Since reading Cloud Atlas, I’ve been a big fan of David Mitchell, and this evening our book circle will be having a chat about his latest novel:, the spooky Slade House.

So I was interested to read a short interview with him in the latest Mojo about his enthusíasm about the music of Kate Bush. He wrote about this in The Guardian a few years back (see comments) and she rung him up to thank him. “The call made the room wobble a bit”:

And then a few years later, she got in touch for some help with writing some scenes for her stage show.

I’d be intrigued to hear what else he has in his record collection.

It’s not the first piece of bridge building between the worlds of fiction and popular music. Ian Rankin and Jackie Leven springs to mind.

Anyone else got any other examples of artists from two different fields involved in a collaboration?