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Lottery Winners criticise Kate Nash’s attempt to represent “the working class musician” due to BRIT School education

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Lottery Winners have criticised Kate Nash‘s recent campaign to highlight the crisis facing the touring industry, saying she doesn’t represent “the working class musician” as she went to the BRIT School.Nash recently made headlines when she launched her Butts for Tour Buses campaign, which saw her join OnlyFans to protest the music industry and help raise money for her UK and European tour which began on November 21.She then took her “bum on the back of a fire truck” protest to the London offices of Live Nation and Spotify as well as the Houses of Parliament to highlight the challenges facing artists and those working in the touring industry.In a statement to NME, Nash reasserted that “the cost of presenting live music has gone up by 30.3 per cent over the past two years.

There were 125 venues that closed last year in the UK. And, the value of recorded music is extremely low.”She went on to say: “The industry is in crisis, the music industry has failed artists, and is completely unsustainable, and my arse is shining a light on that.

And none would be listening if my bum wasn’t involved. This is a conversation about agency. And selling pictures of my bum is giving me the agency to reinvest in my creative economy.

The music industry does not give me that agency.”Now, Lottery Winners have criticised Nash, accusing her of attempting to represent “the ‘working class musician'” despite going to the BRIT School.Taking to X/Twitter earlier today (November 29), the band shared: “I don’t mind if you went to private school and Brit School, that’s cool, I’m happy for you.

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