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AROUND THE TIME RUNNING UP THAT
Hill took over the world earlier this summer, Kate Bush spoke about the phe-nomenon on BBC Radio 4’s Woman’s Hour programme. As ever in her rare inter views, she was polite, solicitous and discreet. “I never listen to my old stuff,” she told the host, Emma Barnett. “I hadn’t heard it for a really long time.”
For many of us in MOJO’s world, of course, Running Up That Hill and its parent album, Hounds Of Love, has been more or less a constant soundtrack for the past 37 years. This month, we dig deep into the mysteries of Bush’s uncanny classic, and uncover tr uths and insights that’ll hopefully surprise Kate Ultras as well as Kate neophytes. “Kate’s always in charge,” Hounds Of Love engineer Brian Tench tells us. “She asks your opinion, she asks questions, but she knows what she wants. She’s not happy until she hears what she wants to hear.”
It is now 11 years since Bush was happy enough to release any new music. But what happens next remains tantalisingly uncertain – “Gardening,” she told Woman’s Hour, “is my thing now.” As it was, perhaps, in 1985: “Go into the garden/Go under the ivy/Under the leaves/Away from the party…”