Love-Hounds-request@GAFFA.MIT.EDU (09/29/89)
Really-From: John Precedo <jp@doc.imperial.ac.uk> Hello again, all Love-Hounds everywhere! On my local commercial radio startion (Capital Radio), there was an interview with Kate herself. Considering there are a LOT of people out there who don't listen to this station, I thought that I'd post a transcript of it. It was actually on the air about a week and a half ago, but with holidays and the time it took me to transcribe it...anyway there was some interesting stuff on it. All the attempts at punctuation are mine - but bear in mind before you flame me that it was off the radio. Oh well, read it and mentally digest...... --John Announcer: ...but in the last four years since the "Hounds of Love" album, Kate Bush has been working on a new album - "The Sensual World". David Jensen was given a rare opportunity to catch up with her in her North London Home. KT: It's not a pleasant experience for me the fact that it takes so long, but I can't do anything about it. So much work just seems to go into it for me until it is finished. I just had to keep taking breaks, so I'd take maybe six months off rather than just a couple of weeks, just to get away from it. DJ: Why did you call the album "The Sensual World"? KT: An album title is a very difficult thing. It's got to say, hopefully, something about the mood of the album, but also be an interesting enough phrase or title to catch people's attention - and that felt about the best one, really, to call the album. DJ: Church bells signal the start of "The Sensual World". What gave you the inspiration for that? KT: The original words for this song were taken from Molly Bloom's speech at the end of "Ulysses" by James Joyce, and I couldn't get permission to use the words. The original words were all about going back to a time when her husband proposed to her, and so the wedding bells were like the start of the whole song. DJ: Your songs on this album are complex, aren't they? Unlike previously, I mean when you started out; it's easy to remember, it seems like yesterday when "The Kick Inside" came out, and the songs were more straightforward. But with each successive album you've become more, I guess "progressive" or you've been more adventurous. Is that something deliberately that you're doing, or is it just a consequence of growing with your music? KT: I don't know. I mean, I think really that art should become simpler rather than more complicated; and in a lot of ways it worries me that I think this album is quite a complex thing, and I think that most people will have to listen to it DEFINITELY more than twice just to maybe even get a sense of it. That's hard for me to understand, because I just don't HEAR it like that, and ideally I would like the music to be an easy experience. But I think people's music is a reflection of that person; and in the same way that it takes me such a long time to make an album, I think it's all a process of me growing and that's just the way I am. DJ: After four years, are you apprehensive about how it willl be recieved, or are you pretty confident? KT: At the moment, I feel like I'm about to be hung. You know - will I get off, or will I be hung?
tmc@cbnews.ATT.COM (Thomas M. Cliff) (09/30/89)
In article <1047@gould.doc.ic.ac.uk>, Love-Hounds-request@GAFFA.MIT.EDU writes: > Really-From: John Precedo <jp@doc.imperial.ac.uk> > On my local commercial radio startion (Capital Radio), there was an interview > with Kate herself. Considering there are a LOT of people out there who don't > listen to this station, I thought that I'd post a transcript of it. It was > actually on the air about a week and a half ago, but with holidays and > the time it took me to transcribe it...anyway there was some interesting > stuff on it. > All the attempts at punctuation are mine - but bear in mind before you flame > me that it was off the radio. > > Oh well, read it and mentally digest...... [MUCH OF INTERVIEW DELETED FOR SAKE OF BREVITY] > DJ: After four years, are you apprehensive about how it willl be recieved, > or are you pretty confident? > KT: At the moment, I feel like I'm about to be hung. You know - will I get > off, or will I be hung? Mein Gott! She said HUNG instead of HANGED!!!! How could she????? How can anyone take her serious now? Shit, now I'M doing it. I meant SERIOUSLY!!! Could it be worse still? Could she mean that she feels like she's turning into a, gasp, MAN??? Please John, tell us you mis-transcribed the interview! She just HAD TO SAY HANGED. We need answers and we need them NOW!!!! Tom <liff (or do you prefer {liff, or perhaps (liff, or even /liff) \ Bell Labs Columbus, Ohio tmc@cbdkc1.att.com