"Singers singer Kate Bush makes A Rare Appearance"
December 14, 1993
By Peter Howell, The Toronto Star
Call Kate Bush a recluse, and she's got two words for you: "ethereal" and "nutty".
They're the two other words of the three most often used to describe the winsome English pop archetype, and Bush rhymed them off herself yesterday while making an exceedingly rare visit to Toronto.
Oh, the 35-year-old singer-songwriter understands why people have these "very natural presumptions" about her, since she appears in public about as often as Halley's Comet and weaves a tight sonic tapestry with her music, using literary strands of Tennyson, Bronte, Joyce and the Bible.
"It's not important to me that people understand me", says the very English, very charming Bush, in town to talk about both a new album, The Red Shoes, and a new short film, The Line, The Cross And The Curve.
"It's my work that goes out, and I feel that's what speaks for me. In a lot of ways, I'm very happy for the work to do all the talking, because I feel if I didn't make music, people wouldn't be interested in me, anyways. It's the music that says it; it says it eloquently enough "
It speaks loudly. Ask almost any current female singer-songwriter where she got her musical inspiration, and the name Kate Bush is mentioned almost as often as that of Joni Mitchell. Canadians have been particularly smitten: Jane Siberry, Sarah McLachlan, Rebecca Jenkins, Loreena McKennitt, Shirley Eckhard and more --all have fallen under the spell of this four-octave dream weaver, who was still a schoolgirl when she conquered Europe's pop charts in 1978 with her debut single, Wuthering Heights.
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December 14, 1993
By Peter Howell, The Toronto Star
Call Kate Bush a recluse, and she's got two words for you: "ethereal" and "nutty".
They're the two other words of the three most often used to describe the winsome English pop archetype, and Bush rhymed them off herself yesterday while making an exceedingly rare visit to Toronto.
Oh, the 35-year-old singer-songwriter understands why people have these "very natural presumptions" about her, since she appears in public about as often as Halley's Comet and weaves a tight sonic tapestry with her music, using literary strands of Tennyson, Bronte, Joyce and the Bible.
"It's not important to me that people understand me", says the very English, very charming Bush, in town to talk about both a new album, The Red Shoes, and a new short film, The Line, The Cross And The Curve.
"It's my work that goes out, and I feel that's what speaks for me. In a lot of ways, I'm very happy for the work to do all the talking, because I feel if I didn't make music, people wouldn't be interested in me, anyways. It's the music that says it; it says it eloquently enough "
It speaks loudly. Ask almost any current female singer-songwriter where she got her musical inspiration, and the name Kate Bush is mentioned almost as often as that of Joni Mitchell. Canadians have been particularly smitten: Jane Siberry, Sarah McLachlan, Rebecca Jenkins, Loreena McKennitt, Shirley Eckhard and more --all have fallen under the spell of this four-octave dream weaver, who was still a schoolgirl when she conquered Europe's pop charts in 1978 with her debut single, Wuthering Heights.
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