Kate Bush has introduced that she will likely be releasing ‘The Greatest Of Different Sides’ after large fan demand.
Set to reach digitally on Friday (September 26) and on CD and vinyl on October 31 through Fish Individuals, the discharge comes following important demand from those that had been unable to entry the unique launch of ‘The Different Sides’.
That compilation album was shared again in 2018 as a part of a definitive remastering venture, and had a setlist comprised of B-sides and further tracks that had by no means appeared on an album.
The tracklist for that album included new 12” mixes of ‘Working Up That Hill (A Cope with God)’, ‘The Massive Sky’, ‘Cloudbusting’, ‘Hounds of Love’, and ‘Experiment IV’. B-sides included 1989’s ‘Stroll Straight Down The Center’, 1993’s ‘You Need Alchemy’, 1989’s ‘Be Form To My Errors’, 1985’s ‘Underneath The Ivy’, 1982’s ‘Ne T’enfuis Pas’, and ‘Lyra’, which was taken from The Golden Compass Authentic Movement Image Soundtrack.
Different B-sides had been ‘Burning Bridge’, ‘Un Baiser d’Enfant’, ‘Dwelling For Christmas’, ‘I’m Nonetheless Ready’ and lots of extra.
The album charted at Quantity 18 within the UK, and is now not out there. Nonetheless, attributable to fan demand, a ‘Greatest Of’ model of the LP will likely be on the best way. The precise setlist is about to be shared quickly, though it has been confirmed that three of the songs have been remastered for the discharge.
You may go to right here to pre-order the album.
In different Kate Bush information, the long-lasting singer introduced the discharge of a self-directed animated brief movie known as Little Shrew earlier this summer season.
The movie focuses on a pygmy shrew in a “war-torn metropolis” as a metaphor for kids in warfare, and will likely be soundtracked by Bush’s music ‘Snowflake’ from her 2011 album ‘50 Phrases For Snow‘.
In addition to engaged on that venture and releasing ‘Greatest Of The Different Sides’, Bush has additionally been teasing her return to writing music, and mentioned final 12 months she was “very eager” to begin engaged on new materials.
When saying Little Shrew again in October 2024, Bush spoke about the opportunity of engaged on new music, sharing: “I’ve obtained numerous concepts and I’m actually trying ahead to getting again into that artistic house, it’s been a very long time,” she mentioned.
Requested if it was one thing she had been hoping to do for some time, Bush replied: “Sure it’s, actually. Significantly the final 12 months, I’ve felt actually prepared to begin doing one thing new.”
As for the hopes of some stay appearances being introduced, David Gilmour mentioned final autumn that there’s just one particular person able to getting Kate Bush to carry out once more – herself.
The Pink Floyd legend was an instrumental pressure in Bush’s early profession, having come throughout demo tapes she made as an adolescent because of mutual pal Ricky Hopper. He helped with the financing of recording of a extra skilled demo, and secured Bush a contract with EMI. Because the begin, Bush has all the time been reluctant to carry out stay, and has solely joined Gilmour on stage twice in each 1987 and 2002.
