30 minutes of Kate!
Kate Bush is reworking two old records, "This Sensual World" and "The Red Shoes." And she gave a BBC Radio 4 interview about recording her new record "Director's Cut." Spoiler Alert: She may release a new record in the next 3-5 years. Strewth!
The link's HERE
posted by gooner71 @ 10:40 PM
3 Comments:
Thanks for the link. She only did one interview for Aerial so it's great to see her opening up more with the media.
I'm excited about the next recording, the new one is a bog disappointment. Removing the Bulgarian trio from the backup vocals, the reworking of a Woman's Work, the bad grunge of Rubberband Girl - does not do it for me.
I completely agree. An artist who doesn't release but 1 record every 20 years shouldn't content herself by reworking two of her lesser well received works. I sensed a defensiveness about the reception that TSW and TRS got back then. Ah, well. Genius is genius and a fan can only put up with it and ride along.
Thanks for the post, Gooner. I don't know, though - in some respects, I prefer for some of my favorite artists to maintain a distance with the press as it can only make them seem smaller and more ordinary. Kate comes off in this interview sounding like your average middle-aged British woman rather than the wood nymph of my wild imagination.
The most surprising aspect of the interview was her answer about her working process in which she stresses that she's in the studio Monday-Friday. How on earth can that be the case given her sparse output? I'd always imagined that she spent the time between albums hiking the Pyrenees or cobbling shoes or learning Icelandic or something esoteric like that - not putting in 9-5 in the studio. What the hell is she doing in there?
In the end, though, my favorite bit was the brilliant, twee opening music. I fully expected after that opening for Michael Palin to come on with - "And now on Radio 4, Part 3 of 'The Death of Mary Queen of Scots.'"
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