Kate Bush has said she’s “very keen” to make a new album, saying, “I’ve got lots of ideas … it’s been a long time.”
In a rare interview on BBC Radio 4’s Today programme on Friday, the 66-year-old English singer said there are “lots of ideas” she wants to pursue. “I’m really looking forward to getting back into that creative space,” she said.
Bush shot to fame in 1978 with her debut Wuthering Heights, and is best known for hits including Babooshka and King of the Mountain.
In 2022 she found a new generation of fans when her 1985 hit Running Up That Hill was featured on Netflix series Stranger Things and re-entered music charts around the world. Her last album was 2011’s 50 Words for Snow.
Bush, who has generally shied away from the spotlight across her career, spoke to BBC to promote a new short film she wrote and directed to raise money for children affected by war. The four-minute animation, titled Little Shrew, is set to her 2011 track Snowflake and encourages viewers to donate to international charity War Child. In the film, the titular animal searches for hope across a war-torn city.
A still from the short animated film Little Shrew, written and directed by Kate Bush. Illustration: Kate Bush
“I started working on it a couple of years ago, it was not long after the Ukrainian war broke out, and I think it was such a shock for all of us,” Bush told BBC. “It’s been such a long period of peace we’d all been living through. And I just felt I wanted to make a little animation … to draw attention to how horrific it is for children.”
The film is free to view and can be found on the singer’s website.
Asked if she was working on new material, Bush told Today host Emma Barnett: “Not at the moment, but I’ve been caught up doing a lot of archive work over the last few years, redesigning our website, putting a lyric book together. And I’m very keen to start working on a new album when I’ve got this finished. I’ve got lots of ideas and I’m really looking forward to getting back into that creative space, it’s been a long time.”
Asked if it was something she’d been thinking about for a while, Bush replied: “Yes it is, really. Particularly [in] the last year, I’ve felt really ready to start doing something new.”
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