Kate Bush reveals plans to make new music

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Kate Bush has said she has “lots of ideas” she wants to pursue now she is ready to create new material.The ‘Hounds of Love’ musician has famously shied away from the spotlight, but recently appeared in a rare interview on BBC Radio 4’s Today programme ahead of the release of Little Shrew, a new short film she wrote and directed.Set to her 2011 track ‘Snowflake’ – taken from her last full length release ‘50 Words for Snow’ – the black-and-white animation aims to raise money for the charity War Child.

Out today on Bush’s website, it is free to watch, but encourages viewers to support organisations helping children affected by conflict.“I started working on it [with illustrator Jim Kay] a couple of years ago, it was not long after the Ukrainian war broke out, and I think it was such a shock for all of us,” Bush said.“It’s been such a long period of peace we’d all been living through.

And I just felt I wanted to make a little animation that would feature, originally, a little girl. It was really the idea of children caught up in war.

I wanted to draw attention to how horrific it is for children.She continued to say war was “horrific for everyone”, but for it was “unimaginable” how frightening it must be for children. “I think we’ve all been through very difficult times.