Kate Nash

Kate Nash swapped her singing for teaching duties - she decided to start running a few UK after-school music clubs for children.

The Foundations hitmaker has travelled to six different schools over the last ten months to teach students how to play instruments and encourage them to work towards a career in the music industry.

Nash also revealed in a post written for CollapseBoard that she’s been giving them talks on how to work for a record label.

But the singer was left shocked when the female students didn’t believe they could forge a career in music and blamed celebrity culture for their concerns.

Kate Nash has said she would love to run her own ice cream business if she wasn’t a musician. The star revealed the alternative career plan during an interview for Time Out Magazine.

“I would open my own ice cream parlour in London,” Kate said. “I would put on little nights and serve up ‘proper’ knickerbocker glories with luminous green sauce while wearing a cute checked apron.”

Kelly Rowland is eyeing Kate Nash and Alphabeat for possible collaborations, the singer has revealed. The former Destiny’s Child star also claimed that she is interested in recording with The Script and Guillemots. In the interview for the Daily Star, Kelly states she is also interested in working with other artists too: “I definitely want a new sound so I am jamming in the studio with amazing musicians who just love music.”

Kelly also revealed that she is hoping her third LP will be “deeper” and more “inspiring” than her first two solo albums.

        Kate Nash has responded to the upset caused by her winning the award for Best British Female at the Brits last month over Leona Lewis. Kate branded Lewis “manufactured,” in an article posted on Yahoo. Nash said “it was really good I won it because I started this myself. I’m not a manufactured, size-zero pop artist who is going to bring out her own perfume and clothes range.”

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     “My big ambitions for this year are to learn to drive, buy a house and knit. So far I’ve made a scarf - and I’m well chuffed.”