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Bush is back in a big way

Milwaukee show photos and review by John Schulze

The Rave Ballroom was comfortably full for the Bush concert last night, and Milwaukee welcomed the band with open arms.

Supporting their new CD, “The Sea Of Memories,” and their new single, “The Sound of Winter,” Bush performed for an hour and a half, mixing in a handful of new songs with all their biggest hits.

Lead singer and guitarist Gavin Rossdale set the tone early on for a high energy show, and worked the stage side to side, often making a point to recognize the fans in the balcony by turning and singing directly towards them. Rossdale jumped off the stage and got up and personal with the crowd a few times during the show, whipping them into a controlled frenzy.

While it’s been eight or nine years since the band was a prominent figure in the music scene, they’re making a point to proclaim that they’re back, and in a big way. Last night was far from a greatest hits tour, or a band paying homage to what they were long ago. Rossdale looked and sounded every bit on top of his game and clearly in control of his band.

Bush weaved the majority of their new songs into the middle section of the setlist, a wise choice for a band trying to win back the hearts of old fans while trying to adopt new ones. The audience was treated early in the show to classic Bush songs like “The Chemicals Between Us” and “Everything Zen” before the band ventured into new territory with songs such as “The Sound of Winter,” “All My Life” and “The Heart of the Matter.”

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October 16, 2011 1 Comment

BUSH: Gavin Rossdale YRBMagazine Interview

A cool interview and some new photos with Gavin Rossdale, check them out here

It may be a new lineup, but after a decade Bush is definitely back to reclaim its rock titan status, and at the front of it all still stands Gavin Rossdale – from the beginning to the end.

by Nancy Dunham Photography by Lionel Deluy Styling by Darius Baptist

Grooming by Melissa Walsh @BeautyandPhoto using Dermalogica

Location courtesy of De La Barracuda Boxing Club

Band photo by Joseph Llanes Retouching by www.pixretouch.com

If the song “Swallowed” was released under the name Gavin Rossdale instead of Bush, would it have been a hit?

That’s surely something Rossdale, the songwriter and Bush front man, has pondered during the eight years since the band parted ways. In that time, Rossdale kept writing and recording, forming the band Institute in 2004 and then recording a solo project in 2008. Now that he and Bush are back touring behind their first album in 10 years, The Sea of Memories, it’s given him a chance to reflect.

“I listened to my [former] label (Interscope) and [founder] Jimmy Iovine and to their opinion about what I should be doing,” said Rossdale from the Los Angeles home he shares with his wife, musician Gwen Stefani, and their two young sons. “I suddenly realized the weak link was my name. Does Robert Smith [of The Cure] – one of my heroes – [release albums under his own name]? Does Mark E. Smith of The Fall, another one of my heroes do that? No, they record as The Cure and The Fall.”

It’s not like Rossdale was re-starting the band from scratch. He’d not only remained in contact with his former band mates but had a host of new songs to offer. The new music came together when he returned from a solo tour and felt “so inspired, so in love with music” that he literally went into the studio the next day and began to write. When he realized Bush should rightfully record the songs, he began calling his former band mates.

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