Kate Bush

Awww yeah!! :D

"A Little 'Snow' At Christmas Never Hurt Anyone!"

Eh, what's with the furs? Kate, I thought you were my veg buddy.

She addressed this after more people complained:

A note about fur and photographs

From Kate...

Hi there,

We have recently taken some photos and I just want to pre-empt any concerns there might be as I'm sure most of you will feel the same way as I do about wearing real fur. All the fur in these photos is synthetic.

Best wishes,
Kate

I don't even get the point of wearing fake fur, but at least it's not real...

Redeemed! Thanks LBI!

xpost dunno, is it warm or something?

There's a review of this in the new Wire btw. Unsurprisingly the reviewer is kind of luke warm on it (it is the Wire after all):

50 Words For Snow is like a wintry riposte to the midsummer day of Aerial's conceptual suite, A Sea Of Honey. Instead of the amber glow of midsummer sunlight, it's another kind of brightness - the whiteness of snow - that presides. The mood is subdued, the backing spare, meditative, but - as we've become used to with Bush - lacking in any adventurousness of spirit; at points, you could even describe it as late night jazz club tasteful.

Also, didn't we predict the following upthread? Can't say I'm relishing the prospect...

Stephen Fry playfully intones the 50 synonyms of the album's title track

don't forget about the proper album thread Kate Bush // 50 Words For Snow

muah!

Thanks, I completely missed that thread!

Kate Bush - Manchester Apollo 1979-04-10 SOUNDBOARD

up on d1mead0zen right now, previously unknown/uncirculated

Source: VHS of unbroadcast Granada TV 'On The Road' film taped on April 10th at the Manchester Apollo.
Lineage: VHS to CD-R.

boy would I love to see that VHS

Big Boi hints at a collaboration

i don't see how any good can come from this

like when björk/timbaland finally happened, there's something...tardy about this

they should've done it in the early 00s

It wouldn't have been good even then.

I did see a stack of promo CD singles just now in R&TE, Berwick Street.

"Running up that hill (Deal with God) 2012 version"

£40 each.

Some collaborations should exist only in the imagination - if at all. This is one of them. If this happens it can't be anything but embarrassing for both parties. yeesh.

Also : "...Loch Ness Monster's forest in London"? Haha.

I'd be okay with him just turning up in some spoken word capacity but honestly I can't imagine many artists whose music is less suitable for MCing over than Kate Bush's and I highly doubt that this collaboration is even in the pipeline in the first place.

This collaboration is so heartwarming. He's like her biggest fan:

http://www.spin.com/articles/short-history-big-bois-kate-bush-obsession

Big Boi, if you're reading: All You Cruisers - THE KATE BUSH VOTING THREAD (ilm artist poll #24: deadline Saturday 25 August)

Love it:

Pitchfork: You've talked about wanting to collaborate with Kate Bush before, how's that going?

Big Boi: It's coming, man. I talked to her on the phone. She's cool as hell-- I didn't know she said that many cuss words.

har

http://bushygifs.tumblr.com/

hmmm

http://31.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m728exw0A31r61th7o5_r1_250.gif

"I have got a Kimble"

a friend pointed out the other day that the field's "over the ice" is more-or-less entirely composed of samples from "under ice" and slightly blew my mind

yep. that's why it RULEZ.

Same thing happened to me this year despite having known and loved both songs for ever.

may 2007 lay heavily upon all your heads, forever

btw i hear "kappsta" is based on angriest dog in the world incidental music, can someone confirm?

nice little piece, on KB and the Gothic:

http://www.bfi.org.uk/news-opinion/news-bfi/features/let-me-grab-your-soul-away-kate-bush-gothic?utm_content=bufferbe55b&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebookbfi&utm_campaign=buffer

less than a month until the live shows ARGH

less than a week fuck ARGH they've been rehearsing all week omFGGGGGGGM

can't say i've ever been more excited about a show.

this is gonna be amazing, hope something gets released eventually

I am ... so, so happy for those of you going to this show. <smiles at you beatifically, a single tear of joy shining on my cheek>

looking forward to seeing a set list! if you're going, have a great time. I bet it'll be amazing.

I unexpectedly got tickets last week :-D

I'm not sure I will be able to handle september tbph

i really don't know how i'm gonna stay composed throughout the show

there's gonna be so many ppl in tears lol

Yeah for the ~event~ alone I wish I was going. I mean, the first MBV reunion show was intense, but this...

I'm so incredibly jealous of everyone going.

Only Kate Bush can make me feel like a childish fanboy even though I'm a grown ass man

Simon Reynolds:

http://www.theguardian.com/music/2014

http://www.theguardian.com/music/2014/aug/21/kate-bush-queen-of-art-pop-defied-critics-london-concerts?CMP=twt_gu

Haven't got a ticket. Got a kidney to spare in return though (hardly used)

The Channel 4 doc was p great: http://youtu.be/kjsL3x0NWyc

Big article in the Sunday NY Times as well.

One thing that (BBC) doc reminded me of: John Harris on Newsnight Review being wrong about Aerial.

Oh yeah soz it was the Beeb instead of C4.

that was a weird thing to put in; I mean they (understandably) didn't spend huge amounts of time on things post- Hounds of Love (ie: they didn't bother talking aobut the long form video for the Red Shoes) but they barely touched on Aerial at all so why bother spending time on a newsclip of someone (wrongly) knocking it?

also: I'd heard that there was something about Del going to the press or something; are they still on good terms? I'm surprised he talked at all about the breakup in this.

Such an awful doc: again talking heads almost always saying nothing (Neil Gaiman's 'this is a person that reads books' was particularly annoying), gossip (that moment when the guy who is asking the question attempts to pry into the relationship KB might've had with the keyboard/producer person), the one academic (trotting out the usual rubbish). No ideas - makes you quite glad that no money was spent on it either.

thank you