Exclusive: Bush's Gavin Rossdale performs for Kerrang! Radio's Lockdown Sessions
He kicks off with 'Everything Zen' and 'Swallowed'
As part of Kerrang! Radio’s Lockdown Sessions series, Bush frontman Gavin Rossdale has recorded five very special exclusive live performances for us.
Each day this week at 11am, we’ll be premiering a Bush track that Gavin Rossdale laid down for Kerrang! Radio from his home while in isolation during the ongoing coronavirus pandemic.
To kick things off, Gavin has started where Bush’s career began just over a quarter-of-a-century ago with a powerful rendition of the band’s debut single ‘Everything Zen’.
Originally released in January 1995, towering grunge rock anthem ‘Everything Zen’ served as the first single and opening track on Bush’s debut studio album ‘Sixteen Stone’, which has sold more than six million copies in the US alone.
Gavin says at the start of the video: “Hey guys, Gavin from Bush. Hope you’re staying safe at home. The craziest time, right? Just out of control. Weird. Hope everyone is doing the right thing. Staying safe, staying inside. We’ll all come through this together."
Reflecting upon ‘Everything Zen’, Gavin adds: “This is the first Bush song that came out. This is the one that kick-started out career and it feels fun to play it now, although I’m just on my own so it’s a different kind of version of it…”
Watch Gavin Rossdale perform Bush’s ‘Everything Zen’:
Gavin Rossdale performs 'Swallowed' for Kerrang! Radio:
The second track Gavin Rossdale has recorded for us is ‘Swallowed’. Bush were already household names Stateside in the mid-nineties following the rip-roaring success of ‘Sixteen Stone’, however it was ‘Swallowed’ that finally propelled Bush into the Top 10 in their native Britain in March 1997.
Gavin Rossdale covers Cyndi Lauper’s ‘Time After Time’
The third video Gavin Rossdale has recorded for us is a cover of Cyndi Lauper’s 1983 pop anthem ‘Time After Time’. Gavin says of the cover: “In these times of crisis, music is everything – it’s kind of everything most of the time - and this one particular song I want to play for you has just got so much comfort built into it and how it sounds is in everyone’s DNA.”
Gavin Rossdale performs Bush’s ‘Nurse’
The fourth track Gavin Rossdale has recorded for us is 2017 track ‘Nurse’, which is lifted from Bush’s 2017 album ‘Black and White Rainbows’
The fifth and final track Gavin Rossdale has kindly recorded for Kerrang! Radio’s Lockdown Sessions is one of Bush’s defining anthems, ‘Glycerine’. What an epic way to bring the week to a close!
Make sure you come back to theKerrang! Radio websiteeach day this week at 11am for a new exclusive video from Gavin Rossdale.
Gavin is also on the Kerrang! Radio Hijack this week, which airs on Wednesday 13th May at 9pm and is repeated on Sunday 17th May at 9pm.
Listen to Kerrang! Radio
You can listen to our interview with Gavin Rossdale as part of Kerrang! Radio: The Lockdown Interviews here.
Bush release their eighth studio album ‘The Kingdom’ on Friday 17th July 2020. The 12-track album boasts the Kerrang! Radio playlisted single ‘Flowers on a Grave’.
Kerrang! Radio’s Lockdown Sessions series kicked off on Easter Saturday (11th April) when we broadcast live performances from a number of artists on air.
You can watch performances by Frank Turner, Jamie Lenman and Theory of a Deadman’s Tyler Connolly on Kerrang! Radio’s YouTube channel.