The wit and charisma of Kate Bush by Graeme Thomson: going too far makes you what you are

[@markkavanagh7377]

R.I.P. for Donald Sutherland who appeared in the great Cloudbusting video.

[@mcolville]

I believe "recluse" is code for "does not talk to the press."

[@Anybloke]

Thanks. I will certainly be buying the book. One thing no-one ever mentions. Part of the reason Wuthering Heights was such a big hit in 1978 was because the novel was on the O Level English Lit curriculum that year. Millions of teenagers around the UK (myself included) were reading it.

[@nicknikipediacaulkin5943]

Great interview there, lads! I'm now going to order the book!

[@samguberman2288]

I loved the original book but I'll need to get the updated one to read about The Before the dawn shows, I was lucky to see her twice, including the last night. I queued up from 7 am hoping for a returned ticket and at 18:45 the box office gave me the ticket, I just had to be there on sadly itwill probably her last live show.....I hope I'm wrong . The concerts were amazing and it was Incredibly emotional when Kate finally took to the stage, I'm not ashamed I got choked up along with I'm sure most of the audience.

[@drees71]

Still a bit dismissive Mr Hepworth?! Please listen to A Coral Room, it's beautiful.

[@neilparnell2089]

Can't believe you went through all the people inspired by her and never mentioned Tori Amos, seems the most 'inspired' by Kate, apparently Kate is still recording has made at least one track in the last few years with Big Boi from Outkast , and Kate was good friends with Mark Hollis from Talk Talk , they tried collaborating in the 90's it didn't work out, but they socialised a bit after

[@philiphalpenny9761]

I was thinking the same thing. 'Cornflake Girl' was going round my mind as they discussed that point...Funny, hearing all three mentioning Bowie occasional gaffes...reciting the Lord's prayer at the Freddie Mercury's tribute concert comes to mind...Mr Hepworth said in podcast a few years ago that he had a genius for making people forget these faux pas...which is true.

[@ICENTUKAOS]

I wasn't aware of the Kate Bush / Mark Hollis link but it sort of makes sense. It may be somewhere in Ben Wardle's Mark Hollis book, I'll have to re read it

[@johnnowlan9963]

Some good remixes on KZbin 😎

[@Ozymandi_as]

I imagine there is a vault simewhere fukk of things that she has recorded over the years, but decided for one reason or another, not to release. There is, for example, a song called Never for Ever which was significant enough to lend its name to the album, but was not included on it. There is the collaboration with Big Boi. I cannot imagine there are no others. Whimsical is a somewhat subjective judgement, Kate followed her nose and did what was interesting to her, which is one of her strengths in many ways. We either click with it or not, go with her or say not for me. Certainly there are tracks that I have wtf feekings about, but whichever choice we make as listeners, she is doing her thing, and the line between sublime and ridiculous can be a fine one at times.

[@acj2789]

I recall thinking Tori Amos showed a clear Kate Bush influence.

[@ByronWerner-qw5sh]

Closest I've heard anybody sounding at all close to Kate is possibly Anja Garbarek from Norway.

[@jonathancole833]

Actually Scotland's 1977 victory over England was achieved at Wembley and not Hampden Park, hence the greater incentive to invade the pitch and tear down the goalposts.

[@altair8598]

Didn't '50 Words for Snow' come out after the first edition so would have needed Graeme's attention? I've had to re-read and revise a book which is to be printed (though not necessarily published') and had to suffer the horror and tedium of completely re-paginating the index and re-numbering the section references following every time I discovered some late but interesting information. Dave - you've had several books published - do you do your own index, or has your publisher done it for you? Further complications in indexing are that one doesn't always like to use the same keyword for a noun or concept, or that the key topic runs over to the next page without it necessarily being used again; simple computer word recognition to index wouldn't necessarily pick up on that...

[@MrDirtybear]

Ummm, I'd be with David Hepworth on Kate Bush. She finds whimsy too tempting. I like the idea of 'record maker' vs 'song writer'. Is this why she has released relatively few albums, her engagement with music through sampling can only get her as an artist so far. Some melodies or songs have to come to a performer whole, and be left relatively untinkered with. Comparing her with Brian Eno, who has tinkered endlessly with half songs and found sounds since 1973, and well... Maybe we wish he had stopped sooner or she had done more in the way of continuing to experiment-she'd have naturally found more whole songs fit for release....

[@gloriab7801]

I think Joanna Newsom is ploughing a similar furrow, but is a far more profound artist than Kate.