Earlier this week, the ‘Foundations’ singer introduced that she had began an account on the net subscription service as a approach of elevating cash for her UK and European tour, which kicked off on Thursday (November 21).
Explaining her resolution, she stated: “While touring is one of the best job EVER it’s at present technically what you may name a ardour venture for lots of artists in 2024.”
She went on to state that whereas ticket costs are rising, most touring musicians are “struggling to have the ability to afford to truly play reveals”.
“Prices of journey, lodging, meals, promotion & workers have additionally gone up in value however musicians usually are not seeing modifications of their gig charges to assist pay for all these rising prices,” she added. “So this Christmas I’m asking that purchase both a chunk of my merch or my arse on my new ONLYFANS account katenyash87 to assist me paying nice wages & placing on a top quality present as I cannot sacrifice both of issues.”
Now, Nash has spoken out in defence of her resolution to begin the OnlyFans channel, saying she needed to deal with accusations that it’s a “unhappy” factor to do.
“Don’t be ‘unhappy’ that I began an onlyfans to fund my excursions,” she wrote on Instagram. “It’s very empowering and promoting pics of my arse is enjoyable & humorous, intercourse is enjoyable & humorous. Ladies being accountable for their our bodies is important and one thing we should always all be standing by & preventing for.”
“In the event you might take away disgrace & unhappiness out of your notion of intercourse work you’ll be able to assist empower intercourse employees,” she added. “Is what I’m doing intercourse work? I’m undecided, you inform me however I like supporting intercourse employees particularly when they’re in management and setting their very own boundaries. I’m a SUPERFAN of ladies accountable for their our bodies & intercourse lives & feminist porn creators.”
She went on to argue that her beginning the marketing campaign has finished extra to deliver consideration to her tour than an everyday advertising and marketing marketing campaign would. “My arse is shining a light-weight on the issue,” she concluded. “Truthfully I’m such a legend for this.”
Nash shouldn’t be the primary musician to leap on OnlyFans. Earlier this yr, Lily Allen launched her personal subscription account the place she shares images of her ft. She not too long ago revealed that she now makes more cash from her OnlyFans ft pics account than she does from Spotify.
She posted on X that she “hasn’t posted shortly however you’ll be able to nonetheless take a look at the archive”, to which one other person responded by questioning why she has been “decreased to this”.
Allen quote-tweeted the response, and replied: “Think about being [an] artist and having practically 8million month-to-month listeners on Spotify however incomes more cash from having 1000 folks subscribe to footage of your ft.”
Final month, figures from the Music Venue Belief have revealed that the touring circuit has been shrinking as a consequence of bands more and more skipping cities and cities.
Whereas 2023 proved to be “disastrous” and the worst yr on report with 125 grassroots music venues shutting their doorways, the MVT argue {that a} tidal wave of closures threatens the material of the UK music scene due to the current price range announcement. They argue that £7million in new premises taxes will place over 350 grassroots music venues at rapid threat of closure – threatening greater than 12,000 jobs, over £250million in financial exercise and the lack of over 75,000 reside music occasions.
On the NME-supported Venues Day final month celebrating 10 years of the Music Venue Belief, the charity laid out the state of affairs that the gig areas throughout the UK face. Many are merely discovering themselves “financially unviable”.
“That is an extremely worrying pattern that’s been occurring for a very long time that has now reached disaster level,” stated MVT CEO Mark Davyd. “That pattern is an entire collapse of touring.”
“Bands can’t afford to choose up the price of touring, venues can’t afford to show the fucking lights on, brokers have gotten extremely averse to threat on behalf of their artists, managers are averse to threat as properly, artists need to be out on the highway and getting these audiences however this touring sector is so far as it may possibly go with out fully toppling over,” stated MVT CEO Mark Davyd. “One thing must be finished.”
Just lately, the Tradition, Media and Sport Committee has welcomed the UK authorities’s new backing of a levy on gigs at area stage and above to assist save the grassroots music scene.
The CMS committee have penned a letter that “welcomes the federal government’s recognition of the necessity for a levy and assertion that the federal government reserves the best to step in if an industry-led resolution shouldn’t be forthcoming in 2025” – however voices “considerations that these long-term reforms is not going to tackle the short-term, mutually reinforcing charge of closures and price of touring”.
Because of this, there are actually “requires readability on how lengthy the {industry} has to take motion earlier than the federal government itself steps in”.
Featured Artists Coalition CEO David Martin, who has been vocal in his message of “what good is it retaining venues open if artists can’t afford to carry out in them?”, additionally welcomed the information however known as for urgency and readability in order that the much-needed levy funding could possibly be unfold across the ecosystem.
