Kate Bush - 50 Words for Snow

S.M.B. · 02-10-2011 09:24AM #1

New album out in the next 2 months. Very very excited.

I really hope she follows through and does a a few live dates on the back of it too. I'd be there with bells on.

SilverScreen · 02-10-2011 12:11PM

Can't wait for this, if it's anything as good as Aerial I will be very happy indeed.

She did hint in an interview with MOJO a few months ago that she would like to tour again if the time was right. I really hope she will go back to touring.

S.M.B. · 02-10-2011 12:30PM

Well she said she probably wouldn't tour but would love to do a few shows.

If so, she'd surely be doing a London date which would suit me perfectly.

Would pay serious £ to see her perform.

losthorizon · 02-10-2011 03:48PM

Cant see her doing any live dates tbh. Seems to release an album every six or seven years now and give an interview and thats it. Dont think she sang any live dates for Aerial?

S.M.B. · 02-10-2011 07:39PM

Nah, she's only done a handful of guest appearances in the past 25 years. Here's what she said recently though.

I do hope that some time I get a chance to do some shows. Maybe not a tour, but something

bullpost · 03-10-2011 12:12PM

It amazes me that she can still get the level of interest she does and the volume of sales despite close to zero promotion on her part.

She really is a testament to the fact that it is not necessary to tour relentlessly and promote yourself relentlessly to have a career, once you have the talent.

I reckon she is one of only a handful of artists who could manage this.

Having said that I can understand why she would not want to tour , but can't understand why she won't do the occasional Jools show or similar.

mike65 · 03-10-2011 12:28PM

She got a case of stage fright when she was 18 (which she denies it has to be said but it looks like that to me) and I guess it stays with you. As for her ongoing success I think that's down to her aloof mystery because she doesn't tour, do chat shows and releases an album once in a blue moon. Funnily enough

Wattle · 10-10-2011 01:00PM

She creates in splendid isolation and she has spent a lot of her time since the 80's dodging the spotlight. She takes a long time between records. I imagine it would be very difficult to recreate albums like Aerial in a live context and I think she would be uneasy with the exposure. She can get away with a low visibility because she has built her legend over the years. I would love to see her live but I doubt it will happen.

Having said that I will be all over the new record.

mike65 · 10-10-2011 01:22PM

I was watching Vintage TV the other night and Babooshka came on, I'd quite forgotten what a little minx she was in those early vids!

adox · 10-10-2011 01:32PM

I`ll buy anything she puts out(which granted is very little over the last few years).

Up there with my favourite female artists of all time.

InTheTrees · 10-10-2011 09:01PM

I remember when wuthering heights came out. Nice song. I was never a big fan though.

Didnt she have some association with Pink Floyd?

SilverScreen · 10-10-2011 11:09PM

InTheTrees wrote: »

Didnt she have some association with Pink Floyd?

Yep, Dave Gilmour discovered her after hearing one of her demos and got her signed to EMI. He helped produce some of her early material as well.

mosstin · 10-10-2011 11:37PM

S.M.B. wrote: »

New album out in the next 2 months. Very very excited.

I really hope she follows through and does a a few live dates on the back of it too. I'd be there with bells on.

Clearly hoping for December dates then.

S.M.B. · 11-10-2011 01:05PM

If only.......

Her new song "Wild Man" debuted on BBC Radio last night. I've yet to have a chance to listen to it. Has anyone else had the pleasure?

SilverScreen · 11-10-2011 01:33PM

Yep, here she be:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a3BzjfAjug4

Very nice, still as seductive, creative and otherworldly as ever.

mosstin · 11-10-2011 05:45PM

Zero1986 wrote: »

Yep, here she be:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a3BzjfAjug4

Very nice, still as seductive, creative and otherworldly as ever.

Sounded quite underwhelming actually. Aerial was one of the best records of the 2000s though. Beautiful stuff.

bullpost · 12-10-2011 11:52AM

She can sing the telephone directory as far as I'm concerned and I'd still enjoy it.

Mind you she almost did on Pi

mosstin wrote: »

Sounded quite underwhelming actually. Aerial was one of the best records of the 2000s though. Beautiful stuff.

mike65 · 12-10-2011 12:01PM

Hope the real audio track sounds better cos that's very flat.

losthorizon · 12-10-2011 06:25PM

Zero1986 wrote: »

Yep, here she be:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a3BzjfAjug4

Very nice, still as seductive, creative and otherworldly as ever.

Very impressed

bullpost · 28-10-2011 11:56AM

Album reviewed in this months Uncut.

They give it 4 stars so hopefully will live up to that when released.

Maximum 40 Characters · 16-11-2011 10:14AM

NPR have the full album streamed

http://www.npr.org/player/v2/mediaPlayer.html?action=1&t=1&islist=false&id=142133269&m=142188918

Wattle · 16-11-2011 01:52PM

Read a pretty negative review in one of the sunday papers. It said the album was way too long and some of the songs were 'ponderous'. Still I will of course be buying it Monday.

Table Top Joe · 16-11-2011 08:15PM

Why not buy it Friday when its released??;)

Ive listened to it three times now,love the first half,second half not so much,still though,some wonderful stuff on it,very atmospheric late night record

4/5 for me(at this early stage at least)

S.M.B. · 17-11-2011 12:13AM

Wattle wrote: »

Read a pretty negative review in one of the sunday papers. It said the album was way too long and some of the songs were 'ponderous'. Still I will of course be buying it Monday.

Any review I've come across seems to be very positive.

Liking it a lot on first listen, can see it being my soundtrack for the next 3 winter months.

Wattle · 17-11-2011 01:21PM

S.M.B. wrote: »

Any review I've come across seems to be very positive.

Liking it a lot on first listen, can see it being my soundtrack for the next 3 winter months.

They actually gave it three stars out of five the only complaint being that some of the songs were too long. Can't wait to hear it.

bullpost · 18-11-2011 12:19PM

Its available online from 7Digital for a fiver (320kbps MP3) :
http://ie.7digital.com/artists/kate-bush/50-words-for-snow/

Will stump for the CD or might even wait for vinyl , though that will take another week and would only buy it if it came with mp3s as well.

TroutMask · 18-11-2011 12:29PM

Wattle wrote: »

I imagine it would be very difficult to recreate albums like Aerial in a live context

Can't wait till the new album myself

I'd agree with you about the exposure, but Aerial would be easy to recreate live
for an artist with access to the kind of tour support one gets at that level. Clair Brothers are well accustomed to providing tour infrastructure for such acts.

Wattle · 18-11-2011 01:01PM

Well she's certainly not playing live in support of this album. Read an interview where she said 'never say never' but we've been hearing that for years. Maybe she'll just show up somewhere with a piano. Later With Jools would be perfect..........

Anyway I'm off home to listen to the new album.

SilverScreen · 19-11-2011 01:22PM

Picked up the album yesterday. The music for the most part is sparse and piano-led, it has an almost ambient feel to it which gives a nice feeling of winter landscapes. Her voice isn't quite what it was but it still suits the quiet nature of the music here so well. The music sounds timeless and the album sounds like it could have come out at any point in her career. The only real disappointment here is the title track which doesn't quite live up to it's interesting concept, other than that this will be a great album for dark winter evenings.

keanooo · 19-11-2011 01:58PM

Praise indeed... 5 stars...

http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2011/nov/17/kate-bush-50-words-snow?INTCMP=SRCH

DominoDub · 19-11-2011 02:21PM

In 1978 a girl on TV (Kate Bush) made a young 7yr old boy stop in his tracks :eek:, now nearly 40yr:o that boy is stopped once again in his tracks playing her new album "50 Words for Snow".

Kate Bush - 50 Words for Snow

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