Kate Bush Says She’s ‘Really Ready’ to Make New Music
Kate Bush’s final launch of unique materials was 2011’s 50 Words for Snow – however she says she’s lastly working her method again to new music.
A protracted-awaited return to the stage adopted with the Before the Dawn present in 2014, which led to her second reside report two years later. Bush revealed her plans whereas asserting the launch of a brand new anti-war video primarily based on the 2011 observe “Snowflake,” seen beneath.
“I started working on it a couple of years ago … not long after the Ukrainian war broke out,” Bush informed the BBC in a uncommon interview. “I think it was such a shock. … It’s been such a long period of peace we’d all been living through.”
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The four-minute clip helps the War Child charity. “I wanted to make a little animation that would feature, originally, a little girl. It was really the idea of children caught up in war – I wanted to draw attention to how horrific it is for children,” Bush added. She “felt that, actually, people would be more empathetic towards a creature rather than a human. So I came up with the idea of it being a little shrew.”
In a bigger sense, “I think we’ve all been through very difficult times,” she stated. “To a certain extent, everyone is just worn out. We went through the pandemic – that was a huge shock – and I think we felt that, once that was over, that we would be able to get on with some kind of normal life. But in fact it just seems to be going from one situation to another, and more wars seem to be breaking out all the time.”
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Asked about her musical endeavors, Bush says she has “been caught up doing a lot of archive work over the last few years – redesigning our website, putting a lyric book together. And I’m very keen to start working on a new album when I’ve got this finished. I’ve got lots of ideas and I’m really looking forward to getting back into that creative space. It’s been a long time. … Particularly the last year, I’ve felt really ready to start doing something new.”
Old buddy and collaborator David Gilmour is on board. Asked lately if he may get Bush “back on stage soon,” he stated: “Kate Bush is the only person who can get Kate Bush back on stage. … I’ve tried persuading her recently, actually. Gently.”
His remark was talked about to Bush, who light-heartedly replied: “I’m not there yet!”
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