Kate Nash Joins OnlyFans to Offset Music Losses

Kate Nash has spoken about the reason why she started her own OnlyFans account. 

The singer, 38, created a profile in 2024 on the X-rated subscription site after suffering financial losses from touring. 

Speaking about the decision, Kate appeared in 's Begin Again podcast where she spoke about how hard it is for musicians to make a living, even if their music is being streamed thousands of times. 

Kate told Davina: 'I started an account and a campaign called 'Butts for tour buses' to get attention, obviously, but also to genuinely make up for the losses and get all my invoices in before .'

The host replied: 'It was the most punk think I've ever heard. I really, really love you for that. 

'Firstly because it really highlighted how absolutely messed up the music industry is that you cannot make a living for your height of success. Millions of streams. How much do you get on  per stream?'

Kate replied: '0.03 of a penny I think it is. It doesn't add up to very much. Depending on who the right holders are. People just aren't being paid fairly for their work. 

'With the live music side of things, it's so expensive to put on a gig. The crisis everything has gone up. I've spent thousands on wages, rehearsal rooms, renting a van, , hotels and printing costs.

'Musicians fees for some reason, nothing has gone up. The value of our music has gone down and I'm not putting on insane shows.'

Kate said her OnlyFans page helps pay for her to have a band at shows and a lighting and sound engineer. 

She continued: 'I'm not doing crazy stuff. The basics I have to cover. I was saying to people on tour "don't stream my music, that won't help buy their merch, buy their OnlyFans". 

Kate then urged her fans to write to their MPs to say they are worried about venues in their local area close and called for musicians to be paid fairly.  

The songstress announced her OnlyFans page back in November 2024. Headlining the post: 'BUTTS 4 TOUR BUSES' she shared a racy photo of her behind, clad in a skimpy black thong and fishnet tights, with a very cheeky cutout.

Giving her reasoning for the new venture, Kate wrote: 'Touring makes losses not profits. Help me stay on tour, pay great wages and put on a high quality show by buying a piece of my a**e or merch!'

She then quipped: 'Don't worry about streaming my music I'm good for the 0.003 of a penny thanks. Woo!'

The actress also offered a 20 per cent off discount for the first 20 subscribers, with her monthly subscription costing £7.90 ($9.99). 

Kate previously opened up on her financial struggles after she was dropped from her record label in 2012.

Three years later the hitmaker discovered her manager Gary Marella, had been stealing large sums of money from her, which resulted in near-bankruptcy and forcing her to get a job at a comic store and sell her clothes second-hand.

Speaking to The Guardian in June of this year, Kate revealed that being cast in Netflix series Glow in 2017 had been the 'break that saved her'.

She said: 'When Glow came along, it saved my life. I’d trusted the wrong people with my money, which meant I had to sell my flat and move back in with my parents. I’d worked so hard and had nothing to show for it. 

'The worst part was that I knew I wasn’t going to give up. I briefly thought I should become a teacher instead, but then I realised: “How are you going to do that? You don’t even have a degree because you didn’t get into any universities.”

'Having this career is about fighting your way through it. Push push, tour tour. Other times you get a break that saves you. Now I’ve got into a nice place where I’m signed to a new label and out of survival mode for the first time in years.'

 While she hit out again at the industry for being extremely challenging for artists to make a living, saying: 'I love being an artist but it’s constant work, especially now music feels as if it’s an industry for the rich. Musicians are making less money, even from touring.'

Kate attended the Brits School and was discovered via MySpace, thanks to her conversational lyrics and catchy choruses. 

She became an overnight star - enjoying a huge hit single with Foundations in 2007, before topping the charts with debut album Made Of Bricks and won best female artist at the BRIT Awards in 2008.