# KaTe Bush fans: The Goddess herself says new album due next year! **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [December 10, 2004, 3:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kate-bush-fans-the-goddess-herself-says-new-album-due-next-year/279069 "2004-12-10T03:59:29Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![scott\_evil](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/91b2a8/32.png) [@scott\_evil](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scott_evil)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2004, 4:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kate-bush-fans-the-goddess-herself-says-new-album-due-next-year/279069/21 "2004-12-22T16:34:13Z")
Oh - as to why some people spell it “KaTe” - it’s an inside thing between rabid fans, kind of like a secret handshake that means “I’m crazy-go-nuts over KaTe and know about all of that KT business and other stuff your average fan doesn’t know.” 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![scott\_evil](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/91b2a8/32.png) [@scott\_evil](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scott_evil)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2004, 4:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kate-bush-fans-the-goddess-herself-says-new-album-due-next-year/279069/22 "2004-12-22T16:36:30Z")
It’s looking more and more definite, with EMI confirming: > [@](#): > > December 13th 2004: Music Week, the UK’s definitive music industry news service has a front page article this week about Kate’s KBC album announcement: "One of the longest waits for a follow-up will finally be over next year, when the first Kate Bush album in more than a decade appears. The EMI artist last week confirmed that she is set to deliver her first new studio set since 1993’s The Red Shoes in 2005, having been working on new material over the past few years. Bush announced that the long wait was nearly over in a letter last week to members of her fan club. **EMI has since confirmed to Music Week a new album is definitely on its way.** Besides collaborating with the late Michael Kamen, Bush has also been working with bassist Mick Karn, drummer Stuart Elliott and percussionist Peter Erskine. Although she has largely been out of the limelight as she concentrated on bringing up her son Bertie, Bush was at the Ivor Novello Awards in 2002 to collect the outstanding contribution to British music award. ---
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2004, 6:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kate-bush-fans-the-goddess-herself-says-new-album-due-next-year/279069/23 "2004-12-22T18:34:05Z")
Kate Bush… :: swoon :: ---
**Author:** ![Bippy\_the\_Beardless](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ac8455/32.png) [@Bippy\_the\_Beardless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bippy_the_Beardless)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2004, 7:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kate-bush-fans-the-goddess-herself-says-new-album-due-next-year/279069/24 "2004-12-22T19:15:50Z")
I heard a tale of a possibly apocryphal ant-tribute band called Life in Kate’s Bush, has anyone else heard of this band, and if they were funny or just anti-Kate Bush? ---
**Author:** ![PookahMacPhellimey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pookahmacphellimey/32/3175_2.png) [@PookahMacPhellimey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PookahMacPhellimey)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2004, 10:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kate-bush-fans-the-goddess-herself-says-new-album-due-next-year/279069/25 "2004-12-23T10:34:10Z")
> [@scott evil](#): > > A bit of trivia: hidden in the artwork or picture on every album cover is a “KT”. Both letters share the vertical stroke. You can find the answers to where they’re hidden on a few websites. Thanks for the explanation. I _think_ I know where the one \*The Kick Inside \* is without even looking now that you’ve mentioned it. Will have some fun hunting in my record collection tonight. KuTe. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![amphibian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8797f3/32.png) [@amphibian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/amphibian)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2004, 1:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kate-bush-fans-the-goddess-herself-says-new-album-due-next-year/279069/26 "2004-12-23T13:22:31Z")
I’ve just got into her. An oppurtunity to see her live? 😃 ---
**Author:** ![scott\_evil](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/91b2a8/32.png) [@scott\_evil](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scott_evil)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2004, 6:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kate-bush-fans-the-goddess-herself-says-new-album-due-next-year/279069/27 "2004-12-24T18:24:59Z")
> [@PookahMacPhellimey](#): > > Thanks for the explanation. I _think_ I know where the one \*The Kick Inside \* is without even looking now that you’ve mentioned it. Will have some fun hunting in my record collection tonight. KuTe. 😃 Go [here](http://gaffa.org/faq/faq_4_10.html) for an simply -yet annoyingly - encrypted listing of where all of the KTs are found. ---
**Author:** ![scott\_evil](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/91b2a8/32.png) [@scott\_evil](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scott_evil)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2004, 6:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kate-bush-fans-the-goddess-herself-says-new-album-due-next-year/279069/28 "2004-12-24T18:31:34Z")
> [@amphibian](#): > > I’ve just got into her. An oppurtunity to see her live? 😃 She will never formally tour again. Ever. Especially now that she has a son to raise. The most you can expect is perhaps an appearance on Top of the Pops, or performing a couple of songs at charity concerts such as the Secret Policemen’s Ball or the Prince’s Trust. (It would be unbelievably great if she did SNL again, though. The one and only time was in 1978.) > [@Equipoise](#): > > Kate isn’t afraid to fly, it hurts her inner ear. That’s why she used to fly the much faster Concorde whenever she came to North America to promote albums. Since the Concorde is no more, she’ll either come by boat or more likely, because I’m a pessimist, not at all. (I have the same ear problem when flying.) I can see her biting the bullet and making the trip across the ocean to do promotion in NYC and perhaps Toronto. The last time she did, the lineups were insane. EMI is pretty “hands-off” with her and lets her do what she wants (otherwise they wouldn’t put up with a gap of almost 12 years between albums), but I doubt Sony Music - who own her catalog in the U.S. - are as forgiving. ---
**Author:** ![scott\_evil](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/91b2a8/32.png) [@scott\_evil](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scott_evil)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2004, 6:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kate-bush-fans-the-goddess-herself-says-new-album-due-next-year/279069/29 "2004-12-24T18:45:00Z")
> [@scott evil](#): > > Go [here](http://gaffa.org/faq/faq_4_10.html) for an simply -yet annoyingly - encrypted listing of where all of the KTs are found. Putting the code thingy in a monospace font makes it a lot easier. For _Never For Ever_: ```auto a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z n o p q r s t u v w x y z a b c d e f g h i j k l m Lbh arrq n tngrsbyq ivaly irefvba (HX) be n HF ivaly irefvba jvgu gur ylevpf You need a gatefold vinyl version (UK) or a US vinyl version with the lyrics cevagrq ba gur vaare cncre fyrrir. Gurer'f n cnvagrq ebfr. Ybbx ng vgf fgrz. printed on the inner paper sleeve. There's a painted rose. Look at its stem. ``` ---
**Author:** ![Equipoise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/equipoise/32/151_2.png) [@Equipoise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Equipoise)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2005, 3:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kate-bush-fans-the-goddess-herself-says-new-album-due-next-year/279069/30 "2005-03-23T15:34:05Z")
> [@scott evil](#): > > Go [here](http://gaffa.org/faq/faq_4_10.html) for an simply -yet annoyingly - encrypted listing of where all of the KTs are found. It’s funny, I was doing a search for [Happy Rhodes](http://www.wretchawry.com/happy/samples/index.html) and came back across this thread. At that page each album title links to another page with clear text answers. On that clear text page, the album titles link to **photos** of where the KT symbols are. Just in case anyone gets stuck. The encryption was a holdover from the early days of the FAQ (which I didn’t put together) before the web existed. I did most of the (woefully out-of-date, but readable by every platform out there) html and and 98% of the graphics for Gaffaweb back in 1996. Btw, I haven’t been involved for years, so don’t look to me that the FAQ itself is out-of-date too. (And no fair making fun of my simple html and cutesy graphics. It worked back then.) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kate-bush-fans-the-goddess-herself-says-new-album-due-next-year/279069.md?page=1)