I'm looking at other examples of people born overseas like John McEnroe for example is listed as John Patrick McEnroe, Jr. (born February 16, 1959 in Wiesbaden, Germany) is a former World No. 1 professional tennis player from the United States.

or Kiefer Sutherland (born in London) is listed as Kiefer William Frederick Dempsey George Rufus Sutherland (born December 21, 1966) is an Emmy- and Golden Globe Award-winning Canadian actor. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 172.141.162.114 (talk) 00:01, 12 January 2008 (UTC)

Hi the statement that she is an irish born english singer' is clumsy and nonsensical. Culturally she is english, her accent is english, and she has lived in England all her life. Being english is a key part of her onstage persona and the way she speaks and acts. She isn't Irish, and we don't have any source to back up the statement that she is other than that she was born there. She described herself as being English and we have a source to back this up. Therfore it seems clumsy and wrong to describe her as an irish born english singer. It should state she is and english singer who was born in ireland, as have sources to back that up. We have no sources to back up the assertion she is irish. She is an english singer who happens to have been born in dublin, but describes herself as english not irish. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.0.189.88 (talk) 13:59, 12 January 2008 (UTC)

Now it states that she was born in Harrow! Whether she is English or Irish doesn't change the place of birth. Was Kate Nash born in Dublin or Harrow? Skinsmoke (talk) 01:00, 14 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Shirley Bassey collaboration

"Leaning On a Lamppost (Shirley Bassey ft. Kate Nash)"

Can anybody confirm this, please? A duet with Shirley Bassey doesn't seem very likely, and I have not seen anything of it reported.
I added a "citation needed" tag to the article but felt it wasn't appropriate so removed it. Is there a tag I'm supposed to use in this case?
-- Torika (talk) 19:31, 18 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] ryan jarman!

i previously edited this page to say she's going out with Ryan Jarman. She is, so why has it been deleted? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.10.87.73 (talk) 17:48, 23 February 2008 (UTC)

It's been deleted again. It needs to be sourced. --neonwhite user page talk 18:01, 23 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Wikipedia and Robbie Williams

Anyone else troubled by this section:

On January 15, 2008, Nash responded to reports on Wikipedia that she had covered songs made famous by Robbie Williams. She told Spinner magazine, "I'd never do that. Ever. Badly manufactured pop is why I wouldn't want to cover Robbie Williams' songs. In my eyes, it's just a totally different world from what I know. I'm just not really interested in it."

The reference cited (http://www.channel4.com/music/musicnews/kate-nash-never-copy-robbie-williams.213.html) does quote Nash saying Wikipedia was a source for such a comment.

My first issue is that I don't think it's notable. But setting that aside for the moment and assuming it is notable, shouldn't the section avoid describing Wikipedia as "reporting" she covers so-and-so as if it were a gossip column and instead describe the circumstances that surround the abuse of Wikipedia she was referring to? It could do so along the lines of Controversy over Wikipedia's biography of John Seigenthaler Sr. As we all know, Wikipedia is an encyclopedia and not a source of original research, so having a section here about "reports on Wikipedia" is a bad thing. 68.165.76.203 (talk) 04:29, 28 February 2008 (UTC).

Other than the blatent hypocrisy in her words which is not for me to comment on, i agree and i don't think it's that important. However note that notability guidelines do not limit article content but refer to the subject of articles themselves. --neonwhite user page talk 16:19, 28 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] LP Release

"On December 24th 2007, Nash released her platinum debut album on a strictly limited 300 LP "

Can anyone confirm this? I know it was definately slated for release as a few independent record stores listed it as coming soon but I do not remember seeing it sold anywhere and I have never seen it on ebay or rarities sites. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Barmybarney (talk • contribs) 19:33, 12 March 2008 (UTC)