Kate Nash says OnlyFans photos will earn more than tour

Singer Kate Nash says she thinks she is going to make more cash from promoting images of her backside on OnlyFans than she is going to from her live shows, after becoming a member of the platform as a result of it is “a really difficult time for artists to tour”.

Under the slogan “Butts for tour buses”, the musician introduced on Thursday that her OnlyFans earnings will subsidise her reveals as a result of “touring makes losses not profits”.

“I also think it’s bit of a punk protest as a woman to take control of my body and sell it to be able to fund my passion project, which is actually my 18-year career,” she defined.

“I want to highlight that, and I want people to talk about it, and I want people to know the truth about what what’s happening in the music business.”

Nash, who has simply completed a three-week US tour, began her UK dates in Glasgow on Thursday, and can then transfer on to Europe. Her date at London’s Koko is bought out.

“I’m losing money from those tours,” she instructed BBC News.

“The only way I could find to make a profit on the tour – you’re either going, hopefully I sell enough T-shirts to cover the debt, or you cut people’s wages, or you fire band and crew, or you travel dangerously.”

She wasn’t keen to chop corners or the standard of her reveals, she stated. “So that leaves me in a position where I’m not profiting from tours. So is this a job, or is it a passion project?”

She additionally stated it was “an important time for women to take control and to feel empowered”, and that she usually posted images of her posterior anyway.

The footage she’s posted on OnlyFans up to now are revealing however not express.

“I think the arse is the perfect combination of comedy and sexuality,” she stated.

“I actually like bums. I think they’re just quite great. I think it’s funny. I enjoy taking pictures of my bum. Always been a bit of a flasher. So I’m going to enjoy doing it, and I’m already putting it online anyway.

“I’m going to in all probability make more cash doing that than the music over the subsequent three months.”

Nash, who released her fifth studio album in June, also told fans on Instagram: “No have to stream my music, I’m good for the 0.003 of a penny per stream thanks.”

Last month, fellow singer Lily Allen revealed she makes more money by selling pictures of her feet on OnlyFans than she does from Spotify streams.

Meanwhile, in current months, acts including Rachel Chinouriri, Ratboy and The Duke Spirit singer Liela Moss have all cancelled excursions, blaming the prices.

Nash highlighted a survey from recording and rehearsal studio network Pirate, which said most artists have not seen an increase in gig fees in recent years despite a rise in ticket prices.

“Festival costs and ticket costs have gone up drastically, however the musicians’ wage hasn’t,” she said.

“So you is likely to be taking part in a venue that you have performed a number of instances and you may promote it out, [but] you are getting the identical charge that you simply did 10 years in the past, in all probability. But all the opposite prices have gone up.”

Some corporations make big profits from music, as do a “choose few” artists, she said.

“But the bulk are dropping cash, and we’re additionally creating an setting the place the business is saying, we do not need variety in music, as a result of we do not need working class folks to have the ability to afford to do that.”

Musicians may observe a lead from people who earn a living from selling sexual content on sites like OnlyFans, she urged.

“You’ve received all this management, and also you’re deciding what you wish to do and the way you wish to do it, and other people wish to pay you for it.

“We just haven’t taught any of those lessons to anyone with music and art – that art is so valuable and so worthwhile in our lives and so meaningful. We’re totally happy to devalue it.

“Where can we study from the intercourse staff? Maybe we will study one thing from this business. How can we get empowered as artists and take a bit extra management?”