Kate Bush reveals return to the spotlight with an intriguing career change – and more music is to come
Kate Bush is about to return to the spotlight with an intriguing career change and more music on the way, she revealed Friday.
The iconic 80s singer, 66, has just directed and released a new short animation entitled Little Shrew for the charity War Child, and is now ready to work on new songs.
Kate admitted she is ‘really keen’ to get started on a new album after her record-breaking hit Running Up That Hill re-entered the charts in 2022 and helped her bring in a new generation of fans.
In a rare interview on BBC Radio 4’s Today programme, Kate told presenter Emma Barnett that she has ‘lots of ideas’ for a possible new album.
She last released a studio album in 2011, titled 50 Words For Snow, and admitted that her short animation “took up a lot of time this year” but that she is now free to “start over.”
Kate Bush is about to return to the spotlight with an intriguing career change and more music on the way, she revealed Friday
The iconic 80s singer, 66, has just directed and released a new short animation entitled Little Shrew for the charity War Child, and is now ready to work on new songs (pictured in 1985)
‘I’m really looking forward to working on a new album, I have a lot of ideas. I’m really looking forward to getting back into that creative space. It’s been a long time,” Kate said.
The singer explained that any new music she releases “has to be different” from any of her previous albums.
When asked if she was ready to get back on stage, she joked, “I’m not there yet,” but is ready to “move on.”
Kate sold out a 22-day residency at London’s Hammersmith Apollo in 2014, titled Before The Dawn. These were her first full shows in 35 years.
The music for her short film is a new 2024 radio adaptation of the song Snowflake, which originally appeared on her 2011 album.
Kate started working on the animation not long after Russia invaded Ukraine in February 2022, which she described as a “shock to all of us.”
“I came up with the idea for a little storyboard and thought that actually more people would probably be more empathetic to a little creature than to a human,” she said.
“So I came up with the idea that it would be a little shrew.”
She added, “You know, where people are basically just being slaughtered. But if a dog were killed in a movie, everyone would jump into action. I mean, it’s a horrible thing to say, but I think there’s some truth to it.”
“I think we’ve all been through some really tough times. These are dark times we live in. And I think everyone is just exhausted to some extent,” Kate continued.
She last released a studio album in 2011, titled 50 Words For Snow, and admitted that her short animation this year “took a lot of time” but that she is now free to “start over.”
In a rare interview on BBC Radio 4’s Today programme, Kate told presenter Emma Barnett that she has ‘lots of ideas’ for a possible new album (pictured in 2014)
When asked if she was ready to get back on stage, she joked, “I’m not there yet,” but is ready to “move on” (pictured in 1979)
“I mean, we went through the pandemic and it was a huge shock. And I think we really felt that once that was over, if you could ever say it was over, we could all live some kind of normal life.
‘But in fact it just seems like you go from one situation to another and more and more wars seem to break out.
“I think when things get really bad for people, this is the only thing we can hold on to. And I think it’s a very precious thing if it’s possible to find it,” Kate explained.
Kate earned an impressive £8 million after her 1985 song Running Up That Hill topped the charts in 2022, 37 years after its initial release.
The singer’s 1985 song broke records and went to number one in Britain after appearing in the fourth series of Netflix supernatural thriller Stranger Things.
The song – written by Kate from her iconic Hounds of Love album – also rose to the top of the Australian charts and reached number one on the iTunes chart in the US.
She tripled her net worth while breaking number three Guinness World Records.
The musician was named the oldest woman to reach number one on the UK Official Singles Chart, while the song had the longest time for a song to reach number one on the UK Official Singles Chart, and the longest gap between number one on the UK Official Singles Chart. Singles Chart.
She achieved a UK number one with her debut single Wuthering Heights in 1978, meaning there was a 44-year gap between chart successes.
Running Up That Hill reached number three in the charts when it was first released in 1985.
Kate’s company Noble & Brite Ltd raised £8.8m in 2022 and even after £2.5m was paid to creditors, it left £6m in net assets.
Her total net worth tripled from £2 million in May 2022 to £6.3 million in May 2023.
Kate earned an impressive £8 million after her 1985 song Running Up That Hill topped the charts in 2022, 37 years after its initial release (Kate pictured in the 1985 music video for the song)
The singer’s 1985 song broke records and went to number one in Britain after appearing in the fourth series of the Netflix supernatural thriller Stranger Things.
According to her accounts at Companies House, she paid more than £2.4 million in tax.
On the show, Running Up That Hill mourned teenager Max Mayfield’s (Sadie Sink) favorite song, and it unexpectedly saved her life in episode four.
The song reached the top of the UK charts in June 2022 after appearing on the hit Netflix science fiction series and going viral on TikTok.
It was also the first time Kate had a number one single in Australia since 1978, when her debut single Wuthering Heights claimed the top spot.