Kate Nash live in Frome

Gotobeat is proud to team up with The Cheese & Grain to bring indie alt-pop legend Kate Nash to Frome on Thursday 24th July.

Kate Nash
Plus Special Guests

Thursday 24th July 2025
The Cheese & Grain, Frome
Doors 19:30

Nearly twenty years into her ever-evolving career, London and LA-based, Brit award-winning singer, songwriter, actor and activist Kate Nash has seen it all. She's achieved huge commercial success – 2007's debut Made of Bricks, featuring the hit single Foundations, reached number 1 in the UK and spent seven months in the top 40 – seen the darker side of the industry after being dropped in 2012 following 2010's Bernard Butler-assisted My Best Friend Is You, forged her own path as a successful independent artist via 2013's punk-y Girl Talk and 2018's Yesterday Was Forever, and starred in HBO's hit wrestling drama, GLOW. She's also been the subject of an award-winning documentary, Kate Nash: Underestimate the Girl, and also co-created a musical, Only Gold, with Hamilton choreographer Andy Blankenbuehler. Oh, and she also starred in that too. Still only 36, Nash isn't finished shape-shifting just yet; after signing with legendary label Kill Rock Stars, whose alumni include Nash favourites Elliott Smith and Sleater-Kinney, in early 2024, she'll release her fifth album, 9 Sad Symphonies, in June.

Inspired by old Hollywood, vintage musicals and a desperate quest to find beauty in a rotten world, it's another sonic shift following her “rage-y” recent output. “It needed to be cinematic and dreamy,” Nash says of the 10-track album (the title is both a joke and an ode to passing achievable goals when creativity crumbles). As for the sonic shifts, it's just second nature: “I do things based on what I'm feeling at the time, and what I'm inspired by,” she explains.

That moment of the album's creation was fuelled by two things; her work on Only Gold and a global pandemic that curtailed filming on the fourth season of GLOW and sent Nash – and everyone – into a tailspin. After a period of laying bed watching zombie movies, creativity started to arrive in the autumn and winter of 2020, with songs being worked on well into 2021. Having worked with Danish producer Frederick Thaae on her musical, they quickly reconnected to start work on 9 Sad Symphonies. “We were in this completely different landscape for writing songs [on the musical], which was completely freeing,” Nash explains. “I was writing for a story, I was writing about a King and a Queen and a proper story arc. In that world you need the audience to understand the songs immediately, it's very direct, and it has lots of editing which I'd never done. It changed my outlook on songwriting. Also, we said at the beginning that we wanted to make something beautiful, nothing harsh. I've done a lot of harsh stuff before. We wanted loads of beautiful string arrangements.”

Accessibility Info

The Cheese and Grain has ramped access to the front door and both the venue cafe/bar and main hall are on a flat floor, with a wheel chair accessible toilet located at the front of the building by the box office. For those who need access to a hoist and changing bed, a spacious “Changing Spaces” toilet and wash room in the car park public toilet block. A key for this facility is kept in the box-office.

If an event is seated it will always be listed as such on our web-site. We have selected wheelchair spaces available. Please call our box office for advice.

The Cheese and Grain is primarily a standing venue, if you require seating or any other requirements for attending an event please contact the programme and production manager Rob Dahl (rob@cheeseandgrain.com) as early as possible before the event date for assistance.

Kate Nash

Kate Nash is a Brit Award-winning London-based singer, songwriter, actor, and activist. Emerging in the late 2000s with her hit "Foundations," she achieved commercial success with her debut album "Made of Bricks" in 2007. Over her career, she has explored various genres, including alt-pop, indie, R&B, folk, and punk. Her latest album, "9 Sad Symphonies," was released in 2024. Nash has also been involved in acting, including starring in the HBO series "GLOW". In recent news, she has been vocal about the challenges artists face in the music industry, including calling out Spotify for low streaming payments.