Kate Nash on OnlyFans, The Lottery Winners and saving the music industry: “Major labels are scared – and they should be”

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Kate Nash has spoken to NME about her ‘Butts For Tour Buses’ campaign, the online row with The Lottery Winners – and why things need to change for artists now to avoid “collapse”.Nash recently made headlines when she launched her ‘Butts for Tour Buses’ campaign, which saw her join OnlyFans to protest the music industry and help raise money for her UK and European tour.The singer-songwriter and GLOW actor then 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 arguing: “The industry is in crisis, the music industry has failed artists, and is completely unsustainable, and my arse is shining a light on that.”This comes as the UK government recently backed the call for a ticket levy on arena gigs and above to feed the grassroots, with small venues in a perilous situation and artists struggling more than ever to make ends meet with the odds stacked against them.

A deadline has since been set for March for the music industry to react in a meaningful way to the levy, before the government will be forced to step in and act.

With the dialogue increasing in recent years, it appears to be coming to a point of real reckoning now.“It’s exploding now because of my bum!

No, I’m joking,” Nash told NME. “A lot of work has been done over the last five years by people in government, Tom Gray, Broken Record, Sam Duckworth, Music Venue Trust – they’ve been working on this with proper activism at a political level.