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Kate Nash slams JK Rowling, Rod Stewart and Denise Welch in Glastonbury set
The singer made several swipes at celebrities and politicians during her set at the iconic festival.
Musician Kate Nash has taken a serious swipe at several celebs and politicians, including JK Rowling, Rod Stewart, Denise Welch, Keir Starmer and Nigel Farage. Nash was headlining the Left Field tent at Glastonbury Festival on Saturday night, June 28.
She told the audience: "The loudest feminist voice in the UK is currently transphobic and that is something that I take very f****** personally, as a feminist and a feminist with trans friends in my life, trans people that I love and that are very important to me.
"Dismantling systems of oppression lies at the very core of feminism, so transphobia is not f****** feminist. And just because you're a f******* millionaire and a f****** bully with an army of trolls on the f****** internet.
"I don't give a f*** mate. I don't give a s*** about the hundreds, if not thousands of comments, that I've been receiving from trolls since I penned my essay, released it into a song. It's called Germ."
Kate continued by laying into music bosses, including Denise Welch, who was at the festival supporting her son Matty Healy's band The 1975.
She said: "The music industry doesn't know what to do with me. They tried to get rid of me, but they didn't. There is a record executive sweating their t*** off with Matt Healy's mum.
"They're scared of me. I like that. But I was made of mother f****** Bricks. But they didn't believe me. I even gave them a second warning a few years later when I told them 'Do not underestimate the girl'. Is it my fault they didn't believe me?
"I'm not going to give my third warning. It's too late for that. I'm taking my bricks and I'm throwing them through the f****** window.'
Launching into her song D***head, she said: "F*** Rod Stewart. This one [Why You Being A D****head For] goes out to Keir Starmer, JK Rowling, Rod Stewart and Nigel f****** Farage.'
Last week, Rod announced his support for Farage in an interview with the Times.
The 37-year-old singer shot to fame in the Noughties with her debut album Made of Bricks, which came out in 2007 and went straight to number one in the music charts.
Despite having huge success, the former Brit School alumni later discovered her manager had stolen vast sums of money from her, leaving her almost bankrupt.
And after parting ways with her record label, she says she was forced to sell her flat and move back in with her parents.
Alongside singing, Kate went on to land a part in Netflix series Glow, about female wrestlers in the Eighties, but this was cancelled part way through filming the fourth season.
She also makes money on adult website OnlyFans, which she said she started doing to cover touring costs.
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