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Last Updated: 11/29/2009

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Tuesday, December 15, 2009

Christmas Party @ RAK - Last Day in Studio & The Receeders Thursday!

Ok so Today is my official last day in the studio, tomorrow is scary day of mastering, need to figure out the track listing asap...

wow. so weird to have pretty much finished the album, weird but good.

Last night I went to the joint Moshi Moshi & Wichita Christmas party, peggy sue have just been signed to Wichita so I am really so happy about that, I can't wait for their album, they work so hard and totally deserve this.

Also we had a christmas party at RAK studios on friday, ate plenty and got merry, sort of tried to dress like an elf and all wore rak t-shirts...neeky. It's fun getting to go to a work christmas party, haven't been to one since forever...i don't think i ever made it to the nando's one, or river island, i think one of them was at tiger tiger...maybe they both were.

Finally some of you may know I am in a band called the Receeders and we have a gig this thursday at 93 ft east, apparently we're headlining, even though we only have 4 songs. If you're lucky we'll play them twice and have a singalong.

Merry Almost Christmas!

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Friday, November 13, 2009

MILKSHAKE FRIDAY!

Once again it's milkshake friday and I've got no milkshake. No milkshake in sight and there's no doubt in my mind, I know there's not going to be one.

I'm in the studio, mixing & blogging. I'm blogging to let you know about a new blog, bloggeldy blog.

Kathleen hanna -

the original riot grrrl and inspiring woman to all women has got one,

it's cool check it out, here's the link...

http://kathleenhanna.wordpress.com/

I'm trying to think of something of cultural interest. Has anybody been collecting the guardian decade photo's? I've enjoyed that.

How about this...it's supposed to be a secret...might be fun to go to and see all the postcards and you can buy the ones you like on the 21st of this month same place.

http://dams.rca.ac.uk/res/sites/RCA%5FSecret/

Just a selection of the artists involved

Also, coming in highly recommended, the book I'm finishing off right now...

ok, back to work.

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Saturday, November 07, 2009

Happy Halloween Charity Wish Horror Show

The Halloween Charity Wish Horror Show was a marvelous success!

We managed to raise over £4,000 for the charity, http://thewishcentre.org.uk/index.php (supporting women who are victims of domestic violence & abuse & kids who self harm)...

it was like christmas but halloween, there was cake, billy bragg, derek meins, dockers mc, chris hicks, tim clare, bri aphrodite, brett alaimo, rogues, the receeders, ryan jarman, & edwyn collins!

It was so much fun, it really was a beautiful amazing moment to see edwyn play in trinity too. I can't thank him enough for coming down.

We had a massive projection screen at the back of the stage and were showing horror films all night, if you weren't there, you missed out...

but!

here are some pictures to fill you in!...

Oh just quickly,

Also we are still trying to raise money with some items that were given to us from some other artists to auction them off, go here to find the items...

Girls aloud

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=110454170832&ssPageName=STRK:MESELX:IT#ht_513wt_1167

van morrison
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=110454182871&ssPageName=STRK:MESELX:IT#ht_500wt_1182

the rifles
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=110454191553&ssPageName=STRK:MESELX:IT#ht_500wt_1182

sterephonics

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=110454201289&ssPageName=STRK:MESELX:IT#ht_500wt_1182

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=110454203113&ssPageName=STRK:MESELX:IT#ht_500wt_1182

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=110454203868&ssPageName=STRK:MESELX:IT#ht_500wt_1182

Kaiser Chiefs

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Kaiser-Chiefs-Signed-Albums-on-vinyl_W0QQitemZ110456061036QQcmdZViewItemQQptZUK_Music_Music_Memorabilia_LE?hash=item19b7b1bc6c#ht_524wt_1167

ok, enjoy the pics.

(www.clarenashphotography.com)

2 nerds opening up

Mr. Bragg & I

The wonderful Derek Meins

ouch!

Dockers MC

Bri Aphrodite

Brett Alaimo

The Receeders

Enthusiasm from the crowd

Mr Sound GUY GRANTY BOY

Sick Passer by

Edwyn Collins!

Edwyn & Ryan perform a new song

Collecting money

Drunken Fun

And I still can't believe Edwyn played in Trinity, it was lovely.

Happy Halloween just gone

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Monday, November 02, 2009

Why is JAPAN SO FUN?!

I recently went on a trip, tagging along with the cribs, to Japan, I really appreciated being on a trip, really got to grips with Shibuya and bought a shiny new camera to take some snaps with.

Here are some pictures...

Some happy bins..

Smiling Sushi...

Cute chopping boards...

I bought the heart face scouring pad & the piggy sponge

Nope, these are not soft wintery socks, they're flannels!

For Baby bath time

Cribs Gig in Tokyo...

in Osaka (i think?)

& Hardcore fans!

Japan i love you & I can't wait to come back!

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Wednesday, October 14, 2009

october = good

i love the orange leaves the pies, scarves & cold sunny mornings, reading books and watching films and buying new pens & paper.

i'm doing a night with my friend for halloween, it's going to be good, it's a charity do and we're auctioning off some stuff

& also doing a jumble sale, can anyone donate some clothes? shall I leave some contact details?

i knit a scarf for fluffy. i knit, i knitted, i knat?? hmm

recording is going great and I'm really enjoying getting back into my work.

see you soon fellow friends, can't wait to share...

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Wednesday, September 02, 2009

'Give tilly a hand' & we're out of beans

Ok, so some people have been getting irritated that I keep 'advertising' & recommending things in blogs instead of telling you that I had beans on toast breakfast.

To be honest, I would rather read something that someone had recommended me seeing/hearing/going to that might fill my day after my daily blog reading instead of wondering what brand of beans they were and was it on white or granary? But without further ado...

I didn't have beans, my bread was moldy so I had grapes and then rivita with philadelphia cheese & a slice of salami. Not as bad as it sounds, really it's not. There's your london lite quote right there.

The other most trivial piece of information I can think to tell you, I got my fringe cut.

oh and I bought a printer. whoopee.

Erm, so seriously

I've come up with an idea for a documentary, i need to find the people that the documentary will follow, i wonder if I should just post adverts in local newspapers up & down the country. Does anybody know anything about video cameras?? I want to get a decent one that's pretty simple to use but does a good job. I don't know anything about them, there's so many different types. If anyone could give me some advice on where to go with that. It doesn't have to be totally pro, I want to be able to actually use it. Just a good starter camera, I want to shoot short films & documentaries on it... help anyone?

Erm, what else, I'm not back in the studio yet, I went to the edinburgh fringe & I saw this really cool light & sounds show called power plant, ( not advertising/recommending here, just letting you all know how good this actually was, you don't have to go & see it, though to anyone interested if you did go and see it, it would be fun!) So it's called Powerplant & it's showing at the Royal Botannical Gardens, I don't know if they have any other shows in the country but I'd like to find out, I wouldn't mind going to see more stuff like it. It was really beautiful & weird & It was cool to see something that you had no idea how it had been made, put together or even thought of. It was completely out of my realm. It was all in glasshouses with exotic rare plants, my favourite room was with these huge plants and mirror balls and grammar phones with the needles scraping over bits of saw & turf instead of records. There were lights shooting through trees that made the trees shadow spin round & up & down, giant exposed roots with strip lights fusing on & off & fire & neon lights on fans & feathers playing strings & more things I just can't explain.

I also read this amazing comic book, I've got into those recently, they're good. It's called The Last Man, it's really good.

I think there's about 4 in the series and I just read the first one, so i need the rest, now you know what to get me for christmas.

The most important thing I have to tell you is if you remember ages ago I posted a bog about a little girl called tilly who lost her hands due to Meningococcal Septicaemia, her family are trying to raise money so she can afford a new pair of hands, the charity is 'give tilly a hand' and they are auctioning on ebay now.

I gave them an exclusive signed photo and decorated my own pair of hands & it is now being auctioned on ebay...it's only just gone on today so it's only at £1.04!

this won't help much so please please please bid on this item for as much as you can and help tilly get some new hands! this is so important.

http: / / cgi. ebay. co. uk/ Kate- Nash- personally- signed- framed- handprint- with- photo_ W0QQitemZ230372 224734QQcmdZVie wItemQQptZUK_ Music_ Music_ Memorabilia_ LE? hash= item35a3412ede& _ trksid= p3911. c0. m14# ht_ 622wt_ 1153

That's all I've got.

lots of love

kate mash potato

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Tuesday, August 18, 2009

Interesting things to see & do

That I'd like to recommend,

Pornography @ the TRICYCLE THEATRE

Check out this review...

http://www.guardian.co.uk/stage/2009/aug/07/michael-billington-review-pornography

Feeling quite theatrical this week so,

also starting from Thursday

Eye/Balls @ the SOHO THEATRE

Written by my beautifully talented friend Sarah Solemani, this should be brilliant. Can't wait to see it

Check it out

http://www.sohotheatre.com/fromhomepage/pl1722.html

and BUY TICKETS HERE! -

http://purchase.tickets.com/buy/TicketPurchase?agency=SOHOTHEATRE&organ_val=2998&schedule=list&event_val=1275

And for anyone who is lucky enough to visit the edinburgh fringe, please check out this wonderful lady's show

http://www.myspace.com/brigitteaphroditevoutsa

Also been mostly listening to the Strangeboys & the Research in the mornings

Have fun! BE NICE

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Monday, August 03, 2009

Cheat on Me

here's some news,

the best band ever, release their new single today,

get it here...

http://bit.ly/SHxBP

it's really brilliant.

other than that i don't have a lot of news, i'm taking a break from the studio while bernard goes on a sunny holiday, so i'm back to that on the 20th. it's going well and it's getting there i think. it's pretty exciting & scary all this recording a second album. i have no idea when you'll be able to hear any of it at the moment.

i'm trying to think of any other tips i have, erm i'm reading catcher in the rye and then i got day of the triffids to read after that. i watched 28 weeks later which i thought was pretty good and the original invasion of the body snatchers which is also good. very scary.

oh i know, i went to a birthday party yesterday that was spanish/salsa themed and ate the most amazing food and there was a mariachi band, getting a mariachi band to play at your birthday party is a really fun thing to do so do that!

i had one more thing to say and i can't remember it...

shit, erm. i don't know.

oh it's come back to me, harrow has an outdoor cinema screen on the green!

it's the most amazing and most cultural thing to hit harrow since trinity. go check it out if you live there.

happy summer holidays.

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Sunday, July 12, 2009

Studio - New Album - Fluffy

hello,

thanks to everybody who came to Ugly Shy Girls at the Queen Elizabeth Halls yesterday I'm sure you'll all agree that it was a lovely afternoon/evening.

It was so nice to play with Brigitte Aphrodite, Peggy Sue, & Laura, I love all of them so much and think they are all so wonderfully talented. If you don't know who they are then you can check them out in my top friends.

In other news...I'm properly and most definitely back to work now! I've started recording my album. It's very exciting. I was a little scared at first, just at the thought of it being finished and complete once the session is over and wondering what that will be like. But after just 3 days hard graft and roughly laying down 5 tracks I feel very excited and happy to be doing it. I've had a great time taking a much needed break, i needed the rejuvenation and i needed to find inspiration and things to write about again and to feel passionate about life and music again. And taking the time out did help me write, i have loads of songs to go into the studio with, so the album is written, it just needs transferring into special sounding recordings. The studio I'm working in has a lovely old desk and 2 great big live rooms and lots of instruments have been brought down by myself and bernard & friends so there's lots to play with. It's going to be a good few weeks! fingers crossed.

In other even more exciting/important news I have been hanging out with my new best friend and birthday present, my bunny rabbit fluffy. she is the best thing i've ever seen. omg i'm actually obsessed with her. we just watched bogus together. she's standing on her hind legs. it's so cute.

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Saturday, May 02, 2009

Sunny Days, Back to work

I'm in LA again, for a couple of weeks.

I've been meeting some producers out here about doing my next record. It's pretty exciting because I haven't really been ready to talk about any of that stuff for ages, i really haven't wanted to. I've wanted to hang out and watch jeremy kyle and see my friends and go to the cinema and clean out my fish tank and pass my driving test. But i finally feel ready to start getting stuck into thinking about how to stick these songs together that I've been working on for the past 8 months. I feel like the songs are stamps and i need to get someone to lick the the back of the stamps and put them in the right place on the envelope.

I'm excited.

Good timing too because the cribs are also in LA and i bet you can't wait to hear their new album, it's going to make you so happy.

I had a meeting with this guy in a crunky mansion on laurel canyon and it was huge and i've never been in a mansion before and i got to sit and drink rose and look at a mansion and it was very exciting for me.