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Jessel!

Kate Bush is releasing an album of reworked material, and a new single it seems....?

I'm going to seriously indulge at this point, and post a link to the story on my own website, which I'm hopefully going to start posting on regularly with various music news (covering pop thru to the other genres mentioned there)

http://www.tsode.com/blog/general/kate- ... ctors-cut/

Rob.

So she's going the Peter Gabriel route?

I'm sure it will be a very good album, but I wasn't a huge fan of Peter doing this, and even less with Kate doing it. Seems like they are running out of new material to record.

Sorry but at the momment all I can think of when I hear the name Kate Bush is:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S_02JooS40Q

*lol*

Crazylitstudent wrote:Sorry but at the momment all I can think of when I hear the name Kate Bush is:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S_02JooS40Q

*lol*

First time I've seen that.

He didn't do such a bad job.

Kate Bush is an all time favourite, but that comes from her 70's material. I didn't like Aerial, and thought she ran out of genuine innovative songwriting ideas 30 years ago. Reworking old stuff is what it usually comes down to with the sort of artists who struggle to produce. I'll take an artist like Bush or McLachlan though, who produce two or three outstanding albums, rather than 25 albums of the same rent a riff from other artists. I just have to accept that once they're done they're done, and that's how I view Bush, and I'm afraid, probably McLachlan. Doesn't stop her being an all time fave, it's just news of anything she does now fills me with apathy rather than excitement.

Magellan wrote:Jessel!

LOL!
Yeah, there's been a lot of speculations about a new release/remaster fueled by rumors in the early part of 2011 and now its finally confirmed. I've been spending a lot of time in the Kate board and we're all excited. The album will be called Director's Cut (yeah, how she came up with such an unoriginal title is baffling considering this is a creative genius we're talking about lol). The new single will be a reworked/new version of Deeper Understanding. Unfortunately, Kate will only tackle songs from The Sensual World & The Red Shoes...


@ Ben
Kate actually praised that performance lol!

TheSquirrel wrote:I just have to accept that once they're done they're done, and that's how I view Bush...

I quite agree with you there Squirrel. Kate's glory days are over but there IS a renewed interest in her work among the younger generation. It never ceases to amaze me whenever I meet new fans half my age (no kidding! they pop up in the Kate boards from time to time) who are into her. The lady is quite done (as a performer) but she's still relevant. There is a reason why every new female artist who tend to be on the quirky side are always compared to Kate. Also, I can't name any other artist alive (though I could be wrong of course) who can actually release a new album with very little to no promotion at all and still sell.

I'm not really a big fan of Aerial myself and part of me wishes that she'd stop writing altogether. There's always a kind of glamor around artists who 'disappear' (for some reason other than untimely demise) at the pinnacle of their careers. But any new album by Kate (or any credible artist) is welcome. My lord and lady, I'm tired of all the crap I hear these days.

Btw, one thing I hate (though envy is a more accurate word lol) about you Squirrel is that you saw Kate twice(?) during the Tour of Life. God, what I wouldn't give for a time machine lol!

Jessel wrote: Btw, one thing I hate (though envy is a more accurate word lol) about you Squirrel is that you saw Kate twice(?) during the Tour of Life. God, what I wouldn't give for a time machine lol!

Yes, it makes me feel very privileged. I considered only seeing her twice in 1979 was disappointing, but tickets sold like the proverbial hot cakes. Got 4th row for The Palladium but had to slum it for Bristol and 15th row, I think. I hate seeing artists from outside the front few rows, but it was Kate Bush, so I put up with the lousy Bristol tickets. It left me wanting more and more, and I consoled myself with the thought that at least I could see her many more times when she toured again. Oh well.

Those were two of my all time favourite concerts. Yeah those time machines would sell well too. I would love to go back and experience again, just how good she was.

Although I am now a boring old fart, I at least got to see some great artists. I was going to gigs at the time of the live music explosion, although three in one night was excessive. There was no late night tv, no internet, just radio after midnight, which was why I was out all the time. I could frighten children with the tales of what it was like with no cable or satellite tv, no internet, no calculators, no mobile phones etc.

TheSquirrel wrote:Got 4th row for The Palladium but had to slum it for Bristol and 15th row, I think.

WOW! 4th row??!
I'd kill for the chance! lol

Jessel wrote:

TheSquirrel wrote:Got 4th row for The Palladium but had to slum it for Bristol and 15th row, I think.

WOW! 4th row??!
I'd kill for the chance! lol

That's what I said to the guy with the knife in his back.

It was one of those evenings where mere music became something that was legendary. In my own mind it was legendary. It seemed to be on some different mystical plain. Just in my mind, but that's what a great show can do. It can transport you into another universe. It was reality, but for 90 glorious minutes nothing else mattered, it was another world, and there was nowhere else I wanted to be.