“The vast majority of artists are struggling to give you the option afford to truly play reveals”

Kate Nash has launched an ONLYFANS marketing campaign titled Butts For Tour Buses in an effort to lift funds for touring.

The ‘Foundations’ singer is ready to embark on her UK and European tour tonight (November 21) at Glasgow’s Oran Mor. Forward of her gig, the musician revealed Butts For Tour Buses – her OnlyFans marketing campaign which can assist her elevate cash for her tour.

Talking concerning the marketing campaign in an announcement, Nash stated: “While touring is the most effective job EVER it’s presently technically what you may name a ardour venture for lots of artists in 2024. A current survey by Pirate Studios discovered that while gig ticket & competition costs are sky rocketing & we’re seeing a choose few within the {industry} grow to be millionaires and even billionaires from touring, the vast majority of musicians and artists are struggling to give you the option afford to truly play reveals.

“Prices of journey, lodging, meals, promotion & workers have additionally gone up in worth however musicians aren’t seeing adjustments of their gig charges to assist pay for all these rising prices. So this Christmas I’m asking that purchase both a chunk of my merch or my arse on my new ONLYFANS account katenyash87 to help me paying nice wages & placing on a top quality present as I cannot sacrifice both of issues. (No must stream my music, I’m good for the 0.003 of a penny per stream thanks) Pogue Mahone everybody! 🍑❤️”

Nash isn’t the primary musician to leap on OnlyFans. Earlier this 12 months, Lily Allen launched her personal subscription account the place she shares photographs of her toes. She not too long ago revealed that she now makes extra money from her OnlyFans toes pics account than she does from Spotify.

She posted on X that she “hasn’t posted shortly however you’ll be able to nonetheless try the archive”, to which one other consumer responded by questioning why she has been “decreased to this”.

Allen quote-tweeted the response, and replied: “Think about being [an] artist and having practically 8million month-to-month listeners on Spotify however incomes extra money from having 1000 individuals subscribe to photos of your toes.”

Final month, figures from the Music Venue Belief have revealed that the touring circuit has been shrinking as a result of bands more and more skipping cities and cities.

Whereas 2023 proved to be “disastrous” and the worst 12 months on file with 125 grassroots music venues shutting their doorways, the MVT argue {that a} tidal wave of closures threatens the material of the UK music scene due to the current funds announcement. They argue that £7million in new premises taxes will place over 350 grassroots music venues at fast danger of closure – threatening greater than 12,000 jobs, over £250million in financial exercise and the lack of over 75,000 stay music occasions.

On the NME-supported Venues Day final month celebrating 10 years of the Music Venue Belief, the charity laid out the scenario that the gig areas throughout the UK face. Many are merely discovering themselves “financially unviable”.

“That is an extremely worrying development that’s been happening for a very long time that has now reached disaster level,” stated MVT CEO Mark Davyd. “That development is a whole collapse of touring.”

“Bands can’t afford to select up the price of touring, venues can’t afford to show the fucking lights on, brokers have gotten extremely averse to danger on behalf of their artists, managers are averse to danger as nicely, artists wish to be out on the street and getting these audiences however this touring sector is so far as it might probably go with out utterly toppling over,” stated MVT CEO Mark Davyd. “One thing needs to be performed.”

Just lately, the Tradition, Media and Sport Committee has welcomed the UK authorities’s new backing of a levy on gigs at enviornment stage and above to assist save the grassroots music scene. 

The CMS committee have penned a letter that “welcomes the federal government’s recognition of the necessity for a levy and assertion that the federal government reserves the proper to step in if an industry-led answer isn’t forthcoming in 2025” – however voices “issues that these long-term reforms is not going to deal with the short-term, mutually reinforcing charge of closures and price of touring”.

Because of this, there are actually “requires readability on how lengthy the {industry} has to take motion earlier than the federal government itself steps in”.

Featured Artists Coalition CEO David Martin, who has been vocal in his message of “what good is it retaining venues open if artists can’t afford to carry out in them?”, additionally welcomed the information however referred to as for urgency and readability in order that the much-needed levy funding might be unfold across the ecosystem.

In different information, Nash was not too long ago introduced as one of many performers for Mighty Hoopla competition 2025.