Inside Kate Bush's Never For Ever

Kate Bush’s Never for Ever album didn’t just mark her ascendancy, it broadcasted her metamorphosis into a true auteur of pop maximalism. In this freewheeling conversation at the CAT Club, guitarist Brian Bath and factotum-roadie-soundman Andrew Bryant, veterans of Bush’s inner sanctum, unpack the making of the album with pub-banter warmth and the kind of firsthand fuzziness that can only come from living it. They revisit smoky barn rehearsals, Abbey Road sessions, and the alchemy of a group and an artist caught between bar-band exuberance and studio-bred innovation. You can feel the last gasp of the earthy KT Bush Band era before synths, drum machines, and a lonelier sort of perfectionism set in.