Tag Archives: Kate Bush

PICTURES: Kate Bush Takes Her CBE From The Queen

By Fraser McAlpine | Posted on April 11th, 2013

Kate Bush and the Queen, yesterday (AP Images)

There’s something about these pictures of famous performers meeting royalty that bends the head a little. There’s Kate Bush, there’s the Queen, they’re shaking hands, as normal people do.

So Who’s Going To Appear At The Closing Ceremony Of The London Games?

By Fraser McAlpine | Posted on August 7th, 2012

Having effectively blown cynics away with the opening ceremony (or at the very least shushed them up for a week or so), the organisers of the London Games have something of a hill to climb in coming up with an appropriate ending. ...

WATCH: Kate Bush – The Last Shadow Puppeteer?

By Fraser McAlpine | Posted on January 25th, 2012

To support the release of her startling album 50 Words For Snow, Kate Bush has just released a third animated video, this time using shadow puppets.

10 Greatest British Tracks of 2011

By staff | Posted on December 19th, 2011

As the sun sets on another year, and the bloggers post their final compilations, attempting to make sense of quite a disparate musical landscape, the Anglophenia music obsessives have been busy in conference, trying to work out who ...

Kate Bush Week V: A Life In Photos

By Fraser McAlpine | Posted on November 18th, 2011

Kate Bush Week: Her Five Best Videos

By Fraser McAlpine | Posted on November 17th, 2011

When she signed her first recording deal at the age of 16, and was sent off to grow up a little, the one thing Kate Bush wanted to study was dance. That’s why so many of her early appearances on camera are fully theatrical ...

Kate Bush Week: Five Great Kate Collaborators

By Fraser McAlpine | Posted on November 16th, 2011

For someone who has the reputation of a musical hermit these days, Kate Bush has a lot of friends and has collaborated on a startling variety of different projects.

Kate Bush Week: Five Great British Literary Songs

By Fraser McAlpine | Posted on November 15th, 2011

Writing songs is hard. You might have an astonishing melody over a brilliant chord sequence set to the best groove in the whole world, but if you can’t find the words to fit, you’re stumped.

Kate Bush Week: A Guide To Kate Bush’s Albums

By Fraser McAlpine | Posted on November 14th, 2011

It’s been a busy old year for Kate Bush. She’s already released “Director’s Cut,” an imaginative reworking of some of her old songs that she felt had been less than fully realised at the time, needing a ...

Five Great Ethereal British Singers

By Fraser McAlpine | Posted on November 2nd, 2011

To celebrate the release of Florence and the Machine’s second album Ceremonials, which hit the shelves in American stores yesterday, here’s a gatheration of five female singers whose work is far too shimmery and wafty to ...