“It is vitally important that women have control over their bodies.”

Kate Nash has defended her OnlyFans campaign ‘Asses for Tour Buses’, arguing that it is vital that women are ‘in control of their bodies’.

Earlier this week, the Foundation singer announced she had opened an account with the online subscription service to raise money for her UK and European tour, which kicked off on Thursday (November 21).

Explaining her decision, she said: “While touring is the best job in the world, it would technically be a passion project for many artists in 2024 at this time.”

She went on to say that while ticket prices are rising, most touring musicians are “struggling to afford to play shows.”

“Travel, accommodation, food, advertising and staff costs have also increased in price, but musicians are not seeing changes in performance fees that could help cover all these rising costs,” she added. “So this Christmas I’m asking you to buy either some of my merchandise or my ass on my new ONLYFANS account katenyash87 to support me by paying a big salary and putting on a high quality show as I won’t sacrifice any of the items.”

Now Nash has defended her decision to open an OnlyFans channel, saying she wanted to address accusations that it was a “sad” move.

“Don’t be upset that I started a ‘sole fans’ group to fund my tours,” she wrote on Instagram. “It’s very empowering and selling pictures of my butt is fun and funny, sex is fun and funny. It’s vitally important that women have control over their bodies and that’s something we should all stand up for and fight for.”

“If you can remove shame and sadness from your perception of sex work, you can empower sex workers,” she added. “Is what I do sex work? I’m not sure if you tell me, but I like to support sex workers, especially when they are in control and setting their own boundaries. “I’m a SUPER FAN of women taking charge of their bodies and sexuality and feminist porn creators.”

She further claimed that the launch of this campaign did more to attract attention to her tour than a regular marketing campaign. “My ass sheds light on the problem,” she concluded. “Honestly, I’m a legend for this.”

Nash is not the first musician to join OnlyFans. Earlier this year, Lily Allen launched her own subscription account where she shares photos of her legs. She recently revealed that she now makes more money from it. Only Fans account with photos of feet than from Spotify.

She wrote on X that she “hasn’t posted in a while, but you can still check out the archive,” to which another user responded by asking why she was “brought to this.”

Allen quoted the response on Twitter and replied: “Imagine being an artist with almost 8 million monthly listeners on Spotify, but making more money by having 1,000 people follow pictures of your feet.”

Last month, data from the Music Venue Trust showed that touring numbers were falling as bands increasingly left cities.

While 2023 has been a “catastrophic” year and the worst on record with 125 mainstream music venues closing their doors, MVT claims a wave of closures threatens the fabric of the UK music scene thanks to the recent Budget announcement. They claim the £7 million new premises tax would put more than 350 grassroots music venues at immediate risk of closure, putting at risk more than 12,000 jobs, more than £250 million of economic activity and the loss of more than 75,000 live music events .

On NME– supported Venues Day last month, marking the 10th anniversary of the Music Venue Trust, a charity that outlined the situation facing venues across the UK. Many simply find themselves “financially unviable.”

“This is an incredibly worrying trend that has been going on for a long time and has now reached a critical point,” said MVT CEO Mark David. “This trend is the complete collapse of touring.”

“Bands can’t afford to take on the cost of touring, venues can’t afford to turn up the damn lights, agents are becoming incredibly risk averse for their artists, managers are becoming risk averse, artists want to be seen. road and getting that audience, but this tourism sector has come as far as it can without collapsing completely,” said MVT CEO Mark David. “Something needs to be done.”

The Culture, Media and Sport Committee recently welcomed the UK Government’s new support for a concert tax at arena level and above to help save the grassroots music scene.

The CMS committee wrote a letter that “welcomes the Government’s acknowledgment of the need for the tax and the statement that the Government reserves the right to intervene if an industry solution is not proposed in 2025” but expresses “concerns that these long-standing Long-term reforms are not will solve the problem of short-term, mutually reinforcing closing rates and tour costs.”

As a result, there are now “calls for clarity on how long the industry must take action before the government itself intervenes.”

Featured Artists Coalition chief executive David Martin, who was outspoken in his message: “What good is keeping venues open if artists can’t afford to perform?” also welcomed the news but called for urgency and clarity. so that the necessary fee funding can be distributed throughout the ecosystem.