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Post by Sheila on Mar 18, 2009 9:42:47 GMT
She has proven time and time again she does not. I mean about her promotion, not others. She releases a double album with virtually no promotion and goes straight to muzak in America. I cannot say what happened elsewhere but I have a feeling it wasn't too much going on... She does one video and then stops promoting a double album. This is it, kids. She is retired. I pray that the spirit strikes her enough to record more, but the fact she did strikingly little to support Ariel shows me it's all over...  Please prove me wrong! |
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Post by paul1574 on Mar 18, 2009 13:21:41 GMT
this is a toughie as she is at that point where she doesnt need to promote it to be honest as she has a hungry fanbase that will lap up anything and everything she does
and given how reclusive and private she is this prob suits her fine, bear in mind the woman in a perfectionist too so anything she does do has prob taken so long to get 'right' in her mind that its tiring (and part of me secretly hopes theres a vault somewhere filled with music / lyrics she has done and not released as she didnt want to just yet)
and even without promotion just look at a site like this and how we all found her in different ways without her being on TV or touring - and to be honest there is some amount of overkill with artists these days and the shameless self promoting they do and we al know Kate was never into that or like that
as a reference let us look at stephen king - he relases a book and it sells millions of copies right away wether its any good or not - people just have that much of a voracious appetite for his work - im sure it was either him or said about him that he could release a book that was just a couple of hundred pages with just the word "s**t" written on them and he would still sell a load of books
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Post by Barry SR Gowing on Mar 18, 2009 17:09:06 GMT
...even without promotion just look at a site like this and how we all found her in different ways without her being on TV or touring - and to be honest there is some amount of overkill with artists these days and the shameless self promoting they do and we al know Kate was never into that or like that There have been major artists recently who have said they no longer wish to promote their work - but they will continue working. For example, Elvis Costello did not promote, or do a tour for, his last album (released in May 2008) and stated that he now preferred to work this way - he explained in an interview that he is tired of the 'nonsense' involved with promoting his work. The album still made the Top 60 in the US. He has a new album out this June. Admittedly his output is a tad more prolific than Kate's (I think he's averaged about an album per year since 1977) - but he is showing the way for serious artists to work without having to kowtow to the media circus. Kate's arrangement with EMI allows her to release albums only when she sees fit, and she evidently is under no obligation to tour or do much in the way of promotion. She was certainly under no obligation to release Aerial, and yet she did - and made it a double album, so I would guess that she's got another couple of albums in her yet. I'd be happy to help her out if she's got suffering from "songwriter's block"!   --Paul-- |
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Post by tannis on Mar 20, 2009 20:27:26 GMT
KB: "Reclusive, mysterious and weird — it's ridiculous, isn't it? Just because I've chosen to live a normal life, and not in the public eye. I've never promoted myself, I'm not a celebrity, I'm a worker, and I don't see a reason to do interviews unless there's something to talk about, a piece of work. I don't hide from people. I go shopping, I go to restaurants and movies ... yet somehow I'm made out to be some mad hermit. It's too much.
"I think my cult following got grumpy waiting so long," she laughs.
That all sounds a bit disingenuous in light of the number of high-end European art and fashion photographers whose ubiquitous images of Bush created at least the impression of a showbiz diva between 1978 and 1990, when an eight-CD anthology appeared in the box set This Woman's Work — complete with a colour booklet containing nothing but these extravagant portraits.
The Toronto Star, "Lost and Found", by Greg Quill, November 5, 2005www.gaffaweb.org/reaching/iv05ts01.htmlThe 47 year old hates interviews as much as she disregards and despises the rules of the show-business. Nevertheless, she spoke with us about her new double album “Aerial”.
What is the biggest misconception of Kate Bush the person?
KB: It frustrates me that I am continually presented to the public as some kind of hermit. I am actually leading a completely normal life. I have simply chosen against the lifestyle of the music industry or the world of show-business. Excessive egos, greed for power, greed for money, neuroses, psychoses, sarcasm, cynicism – I don't need any of that. I find it frightening that some of my colleagues don't even know how to work a washing-machine.
"Flat pop-culture sucks out the quality", Unknown German newspaper, Micheal Loesl, November 10, 2005www.gaffaweb.org/reaching/iv05_German_newspaper_interview.htmlKate's arrangement with EMI allows her to release albums only when she sees fit, and she evidently is under no obligation to tour or do much in the way of promotion.
Kate Bush: I toured only once ('The Tour of Life', 28 dates in 1979). But I hadn’t planned it either. I wanted to record two albums then make a new show. I got completely absorbed in the creation process of The Dreaming. I was in charge of the production: it’s been very important but very hard for me. I had to prove something. Many people, from the label or not, gave me a hard time thinking I wouldn’t make it. Who does she think she is? The Dreaming wasn’t as successful as they wished. Then I built my own studio, worked on Hounds Of Love (her most acclaimed record in 1985, with a concept suite on one side. Aerial is clearly the follower 20 years later). Then I had my revenge. My energy was focused on the production during all these years. I also got involved a lot into the videos. I’m the kind of person who cannot make things by half.
Philippe Badhorn: It’s also a question of control. Being on stage is more unpredictable.
Kate Bush: Maybe. Yet I had fun on that tour. It was like a circus. We laughed so much but I was completely exhausted. It was quite different from musical creation. I tried to be better each time. It’s true, one day I should make another show. But that would make me so nervous! Each time I’m on stage (for one or two songs on special occasions, for friends like Peter Gabriel or David Gilmour, who ‘discovered’ her when she was 16), I have such a stage fright. I lack of confidence about my stage control. But that could do with a lot of rehearsals.
Rolling Stone (France), Philippe Badhorn, February 2006www.gaffaweb.org/reaching/iv06_rollingstone_france.html
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Post by tannis on Mar 20, 2009 21:27:25 GMT
KB: "I never consciously gave up touring," she explains. "I only did just one, in 1979 and 1980, and I think other people gave up on me... We're working on some ideas about doing some shows to promote this album, but it's early days."
The Toronto Star, "Lost and Found", Greg Quill, November 5, 2005www.gaffaweb.org/reaching/iv05ts01.htmlDoes your long break have anything to do with the absurdity of the show-business?
KB: No, because I have never seen myself as part of it.
"Flat pop-culture sucks out the quality", Micheal Loesl, November 10, 2005www.gaffaweb.org/reaching/iv05_German_newspaper_interview.htmlYes, Sheila, the Aerial Kate did strikingly little promotion, just a bit of UK radio and press. There was no TV work, no live performance, no personal US promotion, and just the single video release.
The Red Shoes Kate was much more "showbiz" friendly and did considerably more promotion. She was on Top Of The Pops, Aspel and Company, Good Morning With Anne and Nick, etc. There was even an appearance at Tower records in Lower Manhattan where 2,000 pilgrims journeyed to see their idol on her first promotional trip in nearly a decade.
Kate also introduced the premiere of "The Line the Cross, and the Curve" at the 37th London Film Festival, Odeon Leicester Square, and attended the film's premiere at the Royal Ontario Museum, etc.
There was a high-profile London Film Festival premiere for the film Kate Bush made during the autumn as more or less an afterthought to the three-year process of her Red Shoes album. Shy Kate went so far as to get up on stage before the screening to thank "everyone who'd been a part of making the film" and to speak of her trepidation because her opus was following a brilliant animation by Aardman, the makers of the Creature Comforts ads. She was proably right to be worried as The Line, The Cross and The Curve turned out to be not so much a movie as the sort of linked sequence of promo vids that pop stars are wont to hang themselves with, given a feature-length rope.
Q Magazine KaTe Film
www.gaffaweb.org/moments/3_3a.html
But Gaffaweb have no TV/Radio/Print interviews for 1995-2004, apart from the Q award for Big Sleep! Bush, on the other hand, decided after her 1993 album The Red Shoes that the music business could take a running jump. Enough with fame; she was going to have a life.
"I was working very hard trying to be an artist," she recalls of her heyday. "Somehow I just wasn't being seen as who I was. I was being mistranslated. It was very frustrating."
So, after 15 years, a handful of albums and with a string of hit singles including Them Heavy People, Sat in Your Lap and Breathing behind her, Bush said goodbye to the charts, the recording studio and the spotlight to devote herself to things that she believed were more real, such as cleaning the house and, eventually, having a child. . . . It's no accident that these and other quality-of-life issues dominate the two CDs that make up Aerial. Bush wrote some of the material for it in the years immediately following her retirement, when she was looking for something more than artistic fulfillment.
"Kismet Kate", Weekend Australian, Iain Shedden, Dec 24, 2005 www.gaffaweb.org/reaching/iv05_weekend_australian.htmlI agree that she doesn't need to promote since she has a hungry Love-Hound fanbase that will lap up anything and everything she does; and by defining herself as a "writer" rather than as a "performer" she can remove herself from the duties of having to perform!Kate Bush: I consider myself as a writer. Maybe people don’t think of me that way but that’s how I feel.
Rolling Stone (France), Philippe Badhorn, February 2006www.gaffaweb.org/reaching/iv06_rollingstone_france.htmland given how reclusive and private she is this prob suits her fine, bear in mind the woman in a perfectionist too so anything she does do has prob taken so long to get 'right' in her mind that its tiring
So has Kate retired? Her notable absence from the upcoming BBC One 'Queens of British Pop' certainly suggests that she has retired from showbiz. After all, the BBC will sell the programme worldwide, but KaTe won't feature in person to promote her art globally. And the world probably won't know who Del is, other than a sound engineer that she's worked with for a very long time. Nor does Kate seem to care for her website. The Kate Bush Offical Website seems cold and unloved, and doesn't generate the warmth or the sincerity that the KBC mags used to inspire. But there's been talk that Del has been in the studio with KaTe. So let's pray that the spirit strikes her enough to record more.  Mark: Do you need a team of people around you to do the work or do you work a lot on your own?
Kate: I think a lot of the process is quite insular. It's similar to being a writer, as you know, it's that quiet place again. But yes, I do. I do have to have a team around me and this is a small group of people who it's very important to me, their feedback. I know it's very important to me what Danny thinks of my stuff...
Mark: He's your partner and Bertie's dad?
Kate: And he's very critical, which is fantastic, which is what I want.
Mark: Who else?
Kate: I suppose in the studio context, I work with a sound engineer that I've worked with for a very long time. So...
Mark: That's Del?
Kate: Yes. So that's important too
Mark: Yeah.
BBC Radio 2, "Talking with Kate", August 5, 2006www.gaffaweb.org/reaching/iv06_bbc2_Mark_Radcliff_Talking_with_Kate.html
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