Running Up That Hill: 50 Visions of Kate Bush

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Over three years in the making and featuring a raft of session players and producers, it was a lexicon of both time and craft. Comprising fifty chapters or ‘visions’, Running Up That Hill is a multi-faceted biography of this famously elusive figure, viewing her life and work from fresh and illuminating angles. Fascynują historie o poszukiwaniu dźwięków idealnych, odkrywaniu w otaczającym świecie elementów, które będą mogły wzbogacić utwory (tłuczenie szkła, ptasie trele). However, I personally always hated Pamela Stephenson's parody of Bush on Not The Nine O'Clock News; I found it cruel and spiteful. Comprising fifty chapters or ‘visions’, the book is a multi-faceted biography of Kate Bush, viewing her life and work from different angles.

Even that is not straightforward, since in the latter half of Bush’s career, she’s said very little. As much a ground zero moment for pop as the Pistols were for the denim brigade, Wuthering Heights, a chart hit not in 4/4 time, sang about an eighteenth-century troubadour should have been an anomaly not a blueprint for a career that has now stretched out over nearly five decades and shows no sign of ending. In 2005 Kate Bush announced a new album, almost twelve years after her last one, The Red Shoes, which sadly did not do as well as expected. My only complaint is that it doesn’t have any photographs — one might expect at least a couple of them in a biography, right? The book's earliest chapters made me particularly wistful; I was reminded that her homelife with her big, warm, creative family was exactly what I would've loved myself, and I do envy her that.He draws extensively on an interview he conducted in 2005, a privilege granted to few journalists but one which seems warranted based on this book. There are third party comments about Kate and her work but also some direct quotes, particularly from a lengthy and exclusive 2005 interview that the author had with Kate. Because Kate doesn’t subscribe to the usual recording artist life-cycle convention of making an album, actively promoting it, going on tour, taking a short break and then repeating the process, her life can’t be tracked through her public movements in the way that other artists’ can. With the record industry changing for the worse and with outside pressures seeping in, Bush is keen to dispel the layers of myths built up around her. The writing is simple, to the fact and does a great job in adding a little more colour into a person who’s work we all know, but who’s personal life is kept somewhat at a distance.

Muzyka, którą tworzy nie jest komercyjną – jej twórczość uchodzi za trudną, choć niezwykle intrygującą i tajemniczą. As a journalist and interviewer, his work has appeared in Mojo, Billboard, Q, Sound On Sound, The Guardian and The Times.

I don't suppose for a moment that there's anything here that devoted Kate Bush fans won't already know, but I felt that I learned a lot. Met dank aan close friend en superfan Martin behoor ik zelfs tot de uitverkorenen die haar concert Before The Dawn hebben gezien.

She ‘disappears’ sometimes for more than a decade and all we ever really find out is that she was “working on the new album” in that time. I must admit that there are times where I’ve skipped radio channels over Kate Bush, and then there have been times where I positively kickstepped to Babooshka as though my life depended on it! Established in 2009, Tippermuir seeks to add to the cultural life of Scotland by publishing interesting and worthy books in English and Scots.

The ageing singer was now a mother and hadn't released any new music for some years and was, at the time of the interview, finalising a much awaited double album entitled Ariel. I was particularly moved by the final chapter charting the resurgence of 'Running Up That Hill' after it was used in Stranger Things, and the way young and new fans were discovering how great and, frankly, ahead of her time she was (a positive portrayal of same-sex love in 'Kashka from Baghdad', potential trans interpretation of 'Running Up That Hill' etc. So for example, we learn that after 1978’s rushed Lionheart, Kate decides that she “doesn’t want to be produced by someone who sees it different from me” and when The Dreaming is completed in 1982 she scraps a her, admittedly vague, plans to tour, deciding that making albums “somehow felt more important” than playing to a live audience. You’ll come away admiring Kate’s intellect, her determination and her achievements, but the mystery that is Kate Bush remains, and I imagine that’s just how she likes it.

Of course, if you’ve been lucky enough to sit down and interview Kate in person, then you have a distinct advantage and that’s exactly what the author of Running Up That Hill: 50 Visions of Kate Bush – journalist Tom Doyle – got the opportunity to do in 2005, commissioned by UK’s Mojo magazine, a publication Kate had agreed to talk to, to promote her Aerial album.

It was a unique and very smart organization to structure within an old interview and various facets of her life and career. Bush childhood, learning music, her brother's influence and the musicality that is present in the family. We have a regular newsletter with the week’s new releases that goes out every Thursday or Friday too. Another issue, given that imagery is so much a part of the Kate Bush mythos, is that ‘50 Visions Of Kate Bush’ is unusually devoid of any photographs.