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Now it's time to slow it down a little for all you lovers out there. We have another beautiful Kate Bush song discussion coming right to your ears, and this time, we're talking about track #2 from The Red Shoes: And So Is Love.   Listen as Cecilee chats with long-time Kate fan Emery Bonannella, who cites this song as one of her favorite Kate Bush songs. We talk about the history of the song, our own history with it and discovering Kate at a young age, and so much more! This was recorded in June 2022, so there's also talk about our excitement at new Kate Bush fans finding her music through Stranger Things! Videos mentioned: Kate Bush on Top of the Pops, performing And So Is Love, 1994 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Are you ready to bounce back to life like a rubberband? We hope so! Because ready or not, here's the newest episode of Strange Phenomena! This week, we're starting the new season with the first song from The Red Shoes album, the bouncy (appropriately so!) Rubberband Girl! Released as a single in September 1993, Rubberband Girl was the first of five singles from The Red Shoes. It was a top 20 hit in the UK and was even released as a single in the United States! Cecilee is joined by fellow Kate fan James diBenedetto, who has been a Kate fan since the 90s and counts this song as one of his favorite Kate songs! We'll talk about the history of this song, from its release as a single, to the Directors' Cut version, to what Kate herself as said about this song! Don't forget to follow the show on all the socials: Twitter Facebook Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Welcome to a very special episode of the show this week! Get ready to pop some popcorn and plug in your VCRs, because this week, we're watching the 1993 musical short film, The Line, The Cross, and the Curve, directed by Kate Bush herself! Cecilee is joined by friend of the show Zoey to watch this movie and give commentary and history on this film. Kate Bush may not think this movie is great, but we enjoy it, and we think you will too! This episode is meant to be a commentary track! So fire up whichever medium you have this film on (whether it's your own VHS copy or DailyMotion or YouTube), wait for our cue, then press play on the movie, sit back and enjoy the show!   To watch online: DailyMotion YouTube   Don't forget to follow the show on all the socials: Twitter Facebook Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

See those trees bend in the wind..... It's another episode of Strange Phenomena coming right to you! A podcast bouncing back to life!   This week we're starting a NEW SEASON of the show. We've made it through six albums so far, and now here's album #7: The Red Shoes! Listen as Zoey and Cecilee kick off the season by talking about the basics of the album, the story behind it, our favorite songs, and also about The Line, The Cross and the Curve, the Kate Bush-directed film released after The Red Shoes.   So come put on your red shoes and dance along to our commentary! You won't want to miss this!   Here's where you can follow the show and even contribute to future episodes! Facebook Twitter Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Well what a week it has been! Our lovely Kate is now sitting at #1 on Spotify, she has scored her first top 10 hit in the US, she's reentered the UK charts..... And it's all because of a Netflix show! This week, we're adding on to the story of Running Up That Hill, which you may remember I recorded back in 2019 here! Well, now there's more to the story! The show Stranger Things used Running Up That Hill in the current season as a favorite song for one of the main characters, Max. In the fourth episode, the song is further used as a device to save Max's life. Because of this emotional scene, Running Up That Hill has been introduced to millions of new fans, especially younger fans. We're going to talk about how this song came to be used in Stranger Things, what Kate thinks of the show (she's a fan!), and our own thoughts on the exploding popularity of this song. You can find that pivotal scene here on YouTube. If you love the show, come support us on Patreon! You can also follow on Twitter and Facebook! Also come join other Kate fans on the Kate Bush subreddit and Discord server! This show is a proud member of the Pantheon Podcast Network, the podcast network for music lovers! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

And now we come to the final collaboration and the final episode for the Sensual World season. Roy Harper is a critically acclaimed English singer/songwriter who has been around since the 60s and whose music has been a bit part of Kate's life. We've talked about him before on the podcast when Kate covered his song Another Day in the Lionheart season, and when Kate sang on Roy's original song You (The Game Part II) in the Never For Ever season. Now we get to talk about a third time when his name comes up in her musical history! The song Once is the title track for Roy's 1990 album and it's a song that our lovely Kate sang harmonies and background vocals on. Listen as we talk about this slow grower of a song and also about Kate Bush championing lesser-known artists! If you love the show, come support us on Patreon! You can also follow on Twitter and Facebook! Also come join other Kate fans on the Kate Bush subreddit and Discord server! This show is a proud member of the Pantheon Podcast Network, the podcast network for music lovers! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Now on to collaboration #2 for the Sensual World era! What does the frontman for an 80s synth rock band and Kate Bush have in common? Why, this song! Midge Ure is best known as the frontman for the band Ultravox, who were known for huge 80s hits like Vienna (voted in the UK the best #2 hit of all time and for good reason!), Dancing With Tears In My Eyes, and Reap the Wild Wind (their only US chart entry). In 1985, he went solo with an album called The Gift. His follow-up album, Answers to Nothing, was released in 1987 and features our lovely Kate on his song Sister and Brother. So listen as we explore this album track and the story of how Midge Ure and Kate Bush got involved for this song! If you love the show, come support us on Patreon! You can also follow on Twitter and Facebook! Also come join other Kate fans on the Kate Bush subreddit and Discord server! This show is a proud member of the Pantheon Podcast Network, the podcast network for music lovers! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Now we're on to the last three episodes of the Sensual World season, and we're starting this part with three collaborations that our lovely Kate took part in! The first is a song she recorded in the background for the pop group Go West. Stylistically very different from the upbeat pop that the group was known for, The King is Dead benefits from a jazzy style and of course, our lovely Kate in the background! If you love the show, come support us on Patreon! You can also follow on Twitter and Facebook! Also come join other Kate fans on the Kate Bush subreddit and Discord server! This show is a proud member of the Pantheon Podcast Network, the podcast network for music lovers! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

It won't be such a long long time before the next episode of Strange Phenomena: it's here now! This week, we're talking about a cover song (yes! a cover song) by our lovely Kate, of one of her musical heroes: Elton John. Recorded for a compilation album in 1991, Rocket Man was also a charting UK and European hit. And for our discussion of the song this week, we have frequent guest Diego Ortega, to talk about our thoughts on Kate's cover version and also what the song is about underneath that cheery arrangement! If you love the show, come support us on Patreon! You can also follow on Twitter and Facebook! Also come join other Kate fans on the Kate Bush subreddit and Discord server! This show is a proud member of the Pantheon Podcast Network, the podcast network for music lovers! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Do you think you'll have a minute for a beautiful Kate Bush instrumental? We hope so! This week's episode is about a short instrumental called One Last Look Around the House Before We Go, a b-side from the single Love and Anger and also a track used in the TV movie GLC: The Carnage Continues. Listen as we talk about Kate Bush's instrumental skills, the way she can evoke emotion with simplicity, and our own personal thoughts on the song! If you love the show, come support us on Patreon! You can also follow on Twitter and Facebook! This show is a proud member of the Pantheon Podcast Network, the podcast network for music lovers! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

What a way to start off the new year 2022: with a new episode of Strange Phenomena! We're back from our holiday break to finish out the Sensual World era of Kate's music. This week, it's just Cecilee as she talks about the instrumental track The Confrontation, a b-side from the Love and Anger single and a song written specifically for a movie. In this case, like with Ken, written for the Comic Strip movie GLC: The Carnage Continues. So join us as we talk about this instrumental, one of the few that Kate Bush has ever released, and its context in the Comic Strip movie! You can watch the entire episode of GLC: The Carnage Continues here on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RxVBL8cgKIw Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Who's the funky sex machine? Who's the man we all need? KEN!!!!! This week, we're talking about a b-side from Kate Bush's Sensual World era, a song used in a TV movie called GLC: The Carnage Continues, and a song that our host didn't quite like the first time she heard it, but which she now appreciates, especially after talking with our transatlantic guest! Alex Dale is on the show to talk about this song and explain the British references and just what that TV movie really is about. We also talk about how this song shows off Kate's seldom-seen silly side and her send-up of loud theme songs for 80s action movies. Music from our host! When Cecilee isn't talking about Kate Bush, she plays piano and sings her own songs, like our Kate. And she has collected eleven originals and released them on a new album! Never Enough Flowers is available on Spotify, iTunes and wherever you get your music! To listen, click here! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

No need to wait any longer for this week's episode: it's now here!! This week we're talking (or rather, just Cecilee!) is talking about a favorite b-side of hers from the Sensual World era, I'm Still Waiting. This nugget of a song was released in several different places over the years (This Woman's Work single! Box sets! American-only EPs!) but not even Kate seems to have talked about this song! So we're talking about it this week! Cecilee talks about why this is one of her favorites from the Sensual World era, the music production and structure (of course!), and what the lyrics mean to her. If you love the show, come support us on Patreon! You can also follow on Twitter and Facebook! This show is a proud member of the Pantheon Podcast Network, the podcast network for music lovers! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

And now it's time for the b-sides, collaborations, and other era songs for The Sensual World era of Kate's music. This week, we're talking about a song that's both a b-side AND an album track. Or at least, a bonus track, if you bought the cassette or the CD. And that is a song that Kate recorded in about 24 hours (!!) and was the last song recorded for the album: Walk Straight Down The Middle. We have a frequent guest for this show, young Kate fan Diego Ortega, to talk about this song, which he cites as one of his favorites! We talk about what this song means to us. What does the title mean? And how about that rather skeletal and spooky production? Is this Kate's take on synth pop? And how about those BRAAAAAHHHH sounds at the end? It's all here in this week's episode! If you love the show, come support us on Patreon! You can also follow on Twitter and Facebook! This show is a proud member of the Pantheon Podcast Network, the podcast network for music lovers! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Now that we're back down to earth after the previous song... it's time to sit with our feelings for a bit, for the epic, emotional album closer This Woman's Work. Paul Tate, a fellow American Kate fan, is on this week to talk about one of his favorite songs. Whenever Paul is on, we always nerd out about the musicality of Kate's songs and what makes them so uniquely her. This song is no exception! We also talk about the inspiration for this song and its use in the movie it was written for, the 1988 movie She's Having a Baby, as well as the myriad of cover versions both known and lesser-known that have been released over the years. If you love the show, come support us on Patreon! This show is a proud member of the Pantheon Podcast Network, the podcast network for music lovers! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Get ready to shoot off into the sky on a chilly November night, with track number 9 from The Sensual World, Rocket's Tail! And to join us on the show is friend of (and also outside of!) the show, Zoey, who cites this song as one of her underrated favorites from Kate's catalog! In this episode, we talk about the dialogue (yes, this is a dialogue song!) between the characters in the song, we speculate about WHO exactly is shooting off into the night, and we talk about, of course, the lovely Trio Bulgarka's contributions to the song and how there is NOTHING else like this in Kate's endless array of songs. A song that begins a cappella, then explodes into an 80s rock song? Not something you'll find everyday! Only with the lovely Kate Bush! Interview Clip Played In This Episode: Kate Bush and the Trio Bulgarka: Rhythms of the World, 11 March 1989 If you love the show, come support us on Patreon! This show is a proud member of the Pantheon Podcast Network, the podcast network for music lovers! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Even if the thrill and the hurting will never be yours, this episode can be! This week, we're talking about the lovely, yearning Never Be Mine, with long-time Kate fan Craig Houston from Ohio. And we have another top 10 favorite form our host in this week's song! For this episode, Craig and Cecilee talk about the imagery-laden lyrics and how they touch each of them, as well as the music (of course) and the chord structure of the song as well (of course!), and how the chord structure give the song its unique feel! If you're enjoying the show and would like to further support the show, you can check out our Patreon page! This show is part of Pantheon Podcasts. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Welcome to another episode of the show this week! This week, it's just Cecilee and we're going into the seventh song on The Sensual World, called Between a Man and a Woman! Listen as we talk about the movie reference that led to this song's genesis (hint: family saga) and talk about the lyrics and, of course, the musical structure! If you're familiar with the song, you know the structure is pretty free-flowing, more than most Kate songs up to this point, so Cecilee goes into the chords and how the structure works with the song's subject! Cover Version Played: John and Sara - Between a Man and a Woman If you're enjoying the show and would like to further support the show, you can check out our Patreon page! This episode was recorded on the AKG Lyra USB microphone and headphones! Thank you, AKG, for being a proud sponsor of the Pantheon Podcast network! This show is part of Pantheon Podcasts. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Happy New Year 2021 (even if it's a month late!) Time to flip over the record and begin side two of The Sensual World. This week, we get to talk about one of Kate's most thought-provoking tracks, especially when listening to it in 2021 as a worldwide pandemic rages on: Deeper Understanding, the sixth song from The Sensual World. And also the first audible appearance of the lovely Trio Bulgarka! We're calling over to Austria this week for a chat with Paul, a Patreon supporter and fellow Kate Bush fan who puts this song as one of their favorites in Kate's canon. Much is discussed this week about this week's theme, as to be expected for a song about mankind's obsession with technology. After all, you're probably listening to this on a portable device like something out of a sci-fi novel! Cover song played on this episode: Daniel de Jesus - Deeper Understanding If you're enjoying the show and would like to further support the show, you can check out our Patreon page! This show is part of Pantheon Podcasts. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Merry Christmas to all you loyal listeners of the Strange Phenomena podcast!! We have here a VERY special episode: a discussion AND commentary for the Kate Bush Christmas Special, first broadcast in December 1979. Never released officially on DVD (or even video for that matter), but now it can be widely seen on YouTube these days! And thank goodness for that! A few weeks ago, Zoey and Cecilee got together over Zoom (seeing each other for the first time!) to talk about and watch this timeless and definitely unforgettable special together, AND record our commentary so you can listen while you watch! 2020 has been a weird year overall. So let's end on a theatrical note with our lovely Kate Bush, shall we? Click here to watch the whole special with us! If you're enjoying the show and would like to further support the show, you can check out our Patreon page! This show is part of Pantheon Podcasts, the podcast network for music lovers! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices