Kate Nash returns with first new single in over a year "Misery"

"Misery" is Nash's first new single since 2019's "Bad Lieutenant", and is accompanied by news of her DIY tour safely out of the bedroom, which will see Nash perform one-off gigs at scenic locations across the US, beginning tomorrow (21 May) at California's Sequoia National Forest, which will be streamed from 7pm BST.

Nash says of the new song, "I definitely went through depression. For the most part of the year, I just didn’t have the energy and I was kind of lethargic and very lacklustre. Rather than fighting that, I leaned into it. It’s about the trauma: the trauma of everything changing."

Speaking about her safely out of the bedroom tour, Nash says, "I feel like there was a live streaming diarrhoea that was happening at the beginning of quarantine where everyone was producing content like crazy from their living rooms. My living room is a home, it’s not a set. There’s only so much I can do to make it look good. There’s something charming about it, for sure, but as a performer, I was thinking, ‘What can I do that would make this more interesting for my audience?’ We’ve been in people’s intimate spaces, and I’m gonna go safely out of there."

The gigs will see Nash perform songs from her back catalogue as well as a one new song at each location.

She's yet to follow up her 2018 album Yesterday Was Forever.