Kate Bush recorded her own farts and played them on some of her hit songs
CHEEKY pop legend Kate Bush not only smashes records with her music — she’s also broken wind.
Fellow musicians have revealed the mischievous Cloudbusting singer, 65, has turned her own farts into tunes, with her surprise releases possibly fuelled by home-made curries.
Irish folk musician Donal Lunny, who had a gas playing on many of her songs, claimed the Brit megastar recorded the sound of her blow-offs with a Fairlight synthesiser.
He said of Kate: “She was a funny, mischievous woman. Somebody told me she sampled a fart on the Fairlight and would happily play tunes on it.”
Kate first topped the charts at 19 singing about “windy moors” on Wuthering Heights in 1978.
The boundary-pushing star soon had a studio built next to the family home, so she could fully relax while producing her own “personal” sounds.
And saxophonist Nigel Hitchcock, who played his wind instruments on her 1993 album The Red Shoes, said he was blown away by her hospitality.
He told Uncut magazine: “The first time I arrived at Kate’s house with my saxes, she opened the door, took them both from me, and said, ‘I’ll be back in a minute, I’m making a curry.’ She was feeding everybody as well.”
Kate became the oldest female artist to reach No1 when Running Up That Hill finally topped the chart in 2022 — 37 years on from its original release — after it was used on the soundtrack of Netflix series Stranger Things.
Hinting at her quirky music-making in 2016, she revealed she loved to “experiment” in the studio.
She said: “What mattered to me was that I was able to make the whole experience a much more personal expression and to be able to experiment on my own terms.
“It allowed me to use the production to express the actual songwriting in a way that I wanted.”
Kate is due to be inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in New York in November.