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Update: An almost complete list of participating retailers is now up on Kate’s official site. 

More updates: Kate’s new picture disc release is popping up for pre-order in more international outlets, Tower Records in Dublin had it online but their allocation seems to have sold out. HMV and Fopp in the UK have some (pre-order in-store only), FNAC in France online, and JPC online in Germany and at IBS in Italy where you can also order it online and also at La Feltrinelli online store here. Check locally!

A new release to coincide with the recent 4CD collection of rarities, The Other Sides, is being issued through independent record stores, including the Rough Trade online store, on May 24th. Described as a 4-track 12” Cloudbusting picture disc, it features imagery from the Cloudbusting and Rocket Man singles artwork. £21.99 + shipping. Check with your local indie record store. Full track-listing:

Side A

1 Cloudbusting (The Orgonon Mix, 2018 Remaster)
2 Under The Ivy (2018 Remaster)

Side B

3 Rocket Man (2018 Remaster)
4 Warm And Soothing (2018 Remaster)

The Rough Trade preorder links listed previously seem to have been a bit premature, keep an eye on Kate’s official site, it looks like this won’t be horribly limited, so you should all be able to order one!

Also available in the US here: https://www.bullmoose.com/p/30067510/kate-bush-cloudbusting-picture-disc-indie-exclusvie It was available to pre-order, 1 per customer, here: https://www.roughtrade.com/gb/music/kate-bush-cloudbusting

In this final part of his trilogy of episodes on Kate’s phenomenal Before The Dawn shows, Seán revisits the impact and lasting legacy of Before The Dawn. All the excitement, ecstatic reviews, historic album chart success, celebrity attendees, awards, acclaim and the live album are all discussed in detail. Enjoy!

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IT’S BEEN 4O YEARS! Kate’s extraordinary first tour, 1979’s Lionheart Tour, also known as the Tour of Life, kicked off 40 years ago this evening! Did you get to see one of the shows? Enjoy these stunning images from the tour by photographer Max Browne – see more of his work at this website here or email him for information: info@rockshots.co

Here’s a couple more images from the Rock Archive site: 

As we celebrate 40 years of the Tour of Life today, we remember Bill Duffield, Kate’s lighting engineer, who sustained critical injuries in the Poole venue at the end of the night after the first date of the tour (a warm-up show on April 2nd 1979). Bill tragically died a week later. It’s lovely to think of Kate’s fans listening to her song Blow Away (for Bill) to remember him this evening x

UPDATE: APRIL FOOL! None of the story below is true…but like many of you, we sort of wish it was! Thanks for taking the joke in the spirit intended 🙂

It has been reported that Kate is among a group of 21 well known people in the UK arts world to be asked over the weekend to form an “extraordinary advisory commitee” to counsel the UK parliament in the current Brexit stalemate. Names from the world of music, film, literature and art, including JK Rowling, Danny Boyle, Kate Tempest, Stormzy, Ken Loach, Jeanette Winterson, Grayson Perry and Rita Ora are also believed to have been approached to form the advisory group which is to sit “with near immediate effect”.

The committee will be tasked with helping to formulate an agreed plan as the UK government continues to struggle to find any progress on the Brexit impasse. The extraordinary committee, part of a range of citizen’s assemblies being hurriedly created this week, may in fact be chaired by Kate, a source tells us. “The recent emphatic statement by Kate Bush rejecting any affiliation with the Conservative Party would seem to make her an ideal candidate to head up this committee with the aim of finally solving the Brexit matter once and for all.”