Kate Bush News

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9th December 2007
From Kate's official website (www.katebush.com)

Hello everyone,
I’ve really enjoyed putting the ‘Lyra’ track together and working with the Magdalen Choristers was totally delightful. Philip's trilogy is a masterpiece and I was thrilled to be asked to write this for the film. Have a wonderful Christmas...

Love from Kate

‘Lyra’ played by Dakota Blue Richards

‘Lyra’ was especially written for the end credits of ‘The Golden Compass’. It features on the soundtrack album to be released digitally on December 11 and you can download it at iTunes from that date. The physical release is planned for January 22, 2008. Also, listen out for ‘This Woman’s Work’ on the ‘Extras’ Christmas special.

30th September 2007
Del Palmer's wonderful new album is now available only from Del's website www.delpalmer.com

Del's Leap of Faith album is out now. First 500 numbered and signed by Del.

16th June 2007
Del Palmer, Kate's Bass Player and Sound engineer has just launched his own website. On it he says "It is a work in progress...Over the next few
weeks I shall be adding more pages and info... Also, details of my
album to be called Leap of Faith which will be available from this site
in the near future... "

11th February 2007
Beck Siàn Kate's cousin, and Lissa Kathe have been confirmed to be playing a special one-off private gig at this years UK Kate Bush Fan Gathering. Full details are on our Forum and sister site, UK Kate Bush Fan Gatherings.

11th Dec 2006
Kate writes on her official site:
"Hello everyone,
It has been a very quiet year and lovely for us to catch up on things. We are all well and happy.
I know that many of you have asked for more details on Aerial's track-by-track credits - these can now be found in the 'Musicians' section.
I am seriously shocked and extremely flattered to be voted in the top 10 living icons on 'The Culture Show'. Thank you so much for voting me in, I feel very honoured.
I hope you have a fantastic Christmas, we are really looking forward to it... and here's wishing you all a wonderful new year ahead.
With love, Kate"

2nd Dec 2006: Kate was in the running to be the nation's greatest Living Icon.
Kate just missed out on the top three - she's at number seven.
The former Smiths frontman Morrisey, was revealed as one of the three finalists on BBC2's The Culture Show. He is up against TV legend Sir David Attenborough and Sir Paul McCartney in the next round of public voting.
Around 75,000 votes have already been cast by the public after the show invited viewers to nominate individuals who they believe have made the greatest impact on cultural life in the UK.

2nd October 2006: Fans across the UK & Ireland have been scouring newsagents to find the exclusive cover featuring Kate, one of twenty covers to celebrate 20 years of Q Magazine. Kate's interview in the new Q magazine is a relaxed and witty affair accompanied by a charming new colour portrait of Kate (once again by Trevor Leighton). In the interview Kate reminisces with the magazine over the last 20 years. Her high point? "Well it's got to be having my son Bertie" Her low point was of course the death of her mother Hannah which Kate describes as "like the end of the world". Antony Hegarty of Antony and the Johnstons is going to be overjoyed to hear that his idol considers him to be one of her favourite artists of the last 20 years, as is Rolf Harris. Kate jokes about how 20 years ago she thought the record company's insistence on a greatest hits package was "a crap idea...and of course it turned out to be my biggest selling record". Kate confesses to drinking up to 20 cups of tea a day, to being "really exhausted" after Aerial came out and she definitely hopes the next album won't take 12 years, in fact she reckons she could get the next album done "in six weeks" :o) Lovely to see such a warm, witty and talented artist chosen as one of Q's 20 icons. The subtitle to the article is "National Treasure." Indeed.

4th June 2006:
The NSPCC hosted a dream auction with fabulous prizes to be won one of which was a Signed Lithograph of "King Of The Mountain" A signed lithograph of the artwork for Kate's single, 'King of the Mountain' as designed and signed by her son Bertie. The auction ended at 19.26pm on 29th May 2006.

9th May 2006:
An official message from EMI regarding an upcoming DVD release:
Kate Bush: Under Review
Kate Bush and EMI wish to draw attention to the notice which appears on the reverse of this DVD which is notably absent from all of the advertising material, namely that: "This DVD is not authorised by Kate Bush, her management or any record or publishing companies associated with the release or ownership of Kate Bush’s music" Kate Bush and EMI wish it to be known that she does not, in any way, support or endorse the release of the DVD.

9th April 2006:
The sheet music to Kate's new album Aerial has been released in the UK - more info here

5th February 2006:
The annual South Bank Show awards are the only British awards to cover all areas of the arts including pop, film, dance and opera. The awards ceremony took place at London's Savoy Hotel on Friday 27th January. Aerial is one of three nominations in the Pop category along with Gorillaz "Demon Days" and Richard Hawley "Coles Corner". The award was broadcast on ITV1 on Sunday night 29th January. Kate eventually lost out to Richard Hawley.  The South Bank Show is one of Britain's most prominent arts programmes, presented by Melvyn Bragg. Read more about the event here.

Kate nominated for Best British Female Artist & Best British Album at the Brit Awards!

10th January 2006: The nominations for the 2006 Brit Awards have been announced this evening. Kate has been nominated for two Brit Awards; Best British Female Solo Artist and Aerial has been nominated for Best British Album. The awards, hosted by Chris Evans, take place in Earls Court on Wednesday February 15th and will be televised on ITV1 the following evening. In the British Female Solo Artist nominees Kate is joined by Charlotte Church, Katie Melua, KT Tunstall and Natasha Bedingfield. In the Best British album shortlist she is joined by Coldplay (X&Y), Gorillaz (Demon Days), James Blunt (Back To Bedlam) and Kaiser Chiefs (Employment). ITV will be devoting hours of airtime prior to the awards to four weekly "Brits Are Coming" programmes on ITV1 with additional coverage on ITV2. King Of The Mountain is included on the accompanying 2-CD Brit Awards Album 2006 which is out on February 6th. This release also includes the King Of The Mountain video. Congratulations to Kate on this richly deserved recognition! Read more at the official Brit Awards site here.

Aerial - vinyl version is ready!!
18th December 2005:
From Kate's official site: "The double-vinyl version of 'Aerial' should be in the shops from 17th December - beautifully packaged in a gatefold sleeve with large 24-page colour booklet." You can add this to your record collection, we're already hearing great things about how these records sound and look, and we'll be checking for the traditional vinyl scratched message from Kate...
December 2005:
EMI has said that Aerial has reached Platinum status in the UK just four weeks after release; this represents sales of 300,000 units. Aerial has achieved this award faster than either The Red Shoes or The Sensual World and represents a major achievement for Kate. Congratulations Kate! :o)
Kate's official site is now also available in a HTML format as well as the Flash version.
As you know, Kate has two exceptionally talented brothers with whom she has collaborated throughout her career. Kate's brother John Carder Bush has published a darkly humorous novel, The Cellar Gang. We've been looking forward to this for quite some time. You can order the book and read all about John's forthcoming written, musical and spoken-word works at his newly launched website www.johncarderbush.com. The book is available in a special limited edition of only 500 copies, the first fifty of which are signed and numbered by the author. Hardback and beautifully bound in linen, The Cellar Gang is printed on thick cream wove paper and comes with a ribbon marker - careful design which will come as no surprise to anyone lucky enough to own a copy of John's previous publication Cathy. John says: "I'm very pleased with the book itself - it feels good to hold, looks wonderful and I hope it will nibble its way into your hearts." As always with these very special items, and particularly in the run up to Christmas, the advice is - get your order in fast!
19th November 2005:
The World Music magazine Songlines are including Kate next month as part of a series of regular features called "My World" (rather like a world music desert island discs). Paddy, who writes for the magazine and is featured in the current issue, persuaded Kate into selecting her top ten world music favourites, which will be featured on the cover mounted CD. We know that Kate's choices include Justin Vali from Madagascar (who played on The Red Shoes album and has worked and toured with Paddy). Also chosen is music from Germany, Brittany and Ireland. Kate will have a comment on each of the tracks to go with the CD. The magazine is out on the 9th of December.
Also, the excellent Madagascar film that Paddy (Bush) did for for Channel 4 in 1998, Like A God When He Plays, has been shown on a US satellite TV station called Link TV and will be repeated throughout this coming week, see the channel's website for broadcast times. This is a beautiful film and I know that there are a lot of Paddy Bush fans who missed it first time out. Did you know that Paddy, reluctant popstar, did the spooky backing vocals on King of The Mountain?
6th November 2005:
Word from EMI is that the double vinyl version of Aerial will not be available on 7th November as it is taking a little longer than expected to get the quality right. More news as we have it but don't expect to find it anywhere for a week or two. We will let you know as soon as it is available. If you haven't already, check out our forum here.
30th October 2005:
King of The Mountain video can now be seen at www.katebush.com...the single has been released on CD and limited edition 7" picture disc, the b-side is Kate's version of Marvin Gaye's Sexual Healing...Aerial will be released on CD, download and heavyweight double vinyl, with the CD version available as a special digipak with 24-page booklet...Mojo magazine will have an exclusive 16-page feature interview with Kate in their new issue out Nov 2nd...Kate's official site www.katebush.com is launching Nov 7th...the US music magazine Rolling Stone has a Kate feature on the Nov 4th issue...you can purchse the download of the single from iTunes or MSN MusicTV & Radio To Note: Mark Radcliffe has conducted an interview with Kate, part of which will be aired on Monday 7th November 10.30pm, BBC Radio 2...Ken Bruce will play segments from the interview, and also tracks from Aerial when the album is BBC Radio 2's album of the week from Monday October 31st 9.30am-12pm weekdays...Phil Jupitus will also be playing Aerial tracks on his BBC Radio 6 breakfast show from Monday 31st October 7am-10am.
It's official! Kate's new single has entered the charts at number 4, it's a smash hit folks. This is Kate's 3rd most successful single ever after Running Up That Hill and Wuthering Heights. It is also now her 25th Top 40 hit. Warmest congratulations to Kate - welcome back to the highest reaches of the charts! And if we couldn't stand any more excitement there's still the matter of a certain double-album in just a few days time...
Hoping that as many of you as possible are now (or soon to be) proud owners of the King Of The Mountain CD and/or vinyl picture disc record. Keep supporting the King Of The Mountain single! While Westlife are certain to easily claim the Number 1 slot in the singles charts this weekend Kate is battling it out with The Arctic Monkeys and The Sugababes for a number 3 position according to midweek sales predictions from the record business. This could be Kate's highest singles chart entry position ever! So c'mon people! The single is a perfect early bet for a Christmas stocking filler. If you notice that stocks of the single have sold out in your local HMV etc get them to order more in pronto! Failing that have you downloaded the single yet? That counts for chart inclusion this week also.
Aerial - Teaser TV Ad Revealed! Best thing yet about signing up to the official site's mailing list has been receiving the links to download the teaser TV commercial for the Aerial album. Enjoy the tiniest taster of Kate's Sky Of Honey album (and that album's shortest section, Aerial Tal) by selecting your preferred format & connection speed from the following links:  
WindowsHi | Lo  Real Hi | Lo

Kate speaks to Mojo Magazine - first extracts published

On November 2nd Mojo magazine publish what seems to be one of only two Aerial interviews with Kate (BBC Radio 2 have secured the second). The Guardian have published extracts from this interview with Tom Doyle here. The Mojo article presents Kate as "the antithesis of the mysterious recluse" which the tabloid press is so ridiculously fond of portraying her as. "...here, in Kate Bush's home, there is a 47-year-old mother of one, dressed in a workday uniform of brown shirt, jeans and trainers, hair clipped up in practical busy-busy fashion, all wary smiles and nervous laughter...around us there is evidence of a very regular, family-shaped existence - toys and kiddie books scattered everywhere, a Sony widescreen with a DVD of Shackleton sitting below it. Atop the fireplace hangs a painting called Fishermen by James Southall, a tableau of weather-beaten seadogs wrestling with a rowing boat; it is soon to be familiar as part of the inner artwork of Aerial. Balanced against a wall in the office next door is a replica of the Rosebud sledge burned at the dramatic conclusion of Citizen Kane, as commissioned for the video of Bush's comeback single, King of the Mountain, and brought home as a gift for her seven-year-old son Bertie. "I go out of my way to be a very normal person and I just find it frustrating that people think that I'm some kind of weirdo reclusive that never comes out into the world." Her voice notches up in volume. "Y'know, I'm a very strong person and I think that's why actually I find it really infuriating when I read, 'She had a nervous breakdown' or 'She's not very mentally stable, just a weak, frail little creature'." If the outside world was wondering whether Kate Bush would ever finish her long-awaited album, then it was a feeling shared by its creator. "Oh yeah," she sighs. "I mean, there were so many times I thought, I'll have the album finished this year, definitely, we'll get it out this year. Then there were a couple of years where I thought, I'm never gonna do this. If I could make albums quicker, I'd be on a roll wouldn't I? Everything just seems to take so much time. I don't know why. Time...evaporates...for the last 12 years, I've felt really privileged to be living such a normal life," she explains. "It's so a part of who I am. It's so important to me to do the washing, do the Hoovering. Friends of mine in the business don't know how dishwashers work. For me, that's frightening. I want to be in a position where I can function as a human being. Even more so now where you've got this sort of truly silly preoccupation with celebrities. Just because somebody's been in an ad on TV, so what? Who gives a toss?" Kate discusses the track Mrs Bartolozzi: "A couple of people who heard it early on," she says, dipping a spoon into her avocado, "they either really liked it or they found it very uncomfortable. I liked the idea of it being a very small subject. Clothes are such a strong part of who a human being is. Y'know, skin cells, the smell. Somebody thought that maybe there'd been this murder going on, I thought that was great. I love the ambiguity." The shiver-inducing stand-out track on Aerial, however, comes at the end of the first disc. A Coral Room is a piano-and-vocal ballad that Bush admits she first considered to be too personal for release, dealing as it does with the death of her mother, a matter that she didn't address at the time in any of the songs on The Red Shoes. "No, no I didn't," she says. "I mean, how would you address it? I think it's a long time before you can go anywhere near it because it hurts too much. I've read a couple of things that I was sort of close to having a nervous breakdown. But I don't think I was. I was very, very tired. It was a really difficult time." Read the exclusive 16-page interview with Kate in MOJO magazine, on sale on Wednesday November 3

29th October 2005: Kate is featured on the cover of the new German edition of Rolling Stone magazine! Lets hope the US edition does likewise...German fans should also check out the excellent fan site and forum here and here. Kate was extensively featured on Sky News on Monday 21st, and they trumpeted the release of the single with hourly reports culminating in a 10 minute slot on The Sky Report in which fans and journalists were interviewed on Kate's enduring appeal...

the newly published biography of Kate, simply entitled 'Kate Bush - The Biography' is reviewed in The Times by St Etienne singer Sarah Cracknell: "Rob Jovanovic’s biography portrays Kate Bush as a likeable, intensely creative personality. Her alternative, culturally enriched upbringing (spoon-fed Sibelius, C. S. Lewis, T. S. Eliot and T Rex) is enough to make the book good. It is written with fondness and filled with train-spotter-ish details about recording sessions and musicians — a little too many for my liking, such a boy thing. There are plenty of well chosen quotes, some of them very funny and self-effacing...I was in the car taking my son to nursery and what did I hear on the radio but Kate’s new single, King of the Mountain. It came out this week and will be followed by her first album in 12 years, Aerial. I was thrilled that the single was just what I wanted to hear, pure Kate Bush! A warm voice that draws you in, some nicely avant-garde production and a load of old gobbledygook. Hooray!" The book is out now and the author will be signing copies at a special reading in Norwich on Sunday November 6th at Kulture Shock books. Lisa Redford and Nobodaddy will also be appearing at the event to perform some songs in tribute to Kate.
Kate's film The Line, The Cross and The Curve will be shown on the digital channel Artsworld on Nov 8th at 7pm...there is now an official German site for the new album/single, check it out here...also note Brisbane Kate fans in Australia are gathering on Sunday 8th November read more here... But read about our own Austrailian Aerial party on our forum.