Nash looks ahead to Made of Bricks at twenty

Kate Nash turned toward the twentieth anniversary of *Made of Bricks*, due in 2027, and met Tems for the first time. The chat lands as her autumn itinerary tightens: Irish nights through October, then her first North American dates in six years in support of *9 Sad Symphonies*.

The North American leg opens in Philadelphia on 10 October and runs through Washington, DC, New York, Boston, Montreal, Toronto and Chicago before closing in San Francisco on 3 November. Shamir and Skating Polly are support acts. European shows follow in late November, taking in Belfast, Berlin, Paris and Glasgow. The record itself arrived in 2024 on Kill Rock Stars; the run is the first sustained North American outing built around it.

From Foundations to 9 Sad Symphonies

*Made of Bricks* was Nash’s 2007 debut, the album that carried *Foundations* and fixed her as a sharp English singer-songwriter with a plain-spoken register and a pop craft that did not soft-pedal its edges. The follow-up, *My Best Friend Is You*, came in 2010. The intervening years took her through further studio work, soundtrack writing — including the 2023 *Coffee Wars* original motion picture soundtrack — and a run of singles that kept the voice current without freezing the early image. *9 Sad Symphonies*, released in 2024, sits as the fifth album: the same writer, a later palette, issued on Kill Rock Stars rather than the majors that framed the breakthrough. Recent singles under her own name, among them *GERM* in 2025 and the Inishbofin High Road Sessions cut of the same song, show a live and collaborative streak still in motion.

That arc is why the anniversary talk matters. Twenty years on from *Made of Bricks* is not a museum date; it is a marker against which the current record and the current stage show can be read. Nash has never been only the *Foundations* singer in the work that followed, and the 2024 album is the clearest recent statement of that distance. Touring it properly in North America, after a six-year gap on that circuit, puts the new songs in rooms that first met her on the debut’s terms.

What the autumn still holds

The Irish stretch comes first, before the North American openers. Belfast then anchors the late-November European cluster beside Berlin, Paris and Glasgow. Nothing further has been set for the *Made of Bricks* anniversary year itself: 2027 is named, not yet mapped. No reissue, full-album show or commemorative run has been announced — only that the anniversary is on her mind as the present tour takes shape.

The Tems meeting is of a piece with that long view. A younger writer encountering Nash as an early reference, and Nash meeting Tems in turn, underlines how the 2007 record still travels without requiring the career to stop there. For listeners who have kept the albums in rotation — from the debut through *My Best Friend Is You* to *9 Sad Symphonies* — the practical news is simpler: dates already on the board, a label home at Kill Rock Stars, and a twentieth anniversary now spoken of in public rather than left as a silent calendar note.

As of mid-September, the sequence is fixed through early November in North America and late November in Europe. What 2027 brings for *Made of Bricks* remains open. The work on stage this autumn is the fifth album’s.