I am pleased to see that Kate Bush is alive and well. Recently, at Britain’s Q Music awards, she received a standing ovation when she went up to accept the award for Classic Songwriter. Even John Lydon (aka Johnny Rotten, from the Sex Pistols) blessed her after he was done sneering at the crowd.

Roger Shoesmith has some footage from the awards show (some of which is pretty dodgy, but at least it works) and scans from the Q Magazine interview (“The Big Sleep” — her first interview since 1994) at shoesmith.net.

As for keeping track of Kate, no site does it better than HomeGround’s Kate Bush News.

If you haven’t listened to Kate Bush, get off your butt and go listen to Hounds of Love now. I dare you not to fall in love with the entire second half of that album.