Kate Bush says she is “very anxious to start work on a new album”.
It’s been 13 years since The 66-year-old star most recently shared new music with the studio album 50 Words For Snow.
Despite a gap between releases and a closely guarded personal life, Bush won a legion of new fans in 2022 after the fourth series of Netflix’s Stranger Things featured her 1985 song Running Up That Hill.
“I really want to start working on a new album,” The Hounds Of Love singer told BBC Radio 4’s Today programme.
She added: “I have lots of ideas. I’m really looking forward to getting back into this creative space. It’s been a long time.”
Bush also said that any new music she releases has to be “different” as all her previous albums have been different from each other.
Although she is eager to work on new music, she said she is not yet ready to return to the stage, saying “I’m not there yet”.
The English singer-songwriter’s last full live concert was in May 1979, with a 22-date residency in 2014.
Bush also spoke to the Today program about her new animated short, entitled Little Shrew, for the charity War Child, which she said had “taken a lot of time this year”, adding that once it was finished “I’ll be ready to start again”.
The music for the short film is a new 2024 radio edit of the song Snowflake, which originally appeared on her 2011 album.
“We live in dark times”
Bush began work on the animation shortly after Russia invaded Ukraine in February 2022, which she described as “a shock to all of us.”
“I came up with this idea for a little script and thought that actually more people would probably be more empathetic to a little creature than a person,” she said.
“So I came up with the idea of it being a bit raunchy.”
Bush added that “we’ve all become really desensitized to the violence that we see in movies all the time.”
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She said: “You know when people are just getting beaten up, really. But if a dog has to be killed in a movie, everyone will be up in arms. I mean, it’s a horrible thing to say, but I think there’s an element of truth to it.
“I think we’ve all been through very difficult times. These are dark times we live in. And I think to some extent everyone is just exhausted.
“I mean, we went through the pandemic and it was a huge shock.
“And I think we really felt that once it was over, if it could ever be said to be over, we would all be able to go on with some sort of normal life.”
“But actually it just seems like, you know, going from one situation to another and more wars seem to be breaking out all the time.”
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In 1978, Bush became the first woman to reach number one in the UK charts with a song entirely written by her with her debut single Wuthering Heights, inspired by Emily Brontë’s gothic novel.
Other hits include Babooshka, Cloudbusting and The Man With The Child In His Eyes, and she has had three UK number one albums with Never For Ever, Hounds Of Love and The Whole Story.
