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Interview by Kris Needs, ZigZag, August 1980
WHAT'S KATE BUSH doing in ZigZag? It's a fair chance that's the thought flitting through your noggin as you espy our rather tasteful cover. ...
Review by John McCready, NME, November 1986
IT WAS Mark Smith of top pop group The Fall who, in a typical broadcast of dedicated anti-trendiness, announced that vegetarianism helped one leave the ...
Kate Bush: The Sensual World (EMI)
Review by Chris Roberts, Melody Maker, October 1989
"WHEN LAUREN WAS a small girl, she would stand in the field and call the cats. One by one they would come to her through ...
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Interview by Kris Needs, Rock's Backpages Audio, September 1980
Ms Bush talks about her recent (and only) tour – the practice, pleasures and fears of performing live; about her new (third) album Never For Ever; the 'paedophilia' allegations surrounding the song 'The Infant Kiss'; and ruminates on the pressures of success.
File format: mp3; file size: 28.6mb, interview length: 31' 16" sound quality: **
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Interview by Harry Doherty, Melody Maker, March 1978
2002 Prologue: This interview would have come on the back of an MM editorial conference, Ray Coleman at the helm, sarcastic bastards around the table, ...
Interview by Harry Doherty, Melody Maker, June 1978
2002 Prologue: I remember this interview with massive warmth. I knew me and Kate were obviously getting onside ‘cos this was done at the family ...
Profile and Interview by Jon Young, Trouser Press, July 1978
ALL OF A sudden Kate Bush was at the very top of the UK singles charts. 'Wuthering Heights', her first 45, was number one and ...
Interview by Peter Silverton, Sounds, September 1978
AN HOUR or so in the company of Kate Bush is rather like being trapped for the duration as an unwitting participant in a very ...
Interview by Harry Doherty, Melody Maker, November 1978
2002 Prologue: KATE IS famous now. WELL famous, right across Europe and to celebrate that, EMI are launching Lionheart, the second album, in a castle ...
Review by Ian Penman, NME, November 1978
Grrrrnrrhhhh!!! Repressed reviewer laments a bird and her bush ...
Kate Bush: The Perfumed Garden Of Good And Evil
Live Review by Sandy Robertson, Sounds, April 1979
DID YOU ever visit some distant relative for tea and cakes, and as a postscript have to sit through the "party piece" of their little ...
Kate Bush: The Palladium, London
Live Review by Charles Shaar Murray, NME, April 1979
TWO MEMORIES: recalled first are the days when rock and roll was swamped with failed classical pianists and violinists who knew that they could make ...
Kate Bush: Things Your Mother Never Told You
Interview by Mike Stand, Smash Hits, October 1979
NOW HOW can I put this without being rude? When I first heard 'Wuthering Heights' Kate Bush's voice reminded me of, well...come on, out with ...
Interview by Danny Baker, NME, October 1979
EMI: THREE LETTERS that have come to represent "the enemy" in rock'n'roll's war games. EMI House rambles like a country home with a thousand warrens ...
Interview by Phil Sutcliffe, Sounds, August 1980
WHAT THEY say about Kate Bush is that she’s a lisping innocent, a born-with-a-silver-spoon, a too-good-to-be-true, a safe and uncontroversial, soppy, record industry banker. ...
Kate Bush: Paranoia and Passion of the Kate Inside
Report and Interview by Colin Irwin, Melody Maker, October 1980
Kate Bush talks to Colin Irwin in Munich ...
'What I Did On My Holidays' by Kate Bush, As Told To Ian Birch
Interview by Ian Birch, Melody Maker, June 1981
LATE LAST year not even jump leads would have revitalized the Kate Bush batteries. She was so exhausted that she took the only sensible course ...
Review by Colin Irwin, Melody Maker, September 1982
UNDER THE premise that the Great British Public instinctively turns its nose up at anything that's a little unexpected, or which doesn't meet its carefully ...
Interview by Richard Cook, NME, October 1982
A modern, multi-media, adult orientated entertainer or a wild and wuthering heroine who's been dreaming since a brilliant start to her career......Richard Cook plays Heathcliffe ...
Kate Bush: Dream Time in the Bush
Interview by Kris Needs, ZigZag, November 1982
Kris Needs rises with the dawn (Wot?) to talk with the elfin Kate Bush about her new album The Dreaming ...
Interview by Kris Needs, ZigZag, November 1985
"Since time immemorial the great sea has fascinated mankind, even as he is plucked like a lifeless doll from its creaking shores..." (in BBC2 documentary ...
Interview by Max Bell, Sunday Express, Fall 1985
INQUIRIES ABOUT why Kate Bush has been off the recording scene for three years–an age, in pop–met with a chilly and defensive response from her ...
Kate Bush: Down At The Old Bul and Bush
Interview by Len Brown, NME, November 1988
Kate Bush and Yanka Rupkina sit on a bean-bag couch and sing to me, Bulgarian style; Rupkina bleating high and joyous above Bush's harmony. ...
Kate Bush: In The Realm Of The Senses
Interview by Len Brown, NME, October 1989
The essence of sensuality and child-like wonder or screeching wood nymph? KATE BUSH steps back into the spotlight after four years of reclusive recording and ...
Profile and Interview by Adam Sweeting, Guardian, The, October 1989
THE WOMAN pouring tea in a hotel near EMI records has a wide, warm smile and speaks with such endearing openness that you wonder if ...
Review by David Cavanagh, Sounds, October 1989
ISN'T THE SINGLE absolutely without equal? Especially the way the "mmh yes" punctuation gets progressively more urgent as the song unwinds. There is really no ...
Let Them Eat Kate: The Sensual World
Review by David Quantick, NME, October 1989
FOUR YEARS TO produce one LP works out at ten minutes per year of The Sensual World, with an extra three minutes 48 for cassette ...
Review by Robert Sandall, Q, November 1989
ROMPING HOME a close second to the Blue Nile in the increasingly competitive Studio Marathon stakes, Kate Bush's sixth album has finally arrived almost exactly ...
Interview by Phil Sutcliffe, Q, November 1989
Although signed at the tender age of 18, Kate Bush stoutly refused to be "the record company's daughter". She's quietly become her own manager, producer, ...
Kate Bush: Positive Female Energy
Interview by Len Brown, CD Review, December 1989
"I find it extraordinary that people should want to write about me when I do so little. I just pop out and do an album ...
Profile and Interview by Colin Irwin, Rock World, October 1993
KATE BUSH is back with a sensational new album The Red Shoes, her first of this decade. She's been a major figure for 17 years ...
Interview by Nick Coleman, Time Out, November 1993
Kate Bush – what's she like, eh, with her wailing voice, whimsical words and penchant for throwing wild Terpsichorean shapes? Suitably intrigued by her new ...
Kate Bush: The Red Shoes (EMI)
Review by Andy Gill, Q, November 1993
INITIALLY SOMEWHAT shrill and unimpressive, The Red Shoes improves immeasurably after repeated plays over a long period of time, gaining a solidity at odds with ...
Interview by Simon Reynolds, Melody Maker, November 1993
ENGLAND MY LION HEART KATE BUSH AN ENGLISH original. In 1978, that wavering, starburst voice seemed to come out of nowhere, but only because it's ...
Interview by Simon Reynolds, Pulse!, December 1993
Kate Bush is very... unlikely· A teen prodigy, she rocketed to the pinnacle of the British charts with her 1987 debut, ‘Wuthering Heights’, a very... ...
Kate Bush: Little Miss Can't Be Wrong
Interview by Stuart Maconie, Q, December 1993
She might be a self-confessed power head, prone to control freakery and studio-hermitdom and a total stranger to the nightclub dancefloor... "bit I'm never grumpy, ...
Dear Diary: The Secret World of Kate Bush
Interview by David Sinclair, Rolling Stone, February 1994
CRICKLEWOOD IS not at all the kind of place you would expect to find Kate Bush. Although immortalized long ago in the title of a ...
Review by Barney Hoskyns, Rock's Backpages, 1997
FEW WOMEN HAVE expanded the vocabulary of rock as bewitchingly as Kate Bush; among male stars, only Prince may have taken as many risks. Hounds ...
Review by Chris Roberts, Uncut, September 1997
NOTHING COULD be more wrong than to align the wanton, inspired Bush with boring English rock "aristocrats" such as Sting, Collins and Clapton. There's a ...
Eyewitness: The Grooming Of Kate Bush
Retrospective and Interview by Johnny Black, Q, March 1999
It wouldn't happen now. Kate Bush was 16 when Pink Floyd's David Gilmour recommended her to EMI records. Over the next two years, the arty ...
Review by Jim Irvin, MOJO, October 2005
TO SUM UP: Kate Bush is the greatest living British artist in song and this is her masterpiece. ...
Kate Bush: Return of the Recluse
Profile and Interview by Adam Sweeting, Independent on Sunday, October 2005
PLENTY HAS HAPPENED in the twelve years since Kate Bush last released an album. Tory sleaze has morphed into New Labour; mobile phones and iPods ...
Kate Bush: Finally, Something For The Grown-Ups
Essay by Andy Gill, Independent, The, October 2005
EARLY NEXT MONTH, Kate Bush releases Aerial, her first new album since The Red Shoes back in November 1993. Even by the relaxed schedules adopted ...
Review by Ben Thompson, Daily Telegraph, November 2005
Ben Thompson reviews an album of two halves ...
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