Kate Nash hits back at Lottery Winners for questioning her class for going to “completely free to attend” BRIT School

nme.com:

Kate Nash has hit back at Lottery Winners after they claimed she didn’t represent “the working class musician” because she went to the BRIT School.Their exchange followed Nash making headlines after launching her Butts for Tour Buses campaign, which saw her join OnlyFans to protest the ongoing financial pressures facing the music industry and help raise money for her ongoing UK and European tour.She also took her “bum on the back of a fire truck” protest to the London offices of Live Nation and Spotify as well as the Houses of Parliament to highlight the challenges facing artists and those working in the touring industry.In a statement to NME, Nash maintained that the value of recorded music is “extremely low” and the “cost of presenting live music has gone up by 30.3 per cent over the past two years” with 125 venues closing last year in the UK — echoing concerns raised by the Music Venue Trust last month.The ‘Foundations’ singer went on to say: “The industry is in crisis, the music industry has failed artists, and is completely unsustainable, and my arse is shining a light on that.

And none would be listening if my bum wasn’t involved.“This is a conversation about agency. And selling pictures of my bum is giving me the agency to reinvest in my creative economy.

The music industry does not give me that agency.”Lottery Winners then criticised Nash, accusing her of attempting to represent “the ‘working class musician” despite going to the BRIT School – the only non-fee-paying performing arts school in the UK with alumni including Adele, Amy Winehouse, FKA Twigs, Loyle Carner and Tom Holland.Taking to X/Twitter last week (November 29), the band wrote: “I don’t mind if you went to private school and Brit School, that’s cool,.