PHOTOGRAPHY BY DORA PAPHIDES
FASHION BY RÍON HANNORA
MAKEUP BY OONAH ANDERSON
HAIR BY YO ALEXXI KRUIZ
SET DESIGN BY MACY TRIEU-DINGLE
SET ASSISTANTS ERELIN CRAY, DOM BLENCOWE
MOVEMENT DIRECTOR LIAM JOHN
LIGHTING ASSISTANT JOSH HAMMAREN

“Rhonda would be such a good vampire slayer,” Kate Nash (correctly) says of her Britannica wrestler-scientist in GLOW. Minutes into the Zoom call, Buffy is the main topic of conversation as a result of a) my incredibly fashion-forward season one t-shirt and b) Kate’s shared love of Sarah Michelle Gellar’s pop culture juggernaut, having previously paid tribute to the series’ seminal musical episode, ‘Once More, with Feeling’. This is all relevant, as the British singer-songwriter goes on to tell me that she was going ‘Going Through the Motions’ like the aforementioned heroine with her fifth studio album.

9 Sad Symphonies, her first release in six years, is also Kate’s darkest and most honest collection to date. Tackling heavy themes of existentialism and depression, it reflects how she “lost a spark for life” over the past 12 years: “And I’ve always been a really sparky person. It’s a weird feeling to be like, ‘The gas is on so low and I just can’t turn it up.’” Like Buffy felt from being expelled from heaven, Kate admits that she often thinks, “What the fuck is the point in all this?”

All of the above awaits in the following interview, as well as Kate discussing the importance of her LGBTQIA+ relationships, from her loyal fans to her band members, the need for “more union” between feminists and the trans community and why “breaking down gender is key in our fight to equality”. Of course, an interview with Kate Nash wouldn’t be complete without (as we teased in the opening sentence – it all comes full circle!) a chat about GLOW, Netflix’s cult comedy that deserves a revival in order for world peace to take full effect.

Kate, I was going to change my t-shirt before this interview, but then I remembered that you are, like me, a huge Buffy freak.

Oh my god, I really am. Your t-shirt is iconic. That’s the picture from season one, isn’t it?