interviews

Kate at Capital Radio

Played 'Jig of life'

Q: Congratulations, on the best L.P. this year, 'Hounds of love'

KB: Well, thank you very much, that's a big compliment.

Q: It's excellent. What's the concept behind it?

KB: It's two separate pieces forming the A and the B-Side, the A-Side is five individual songs perhaps linked by the them of love but very much individual songs and the second side is a concept where the seven songs are linked together and it is very much one story about someone who is in the water for the night and how they manage to cope with the situation until morning.

Played 'Hounds of love'

Q: You called the second side 'The Ninth Wave' and you quote Tennyson, why?

KB: Well, rather than it being inspired by Tennyson as a lot of people have presumed it was completely the other way round in that I was looking for a title for the piece and there was no line from the songs, there was no title that was really right for the whole side, so I started looking through books for quotes etc, and just found this quote about the 'Ninth Wave' that seemed so parallel with the idea of waves moving in cycles of nine, so that it all builds up to the ninth and then it begins again.

Q: You are considering making a film about it, could you tell us about that?

KB: It's what I would like to do next as the major project if I could, and it is really just talk at the moment and I won't know, I suppose, until next year, if that is going to be a feasible thing or not. To make a film and that would be the soundtrack of the film, to make it a little longer and to actually visualise the ideas that were there when the concept was being originally written, ideas that perhaps are to obscure for people to see in the lyrics if you like.

Q: Do you find that a lot of people don't quite understand your work, maybe think it's a little bit mystical?

KB: I think there is a lot of people who don't understand necessarily what I'd originally conceived as the idea, but I don't know if that is very important. I think that if people feel they understand it on any level then I've achieved something in that and that's great.

Played 'Running up that hill'

Q: Can you explain a couple of the songs, first of all 'Running up that hill', what's that about?

KB: It's about two people who are very in love, and it's about the powers of love and how that can get in the way sometimes, and that if they could they would swap places with, the man could become the woman, and the woman the man, that perhaps in areas they would understand each other better and there would be less problems between them.

Q: The other song I would like to know about is 'Cloudbusting'

KB: Yes, that was very much inspired by a book by a man called Peter Reich, and the book is called 'The book of dreams', and it is about a magical relationship between himself, when he was a child, and his father, and it is all written through a young boy's point of view and it is so innocent and sad, and it was just the inspiration for the song.

Q: An excellent video as well to go with the song. How long did it take you to make?

KB: It took eight weeks in all, with about five days shooting.

Q: Where did you actually shoot it?

KB: In Oxfordshire.

Played 'Cloudbusting'

Q: Now what about doing some live dates, I know a lot of people would love to see you again?

KB: Well, I really would like to and I have been saying this for so long, and it is just a matter of when it is the right time. Obviously, if I can go ahead with the 'Ninth Wave' as the next project, then I don't think there would be time for a tour, but if that is not feasible, then who knows, there's a possibility.

Q: Thank you very much for coming to see us, and all the best with things.

KB: Thank you.