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UPDATE: Listen to the whole interview here: http://blog.kexp.org/2012/02/24/exclusive-kexp-interview-kate-bush/

DJ El Toro has interviewed Kate about 50 Words For Snow on the brilliant US radio station KEXP (can you tell it’s one of my favourites?) The interview will be aired today, Friday February 24th on The Afternoon Show on http://www.kexp.org/ 2pm to 6pm PT USA time / 10pm to 2am UK Time and also on February 29th on DJ El Toro’s show on http://www.kexp.org/ 9pm to 9.30pm PT USA time / 5am to 5.30am UK Time (early on 1st March) It will be also be available online at the KEXP Blog. Read more at their Facebook page here. (with thanks to Louise)

Whatever your thoughts about applying a “prog rock” label on to Kate’s music, there’s no denying that this looks like a nice special issue from the makers of Classic Rock magazine.  It features a new interview with Kate and reader’s top 25 tracks among other Kate-related content. The quote from David Gilmour on the cover reads: “Those who have followed in her shadow are but pale imitations…” This edition hits shop shelves in the UK, Ireland and possibly other places from next Wednesday 28th December. Read more at the magazine’s Facebook page here. Thanks to Louise and to Graham Rhodes who published these cover shots on his blog here.

A new interview with Kate to promote the new album has appeared in Gaffa Magazine in Denmark, see here and here (translation here and here). A second interview doesn’t feature Kate – rather it’s an interview with the presenter of Bios Bahnhof, the German show where Kate made her first ever TV appearance (see clip below!). Interview here, translation here. (thanks Louise)

[youtube width=”640″ height=”360″]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ntyvD0tqeFM[/youtube]

Short interview with Mike Ragona in the online Huffington Post

Excerpt:

MR: Nice. Could you go into some background on “Misty”?

KB: The thing about that song, aside from having sort of unusual subject matter, is that it’s a very long song–it’s the longest song on the album. I think it runs about 14 minutes. It wasn’t even that I set out to write a song that long, but I was trying to explore the idea of working with longer song structures and moving away from the more traditional form. I wanted to be able to tell the story through a much longer piece of time and so I was able to go through various elements of the story and, hopefully, make the song build. The subject matter is sort of just about a girl who builds a snowman, and later the snowman comes to visit her in her bedroom.

MR: As snowmen often do.

KB: Well, I don’t know about that unless people just keep quiet about it. (laughs)

The Swedish newspaper “Dagens Nyheter” (Todays’ News), featured an interview with Kate, which you can read (in Swedish) here.

Kate started by asking the interviewer how the Swedish winter was. When told that they can be very long, lasting 4-5 months, Kate replied: “Wow, snow for 4-5 months? Good lord! It’s hard to imagine a long winter like that. I hope that doesn’t have a negative impact on what you think of my album” followed by laughter from Kate.  Kate is asked if she does most of the producing on her records, the reply was “Yes, even the tea-making”. When asked how she keeps her voice in shape, Kate replies: “I’m not the kind of person who walks around at home singing while cooking and stuff. And I never exercise my voice, maybe I should. I only sing when I make music really.” Download the full translated interview here. Thanks to Jens for sending in the translation.