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OFFICIAL!! Kate’s New album is ’50 Words For Snow’!!!

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On 12 September 2011

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Exciting news from Kate’s official site:

50 Words For Snow

We are extremely pleased to announce that Kate will be releasing a brand new album: “50 Words For Snow” on 21 November 2011. The album will be the second release from Kate’s own label Fish People and comprises all new material that was recorded during the same period that Kate worked on her album Director’s Cut. You can pre-order your copy at any of the following online stores now: HMV iTunes Amazon Play

“50 Words For Snow” will feature seven brand new tracks set against a background of falling snow. The total running time is 65 minutes and the track listing is:

SNOWFLAKE
LAKE TAHOE
MISTY
WILD MAN
SNOWED IN AT WHEELER STREET
50 WORDS FOR SNOW
AMONG ANGELS

A higher resolution version of the cover image is here (thanks Louise). This is obviously incredible news, who would have guessed 2011 would see Kate release two albums! Here at Katebushnews.com and HomeGround we are just as excited as all of you and we will make sure we bring you all the news, reports, reviews and everything else as it happens… `let it snow, let it snow, let it snow’!!!

Seán, Peter, Krys and Dave

Get your Fish People T-shirts!

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On 11 August 2011

In Kate Bush news, Official announcements

Kate’s official site is now selling these nifty Fish People t-shirts (long-sleeved versions also). The store also now offers some lithographs including a hefty box set for all you rich fans out there! More here.

Fish People t-shirts

RIP Gow Hunter 1960-2011

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On 1 July 2011

In Kate Bush news, Official announcements, Other artists

Gow Hunter

Sad news this evening. The striking-looking actor and dancer featured in Kate’s 1986 video for her Hounds of Love single, Gow Hunter, has passed away yesterday at the age of just 51. A choreographer and dancer,  Gow had been living in Tokyo since 2007 and recently published several photography books.

UPDATE 2012: Kate posted on her official site about Gow and details of a charity sponsored walk in his memory:

Sponsored Walk – In Gow Hunter’s Memory – Earlier this month Karen Stripp took part in a sponsored walk to raise money for the Hampstead Marie Curie Hospice in memory of Gow Hunter. Although Karen has now completed the walk she is still accepting donations on her Just Giving Page available here. All proceeds will be donated to the Marie Curie Cancer Charity. In light of such a worthy cause and in memory of such a wonderful person Kate also wanted to add…

I’m so very sad to hear the news about Gow. He was a lovely man and such fun to work with as the male star in the video for “Hounds Of Love”. He really had the face of a great film star. He was just brilliant. Congratulations to Karen on the success of her walk and wishing her every success in raising funds. It’s such a lovely thing to do. Best wishes, Kate

Kate Bush 2012

From his official biography: “Trained in classical ballet Gow danced with various ballet companies and continued with diverse and challenging work in Television, Video, Film, Theatre and Opera. He has been very fortunate to live and work in many different countries….Paris, Rome, Geneva, Seoul, London to name a few and work with very talented performers/directors such as Kate Bush, Placido Domingo, David Bailey and Robert Lepage. After a successful career as a professional dancer Gow was accepted into Central Saint Martins School of Art and Design where he completed a B.A (Hons) degree in Textile Design. His designs have been seen on the catwalks of London Fashion week, solo exhibitions and his own label of knitted textile accessories. Gow has always had a passion for anything creative and photography has always been one of his most inspiring pastimes. Gow lives in Tokyo since 2007 and spends much of his time taking pictures of Japan and is beginning to fulfill his lifetime passion of photography.”

Sending our sincere thoughts and condolences to his loved ones.

Gow Hunter and Kate Bush - video still photo by John Carder Bush

In the video below, you can enjoy again Gow’s beautiful performance as the wrongly accused man in Kate’s Hitchcock-inspired promotional film for Hounds of Love. It is hard to imagine anyone more perfect in this role. Stunning.

Catch-up #2 Kate’s official site shop is open!

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On 30 June 2011

In Kate Bush news, Official announcements

You’re probably all well aware of this now, but Kate’s official site has opened its shop section. The site says: “Kate has carefully selected a range of items specifically for her fans. Over the coming months we will be adding a full range of special products to the store. To open the store, we are pleased to announce the availability of a range of exclusive wall art. These canvases are taken from the artwork of Director’s Cut and are only available from Katebush.com” And yes, our enthusiastic mad doctor (?) friend is there to welcome us to the shop section too!

Kate Bush - shop

Kate’s official Fish People site goes live!

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On 14 May 2011

In Director's Cut (album), Kate Bush news, Official announcements

While we were all busy watching the Eurovision this evening, Kate re-launched her official site! See it here.

Kate 2011

Toll & Rook

Director’s Cut promotional activity update, PLUS vinyl release delayed by one week

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On 11 May 2011

In Director's Cut (album), Kate Bush news, Official announcements, Radio

Kate Bush - 2011Some excellent news for the week of release of Directors Cut. BBC Radio 2 have added the album to their B List, which starts this coming Saturday, following it being album of the week this week (hence all these track premiers we’ve been enjoying!) BBC 6 Music will have Director’s Cut as the album of the day on 20th May, with a track played on every show. National commercial station Smooth FM have it as album of the week next week, at least two tracks played each day, lunchtime and evening shows.

Vinyl version of Director’s Cut delayed by one week – out Monday 23rd May

Director's Cut - vinyl edition

The double vinyl version of Director’s Cut will not be released on the same day as the two different CD versions, we have officially been told. It will now be released one week later on Monday 23rd May. This applies to in-store copies and those ordered on-line. We suspect that this will apply to all territories. So, please don’t panic when it doesn’t arrive on Monday. We know the sumptuous large-format artwork will make this extra wait well worth it.

Del Palmer writes a piece for the imminent re-launch of Kate’s official site!

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On 7 May 2011

In Del Palmer, Director's Cut (album), Kate Bush news, Official announcements

Del Palmer’s official Facebook page has just posted the following. Just like the Kate Bush Club magazine days. Looking forward to Del’s piece, and to seeing what Kate has in store for us on her official site!

Kate’s film for Deeper Understanding debuts on Youtube!

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On 25 April 2011

In Deeper Understanding (2011 single), Director's Cut (album), Kate Bush news, Official announcements, Videos

Kate’s official Youtube channel has posted the new film, directed by Kate, which accompanies Deeper Understanding. The clip is also being made available for download on all international iTunes stores.

[youtube width=”640″ height=”518″]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nzqF_gBpS84[/youtube]

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Kate’s new film for Deeper Understanding out April 26th! Preview clip posted!

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On 22 April 2011

In Deeper Understanding (2011 single), Director's Cut (album), Kate Bush news, Official announcements

From the official Facebook page:

Kate’s made an extraordinary new short film starring Robbie Coltrane, Frances Barber and Noel Fielding, to accompany the release of her current single “Deeper Understanding”. The film will be available on Kate’s official Youtube page from Tuesday 26th April 2011 and available to download from all iTunes stores worldwide. To get things started and bring you Deeper Understanding we’ve posted a short clip on YouTube here.

[youtube width=”640″ height=”518″]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oR_0Ni3BtYM[/youtube]

From the press release:

“Deeper Understanding’s prescience of web-age alienation seems quite remarkable” – Mojo

Kate, is releasing her new album Director’s Cut on May 16, and has directed an amazing short film to accompany the release of the current single “Deeper Understanding”. The film stars Robbie Coltrane as a successful businessman who is so obsessed by his computer that it leads to the break-up of his family (Frances Barber plays his wife) and, ultimately, his demise.

Scenes from Kate's new film

[Click on the film strip above for a larger image]

In an extraordinary sequence of shots, Coltrane is taken over by the spirit of the computer (played by Albert Bush, Kate’s son) , is reborn and seeks to exact revenge on the spirit, tracking it over London to a room inhabited by Noel Fielding.  Revenge is absolute, resulting in the death of Fielding’s character…and a surprising ending.

The film was conceived and directed by Kate and produced by Michael Solinger. It was shot over 5 days in London. The amazing visual effects were worked on by Ben Perrot of Destroy All Monsters and Matthias Lindahl from Fido.

“Deeper Understanding” first released in 1989 is perhaps even more relevant today as technology and computers begin to dominate our lives and leave us with little time to dream as technology and computers play an increasingly dominant role in our lives.

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Flower of the Mountain – first official preview clip posted!

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On 18 April 2011

In Director's Cut (album), Kate Bush news, Official announcements

LOVING this vocal! I think we can definitely see this song being played a few times at this year’s Sensual Walk event in Howth on June 18th! 🙂

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aYgwQUBsQWk&feature=player_embedded[/youtube]

iTunes pre-order album offer announced!

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On 4 April 2011

In Director's Cut (album), Kate Bush news, Official announcements

From the official Facebook page:

We’re pleased to announce that from tomorrow anyone who pre-orders Director’s Cut from iTunes will instantly receive the full length copy of Deeper Understanding. Our little way of saying thank you for ordering the album!

Tracklisting announced! Short film coming! Kate talks about the upcoming album!

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On 4 April 2011

In Director's Cut (album), Kate Bush news, Official announcements

From the press release:

KATE BUSH RELEASES HER BRAND NEW SINGLE “DEEPER UNDERSTANDING” ON TUESDAY APRIL 5; THE SINGLE WAS PLAYED FOR THE FIRST TIME ON RADIO 2 THIS MORNING, MONDAY APRIL 4.

KATE’S NEW ALBUM “DIRECTOR’S CUT” IS RELEASED ON MAY 16 AND FEATURES RE-INTERPRETATIONS AND MANY NEWLY RECORDED ELEMENTS OF CLASSIC KATE BUSH SONGS FROM TWO PREVIOUS ALBUMS.

Kate Bush releases her new single, a brand new version of “Deeper Understanding”, on Tuesday April 5. The single is released digitally and had its first play this morning, Monday April 4 on Radio 2. A new short film to accompany the track will be premiered in a few weeks. It’s directed by Kate and stars Robbie Coltrane, Frances Barber and Noel Fielding – and Kate’s son Albert plays the role of the computer programme. He is also featured in the song, singing as the computer programme.

Kate’s new album “Director’s Cut” is released on May 16, the first album to be released on her own label, Fish People, which will be distributed by EMI. The track-listing for the album, which sees her revisit and, in some cases, re-record tracks from two of her classic albums is:

  1. FLOWER OF THE MOUNTAIN (a new version of the song originally titled ‘The Sensual World’)
  2. SONG OF SOLOMON
  3. DEEPER UNDERSTANDING
  4. LILY
  5. THE RED SHOES
  6. THIS WOMAN’S WORK
  7. MOMENTS OF PLEASURE
  8. NEVER BE MINE
  9. TOP OF THE CITY
  10. AND SO IS LOVE
  11. RUBBERBAND GIRL

Kate says: “Originally when I wrote the song ‘The Sensual World’ I had used text from the end of ‘Ulysses’ by James Joyce, put to a piece of music I had written. When I asked for permission to use the text I was refused, which was disappointing. I then wrote my own lyrics for the song although I felt that the original idea had been more interesting.  Well, I’m not James Joyce am I? When I came to work on this project I thought I would ask for permission again and this time they said yes.   It is now re-titled ‘Flower Of the Mountain’ and I am delighted that I have had the chance to fulfill the original concept”.

All the lead vocals and drums on “Director’s Cut” are new performances, some of the tracks featuring guests including Steve Gadd, Danny Thompson and, on backing vocals, Mica Paris.  Three songs have been completely re-recorded, one of which is “This Woman’s Work”.

Kate adds: “For some time I have felt that I wanted to revisit tracks from these two albums and that they could benefit from having new life breathed into them. Lots of work had gone into the two original albums and now these songs have another layer of work woven into their fabric. I think of this as a new album”.

Kate Bush is currently working on her new album of brand new material.

Kate’s new record label logo revealed!

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On 4 April 2011

In Deeper Understanding (2011 single), Director's Cut (album), Kate Bush news, Official announcements

Greek lettering and…hello Fish Person! Kate’s new logo for her own record label Fish People has been fully revealed on the new Youtube clip of Deeper Understanding.

Fish People logo

Full length version of Deeper Understanding on Youtube!

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On 4 April 2011

In Director's Cut (album), Kate Bush news, Official announcements

Well, straight after the radio premiere, Kate’s official Facebook site has provided us with a link to hear the FULL version of the song. More official updates coming also!

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H5UsjqXXcZ4[/youtube]

BBC Radio 2 world single premiere! Exclusive audio clip!

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On 30 March 2011

In Deeper Understanding (2011 single), Director's Cut (album), Kate Bush news, Official announcements, Radio

From the official Facebook page:

Radio 2 will be the first radio station in the world to play the new Kate Bush single, “Deeper Understanding” on Monday 4 April 2011.  The song will be played within the Ken Bruce show at approximately 11.10am. Ken Bruce told us ‘The listeners to my show are very vocal when it comes to their musical loves, so I know that having the world exclusive of Kate’s new single will surpass their extremely high standards. I can’t wait to hear it myself.’

The song will be the Record of the Week on Radio2 and will be played each day on the Ken Bruce’s Show and Alex Lester’s programme. Jeff Smith, Head of Music, Radio 2 and 6 Music  – ”Kate’s music is as influential today as it was when it was first released, so I’m delighted to have this world exclusive.

To celebrate the news from Radio 2… We bring you love and Deeper Understanding…

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