Interview with Gavin Rossdale of Bush
We had the pleasure of interviewing Gavin Rossdale of Bush over Zoom video!
\u201cNothing is better than doing what you love,\u201d says Gavin Rossdale, and the Bush frontman knows from experience. For near three decades, the musician has been a perennial presence in the annals of rock music \u2014 an intellectual and emotional, albeit occasionally misunderstood creative, forever with a hard-charging rock n\u2019 roll heart.
Now, with The Kingdom, Rossdale and his band enter a new phase of life, and the singer comes armed not only with a ferocious new album, but also a sense that he\u2019s on his life\u2019s correct course.
Music has always been a release for Rossdale, and now as he reflects on a career that\u2019s seen Bush sell close to 20 million records in the U.S. and Canada alone \u2014 as well as compiling an amazing string of 23 consecutive Top 40 hit singles on the Modern Rock and Mainstream Rock charts, six of which shot to No. 1 \u2014 he says that passion remains the same.
That\u2019s exactly what Rossdale is doing on The Kingdom. The album features some of the most potent songwriting of Rossdale\u2019s career, highlighted by the pummeling \u201cFlowers on a Grave,\u201d as well as the noise hurricane \u201cWe Are Quicksand\u201d which finds him showcasing a vulnerability like rarely before.
In many ways, with Bush\u2019s new album, Rossdale is creating the type of music \u2013 and the world \u2013 he hopes to see. As he explains, The Kingdom is a utopic ideal \u2013 a reaction to a world full of \u201cjudgement and self-righteousness and mob mentality and where everyone knows better than everyone else.\u201d \u201cThe Kingdom was this place that I imagined where likeminded people could go and be free and artists and musicians and painters and people could think for themselves and don\u2019t hold any judgement over anyone else,\u201d Rossdale offers.
Rossdale has been around the music business long enough to know it\u2019s about steady growth and sustained creativity. Many years back, not long after the band came roaring out the gate with towering back-to-back smash albums, 1994\u2019s epic six-times platinum debut, Sixteen Stone and 1996\u2019s triple-platinum Razorblade Suitcase, \u201cI took away all the expectation and pressure from my career,\u201d Rossdale explains. To him, ever since, it\u2019s never been about \u201cfitting a sound or fitting a moment. I just don\u2019t feel any of that. Maybe in the past,\u201d he concedes. \u201cBut I feel like we\u2019ve always had to work for what we have. We don\u2019t take anything for granted. We\u2019ve never had any kind of particular free ride. That\u2019s a healthy thing.\u201d
With The Kingdom on the horizon, yet another chapter in a multi-decade career is set to unfold. And Rossdale is feeling undeniably gratified. \u201cI have an incredible life and I have scaled huge walls of music and done so many amazing things,\u201d he notes proudly. The best part for Rossdale? \u201cI\u2019m still right in the middle of it.\u201d
The Kingdom is available now!
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