Album Review

Kate Nash – Foundations

• 19th May 2007

Could you imagine Lily Allen and Lady Sovereign meeting the Bjork of eight years ago, on Celebrity Love Island and bursting into song after musing over the vagaries attached to first dates? Kate flits ruggedly between an almost hip-hop vocal gait and a bland anti-folk one. The song builds, as Kate tears into fading romantic flame with cutting jibes that would make Simon Cowell seem like a counsellor;

“You said I must eat so many lemons, cos I am so bitter.
I said I’d rather be with your friends mate, cos they are much fitter.”

A lobbing piano-led, spring-time backing plain allows this dark humoured Londoner to stomp over it with cocky prowess. The old school approach of “when I’ve got something to say; I’ll just say it, love!” is shamelessly deployed and it doesn’t make bad listening at all.

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Catch Kate live;

26 May 2007 21:00
Fiddlers 18+ Bristol

27 May 2007 21:00
Rock City 14+ Nottingham

29 May 2007 21:00
Glee 18+ Birmigham

31 May 2007 21:00
ICA – SOLD OUT 18+ London

2 Jun 2007 21:00
Escobar 18+ Wakefield

3 Jun 2007 21:00
Night and Day Manchester

4 Jun 2007 21:00
Barfly Loft 14+ Liverpool

5 Jun 2007 21:00
Fibbers York

7 Jun 2007 21:00
Cabaret Voltaire 18+ Edinburgh

8 Jun 2007 21:00
Tunnels 14+ Aberdeen

9 Jun 2007 21:00
Reading Rooms 16+ Dundee

10 Jun 2007 21:00
Kig Tut’s 18+ Glasgow

12 Jun 2007 20:00
Newcastle

15 Jun 2007 21:00
Clwb Ifor Bach 14+ Cardiff

23 Jul 2007 21:00
Leadmill 14+ Sheffield

7 Sep 2007 21:00
Bloomsbury Ballroom – London