Kate Nash Merry Happy

Kate Nash delivers her refreshing brand of honest every day tales, with staccato simplicity. Merry Happy, the fifth release from her highly successfully and rightfully acclaimed debut album, Made Of Bricks, is possibly the most charming song of the year. After the Motown stomp and full-on sound of Pumpkin Soup, it's back to a stripped down voice, piano and drum combo.

Exquisitely, she showcases her unique talent for beautifully observed and poetically delivered tales of ordinary teenage (and universal) lives, of unrequited love, 'dancing at disco’s, eating cheese on toast', and watching the sunset alone, with a sparse, rhythmic delight.

Nash has helped Harrow become the newest musical fulcrum of the capital (Scouting For Girls, Forget The Down), and the young feisty talent has proved every bit worthy of her many plaudits.

Kate Nash talks of heart op

Kate Nash was told she could die if she didn't have an operation on her heart.

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The 'Foundations' singer suffered from tachycardia - a condition which speeds up heart rate and causes palpitations - and was told it could be fatal if she didn't undergo risky surgery.

The 20-year-old star said: "I suffered from tachycardia, which gives you palpitations and chest pains. The doctors gave me the option of having a procedure to get it fixed, but there were risks. I put it off but then two years ago, it started happening every night, so I decided to go through with it.

"It could have been life-threatening. They told me the operation had loads of risks - strokes, heart attacks, pacemakers - but in the end I just thought, 'Anything could happen.' So I had the procedure and got it out of the way, thank God."

Kate - who was named Best British Female at last month's BRITs - says the illness increased her determination to make it big in the music industry.

She added to Britain's New! magazine: "I'm quite a driven person anyway but it really pushed me. All my friends were going to university or drama school and I could have moped around because I didn't get a place. But I didn't - I started playing live, making flyers, going to open-mic nights and emailing people."