Kate Bush reveals plans to make new music

Kate Bush has shied distant from the spotlight successful caller years, and past released a workplace medium successful 2011. But the vocalist has told the BBC she is "very keen" to commencement moving connected caller music.

Bush said determination are "lots of ideas" she wants to pursue, telling BBC Radio 4's Today programme: "I'm truly looking guardant to getting backmost into that originative space, it's been a agelong time."

The singer's past caller record, the melancholic 50 Words for Snow, was released successful 2011. Since then, her lone releases person been unrecorded oregon compilation albums.

Bush gave a uncommon interrogation to presenter Emma Barnett arsenic she launched a caller abbreviated movie she has written and directed to rise wealth for children affected by war.

The black-and-white, four-minute animation, called Little Shrew, is acceptable to her 2011 way Snowflake and aims to rise wealth and consciousness for the foundation War Child.

Bush changeable to fame successful 1978 and is champion known for hits specified arsenic Wuthering Heights, Hounds of Love, Babooshka and King of the Mountain.

But she attracted a caller procreation of fans successful 2022 erstwhile 1 of her biggest songs, Running Up That Hill, was utilized successful the Netflix bid Stranger Things.

Asked whether she was presently moving connected caller material, Bush said: "Not astatine the moment, but I've been caught up doing a batch of archive enactment implicit the past fewer years, redesigning our website, putting a lyric publication together.

"And I'm precise keen to commencement moving connected a caller medium erstwhile I've got this finished. I've got tons of ideas and I'm truly looking guardant to getting backmost into that originative space, it's been a agelong time."

When asked if it was thing she had been hoping to bash for a while, Bush replied: "Yes it is, really. Particularly [in] the past year, I've felt truly acceptable to commencement doing thing new."

But erstwhile Barnett drew attraction to a recent interrogation with David Gilmour, successful which the Pink Floyd prima said he'd tried to transportation Bush to execute unrecorded again, the vocalist joked: "I'm not determination yet."

Little Shrew is released connected Bush's authoritative website connected Friday. It is escaped to watch, but encourages viewers to enactment organisations helping children successful conflict.

The abbreviated film, which Bush worked with an illustrator to create, was partially inspired by Russia's penetration of Ukraine successful February 2022.

"I started moving connected it a mates of years ago, it was not agelong aft the Ukrainian warfare broke out, and I deliberation it was specified a daze for each of us," Bush explained.

"It's been specified a agelong play of bid we'd each been surviving through. And I conscionable felt I wanted to marque a small animation that would feature, originally, a small girl. It was truly the thought of children caught up successful war. I wanted to gully attraction to however horrific it is for children.

"And truthful I came up with this thought for a storyboard and felt that, actually, radical would beryllium much empathetic towards a carnal alternatively than a human. So I came up with the thought of it being a small shrew."

Reflecting connected the interaction of struggle connected children, Bush said: "I deliberation warfare is horrific for everyone, peculiarly civilians, due to the fact that they're truthful susceptible successful these situations. But for a child, it's unimaginable however frightening it indispensable beryllium for them."

The 66-year-old added: "I deliberation we've each been done precise hard times. These are acheronian times that we're surviving successful and I think, to a definite extent, everyone is conscionable worn out."

"We went done the pandemic, that was a immense shock, and I deliberation we felt that, erstwhile that was over, that we would beryllium capable to get connected with immoderate benignant of mean life.

"But successful information it conscionable seems to beryllium going from 1 concern to another, and much wars look to beryllium breaking retired each the time.