Kate Nash says she will make more money from OnlyFans than touring

Singer Kate Nash says she will make more money from OnlyFans than from her music career after joining the platform to fund her tour. Nash said she has joined the content-sharing site known for adult pictures and videos because it's "a really difficult time for artists to tour", reports the BBC.

Nash said touring as a musician is now a loss-making enterprise. She said: "I want to highlight that, and I want people to talk about it, and I want people to know the truth about what what's happening in the music business."

Nash has just finished a US tour and started touring the UK before heading to Europe. Some of her venues are already sold out. She told the BBC: "I'm losing money from those tours."

She said the only way to break even on a tour is to sell enough T-shirts, or to cut wages, band and crew.

Nash said she will post pictures of her bum on the site, adding: "I actually like bums. I think they're just quite great. I think it's funny. I enjoy taking pictures of my bum. Always been a bit of a flasher. So I'm going to enjoy doing it, and I'm already putting it online anyway.

"I'm going to probably make more money doing that than the music over the next three months."

Nash has had an 18-year career in music and has just released her fifth album. As well as saying that touring does not make her any money - she also said streaming doesn't, telling fans on Instagram: "No need to stream my music, I’m good for the 0.003 of a penny per stream thanks."

Lily Allen recently said she makes more money from her OnlyFans content than she does from streams on Spotify. Nash added: "Festival prices and ticket prices have gone up drastically, but the musicians' wage hasn't. So you might be playing a venue that you've played multiple times and you can sell it out, [but] you're getting the same fee that you did 10 years ago, probably. But all the other costs have gone up."

She added: "Where can we learn from the sex workers? Maybe we can learn something from this industry. How do we get empowered as artists and take a bit more control?"