Kate Nash is coming back to Toronto — and this time the room is a restored 1937 movie palace on Bloor Street West rather than a rock club.
Live Nation Ontario announced the English singer-songwriter will headline Paradise Theatre on Nov. 9, with tickets going on sale Friday at 10 a.m. The promoter gave no details beyond the date and the on-sale time in a short social post.
The timing puts Nash in North America in the middle of her heaviest touring stretch in years. Her 2024 album 9 Sad Symphonies traded the bedroom-pop of her early records for sweeping, string-laced arrangements modeled on old Hollywood musicals, and she has since folded in sharper, punk-edged material, including the single “GERM.” In March she played a one-off theatrical show at London’s 3,000-capacity Roundhouse, days after a Wembley arena date at OVO Arena London alongside Bimini.
Separately, she has spent the past year working on songs tied to her Irish heritage, debuting them at Galway International Arts Festival, All Together Now and the Fleadh this summer. That project gets a run through small rooms in October: Other Voices in Derry on Sept. 25 and 26, Coughlan’s in Cork on Oct. 4, Cleere’s in Kilkenny on Oct. 5 and the Ruby Sessions in Dublin on Oct. 6, per RTÉ. Toronto lands roughly a month after Dublin.
Paradise Theatre first opened as a neighbourhood cinema in 1937, sat dark for years and reopened in 2019 after a restoration that preserved its Art Deco marquee. It now runs a mix of film, comedy and live music, making it a far more intimate setting than the venues Nash worked on her last sustained Canadian runs.
Nash broke through in 2007 with Made of Bricks, a UK No. 1 debut powered by “Foundations,” which peaked at No. 2 and helped push the album to platinum status. She has since drifted through punk, soul and synth-pop, and spent three seasons acting in Netflix’s GLOW. In 2024 she opened an OnlyFans account, saying she needed it to cover the cost of keeping her touring operation on the road.
Her Toronto history is thin — a club show at the Phoenix in 2010 and a Longboat Hall stop in the years since — so the Paradise date, announced with little warning and a shorter-than-usual on-sale window, will be the first proper look at the new material the city gets.
Tickets are gone or not by Friday morning.
