Kate Nash brings the songs from 'Cailín' to Music Box on Nov. 16

Two months before her sixth album arrives, Kate Nash plays a Monday night in Little Italy, a chance to hear the new record before almost anyone else does.

Most people won't hear Kate Nash's new album until January. San Diego gets a head start on a Monday night in Little Italy.

Kate Nash plays Music Box on Monday, Nov. 16, at 8 p.m. Tickets are available through the venue at musicboxsd.com. Music Box holds 705, which keeps this in the zone where you can still see her face from the back bar.

The reason for the trip is *Cailín*, her sixth studio album, due Jan. 22, 2027, on Kill Rock Stars. It was recorded on the west coast of Ireland and produced by KoOoLkOjAk, and the announcement framed it as a record a long time in the making. This North American run is the headline tour in support of it, which means the setlist on the 16th is likely to lean on songs most of the room hasn't heard yet.

A couple of them are already out. The current single is "Spilt Milk," and before that she released "Famine," a cover of Sinéad O'Connor. Picking that song as a lead-in to an album made in Ireland, and titled with an Irish word, tells you something about where her head is at on this one. If you want to walk in knowing a few of the new songs, those two are the homework.

The tour started on the East Coast this week. She played Somerville, Massachusetts, on Tuesday and Philadelphia on Wednesday, and she's in New York tonight. From there it's Washington, D.C., on Saturday, then Detroit and Chicago next week before she heads west to San Diego. The early dates have been in small, seated or semi-seated rooms like Joe's Pub in New York and the Lounge at World Cafe Live in Philadelphia, so Music Box will be one of the bigger, louder rooms on the run.

That's a good fit for a Monday. Music Box sits at 1337 India Street in Little Italy, a tri-level room that opened in 2015 in the building that used to house Anthology. It's built for exactly this size of show: national touring acts that have outgrown the bars but don't need a theater, with a big screen behind the stage for visuals and enough levels that you can choose between the floor and a railing upstairs. The layered setup means it rarely feels packed even when it's full, and sightlines from the balconies are good.

What to know before you go: it's an 8 p.m. start on a school night, so plan on an early dinner along India Street and getting inside before the opener. Check the venue's site for age policy and any door-time details closer to the date. Parking in Little Italy is tight on any night, so the trolley or a rideshare is the easier move.

Nash has been doing this long enough that a lot of people coming on the 16th will have a version of her from years ago in their heads. This show is a chance to update that picture, and to hear an album from the stage before you hear it on your headphones. That's not a bad way to spend a Monday.

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