300 Kate Bush impersonators performing Heathcliffe in a park.

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I'm seeing some great concert reviews, and am totally envious of the people who managed to get tickets.

50 WORDS FOR SNOW...
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Here are some Kate icons! :)

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Kate chats about Director's Cut (20 min., 49 s.):

http://www.npr.org/2011/08/19/139782081/kate-bush-on-world-cafe

I got this Will Hodgkinson Times interview via Toronto's Globe and Mail. "Back before Gaga and Beyoncé, there was Kate Bush" is a great title!

“She was the first female singer that wasn’t a songstress,” says Lindsay Kemp, the legendary dancer, actor and mime artist who taught David Bowie and Bush, and who was a key influence on her. “Much as I ( Read more... )

Director's cut seems like a mix to me. Some revisions vastly improve the original song, or bring out a different element. Some are just nice because of different (better) instrumentation or mixing. This Woman's Work particularly strikes me as something that, while not replacing the original, may outshine it in the long term ( Read more... )

The site should have this up until the CD's US release May 23rd:

http://www.npr.org/2011/05/12/136220377/first-listen-kate-bush-directors-cut

 From the BBC:

Kate Bush 'delight' over James Joyce track

Singer Kate Bush has been given the green light to use text from James Joyce's Ulysses in a song - more than 20 years after first requesting it.

The reclusive performer had wanted to use the words of Joyce's character Molly Bloom for the title track of her 1989 album The Sensual World.

But she ( Read more... )