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Kate Bush – Under The Ivy

Despite my slight obsession with her, I don’t consider myself a Kate Bush completist: there’s quite a lot of her catalogue – and in one case, an entire album – that I can happily live without. However I’m still surprised that I’m hearing Under The Ivy for the first time today; or at least, it’s the first time I’ve properly paid attention to it.

Aficionados have long celebrated this as one of her hidden gems, tucked away as the B-Side for the vastly more celebrated Running Up That Hill (A Deal With God) and previously unavailable on streaming services until the release of her Best Of The Other Sides compilation. It is, quite simply, one of her very best; a spiritual companion to The Man With The Child In His Eyes, and has already reduced me to tears, twice.

https://music.katebush.com/buy/best-of-the-other-sides/

1000 Artists – Is This What We Want?

Over 1,000 artists – Kate Bush, Damon Albarn, Annie Lennox, and more – have released a (largely) silent album, Is This What We Want?, as a protest against UK government plans that could let AI companies use copyrighted music without permission. The album, made up of recordings of unused studios, is a statement on what happens when artists’ voices are taken away.

The musicians credited as co-writers include Tori Amos, Billy Ocean, the Clash and the Oscar-winning composer Hans Zimmer, and profits from the album will be donated to the musicians’ charity Help Musicians. According to the Guardian, Kate Bush recorded one of the dozen tracks in her studio. I’m choosing to believe this is true, and reckon it’s probably the track To as you can hear lots of bird in the background, which would be very Kate.

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/feb/25/kate-bush-damon-albarn-1000-artists-silent-ai-protest-album-copyright