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^^ Good question, but I have no idea, I guess we will find out on Tuesday.
Yesterday I was in the city, and the may issue was still in the store. So I think I need to check it friday, when I'm back in the city. I come twice in a week in the city, so I will keep checking if it's already in the store. 
Thanks to Charles Slane for letting us know that Ken Bruce will be talking to Kate on his show, Monday 9th May, show starts at 9.30am UK time. From the BBC: “Your chance to hear Ken in conversation with Kate Bush. In a rare interview recorded at her house, she chats about her latest album Director’s Cut, on which she revisits a selection of tracks from her previous albums The Sensual World and The Red Shoes.” You can listen to the show live on the day here.
Yeah, a slightly better laserdisc rip, but as I mentioned, the difference to the one you probably already have is not huge. There is a laserdisc rip circulating, which is the most common, and there is a pretty bad vhs to dvd transfer too, for obvious reasons, avoid that one.
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From Mojo Magazine: “In the June issue of MOJO, we speak exclusively to the peerless Kate Bush about her return to music. Following a five-year silence, the influential artist speaks to MOJO (and only MOJO) about self-doubt, playing live, why she has decided to re-record tracks from two of her previous albums, her NEXT album, and what the estate of James Joyce have to say about it all. PLUS! A full career overview of her genius and Tricky, Antony and other stars assess her greatest work.” (thanks to Louise for the cover image) More about Mojo here.
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(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oR_0Ni3BtYM)
Exclusive clip from the short film of "Deeper Understanding"
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: Youtube.Com/Katebushmusic (http://www.youtube.com/katebushmusic) from Tuesday 26th April 2011 and available to download from all iTunes stores world wide - we will post a link here as soon as it's in the stores.
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.
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.
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^^ Sounds interesting, thanks for posting.
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So is Kate in it? | |
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Kate Bush - Return of the sensual woman
Kate Bush is back with a collection of reworked tracks from two previous albums. Andy Gill welcomes back an eccentric and idiosyncratic talent who explored sexuality and social taboos 
In a few weeks' time, Kate Bush issues the first album on her own label, Fish People. Entitled Director's Cut, it comprises material which previously appeared on her albums The Sensual World and The Red Shoes – but rather than the usual stopgap hits compilation, the songs have been reworked, and in some cases completely re-recorded. The result has the consistency of mood and tone of a brand-new, self-contained album, bringing into clearer focus the thematic concerns – of love, passion and art – linking the work of this most inventive of British pop musicians.
Right from the start of her career, these have been the main interests driving Kate Bush's music. Who can forget the willowy, teenage Kate, attempting to encapsulate the entire passionate turmoil of Wuthering Heights into four and a half minutes' eccentric warbling? Or, some years later, wanting to make a deal with God in order to experience sexuality from the masculine viewpoint? Delving further beyond the headline hits, her albums teem with turbulent emotions and sticky business. Her debut album The Kick Inside included songs featuring explicit references to intercourse ("Feel It") and menstruation ("Strange Phenomena"), while the title track itself was based on the traditional "Child Ballad 51", about a girl's incestuous relationship with her brother, who then kills her upon learning of her pregnancy.
Of course, any unsuspecting parent purchasing the album for their daughter would remain blissfully unaware of this; at the time, in the midst of the punk revolution, Kate Bush appeared the very epitome of a nice, middle-class girl, and her music, while odder than the usual bubblegum pop, had none of the sharp edges, urgency or bumptiousness associated with punk. In retrospect, however, she represents a much deeper revolution than that genre's superficial antipathy, something acknowledged by John Lydon, a devoted fan: for in her work can be registered the subtler, but more potent, liberating power of imagination and art.
Compared to her multi-faceted, engrossing explorations of female desire, the pornographic self-abasement of many modern female singers seems more akin to an infant fascinated with its own faeces, dimly aware that there's something shocking about spreading it about, but unaware of the repercussions. How ironic, then, that Bush's deceptive subtlety has enabled her to investigate the kind of subject matter even the most brazen hip-hop queen would baulk at covering, such as paedophiliac desire, incest, cradle-snatching and, in the blackly humorous "Heads We're Dancing", the quandary of a woman who realises she's been dancing with Adolf Hitler.
For virtually her entire career, Bush has operated outside the prevailing trends and transient fashions of the music scene; in her music could be discerned few, if any, obvious musical precedents, the true imprimatur of the unique artist. Accordingly, like Joni Mitchell, she is frequently cited as an influence on successive generations of questing musicians, not all of them female. The lack of recognisable musical influences in her own work is partly due to her enduring preference for drawing inspiration from other media, interpolating literary works by the likes of Barrie, Joyce and Tennyson, and films by such as Kubrick and Powell and Pressburger; and to her fascination with outré intellectual weirdos like Gurdjieff and Wilhelm Reich.
On her new album, the track originally released as "The Sensual World" is titled "Flower of the Mountain", reflecting the significance of its transformation. When she had originally written it, she had used Molly Bloom's orgasmic soliloquy from Ulysses, set to her own music; but denied permission to use it, she was forced to replace the text. "I then wrote my own lyrics for the song, although I felt that the original idea had been more interesting," she explains. "Well, I'm not James Joyce, am I?" But when she applied again to use the passage on the reworked version, she was granted permission. Even literary gatekeepers, it seems, have come to acknowledge that she is among the first rank of modern artists. And yes, it is more interesting than the previous version, as if the song has finally found its home.
The majority of the 11 tracks rework songs from 1993's The Red Shoes, which at the time seemed something of a let-down compared to its predecessors. The inclusion of heavy-hitter guests like Eric Clapton, Jeff Beck, Nigel Kennedy and Prince seemed to push the music in less interesting, retrograde directions, with ill-suited bouts of routine Prince-funk, and echoes of both "Purple Rain" and "Layla" in the climactic "You're The One". It wasn't entirely bereft of magical moments – most deriving from either the Trio Bulgarka's harmonies or the twinkling valiha lines of Justin Vali – but, as a whole, the album seemed piecemeal and more straightforwardly "rock" than one wished from Kate Bush. Unsurprisingly, it proved to be her most successful record in America, where nobody ever got poor underestimating the taste of the average listener. There's a much cleaner, simpler, less flamboyant tone to the revised versions, which dovetail beautifully with the excerpts from The Sensual World, breathing new life into both: there's an aura of contentment about the material, which no longer seeks to impress, but has an inner faith in its quiet impact.
For a while, following The Red Shoes, she appeared to have strayed from the cutting-edge of musical developments, and may indeed have exhausted her inspiration. Her concurrent direction of the short film The Line, The Cross & The Curve suggested that she may have worked more in that medium. But, as year followed year with neither music nor movie on the horizon, it seemed as if maybe she had just run out of creative steam, retreating into domestic reclusion to raise a family. This was, it turned out, only half true, but it took a dozen years to find out that Kate Bush could bring to the subject of domestic bliss no less a degree of intense reflection and penetrating insight than she had employed on sex and death.
The double-album Aerial did indeed feature a core of domestic contentment, most impressively in the song "Mrs Bartolozzi", whose protagonist seeks solace for her absent mate in the miscegenate dance of their clothes together in a washing machine. "I watched them going round and round/My blouse wrapping itself round your trousers," she observes, slipping into the infantile – "Slooshy sloshy, slooshy sloshy, get that dirty shirty clean" – and alighting periodically upon the zen koan of the murmured chorus, "washing machine". It used to be said that some people would have bought an album of Bob Dylan reciting the phone directory; and there were moments on Aerial when it appeared that Kate Bush was doing something comparable, trying to explore the notion of boredom and fulfilment in the least animated manner possible – as when evoking the almost autistic contentment of a mathematician obsessed by pi. But, even then, her innate musicality managed to make her recital of enormous strings of numerals deeply engrossing and involving.
There has always been something of a yin/yang aspect to Bush and her work, particularly in the contrasting tropes of introspection and extroversion between which her art is strung. As she cruises into middle age, it's entirely understandable that she should gaze back upon her former work and seek to reposition it for the future. But what's more exciting is that she's already at work on fresh material for the follow-up proper to Aerial, which can't come soon enough for my liking. In an era of bland soul divas and over-hyped momentary sensations, we should treasure true inspiration as never before.
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so robbie scans his computer, looking for a site, somewhere where he can get food delivered, obviously not diet
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HINT AT NEW ALBUM IN MOJO MAGAZINE INTERVIEW/ARTICLE
I just picked up the June edition of Mojo magazine, which carries kates first interview for the Directors Cut album. This is a part of the interview regarding the possibility of an album of brand new material.
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The rumours are true: Kate Bush is hard at work on a new album. It's the reason - ostensibly, at least - why MOJO is talking to her on the phone as opposed to meeting in person.
"I'm determined to make an album quick, one day," she laughs. "But you gotta get it right, haven't you?"
As expected, she will reveal nothing about what it might sound like, or indeed, what it actually is. A prudent attitude, given that she has just spent three years making a new album of old songs.
MOJO: So this new album then. Have you written new songs?
KB: Yes.
MOJO: Have you recorded these songs?
KB: Yes! I don't like to talk about the record before it's finished because it might suddenly change. But i'm pleased with what we've got so far. I think it's quite different, but then I think I feel that with every record.
Good news. At least we know she has new material written and recorded. Now I guess it's the usual Kate Bush waiting game.
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So the mag is already in stores? I live in Holland, so it would like to know.. does someone know when it's gonna be in store in the rest of Europe/Holland. It is a mag from the UK right? | |
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It is in UK stores today yes. And yes it is a UK publication, but I have bought it abroad before.
Maybe you could check the MOJO website for publication times in Europe, I can't see it being very far behind the UK.
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Can't find it | |
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Cool, at least you know that you can get it. | |
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From http://www.katebushnews.com/
BBC Radio 4 interview, on Front Row, coming May 4th! April 28, 2011
UPDATE: Exciting time to be a Kate Bush fan! John Wilson has just confirmed on Twitter that the interview he conducted with Kate at her house this afternoon will go out on Front Row, next Wednesday, May 4th at 7.15pm BBC Radio 4. John Wilson had originally posted on Twitter: “Kate Bush speaks! Have just done long interview at her place for @BBCFrontRow. More details to follow…” Thanks to Louise for passing this on. ALSO: BBC 6Music is planning a Kate Bush Playlist this coming Friday 29th April, 7-9pm. More at the 6Music site here.
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^^ From The (UK) Times newspaper.
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Striking image, innit. Me likes. | |
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It is a cool image, but then I would be happy seeing her in a t-shirt, jeans and a pair of converse.
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I guess we should just be grateful for seeing her at all. | |
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Indeed. And i'm positive that we shall. MOJO has "Kate Bush, The only interview," on their cover, which as we know of course, is already a false statement.
There will be more interviews/pictures to come for sure.
Same thing happened with Arial if I recall correct, it was supossed to be one or two interviews only, and she ended up doing a load.
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So has it leaked yet? | |
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You can listen to the entire new album "Directors Cut" on the link below, a few days ahead of it's official release date. Nice..
http://www.npr.org/2011/0...amp;cc=fmp
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Listening to it now, very cool. I would like to hear more from her collaborations with you know who, but will download this later. "So fierce U look 2night, the brightest star pales 2 Ur sex..." | |
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I refuse to listen. I made that mistake last time with Aerial and hated myself for it. | |
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It is sounding very nice indeed I have to say.
Roll on the 16th.
Oh, and the vinyl version has been put back 1 week, it;s out on the 23rd.
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No. Just... no. | |
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I have heard Moments Of Pleasure, however. I thought it was beautiful, on first listen I loved it more than the original. Shoot me!
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Shoot you?!? Not at all.
I have listened to the album a couple of times today, but in the last hour pumped it through my headphones, and it came together brilliantly.
I think it's really good, and there is not a thing I can do about it. It sounds modern, and kate sounds in good a voice as ever.
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