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- From: uli@zoodle.robin.de (Ulrich Grepel)
- Newsgroups: rec.music.gaffa,rec.music.info,alt.music.ecto,rec.answers,alt.answers,news.answers
- Subject: FAQ: rec.music.gaffa - Love-Hounds - Kate Bush
- Supersedes: <kate-bush-faq-1996Mar31@zoodle.robin.de>
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- Summary: This FAQ answers questions about the newsgroup rec.music.gaffa,
- the mailing list Love-Hounds, about Kate Bush herself, about her
- music, about other Kate Bush information sources, and about
- related things. It is posted monthly.
- Keywords: rec.music.gaffa, Love-Hounds, Kate Bush, music
- Xref: senator-bedfellow.mit.edu rec.music.gaffa:31495 rec.music.info:6507 alt.music.ecto:1595 rec.answers:20404 alt.answers:17452 news.answers:70727
-
- Archive-name: music/kate-bush-faq
- Last-modified: 1996/04/29
- Version: 1.4.k
-
- This is the FAQ to rec.music.gaffa and Love-Hounds, the combined newsgroup
- and mailing list about Kate Bush. It is posted around the twenty-fifth of
- every month.
-
- Newer versions (in decreasing order) can be obtained from me
- (uli@zoodle.robin.de), from Bill Wisner (majordomo@gryphon.com, message
- contents "get love-hounds-digest FAQ"), from various newsgroups
- (rec.music.gaffa, rec.music.info, alt.music.ecto, rec.answers, alt.answers,
- news.answers) or any ftp site archiving any of these groups. If you can't
- receive more than 64KB in one piece I can split the FAQ for you.
-
- This FAQ is completely free though not public domain. I hereby declare I have
- no right at all to stop anyone from posting this text if I ever lose the
- ability or desire to post it by myself. The only thing I require is that any
- future maintainer will declare this too. If you want to quote anything from it
- outside of anything connected with Love-Hounds or rec.music.gaffa you have
- to give the source (i.e. Love-Hounds or rec.music.gaffa). This FAQ may be
- redistributed in its entirety in any form on any medium, even be sold.
-
- 0. Really Frequently Asked Questions
-
- 1. General
- 1.1. What is rec.music.gaffa?
- 1.2. What is Love-Hounds?
- 1.3. How are they connected?
- 1.4. Pictures? Soundfiles?
- 1.5. T-Shirts?
-
- 2. Important topics outside of rec.music.gaffa/Love-Hounds
- 2.1. Who is Happy Rhodes?
- 2.2. Who is Tori Amos?
- 2.3. Other mailing lists that might be of interest
- 2.4. MUSHrooms influenced by Kate
-
- 3. Love-Hounds and their behaviour...
- 3.1. Famous Love-Hounds
- 3.2. Flamewars & abbreviations
- 3.3. Spam postings
- 3.4. What is Katemas?
-
- 4. Kate Bush Info
- 4.1. Kate Bush - her career and Kate as a human being
- 4.2. Tours
- 4.3. The Convention
- 4.4. Basic Discography/Videography
- 4.5. Other Artists using Kate's Work
- 4.6. Chart success
- 4.7. Printed books
- 4.8. Fanzines
- 4.9. Electronic books
- 4.10.Where are those d*mn KT symbols on all the albums?
- 4.11.What about the inscriptions on the vinyl discs?
- 4.12.Kate Bush World Wide Web (WWW) pages
-
- 5. Questions about Kate's music
- 5.1. The Cathy Demos / The Studio Demos
- 5.2. The Kick Inside
- 5.3. Lionheart
- 5.4. Never for Ever
- 5.5. The Dreaming
- 5.6. Hounds of Love
- 5.7. The Sensual World
- 5.8. The Red Shoes
- 5.9. Miscellaneous
-
- 6. The Archives
- 6.1. Previous messages from Love-Hounds
- 6.2. Other files
- 6.3. How to do ftp?
-
- 7. Credits
-
-
-
- 0. Really Frequently Asked Questions
-
- Also known as 'Read Before Posting'. Please excuse stev0's [SB] humor...
-
- Q: What does "Gaffa" mean?
- A: Duct tape. [see also 1.1.]
-
- Q: When will Kate tour again?
- A: Never. Ever. Really. [see also 4.2.]
-
- Q: What is Kate saying at the end of "Leave it Open"?
- A: "We let the weirdness in" [see also 5.5.]
-
- Q: What is the words of that spoken word part in "Jig of Life"?
- A: You don't want to know. Trust me.
-
- Q: What is the best album in the entire history of Creation?
- A1: The Dreaming. Anyone who disagrees is an asshole.
- A2: Hounds of Love. Anyone who disagrees is an asshole.
-
- Q: Should I post binaries to rec.music.gaffa?
- A: NOOOOOO!!!!!!!! [see also 1.4.]
-
- Q: When is Kate's next album coming out?
- A: Your guess is as good as mine.
-
- Q: What are the URLs to some Kate Web pages.
- A: http://american.recordings.com/WWWoM/cgi-bin/ubl?card+1032
- [see also 4.12.]
-
- Q: Hey! The episode of "Saturday Night Live", hosted
- by Eric Idle, in which Kate was the musical guest,
- doesn't have Kate on the tape I got! Was I ripped off?
- A: Yes [see also 4.1.]
-
- Q: Which is better, the British, Japanese, or Canadian Boxed Set?
- A: You'll just have to get all of them and decide for yourself.
- [see also 4.4.]
-
- Q: Is it OK to talk about other artists on Lovehounds?
- A: Yes. It is encouraged. [see also 1.1.]
-
- Q: Even at length?
- A: Yes. Well, don't go TOO far - posting multi-megabyte discographies is
- frowned on (and yes, people have done that). Use your judgement.
- [see also 1.1.]
-
- Q: Can I even talk about Tori Amos?
- A: Yes, you can even talk about Tori Amos. [see also 2.2.]
-
- Q: What about Happy Rhodes?
- A: Er, that will be all for today... [see also 2.1.]
-
- Q: What to do about spam postings?
- A: A few things. [see also 3.3.]
-
-
-
- 1. General
-
- 1.1. What is rec.music.gaffa?
-
- On August 16, 1985 |>oug /\lan thought it was time to create a
- discussion round about Kate Bush and her absolute artistic genius. At
- first it was 'only' a mailing list, but it soon resulted in a usenet
- newsgroup. The name "Gaffa" comes from "Suspended in Gaffa", a song on
- the album "The Dreaming", and refers to gaffer's tape (that's what Kate
- says). Gaffer's tape (similar to duct tape, but not as sticky) is used
- to stop people from stumbling over cabling.
-
- The name 'r.m.gaffa' was preferred over 'r.m.katebush' to indicate that
- discussion is not limited to Kate. Sometimes this gets too much, but
- what to do in a four years gap between albums? Other artists discussed
- here include various female alternative artists as well as Kate related
- people like Peter Gabriel or Roy Harper.
-
- "Suddenly my feet are feet of mud
- It all goes slo-mo
- I don't know why I'm crying
- Am I suspended In Gaffa?"
-
- Another note about gaffa and the discussions about its meaning:
-
- AIIEEEEEEEE! Please! Not again! "It's tape!" "No it's not, you
- shallow twerp!" "But she said it's tape in an interview!" "Well, she
- lied. Kate _can_ lie, y'know..." "But why would she? C'mon, it's
- tape." "No way -- far too shallow for the goddess. Clearly, the song
- is about being mired in concepts that prevent us from reaching our
- chosen destinations." "But she said it was tape" "It's not." ("Hey
- guys, quit shouting. It could easily be _both_") "Hey! You got your
- gaffer's tape in my conceptual quagmire!" "No -- you got your
- conceptual quagmire in my gaffer's tape!" (TOGETHER) "Heyyyyyyy..."
-
- Gaffa: It's two great concepts that taste great together. [GP]
-
- 1.2. What is Love-Hounds?
-
- Love-Hounds is the mailing list version of rec.music.gaffa for those
- people who do not have usenet access. This means that anyone with the
- ability to send and receive mail can take part. |>oug /\lan, founder
- of Love-Hounds, did only later provoke the people on rec.music.misc
- to let him create rec.music.gaffa. Together, the mailing list and r.m.g.
- form an informal fan club called "Love-Hounds."
-
- To post something to both, the mailing list and the newsgroup, you best
- send an email to
-
- love-hounds@gryphon.com
-
- If you think you want to be on the safe side you might want to subscribe
- to the mailing list as well as to the newsgroup, because minor problems
- with the software might cause some messages lost on one of the sides.
- (This hasn't happened for a long while now.)
-
- To subscribe to Love-Hounds you should send a friendly mail to Bill
- Wisner, the "moderator" of the list. Send it to
-
- love-hounds-request@gryphon.com
-
- and specify whether you want bounce mail (every single message is
- forwarded to you) or 24h digests (all messages of a day are packed
- into one mail). Remember that human beings aren't working 24 hours
- on each of those 365 days a year.
-
- You can also subscribe by using other networks (America Online,
- Prodigy, etc.). You might have to find out how to reach the Internet
- using your carrier; for example, on Compuserve this works by adding
- ">INTERNET:" in front of the addresses. Most of these services now have
- direct access to the usenet newsgroups, so rec.music.gaffa should be
- available directly.
-
- Richard Caldwell, a fellow Love-Hound, gives you access via the Big Sky
- BBS, 24 hours a day at 614-864-1198 (up to 14.4k baud). Only charge
- is your phone bill for a long distance call.
-
- Another Kate-related BBS is The Electronic Cafe at
- 1-805-399-3636. A Kate-related BBS in Canada called Night Scented
- Stock, run by the former editor of the fanzine Still Breathing. It's
- unfortunately not connected to Love-Hounds, but may soon be.
- 1-604-572-4733.
-
- 1.3. How are they connected?
-
- To ensure that every message from the newsgroup rec.music.gaffa also
- finds its way into the mailing list Love-Hounds, rec.music.gaffa is
- a moderated newsgroup. This means that to post an article to r.m.g
- you have to send it as an email message to the moderator who has to
- approve the article. In r.m.g's case the 'moderator' is the receiving
- address for the list, i.e. love-hounds@gryphon.com. More intelligent
- news software does know about this and if you post an article instead
- of sending it to the moderator's address these systems act in one
- of three ways:
-
- 1. Your article is thrown away. This is the reason why a lot of new
- readers don't find their articles in the news system. If you
- experience this, you have to use the love-hounds@gryphon.com
- address by yourself.
- 2. Your article is repackaged and forwarded to the moderator. While
- doing this, the news software insists on creating a new header.
- This is responsible for most of the postings with some news system
- as the sender and without any subject. It may be the case that your
- article actually is shown correctly on your news system, especially
- if the system forwarding it to the moderator isn't yours. In this
- case you might wonder why replies or follow-ups to your articles
- don't have any subject. If you experience this, you should either
- bug your system administrator (to change the behaviour to the third
- one below) or use the email address.
- 3. Your article is directly forwarded to the moderator. This is
- perfectly ok, since then your name and subject lines survive.
-
- Be assured again that no article you write is thrown away due to its
- contents or your person. It's just the wrong way of posting it, since
- the whole process is fully automated.
-
- 1.4. Pictures? Soundfiles?
-
- Pictures of Kate can be found via ftp (see section 6) in the archives.
- And this is the place where they belong - they do not belong onto
- the list itself - especially since it is also distributed via email.
-
- If you want to submit a picture, put it onto some ftp site and announce
- this on gaffa. Thanks! If you don't have ftp write access ask for
- someone who does and send the picture to this single person.
-
- This is not because we don't want to have pictures - the opposite is
- true! But put them where they belong.
-
- The same is true for soundfiles, though they are of limited interest -
- basically only until the real thing is on the market. Before you ask,
- there is no common way to compress soundfiles. Using the best all-
- purpose techniques results at best in a 10% save, using specialised
- techniques results in a file that's not usable on all systems and in
- addition the sound quality decreases a bit.
-
- Right now there's a strict rule on love-hounds/rec.music.gaffa that we
- do not want any binaries posted to the group at all. Tell us about them,
- ask where to put them, just do not post them.
-
- 1.5. T-Shirts?
-
- There now is a second edition of The Official Lovehounds-T-Shirt. It
- features the album cover of The Dreaming, but "Suspended in
- rec.music.gaffa" above it (the Suspende In Gaffa single used the same
- picture). The back shows "love-hounds@gryphon.com" over a handwritten
- letter Kate gave to Doug Alan in New York in December '93.
-
- To Everyone at
- "Love Hounds"
- Thanks for all your support
- With Love
- Kate Bush
- xx
-
- The shirt was originally designed by Steve Berlin [SB] who offers a
- picture of the shirt on http://www.chaco.com/~stev0/lhshirt.html and who
- wrote the following lines.
-
- Intergalactic Garage (IGG) is selling them; they're both the exact same
- thing. Mary-Helen's shirts are all gone now, so IGG is the only left
- source unless someone else is willing to do a third print (which would
- need rescanning/redesigning the artwork due to a harddisk crash).
-
- The IGG price is $15.00 + $4.00 p&h (U.S. - ask them for non-U.S.
- postage), IGG takes Mastercard & Visa.
-
- IGG has the shirts in M, L, XL, and XXL.
-
- To order from IGG:
-
- INTERGALACTIC GARAGE
- POB 3047
- Shepherdstown, WV
- 25443
- (304) 876-6818
- (304) 876-9414 FAX
- best Email = igg@his.com
-
-
-
- 2. Important topics outside of rec.music.gaffa/Love-Hounds
-
- 2.1. Who is Happy Rhodes?
-
- Love-Hounds was founded with the idea of being a newsgroup about
- "Progressive Artists with emphasis on Kate Bush", so discussions
- about other "progressive artists" are generally encouraged. However,
- occasionally the talk about a different artist grows to a point where
- it is appropriate to form a separate group. This is what happened
- with Happy Rhodes (this is really her name), whose song "Feed The Fire"
- (from Warpaint) was the most requested song on WXPN, a Philadelphia
- radio station. Happy Rhodes discussion now takes place on an ever-
- growing mailing list founded by Jessica Koeppel called Ecto. If you want
- to subscribe to this list, whose broad range of discussion now includes
- many other female artists (including Kate Bush), send a request to
- the Ecto organisation via:
-
- ecto-request@ecto.org
-
- or
-
- ecto-digest-request@ecto.org
-
- with a line in the message body
-
- subscribe ecto
-
- or
-
- subscribe ecto you@a.different.address
-
- To post a message send it to
-
- ecto@ecto.org
-
- A comprehensive FAQ about Ecto can be found via ftp (see section 6
- for details on ftp) on ftp://ftp.ecto.org . The Ecto archives, a lot of
- pictures, interviews etc. can also be found there.
-
- Now there's also the usenet newsgroup alt.music.ecto, but unfortunately
- it still doesn't get wide distribution. Bug your system administrators
- to carry it! The mailing list and the newsgroup are not connected like
- Love-Hounds and rec.music.gaffa, they're separate entities.
-
- Also available is the IRC channel #ecto where at most times you can find
- some Ectophiles and #Ectophiles.
-
- If you're not in the United States (where Happy's albums should be
- available in any good record shop), here's how to get them directly:
-
- CD's (prices in US currency)
- Title Order # Price
-
- The Keep AGCD0031 13.99
- Building the Colossus AGCD0029 13.99
- RhodeSongs AGCD0021 13.99
- equipoise AGCD0019 13.99
- Warpaint AGCD0017 13.99
- Ecto AGCD0013 13.99
- Rearmament AGCD0011 13.99
- Rhodes II AGCD0008 13.99
- Rhodes I AGCD0007 13.99
-
- Postage and handling is 2.00 for the first and 0.50 for each additional
- CD. Postage to Europe is 3.50 (1 CD), 4.35 (2 CDs), 6.00 (3 CDs),
- 7.70 (4 CDs). Send cash or cheque (no credit cards) to
-
- Happy Rhodes
- c/o Aural Gratification
- P.O. Box 380
- Bearsville, NY 12409
- USA
- auralg@aol.com
-
- Please note that Happy prefers it if you buy the albums in a normal shop.
-
- 2.2. Who is Tori Amos?
-
- Another spin-off is the Tori Amos mailing list: Really-Deep-Thoughts.
- The address to subscribe to the mailing list is:
-
- rdt-request@novia.net
-
- The address to post to the mailing list is:
-
- rdt@novia.net
-
- The purpose of the list is to discuss and disseminate information about
- Tori Amos and her music, and anything else that seems relevant. Due
- to the heavy load of discussion and members after the release of Tori's
- last album, Under The Pink, Anthony was forced to make the list digest-
- only, that is there is no bounce mail. Watch out for limited editions of
- Tori's singles, since they ARE limited and the first UtP one, Cornflake
- Girl, was quite fast sold out completely.
-
- Tori now has a new album (called "Boys for Pele") out, so watch out for
- those singles again!
-
- There now also is the second Big-8 newsgroup for a female artist, called
- rec.music.tori-amos, though it's (unlike love-hounds and r.m.gaffa)
- not connected with the mailing list.
-
- Since Really-Deep-Thoughts has had a few problems in its past, there are
- now several other Tori Amos mailing lists:
-
- Torinews (originally for news only)
-
- subscribe: torinews-request@chihuly.com
- Subject: Subscribe Torinews
- post: torinews@chihuly.com
-
- Precious-Things (meant for discussion about Tori)
-
- subscribe: precious-things-request@smoe.org or
- precious-things-digest-request@smoe.org
- Body: subscribe
- post: precious-things@smoe.org
-
- Tori-Boot (flame-free discussion about bootlegs)
-
- subscribe: majordomo@world.std.com
- Body: subscribe tori-boot
- post: tori-boot@world.std.com
-
- 2.3. Other mailing lists that might be of interest
-
- Generally, mailing lists have a 'subscribe' and a 'post' address. Use
- the first address to subscribe, the second to send messages to all people
- on the list. Some mailing lists are automated, they require a specific
- format for the subscription, in most cases either a 'body' or a 'subject'
- line. Body lines are single lines in the main part of the email message,
- while subject lines are, well, subject lines. The subscription address
- is also used for UNsubscribing, those messages shouldn't go to the
- post:-addresses. 'Body:' means that the following text has to be send
- as a body line, 'Subject:' means it's the subject line. 'Your Name' means
- your real name, not your email address, 'your@address' means your email
- address. Sometimes several lines for several services are given.
- Sometimes alternate (often shorter) addresses are available too.
- If a list is maintained manually it's noted as 'Manually'. You should
- be more friendly then, and expect some reaction time (like nights,
- weekends, holidays) where noone is available.
-
- Roy Harper - Stormcock (Stormcock is the name of his "classic" album)
-
- subscribe: majordomo@bilpin.co.uk
- Body: subscribe stormcock
- contact: stormcock-request@bilpin.co.uk
- post: stormcock@bilpin.co.uk
-
- Peter Gabriel - gabriel
-
- subscribe: majordomo@ufsia.ac.be
- Body: subscribe gabriel
- Body: subscribe gabriel-digest
- post: gabriel@ufsia.ac.be
- ..
- Bjork/Sugarcubes - blue-eyed-pop
-
- subscribe: listserver@morgan.ucs.mun.ca
- Body: subscribe blue-eyed-pop Your Name
- post: blue-eyed-pop@morgan.ucs.mun.ca
-
- Sarah McLachlan - fumbling-towards-ecstasy
-
- subscribe: listserv@yoyo.cc.monash.edu.au
- Body: SUB fumbling-towards-ecstasy Your Name
- post: fumbling-towards-ecstasy@yoyo.cc.monash.edu.au
- fte@yoyo.cc.monash.edu.au
-
- Loreena McKennitt - Old Ways
-
- subscribe: old-ways-request@lists.mindspring.com
- Body: subscribe
- post: old-ways@lists.mindspring.com
-
- Jane Siberry - Siblings
-
- subscribe: siblings-request@smoe.org
- Body: subscribe siblings
- post: siblings@smoe.org
-
- Bel Canto - dewy-fields
-
- subscribe: dewy-fields-request@ifi.uio.no
- Manually
- post: dewy-fields@ifi.uio.no
-
- k.d. Lang
-
- subscribe: majordomo@world.std.com
- Body: subscribe k-d-lang your@address
-
- Milla - Reaching From Nowhere
-
- subscribe: majordomo@world.std.com
- Body: subscribe reaching-from-nowhere
- post: reaching-from-nowhere@world.std.com
-
- Suzanne Vega - Undertow
-
- subscribe: Majordomo@majordomo.law.emory.edu
- Body: subscribe undertow
- Body: subscribe undertow another-user@another-address
- Body: subscribe undertow-digest
- post: undertow@law.emory.edu
-
- Bobo In White Wooden Houses - White House
- [this mailing list is basically a German language list,
- though English discussions are also welcome]
-
- subscribe: white-house-request@wupper.de
- Subject: subscribe
- post: white-house@wupper.de
-
- Mylene Farmer - Libertine
-
- subscribe: listserv@cc.mcgill.ca
- Body: subscribe libertine Your Name
- post: libertine@sifon.cc.mcgill.ca
-
- Zap Mama
-
- subscribe: dave@tyrell.net
- Subject: SUBSCRIBE ZAPMAMA
-
- Indigo Girls
-
- subscribe: indigo-girls-request@indigo.mese.com
- indigo-girls-digest-request@indigo.mese.com
- post: indigo-girls@indigo.mese.com
-
- Julia Fordham
-
- subscribe: mlwood@u.washington.edu
- Manually
- post: ff@u.washington.edu
-
- Cyndi Lauper - Shebop
-
- subscribe: shebop-request@law.emory.edu
- Body: subscribe shebop
- post: shebop@law.emory.edu
-
- Heather Nova
-
- subscribe: heather-nova-request@cs.vu.nl
- (manually)
- post: heather-nova@cs.vu.nl
-
- [are there other mailing lists that should appear here?]
-
- 2.4. MUSHrooms influenced by Kate
-
- (MUSH is Multi-User Shared Hallucination.) There's a heavily
- Kate-influenced MUSHroom. To access it, you need a direct internet
- connection and telnet. Type:
-
- telnet tinycwru.chaco.com 4201
-
- And once you're logged on, type
-
- @tel #91468
-
- at the prompt.
-
- Once you're inside, you're in a Happy Rhodes-inspired room, but to
- get to the Kate room, go to the Artist Annex (where there are rooms
- for Kate, Tori, Sarah, etc.), then just type "Kate" to go to the
- Kate room (although you may want to look around first and also type
- HELP just so you can figure out what's happening).
-
- Along with a Virtual Kate Paradise (which Steve called "Gaffaland"), you
- can have real-time chat with your fellow Lovehounds! [SB]
-
-
-
-
- 3. Love-Hounds and their behaviour...
-
- 3.1. Famous Love-Hounds
-
- A less frequent visotor is Andy Marvick, or rather his self-parody "IED".
- IED is the absolute "true believer" KaTefan. IED, who will flame anyone
- showing any sign of diSbelIef, nowadaYs fulfilLs his roLe As
- encyclopedic demigod which seEms moRE natural for Him anyway.
-
- Stay longer this time, IED!
-
- BTW: Andy doesn't know either what IED stands for. Make some
- suggestions! I prefer "I Envy Del"...
-
- 3.2. Flamewars & abbreviations
-
- Normally Katefans are nice people. Hey! We all share at least one
- similar taste in music! Nevertheless r.m.g shares something with every
- other usenet newsgroup - that is, there are flamewars. Even the nasty
- kind. No one likes them, so the best way to deal with rude and/or
- uninteresting posts is to ignore then and post something positive and
- interesting.
-
- Newbies are explicitly invited to take part in the conversation. Be it
- that you want to know something not in this FAQ, be it that you think
- you have a piece of information to share, be it that you think you
- know some other music you think should be known by more people. (Though
- I'd say you should at least like Kate :-) ...)
-
- Abbreviations commonly used on Love-Hounds include common Usenet
- conventions such as IMHO (In My Humble Opinion), ROFL (Rolling on the
- floor laughing), as well as sideways faces, known as "smilies" such
- as :-). Also used here are the initials of Kate's songs, such as RUTH
- for Running Up That Hill (sometimes known as DwG for Deal with God ;^).
-
- A new one commonly seen is /+) or |X( or any combination, such
- as |+). This is, of course, Kate's film "The Line, the Cross, and
- The Curve" (Sometimes abbreviated to the less cryptic-looking TLTCTC).
-
- 3.3. Spam postings
-
- What is a spam?
-
- A spam is a commercial posting in a forum where it's not wanted. That's
- most of the times selling things or services that have (in our case)
- nothing to do with Kate Bush or even music. Most spams also appear in
- a whole lot of places all at once. Someone selling a few Kate Bush
- records is definitely not a spam. A professional record dealer selling
- more than a few records is also not a spam. (Nevertheless both should
- avoid posting long sales list to the group. Instead post an announcement
- that you've got stuff to sell and will send the list to interested
- people.)) A 'student' praising magazine subscriptions most definitely is
- a spam.
-
- What to do about spam postings?
-
- 1. Write to the relevant postmasters (politely, they're likely to have
- hundreds if not thousands of similar mails), possibly including the
- complete spam posting including *all* headers (esp. "Received:" lines).
- 2. Do not mailbomb the originator. Most of the times, the addresses
- are faked, that is, the only one not having trouble with the mail
- bomb is the spammer himself.
- 3. Do not write to love-hounds/rec.music.gaffa, we all know it as well
- as you do.
- 4. With repeated spams, check out with the maintainers of our moderator
- software <love-hounds-request@gryphon.com>. They might be able to do
- something about it.
- 5. Most important: do not call/write/ask/whatever the originator about
- whatever he wants to offer to you. That's what he wants to achieve,
- and that might be what's paying him (addresses = information = money).
- You can complain if you know who he is, but please: do not play into
- his hands.
-
- See also the net-abuse newsgroups (news.admin.net-abuse.misc etc.).
-
- P.S.: to be a bit more PC: spammers could be female as well...
-
- On to a more friendly subject:
-
- 3.4. What is Katemas?
-
- On or around July 30 each year there are a lot of parties around the
- world, when Love-Hounds celebrate Kate's birthday, also called Katemas.
-
- In 1991 there were parties in Boston, Washington DC, Cleveland, San Jose,
- Seattle, Austin, Dallas, Iowa City, Chapel Hill, Chicago, Ipswich UK,
- Sweden, and two places in Australia.
-
- In 1992 there were parties in Boston, San Francisco, Chicago, Australia,
- Israel, San Diego, and San Jose.
-
- In 1993 there were parties in San Jose, Linkvping (Sweden), Columbus,
- Oxford Mississippi, New Jersey, San Diego, Seattle, Chicago
- (belated&shared), Wollongong (Australia), Wellington (New Zealand),
- Toronto.
-
- In 1994 there were parties in San Francisco (California), Wellington
- (New Zealand), Bellingham (Washington), Albuquerque (New Mexico), and
- Columbus (Ohio).
-
- In 1995 there were parties in Chicago (Illinois), Boonton (New Jersey),
- Portland (Oregon), Gwynneville (Wollongong, Australia), Hamilton (New
- Zealand), West Beach (Adelaide, South Australia), Belchertown
- (Massachusetts), Boston (Massachusetts), Glastonbury Tor (England), San
- Francisco (California), Toronto (Ontario, Canada).
-
- Who else shares Kate's birthday?
-
- Emily Bronte (1818, author of the novel 'Wuthering Heights')
- Paul Anka
- William Atherton
- Peter Bogdanovich
- Delta Burke
- Ken Olin
- Arnold Schwarzenegger (actor)
-
-
-
- 4. Kate Bush Info
-
- 4.1. Kate Bush - her career and Kate as a human being
-
- Kate's first appearance in the public was a little tour through a few
- London pubs together with the so called KT (read: Katie) Bush Band.
- All of Kate's albums have the KT (originally Knights Templar) symbol
- hidden somewhere either on the cover or on the vinyl itself (see section
- 4.6). You might have to have original UK versions of the albums to find
- them. The KT initials can also be seen in the "Army Dreamers" video.
- The release of the This Woman's Work boxed set there appeared a new
- version of the KT symbol that includes _O_
- the biological symbol for woman: |<
-
- Fans of Kate were saddened by the news of the passing of her mother on
- Valentine's day, 1992. (We don't know for what cause, sorry.)
-
- FAQs and most common answers:
-
- She's born on July 30, 1958. She's not married, but you should bury all
- hopes since her bassist and engineer, Del Palmer, is her one and only
- for too many years now. Kate smokes, but is very reluctant to show this
- bad habit in public. Kate, if you ever read this: count my vote as one
- who wants you to stop! Kate is a vegetarian, though she now eats fish.
- She's 5'3" (1.60m) and doesn't have a middle name. She has two brothers,
- John Carder Bush (Jay), born 1944 - he takes many of the photos of Kate
- that appear on her albums - and Paddy Bush, born 1952, who plays many of
- the exotic instruments found on Kate's albums. If you want to know how
- beautiful Kate is, listen to her music ;-)
-
- No, she doesn't hate to tour, just can't find the time between making
- albums and videos.
-
- Yes, she appeared on Saturday Night Live on December 9, 1978 (With
- host Eric Idle of Monty Python fame), but the tape you can purchase of
- that show has her edited out! Yes, that's Donald Sutherland in the
- Cloudbusting video. No, we don't have her home address, though we
- know that she has just bought a house in Reading.
-
- No, it was not Kate Bush but rather Kate Simmons who appeared nude in
- Penthouse several years ago. (These pictures were also used on the
- bootleg Dreamtime.)
-
- 4.2. Tours
-
- Kate's only Tour (the "Tour of Life") happened in 1979, and fans old
- enough to experience this first hand are the lucky ones. Kate never
- said she won't ever tour again, but don't expect anything.
-
- There's a video tape ("Live at Hammersmith Odeon") and a 4 track EP from
- the tour. The video unfortunately only contains half of the show. The
- recordings of the rest had some technical problems and the result wasn't
- up to par with Kate's standards. The video (now available in PAL and
- NTSC) is also available in a video+CD double pack, so Kate finally has
- an official live album. The only other source are vinyl bootlegs
- which all are of a very bad sound quality, since they were done from the
- audience with late 70's equipment. There are plenty of CD pirates from
- the video tape. Since there is now an official CD of this, please
- consider buying it, especially if you do own one of the bootleg copies.
-
- 4.3. The Convention
-
- It has really happened to us!
-
- May 8, 1994, London's Hippodrome. Short list of events:
-
- - lots of rare videos
- - lots of live music/dance from fans
- - three new Kate songs: The Man I Love, Sexual Healing, and a brand new
- US dance remix of Rubberband Girl
- - a raffle which got the lucky winner the Japanese gold record for
- Lionheart as well as a kiss stolen from Kate
- - an auction hosted by Dave from Homeground and Del Palmer where
- super-rare ("one exists, two exist, ...") stuff went away for
- 2230 pounds (all profits, including these, went to the Great Ormund
- Street Children's Hospital)
- - a quiz that was won by the Norfolk Alchemists the second time in a row
- (next time we will practise a bit!)
- - lots of merchandise, some for money, some for free
- - Paddy Bush and Colin Lloyd Tucker (Bushtucker) presenting their album
- Skyscraping
- - The biggest act of Happyvangelising to date
- - Kate herself appearing for a couple of minutes, presenting the main
- price of the raffle to the lucky winner and presenting her new film,
- - The Line, The Cross, And The Curve
- - Kate inspired disco
- - and, last but not least, lots of fun
-
- Thanks to everyone involved, and see you next time!
-
- 4.4. Basic Discography/Videography
-
- The latest KBC newsletter (#11) brought the following info from Kate
- herself (brought to you by [WW]):
-
- Dear All,
- I've been taking time off work this year and it's been really good for
- me. I've still kept busy but I've also had lots of time to rest and
- catch up things.
- Many, many thanks for your continued support - I've had such positive
- feedback from you about the last album and the film. I feel so
- priviledged to have such nice people responding to my work.
- I've just done a song for Donal Lunny who's putting an album together
- of traditional Irish music. It was fun and very challenging.
- The lyrics are in Gaelic so I will eagerly await comments from all
- Irish-speaking listeners in particular. I'm sure Ma gave me a helping
- hand!
- Much love to you, a very Happy Christmas and warm wishes for '96.
- Kate x
-
- Lisa added:
- There is no definite release date yet but it will hopefully be
- available in or some time after March 1996. The title is to be "Common
- Ground (Celtic Voices)" and it will be released by Premier Records
- which is part of EMI Records. We understand that it will be available
- worldwide.
-
- At present the artists appearing on this will be:
- - Maire Brennan - O Bhean A'Ti (accent on the 'O')
- - Tim & Neil Finn - Mary of the South Seas
- - Bono & Adam Clayton - Tomorrow
- - Sharon Shannon - Cavan Potholes
- - Paul Brady - Help Me to Believe
- - Sinead O'Connor - On Raglan Road
- - Brian Kennedy - As I Roved Out
- - Elvis Costello - The Night Before Larry Was Stretched
- - Kate Bush - Mna Na h-Eireann (accent on the 'a' in Mna)
- - David Spillane & Donal Lunny - Whistling Low/Errigal
- - Andy Irvine - My Heart's Tonight in Ireland
- - Liam O Maonlai - Cathain
- - Christy Moore - Bogie's Bonnie Belle
-
- Unfortunately, the release date of the album has been set back to
- September.
-
- Kate has also designed some charity Christmas cards for the Brian Eno
- project "Warchild".
-
- Early in November '94 the last set of singles for The Red Shoes appeared,
- again in the UK only: And So Is Love. Two CD singles (regular and with
- 3 video-prints), a Cassingle and a 7" picture single in a poster bag
- (giant 40"x60" poster) have appeared.
-
- Moments Of Pleasure is the first Kate Bush single that is NOT available
- on 7" vinyl (but there is a poster bag 12"). Guess this again marks the
- end of an era. (In the UK only four different formats will count as a
- single release for chart counting, and in this case there were two CDs,
- the 12" and the cassingle.)
-
- The Line, The Cross, and The Curve finally appeared on video and should
- be available in good shops around the world.
-
- The following is not intended to be a complete discography. Something
- that qualifies better for that title will be available separately soon.
- See also the section 4.6. (Chart success), all singles are listed there.
-
- Albums and other major collections:
-
- The Cathy Demos (23 early songs, ca. 1975-77???, a MUST for every fan)
- Twelve of these are demos of songs that later appeared on albums,
- They are available on various bootlegs. (Anybody have an early 80's
- album called THE EARLY YEARS?).
- Tracks (compiled from various boots - none contains all. The names
- are not officially known, so there are some songs with more than one
- name. Some names are from a radio broadcast in Arizona [KLN], the
- matching was done by [AR]): The Kick Inside (Brother) [note subtitle],
- Hammer Horror, It Hurts Me (A Rose Growing Old, Feeling Like A Waltz),
- Keep(ing) Me Waiting (Stranded at the Moonbase), Davy (While Davy
- Dozed), Disbelieving Angel, Moving, Kashka From Baghdad, Surrender Into
- the Roses (Coming Up, Carmilla), Oh To Be In Love, Rinfi the Gypsy
- (Playing Canasta (in cold rooms)), On Fire Inside a Snowball (Snow, Hot
- in the Ice), Dali (Ferry Me Over), Where are the Lionhearts
- (Lionhearts, On the Rocks) [NOT Oh England My Lionheart], Violin, The
- Craft Of Love, The Gay Farewell (Queen Eddie), Something Like a Song
- (In My Garden), Frightened Eyes, Never The Less (You'll Do), Come
- Closer To Me Babe (Goodnight Baby), So Soft, Rare Flower (I Don't See
- Why I Shouldn't (Pick the Rare Flower), Organic Acid
-
- The Studio Demos (7 songs, 1977?, often listed along with The Cathy Demos)
- Most of the times these share the space on CDs, LPs, singles or tapes
- with The Cathy Demos, the biggest distinction is that the studio demos
- were done together with the KT Bush Band instead of Kate alone at her
- piano. (Babooshka differs in style and might have been recorded at
- Dave Gilmor's studio, some comments on various bootlegs about the
- second version suggest this)
- Tracks (same comments about the names as above): Don't Push Your Foot
- On The Heartbrake, Kite, L'Amour Looks Something Like You, Strange
- Phenomena, Scares Me Silly (Really Gets Me Going), Babooshka
- (2 versions),
- There have been rumors about a 'new' old Kate song called Turkish
- Delight. Unfortunately the song is not from Kate, but rather from
- the Japanese group Sandii and the Sunsetz [VM, WW, Homeground #32].
-
- The Kick Inside (TKI, February 17, 1978):
- The 'official' young Kate, full of passion, including her up to date
- only British number one megahit Wuthering Heights.
- Tracks: Moving, The Saxophone Song, Strange Phenomena, Kite, The Man
- With The Child In His Eyes, Wuthering Heights, James And The Cold Gun,
- Feel It, Oh To Be In Love, L'Amour Looks Something Like You, Them
- Heavy People, Room For The Life
-
- Lionheart (LH, November 13, 1978):
- Quick follow-up to TKI, but still true Kate, i.e. great stuff.
- This album now is available in a special $80 "Lioness At Heart"
- edition, which includes a T-shirt, an album sized photo book, a
- poster and a postcard. It's out of print now, and you might have to
- search a bit. Caveat Emptor: This boxed set, while not really a
- bootleg in the traditional sense, in not in any way authorized by
- Kate or EMI.
- Tracks: Symphony In Blue, In Search Of Peter Pan, Wow, Don't Push
- Your Foot On The Heartbrake, Oh England My Lionheart, Fullhouse, In
- The Warm Room, Kashka From Baghdad, Coffee Homeground, Hammer Horror
-
- Never For Ever (NfE, September 8, 1980):
- Shows the beginning of Kate's career as a producer and a general
- change of style away from the girlish high pitched voice from the
- first two albums.
- This album is also available in a special edition similar to the
- "A Lioness At Heart" box. Also out of print it additionally includes
- a numbered certificate. Again, this is not an official re-packaging.
- Tracks: Babooshka, Delius (Song Of Summer), Blow Away (For Bill), All
- We Ever Look For, Egypt, The Wedding List, Violin, The Infant Kiss,
- Night Scented Stock, Army Dreamers, Breathing
-
- The Dreaming (TD, September 13, 1982):
- Many say this is Kate's best work to date, though it was not as
- successful commercially. Difficult to get into, but if you finally
- reach it, then: play it... LOUDER!
- Sat In Your Lap, There Goes A Tenner, Pull Out The Pin, Suspended In
- Gaffa, Leave It Open, The Dreaming, Night Of The Swallow, All The
- Love, Houdini, Get Out Of My House
-
- The Singles File (TSF, January 23, 1984):
- Box of all UK 7" vinyl singles up to 1984, very collectible.
- It contains a booklet and the following singles: Wuthering
- Heights/Kite, The Man With The Child In His Eyes/Moving, Hammer
- Horror/Coffee Homeground, Wow/Fullhouse, On Stage (Them Heavy
- People/Don't Push Your Foot On The Heartbrake/James And The Cold
- Gun/L'Amour Looks Something Like You, all live), Breathing/The Empty
- Bullring, Babooshka/Ran Tan Waltz, Army Dreamers/Delius/Passing
- Through Air, December Will Be Magic Again/Warm And Soothing, Sat In
- Your Lap/Lord Of The Reedy River, The Dreaming/Dreamtime, There Goes
- A Tenner/Ne T'Enfuis Pas, Ne T'Enfuis Pas/Un Baiser D'Enfant
-
- Hounds of Love (HoL, September 16, 1985):
- Two sided album, even on CD. One side light, one side dark. The
- dark side once was supposed to be filmed, but the movie got lost in
- all the promotion that came around HoL and TWS. Side two, also
- called The Ninth Wave, is about a woman drowning alone at night in
- the sea. All her dreams, emotions, thoughts, memories pass by in the
- songs. Is she rescued? Kate says so, your mileage may vary.
- Tracks: (HOL:) Running Up That Hill (A Deal With God), Hounds Of Love,
- The Big Sky, Mother Stands For Comfort, Cloudbusting, (TNW:) And Dream
- Of Sheep, Under Ice, Waking The Witch, Watching You Without Me, Jig Of
- Life, Hello Earth, The Morning Fog
-
- The Whole Story (TWS, November 10, 1986)
- A compilation of Kate's biggest hits to date, also available on video.
- Tracks: Wuthering Heights (new vocal), Cloudbusting, The Man With The
- Child In His Eyes, Breathing, Wow, Hounds Of Love, Running Up That
- Hill, Army Dreamers, Sat In Your Lap, Experiment IV, The Dreaming,
- Babooshka. Additional on video: The Big Sky. Additional on new
- edition of (PAL) LaserDisc: The Sensual World, This Woman's Work,
- Love And Anger
-
- The Sensual World (TSW, October 17, 1989):
- According to Kate this is her "most feminine" album. Any idea as what
- this means? Many complain about noisy engineering, which seems to vary
- at least a bit with the country of origin of the CD. Some love it,
- some don't quite love it, especially "Reaching Out".
- Tracks: The Sensual World, Love And Anger, The Fog, Reaching Out, Heads
- We're Dancing, Deeper Understanding, Between A Man And A Woman, Never
- Be Mine, Rocket's Tail, This Woman's Work, Walk Straight Down The
- Middle (last track not on LP version)
-
- This Woman's Work Boxed Set (TWW, 1990).
- Not released in the USA, only in UK, Japan, Canada and France.
- Awfully pricey, and no lyrics or credits on the extra disks except
- for the Japanese version. The box includes all 6 regular albums (no
- TWS of course) as well as two special extra discs that normally aren't
- available separately. These two discs contain almost all B-sides,
- dance-mixes and other incidentals. Some are unfortunately missing,
- major ones are: Dreamtime (The Dreaming instrumental/remix), Running
- Up That Hill (instrumental), Breathing and Do Bears... (live, from
- "The Utterly Utterly Live Comic Relief)", The Sensual World
- (instrumental), Be Kind to My Mistakes (original soundtrack album
- version, much longer than and very different from the single remix,
- most like it better), The Confrontation (instrumental from the Comic
- Strip film GLC). It doesn't contain any previously unreleased
- material or session work with other artists. Great music though,
- yeah! And the first time most of these songs are available on CD.
-
- The French version is a re-shrink-wrapped UK version. The Canadian
- version, lately easily available and relatively cheap, does contain
- the Canadian CDs which do have thinner booklets for some of the
- regular albums that do not always contain the lyrics. The Japanese
- version has:
-
- - none of the 4-12 stickers with the new KTfem symbol: _O_
- Any idea of what to do with them? |<
- - more and bigger booklets in Japanese, including lyrics in
- English and Japanese, especially also for the two special CDs.
- The Japanese text basically is a hybrid of the biography
- entries from "Kate Bush Complete" and "A Visual Documentary"
- [TC2]. The text parts of the English booklets are contained
- completely in the Japanese booklets (in English language even).
- - the Japanese cover art for TKI and NfE, as well as
- - Japanese CDs which have the usual benefit of somehow "sounding
- better". This IS true (come here and I'll show you), but mainly
- comes from better pressing, not from different data. Better
- pressing means less drop outs and less need of error correction.
- If you've got a good player this doesn't matter at all.
-
- The LP and Cassette version of this box have 9 LPs/CCs, but the same
- track listing.
-
- Tracks: (CD1:) The Empty Bullring, Ran Tan Waltz, Passing Through Air,
- December Will Be Magic Again, Warm And Soothing, Lord Of The Reedy
- River, Ne T'En Fui Pas, Un Baiser D'Enfant, Under The Ivy, Burning
- Bridge, My Lagan Love, The Handsome Cabin Boy, Not This Time, Walk
- Straight Down The Middle, Be Kind To My Mistakes, (CD2:) I'm Still
- Waiting, Ken, One Last Look Around The House Before We Go...,
- Wuthering Heights (New Vocal), Experiment IV, Them Heavy People
- (live), Don't Push Your Foot On The Heartbrake (live), James And The
- Cold Gun (live), L'Amour Looks Something Like You (live), Running Up
- That Hill (Maxi), Cloudbusting (The Organon Mix), Hounds Of Love
- (Alternative), The Big Sky (Meteorological Mix), Experiment IV (12"
- Mix)
-
- The Red Shoes (TRS, November 1, 1993):
- Her "most accessible" album. At first it sounds untypical for Kate,
- but this has been valid for every new album so far. There are
- several special editions of this album, one official from UK, one
- official from the USA, and several unofficial repackagings.
- Tracks: Rubberband Girl, And So is Love, Eat the Music, Moments of
- Pleasure, The Song of Solomon, Lily, The Red Shoes, Top of the City,
- Constellation of the Heart, Big Stripey Lie, Why Should I Love You?,
- You're the One
-
- Live At The Hammersmith Odeon (1981/1994):
- CD of the official video tape (see below).
- Tracks: Moving, Them Heavy People, Violin, Strange Phenomena, Hammer
- Horror, Don't Push Your Foot On The Heartbrake, Wow, Feel It, Kite,
- James And The Cold Gun, Oh England My Lionheart, Wuthering Heights
-
- Official video tapes/LaserDiscs:
-
- Live At The Hammersmith Odeon (1981):
- TV special of Kate's only concert tour, unfortunately it contains only
- one hour out of the two and a half hour show. Now also available as
- CD+video double pack (PAL and NTSC, the latter from Canada).
- Tracks: Moving, Them Heavy People, Violin, Strange Phenomena, Hammer
- Horror, Don't Push Your Foot On The Heartbrake, Wow, Feel It, Kite,
- James And The Cold Gun, Oh England My Lionheart, Wuthering Heights
-
- The Single File (December 1983):
- Contains all of Kate's video up till 1983. Similar to The Whole Story,
- but contains five videos not on The Whole Story and it lacks the newer
- videos. Not available in the USA, but it's available on import from
- Canada.
- Tracks: Wuthering Heights, The Man With The Child In His Eyes, Hammer
- Horror, Wow (earlier version), Them Heavy People, Breathing,
- Babooshka, Army Dreamers, Sat In Your Lap, The Dreaming, Suspended In
- Gaffa, There Goes A Tenner
-
- Hair Of The Hound (June 16, 1986):
- This tape is now out of date since all four videos from the Hounds of
- Love album are also on The Whole Story. You might want to get the
- LaserDisc, since it's in CAV (Constant Angular Velocity) instead of
- CLV (Constant Linear Velocity) like The Whole Story, that means you
- have better freeze frame than with CLV LaserDiscs.
- Tracks: Running Up That Hill, Hounds Of Love, The Big Sky,
- Cloudbusting
-
- The Whole Story (1986):
- Contains most of Kate's videos up to 1986: All songs from the
- corresponding album plus the video for The Big Sky. The video to
- Experiment IV is only available here, so TSF + HOTH isn't sufficient.
- A new PAL LaserDisc now also contains the three videos from The
- Sensual World. A 2 videoCD (CD-ROMs with MPEG films for computers/
- CD-I players) now available contains in addition to the new LaserDisc
- version also Rubberband Girl and Moments Of Pleasure
- Tracks: see albums above.
-
- The Sensual World (1989):
- Contains three videos from that album and interview footage with
- excerpts from a lot of other videos. The American version (video tape
- as well as LaserDisc) contains much less interview footage than the
- British version. The British version is the complete 1989 VH-1
- special.
- Tracks: Interview, The Sensual World, This Woman's Work, Love And
- Anger
-
- The Line, The Cross, and The Curve (1994):
- The new film around 6 songs from the album The Red Shoes. TLTC&TC is
- the first "full length" film Kate directed (even though it is only 43
- minutes long, "full length" is used to distinguish it from the music
- videos Kate directed). The plot is basically an extended telling of
- the lyrics of the the title cut to "The Red Shoes". The film stars not
- only Kate, but Miranda Richardson (from "The Crying Game"), Lindsay
- Kemp (Kate's mime tutor and mentor), and Lily (of whom the song Lily
- was written for).
- Tracks: Rubberband Girl, And So is Love, The Red Shoes, Lily, Moments
- of Pleasure, Eat the Music
-
- Other official video tapes/laserdiscs which contain some Kate not
- available on her own tapes (some are PAL only):
-
- Peter Gabriel - Cv (1987):
- Contains the duet with Peter Gabriel, Don't Give Up, and even two
- versions of it.
- Tracks: Big Time, Don't Give Up 2, Shock The Monkey, Mercy Street,
- Sledgehammer, I Don't Remember, Red Rain, Don't Give Up
-
- The Secret Policeman's Third Ball (1987):
- Contains the live version of Running Up That Hill, together with David
- Gilmour.
- Tracks: Erasure - Victim Of Love, Duran Duran - Save A Prayer ('Til
- The Morning After), World Party - Ship Of Fools, Joan Armatrading - (I
- Love It) When You Call Me Names, Kate Bush - Running Up That Hill, Lou
- Reed - Tell It To Your Heart, Lou Reed - Voices Of Freedom, Jackson
- Browne - For Everyman, Jackson Browne & Paul Brady - El Salvador, Bob
- Geldof - This Is The World Calling, Mark Knopfler & Chet Atkins -
- Imagine, Peter Gabriel - Biko
-
- The Decade of Music Video - Eighties - VideoStars of 1987 (1989):
- This best-of-87 video tape contains the Ferry Aid video Let It Be where
- Kate features four lines.
- Tracks: Simply Red - The Right Thing, Johnny Hates Jazz - Shattered
- Dreams, Living In A Box - Living In A Box, Wet Wet Wet - Sweet Little
- Mystery, Bruce Willis featuring The Temptations - Under The Boardwalk
- (Live), T'Pau - China In Your Hand, Curiosity Killed The Cat - Down To
- Earth, Nina Simone - My Baby Just Cares For Me, Jackie Wilson - I Get
- The Sweetest Feeling, Mel & Kim - Respectable, Pepsi and Shirlie -
- Heartache, Erasure - The Circus, The Pogues featuring Kirsty MacColl -
- Fairytale of New York, Labi Siffre - (Something Inside) So Strong,
- Ferry Aid - Let It Be
-
- Seventies Rock&Pop 78 (1991):
- This video tape contains the 'Rockflix' video of Wuthering Heights. In
- this video Kate dances in a red dress on the moors, not in a white one
- in the studios.
- Tracks: Donna Summer - MacArthur Park, Foreigner - Cold As Ice, Bonnie
- Tyler - It's A Heartache, Ann Murray - You Needed Me, Rolling Stones -
- Respectable, Brecker Brothers - East River, Gramah Parker & The Rumour
- - Hey Lord Don't Ask Me Questons, 10cc - Dreadlock Holiday, Kate Bush -
- Wuthering Heights, Third World - Now That We've Found Love, ABBA - Take
- A Chance On Me, Boney M. - Rivers Of Babylon
-
- Earthrise (1992):
- This video tape contains version 2 of Don't Give Up (that's the one
- with the superimposed pictures of Peter & Kate, not the 'hug' version
- with the solar eclipse) and, more important, the video for Spirit
- Of The Forest where Kate appears & sings for about 5 seconds.
- Tracks: U2 - I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For, Dire Straits -
- Walk Of Life, R.E.M. - It's The End Of The World As We Know It (And I
- Feel Fine), Seal - Crazy, Peter Gabriel [& Kate Bush] - Don't Give Up
- [version 2], Paul McCartney - How Many People, Julian Lennon -
- Saltwater, Artists United For Nature [Ian Anderson, Joe Cocker, Carol
- Decker, Harold Faltermeyer, Herbie Hancock, Tommy Johnson, Chaka Khan,
- Stevie Lange, Brian May, Michael McDonald, Richard Page, Maggie Reilly,
- Jennifer Rush, Sandra, Chris Thompson, Stefan Zaunder] - Yes We Can,
- Eurythmics - Here Comes The Rain Again, Sting - Fragile, Spirit Of The
- Forest [Chris Rea, Debbie Harry, XTC, Fish, Joni Mitchell, Ringo Starr,
- Belinda Carlisle, Olivia Newton-John, Mr Mister, Bonnie Raitt, Kate
- Bush, David Gilmour, Brian Wilson, Little Steven, Jon Anderson, Escape
- Club, Sam Brown, Iggy Pop, Donna Summer, Kim Wilde, Thomas Dolby,
- Louise Goffin, Richie Havens, B52's, Big Country, David Clayton-Thomas,
- Afrika Bambaata, Plasmatics, Lenny Kravitz, Johnny Warman, It Bites,
- Michael de Barre, Bruce Foxton, The Ramones, Rita Coolidge, Was (Not
- Was), Taylor Dayne, Lucy J Dalton, Brother Beyond, Fleetwood Mac, LL
- Cool J, Marc Jordan, Shikisha, Amy Sky, Lisa Bonet, Raging Hormones,
- Dolette McDonald, Jungle Brothers, Andy Fairweather-Lowe, Gilberto Gil,
- Sandra de Sa, Ivan Lins, Renato Russo, Gal Costa, Ney Matogrosso,
- Marisa Monte, Rita Lee, Djavan] - Spirit Of The Forest, Pink Floyd -
- Learning To Fly, Elton John - I'm Still Standing, Queen - Is This The
- World We Created?, Genesis - The Brazilian (end credits [= no video]),
- Earthrise - Keeping The Forest Alive
-
- The Prince's Trust Rock Gala (19??):
- Contains the live version of The Wedding List with Phil Collins and
- Pete Townshend. NTSC only(?).
- Tracks: ? (I don't have this tape)
-
- The Awards (1993):
- This video tape contains the Rocket Man video.
- Tracks: Queen - Bohemian Rhapsody, U2 - Who's Gonna Ride Your Wild
- Horses, Annie Lennox - Walking On Broken Glass, Rod Stewart - Rhythm Of
- My Heart, Simply Red - For Your Babies, George Michael - Too Funky,
- Lisa Stansfield - Time To Make You Mine, Prince And The New Power
- Generation - Sexy MF, En Vogue - Free Your Mind, Arrested Development -
- People Everyday, Right Said Fred - Deeply Dippy, The Shamen - Bass
- Drum, Erasure - Lay All Your Love On Me, KWS - Please Don't Go,
- Undercover - Baker Street, Dina Carroll - Ain't No Man, Curtis Stigers
- - I Wonder Why, Shakespears Sister - Stay, Take That - A Million Love
- Songs, Enya - The Celts, Tori Amos - Crucify, R.E.M. - Drive, Deacon
- Blue - Your Town, The Cure - Friday, I'm In Love, Crowded House -
- Weather With You, k.d. lang - Constant Craving, Tasmin Archer -
- Sleeping Satellite, Joe Cocker - Feels Like Forever, Eric Clapton - Bad
- Love, Kate Bush - Rocket Man, Elton John - The One
-
- Comic Strip Classics - The Strike / GLC (1995):
- This video tape contains two episodes of the series 'The Comic Strip
- presents...', the second one (GLC) contains several Kate Bush songs:
- Ken, The Confrontation, One Last Look Around The House Before We Go,
- Running Up That Hill (Extended Version), as well as several unnamed
- short pieces of music written and performed by Kate.
-
- There are also far more than a hundred "underground" videos, which
- are traded among fans and are shown at Katemas parties and the like.
- These are primarily television performances and interviews. The Garden
- contains (in GARDEN02) a quite comprehensive list of these, though newer
- appearances and discoveries are missing.
-
- Kate has worked with a lot of other artists:
-
- - Roy Harper:
- - You (The Game Part II) the two halves in flight. From "The Unknown
- Soldier", also available on "An Introduction To Roy Harper", which is
- available as a CD. [AK]
- - Once. From "Once"
- - Peter Gabriel:
- - No Self Control,
- - Games Without Frontiers. Both from "III (melted face)"
- - Don't Give Up. From "So"
- - Keine Selbstkontrolle,
- - Spiel ohne Grenzen. Both from the German version of "III", Kate's
- backing vocals are the same as in the English version.
- There are remixes of Games Without Frontiers.
- Don't Give Up exists in various lengths, the biggest (if not only)
- differences are in the intro and extro.
- - Leslie Duncan:
- - Sing, Children Sing.
- - Zaine Griff
- - Flowers. From "Figures"
- - Ray Shell
- - The Man With The Child In His Eyes. Anyone got this?
- - Big Country
- - The Seer. From "The Seer"
- - Go West
- - The King Is Dead. From "Dancing On The Couch"
- - Midge Ure
- - Sister And Brother. From "Answers To Nothing"
- - Rowan Atkinson
- - Do Bears Sh... in the Woods? From "The Utterly Utterly Live Comic
- Relief"
- - The Spirit Of The Forest
- - The Spirit Of The Forest. From "earthrise"
- - Ferry Aid
- - Let It Be
- - Alan Stivell
- - Kimiad. From "Again"
-
- Remaining officially published non-album and non-TWW items are:
-
- - The Magician Of Lublin
- - The Magician. Only available within the film together with voice
- over in either English or German (or ...?).
- - Rocket Man single
- - Rocket Man
- - Candle In The Wind
- - Candle In The Wind (instrumental)
- - Brazil soundtrack
- - Brazil
- - Rubberband Girl single (UK and US versions)
- - Rubberband Girl 12" version
- - Show A Little Devotion (US only)
- - Home For Christmas (US only, from "The Comic Strip Presents... Wild
- Turkey" (Xmas Special '92))
- - Eat the Music single (US)
- - Eat the Music 12" version
- - Moments of Pleasure (UK normal/special single, cassingle, 12" maxi,
- Dutch CD single)
- - Show A Little Devotion
- - Moments of Pleasure (instrumental) (12", cassingle)
- - Home for Christmas (12", Dutch CD single)
- - The Red Shoes (2 different UK CD singles)
- - Shoedance (The Red Shoes dance mix)
- - The Big Sky (single mix)
- - You Want Alchemy
- - Cloudbusting (video mix)
- - This Woman's Work (single mix)
- - Eat The Music (German CD single)
- - Eat The Music (extended version, that is, it's 11 sec. shorter...)
- - Shoedance
- - You Want Alchemy
- - The Man I Love (UK CD single/7" single/Cassingle)
- - And So Is Love (UK CD single/7" single/Cassingle)
- - Rubberband Girl (US mix)
- - Eat The Music 12" version (not on 7"/Cassingle)
-
- Of course one shouldn't forget the Utah Saints single "Something Good"
- which samples the line "Oh I just know that something good is going
- to happen" from Cloudbusting. Also in the video to "Something Good"
- about 30 seconds of the Cloudbusting video are used. Kate does like
- the Utah Saints and everything is approved by her.
-
- There are also quite a lot of cover versions, most of them of Wuthering
- Heights, The Man With The Child In His Eyes or Running Up That Hill.
- See section 'Other artists using Kate's work'
-
- The song "Sexual Healing" which was supposed to appear on the Davy
- Spillane album titled "A Place Among the Stones" now hasn't appeared
- on said album. Hopefully it will find a different way to get published,
- so that the playing on the '94 Kate Bush Convention won't stay the only
- time we could hear this.
-
- Kate appeared in a few films' soundtracks, which are listed here:
-
- - The Magician Of Lublin
- features Kate on vocals of The Magician, not available outside of film,
- only with quite a lot of voice-over in the film
- - Brazil
- features Kate on vocals of Brazil, not in the film, but finally
- available on CD
- - She's Having A Baby
- features Kate's song This Woman's Work, available on CD, undisturbed
- in the film, almost the same version as on The Sensual World
- - Castaway
- features Kate's song Be Kind To My Mistakes during begin credits, the
- version on the soundtrack LP (not avail. on CD) is quite different from
- and much longer than the regular version. The version in the film
- (English version) is an abbreviated version of the soundtrack version.
- The German dubbed version of the film contains the regular version of
- the song only.
- - The Comic Strip Presents... GLC - The Carnage Continues
- features Kate's songs Ken, The Confrontation, One Last Look Around The
- House Before We Go, and Running Up That Hill (Extended Version)
- as well as a couple of other unnamed short musical bits. All are
- available on CD except for the unnamed ones. This episode now is
- available on commercial video tape.
- - The Comic Strip Presents... Les Dogs (1990)
- doesn't feature Kate singing, but rather Kate acting. This was Kate's
- first role as an actress, The Line, The Cross, and The Curve being her
- second one.
- - The Comic Strip Presents... Wild Turkey (Christmas Special 1992)
- features Kate's song Home For Christmas, now finally available on CD.
-
- Not mentioned are films where a Kate track just runs accidentally long
- after its regular release (e.g. some of MTV's "The Real World" series,
- the "Miami Vice" episode featuring Hello Earth, or Martha Coolidge's film
- "Angie" featuring Rubberband Girl).
-
- 4.5. Other Artists using Kate's Work
-
- This section compiles a list of all (known) cover versions of Kate's
- songs, as well as a list of all (known) cases where Kate's music was
- sampled for use in another song. There are some question marks in there,
- which is when I didn't know more details. If you know the answer, don't
- hesitate!
-
- Don't Give Up is also listed, despite the fact that it is not really a
- Kate Bush song. In some cases, there's no known recording of a live
- performance. Nevertheless these cases are listed as far as they are
- known.
-
- Cover versions of Kate's songs:
-
- Running Up That Hill
- Blue Pearl - naked
- Sweep & Linda Carriere - Running Up That Hill (single)
- (4 different mixes)
- TILT!
- - Aliens & Orgasms (album)
- - Under Cover Vol. III (sampler)
- Happy Rhodes - RhodeSongs
- (only 3 lines of RUTH in Feed The Fire (acoustic tribute version))
- Kat Devlin - (no recording available)
- (concert: Kat Ellwyn Devlin Sings The Songs Of Kate Bush) [DR2]
- Elastic Band - Running Up That Hill (single)
- (2 different mixes) [JC]
- The Man With The Child In His Eyes
- Brigid Boden - ?
- Mazi Cohen - ?
- (Hebrew version)
- Counterparts - Straight Ahead
- Dark Orange
- (live) - Breathing The Water
- (studio) - Sounds of Silence (single)
- Hue And Cry
- (live) - The Bitter Suite
- (live) - Labours Of Love - The Best Of Hue And Cry
- (studio) - Violently (single)
- Inside Moves - ?
- Peter Gabriel / Steve Harley - If You Could See Me Fly
- (bootleg, live, called The Girl/Man With The Child In His Eyes,
- Kate later pops in and continues)
- Dusty Springfield - (recording has been done on video but not released)
- (concert in The Royal Albert Hall in 1978) [KO]
- Natalie Cole - ? [RMC]
- Dave Smith/Judy Dinning - ? [RMC]
- Kat Devlin - (no recording available)
- (concert: Kat Elwynn Devlin Sings The Songs Of Kate Bush) [DR2]
- Xu Ru Yun - ?
- (Mandarin version, called '100 Lies') [DC]
- Julie Covington & Richard Thompson - ?
- (available on bootleg CD 'Kate Bush - Collaborations')
- Wuthering Heights
- Pat Benatar - Crimes of Passion
- Big City Orchestre - Our Life in the Bush of Kate
- Mr Floppy - The Unbearable Lightness of Being a Dickhead
- Sonny Sharrack Band - High Life
- (instrumental)
- White Flag (on a sampler album)
- Kate's Project
- - Wuthering Eight (single, contains three mixes)
- - Covermania Compilation 3 Volume 1
- - Direct Hit Volume 3
- Kat Devlin - (no recording available)
- (concert: Kat Elwynn Devlin Sings The Songs Of Kate Bush) [DR2]
- (concert: Kat Sings More Kate) [MT]
- The Divine Comedy - (no complete recording available)
- (concert, May 9, 1994, Circustheater in Scheveningen, support act
- for Tori Amos) [MR]
- China Drum - ? [BW]
- Angra - Angels Cry [WW]
- Oh England, My Lionheart
- Big City Orchestre - Our Life in the Bush of Kate
- (called: Oh, England, My Concrete Block)
- Experiment IV,
- Army Dreamers, [... More Kate]
- Feel It
- Big City Orchestre - Our Life in the Bush of Kate
- Kat Devlin - (no recording available)
- (concert: Kat Elwynn Devlin Sings The Songs Of Kate Bush) [DR2]
- (concert: Kat Sings More Kate) [DR2]
- The Dreaming,
- Passing Through Air,
- Night Of The Swallow,
- Waking The Witch,
- Breathing,
- All We Ever Look For
- Big City Orchestre - Our Life in the Bush of Kate
- Moments Of Pleasure,
- Moving,
- There Goes A Tenner,
- Under Ice,
- Mother Stands For Comfort,
- The Infant Kiss,
- Symphony In Blue,
- Coffee Homeground,
- Babooshka,
- This Woman's Work,
- Cloudbusting,
- Houdini,
- Reaching Out, [... More Kate]
- Kite, [... More Kate]
- In Search Of Peter Pan, [... More Kate]
- You're The One, [... More Kate]
- Pull Out The Pin, [... More Kate]
- The Fog, [... More Kate]
- Strange Phenomena, [... More Kate]
- All The Love, [... More Kate]
- Rubberband Girl, [... More Kate]
- And So Is Love, [... More Kate]
- Hounds Of Love, [... More Kate]
- Under The Ivy [... More Kate]
- Kat Devlin - (no recording available)
- (concert: Kat Elwynn Devlin Sings The Songs Of Kate Bush) [DR2]
- (concert: Kat Sings More Kate) [DR2]
- Lionheart/Them Heavy People (parody)
- Not The Nine O'Clock News - Hedgehog Sandwich
- Them Heavy People
- Ray Shell - Them Heavy People (single)
- (with Kate doing Backing Vocals)
- Don't Give Up
- Willie Nelson & Sinead O'Connor - ?
- The London Starlight Orchestra - One More Night - Hits For Lovers
- (instrumental)
- The London Starlight Orchestra & Singers
- - Two People - 18 midnight popsongs
- Peter Gabriel & Paula Cole - Secret World Live
- (also: several bootlegs, mostly P.G. performing alone)
-
- Artists who used samples from Kate's songs:
-
- Cloudbusting
- Utah Saints - Something Good
- (single with several remixes, album by U.Saints, several samplers)
- Jig of Life
- ADSR - Momentum
- (album 'Accelerated Emotions') [DC2]
- The Man With The Child In His Eyes
- E-Zee Posse - Cake
- (album name?)
- Wuthering Heights
- Big Audio Dynamite - The Globe
- (album name?)
-
- Songs about Kate Bush:
-
- Herve Christiani - Kate Bush
- (single 'Radio Bonheur / Kate Bush', album 'Il Est Libre Max')
- The song 'Kate Bush' is about a girl who has listened to Kate's
- records through a whole winter and then leaves her boyfriend.
- Jade Fashions - Babbittry Revision
- (12" maxi single 'Babbittry Revision / Pretty Boys In Pink')
- Babbittry Revision has 'very Kate-related lyrics'.
- Primus - Year of the Parrot
- (album 'tales from the punchbowl)
- The song contains lines 'I've seen the likes of Kate Bush and Van
- Morrison / teaching the parrots to sing' [AR2]
-
- Jimmy Buffet - Mexico
- [this song got deleted here, because Brian L. Rachford [BLR] had
- some serious doubts about the line in question being "...gay men in
- blue jeans - no, no, that's not politically correct, that's KATE
- BUSH in blue jeans!!!". Brian says that he believes that this
- line says "...cave men in blue jeans, no, no, that's not
- politically correct, that's CAVE PERSONS in blue jeans!!!" This
- makes much more sense than the obscure Kate reference.
-
- 4.6. Chart success
-
- This section is a basic listing of chart position of Kate's singles,
- albums and videos. Listing all chart positions from all charts from
- all countries with all dates would need much too much space for the FAQ,
- but such a list is in fact available. Send me <uli@zoodle.robin.de> a
- mail and you'll get the latest copy.
-
- Each item is only listed with the highest chart entry for each country.
- Some countries have official or semi-official charts. For these countries
- there might be two entries, if a specialised, non-local & non-radio-
- station chart shows a higher position. Sometimes the chart publisher
- isn't known. Some entries might even be wrong.
-
- The (semi-)official charts are:
-
- UK: BMRB/Gallup
- USA: Billboard Hot 100 (singles) / Top 200 (albums)
- Germany: Musikmarkt / Mediacontrol
- Australia: Aria
-
- Singles:
-
- Wuthering Heights:
- UK, NL, B, NZ, Aus: 1
- G, F, Bra, Arg, SA, Dk, Swe, SF: top 10
- The Man With The Child In His Eyes:
- UK: 6
- US: 85
- Moving:
- J: 1
- Hammer Horror:
- UK: 44
- Wow:
- UK: 14
- On Stage:
- UK: 10
- Breathing:
- UK: 16
- Babooshka:
- UK 5
- Aus: 1
- I: top 10
- G: 14
- F: 3
- Cnd: top 10
- Army Dreamers:
- UK: 16
- December Will Be Magic Again:
- UK: 29
- Isr: top 10
- Sat In Your Lap:
- UK: 11
- The Dreaming:
- UK: 48
- UK (MM): 28
- Suspended In Gaffa:
- Most of Europe, Cnd, Aus: top 10
- There Goes A Tenner:
- UK: did not chart
- Ne T'Enfuis Pas:
- F: top 30
- Running Up That Hill:
- UK, G: 3
- UK (12" charts): 2
- US: 30
- US (12" chart): 21
- NL: 6
- Cloudbusting:
- UK: 20
- Hounds of Love:
- UK: 18
- The Big Sky:
- UK: 37
- Don't Give Up:
- UK: 9
- US: 72
- Aus: top 10
- Experiment IV:
- UK: 23
- Ferry Aid - Let It Be:
- UK: 1
- The Sensual World:
- UK: 12
- NL: 17
- US (Billboard: post modern airplay chart): 6
- G: 29
- SF: 12
- Aus: 44
- I: 19
- This Woman's Work:
- UK: 25
- Love & Anger:
- UK: 38
- UK (gallup mid-week): 23
- US (Billboard: modern rock airplay chart): 1
- Rocket Man:
- UK (gallup): 12
- US (Billboard; modern rock tracks chart): 11
- F: 45
- Aus: 2
- Rubberband Girl:
- UK (gallup): 12
- UK (MRIB): 7
- Cnd (Record single sales chart): 18
- Irl: 1
- SF (local charts in Tampere): 4
- Isr: 26
- US (Billboard: Modern Rock): 7
- US: 88
- G: 65
- Europe (MTV Eurochart): 19
- Eat The Music:
- US (Billboard: modern rock): 10
- Moments of Pleasure:
- UK: 26
- The Red Shoes:
- UK: 21
- The Man I Love:
- UK: 22
- And So Is Love:
- UK: 26
-
- Albums:
-
- The Kick Inside:
- UK: 3
- Lionheart:
- UK: 6
- US: 201 (in '84)
- Never for Ever:
- UK: 1
- G: 17
- F: 7
- The Dreaming:
- UK: 3
- US: 157
- Kate Bush (mini-EP):
- US: 148
- Hounds of Love:
- UK, NL, Irl: 1
- US: 30
- G: 2
- The Whole Story:
- UK: 1
- US: 74
- Aus: 28
- Swe: 48
- F: 11
- SF: 10
- The Sensual World:
- UK: 2
- US: 43
- US (The Gavin Report: College Album chart): 1
- Cnd: 16
- NL: 8
- Europe (Music and Media Pan-European chart): 6
- I: 17
- Dk: 18
- SF: 5
- Aus: 25
- F: 38
- G: 20
- The Red Shoes:
- UK, SF: 2
- US: 28
- G: 18
- NL: 35
- Cnd: 13
- Europe (Billboard/Music&Media Eurochart Top 100): 6
- F (M6: Top Nuggets): 14
-
- Video tapes:
-
- The Single File:
- UK: 1
- The Hair Of The Hound:
- UK: 1
- The Whole Story:
- UK: 1
- US: 8
- The Sensual World:
- US: 10
- UK (MRIB video music top twenty): 9
-
- Country codes: UK = United Kingdom, US = USA, G = Germany, F = France,
- Cnd = Canada, NL = Netherlands, Aus = Australia, SF = Finland,
- Dk = Denmark, I = Italy, Swe = Sweden, Irl = Ireland, Isr = Israel,
- J = Japan, B = Belgium, NZ = New Zealand, Bra = Brazil, Arg = Argentinia,
- SA = South Africa
-
- The biggets part of this list was compiled by studying old issues of
- Homeground. Other entries came from [NB].
-
- 4.7. Printed books
-
- Printed books on Kate are numerous, more details about and corrections
- to these books are available in the archives:
-
- Kate Bush - A Visual Documentary (1988):
- Probably the best liked book overall.
- Omnibus Press, ISBN 0.7119.1039.1, Order No: OP44122
- Kate Bush Complete (1987):
- "Official" book containing the sheet music to all of Kate's songs up
- to 1986. Also contains separate lyrics, a great chronology, many
- photos, and a discography.
- EMI Music Publishing, ISBN 0 86175 413 1, Order Ref: 14305
- Cathy (1986):
- Book of photos of Kate as a child, by her brother, John Carter Bush.
- No longer available. :-(
- The Illustrated Collector's Guide To Kate Bush (1991):
- Book with details and pictures of all kinds of Kate Kollectibles, fun
- even for non-collectors. To order send $13.95 to C-SIDE RECORDS,
- PO BOX 8456 CLEARWATER, FL 34618. Phone 1-813-461-4327. C-SIDE is
- also a good place to get all kinds of Kate stuff, be sure to get on
- their mailing list.
- Collector's Guide Publishing, ISBN 0-9695736-0-X
- Kate Bush - The Whole Story (1988):
- Despite appearances, not a sanctioned book, and certainly not the
- whole story. Positive, but contains numerous factual and publishing
- errors. For "The Whole Story" on this book, see Andrew Marvick's
- review in the archives.
- Sidgwick & Jackson, ISBN 0-283-99721-4
- Kate Bush - The First Twelve Years (1992):
- Homeground says: is another collection of newspaper and magazine
- cutting covering the years from 1978 in two volumes selling for about
- L12-00 in Britain and L15 postpaid to America. Details can be
- obtained via the fanzine Never For Ever. [See below]
- Kate Bush - With Love (1988):
- Reprints of Kate-related articles, interviews, and reviews, some
- positive, some negative. Interesting mainly to see how the music
- press has reacted to Kate over the years.
- Secret History of Kate Bush (And The Strange Art Of Pop) (1983):
- Intellectual (as opposed to intelligent) book abut Kate's family
- history, story, and fans. Commonly available, but only recommend for
- the photos.
- Omnibus Press, ISBN 0.7119.0152.X, UK Order No. OP 42035
- Kate Bush: Princess of Suburbia by Fred and Judy Vermorel (1980?):
- Not so good. Hard to find.
- Kate Bush: An Illustrated Biography (1980) by Paul Kerton:
- Positive but error-prone book. Hard to find.
- Proteus Publishing Ltd., ISBN 0 0906071 22 4
- Was also available in German (1981).
- Bastei Luebbe, ISBN 3-404-60050-9
- Moving -- A collection of poems (1993, issued on March 16)
- (Japanese title: KEITO BUSSHU SISHUU MOVING)
- This Japanese book is in A5 size, has 256 pages, lyrics of 79 of
- Kate's songs with English original and Japanese translation, a
- discography up to the TWW box and a few photos (only the cover pic
- feat. Kate). It's said to be based on Kate Bush Complete. [YS]
- Shinko Music Publishing, ISBN 4-401-61329-5, 2,400 yen
-
- 4.8. Fanzines
-
- After being on Love-Hounds for a few months, most fans find the
- fanzines rarely have information they have not already heard. The most
- common fanzines are the Kate Bush Club (KBC) and Homeground. More
- about these and other fanzines can be found in "The Garden". See
- section 4.5 for details.
-
- Kate Bush Club (KBC):
- The KBC unfortunately only seems to come now when there is a new
- album out, but is always worth the wait as it has original articles
- by Kate and her family and lots of great photos.
-
- KBC
- PO Box 120
- Welling, Kent, DA16 3DS
- UK
-
- There is an edition of the fanzine for The Red Shoes, send an SASE
- (self addressed and stamped envelope) or a SAE & IRC (self addressed
- envelope & international reply coupon) to the KBC for information, or
- 6 pounds sterling (Europe rate, cash or British currency cheque, Euro
- cheque in Pounds is ok) or US$14 (US dollar cheques or US currency) to
- get a copy of the magazine which includes about 20 colour photos.
- (Disclamer: I do not know whether the 'zine is still available or not.)
-
- The KBC also sends out short information sheets (just a photocopied
- DIN A4 page) more or less regularly. To get these, send an SA[S]E
- marked with the current SAE number (currently SAE 12) to the KBC.
- Don't expect too much if there's not a new album or a convention
- around.
-
- Homeground
- Homeground comes out almost regularly and has news, great
- articles, stories, and drawings.
-
- Homeground
- PO Box 176
- Orpington, Kent, BR5 3NA
- UK
- pfm@glass.jecsystems.com
-
- Never For Ever
- Never For Ever is another long-established fanzine. It has been
- dormant for the last year or so and will unfortunately soon cease to
- exist.
-
- 28 Millbrook Street
- Plasmarl
- Swansea
- SA6 8JY
- UK
-
- 4.9. Electronic books
-
- A while ago two collections have been made available, both of which are
- much more interesting then anything published. They can be ftped from
- ftp.uu.net, as usual. See section 6 for details. There are also disk
- versions of these floating around somewhere (a set in MS-DOS format, and
- a set in Macintosh format). Only requirement to get them is a) to find
- them and b) to agree to send them to the next one requesting them.
-
- "The Garden"
- The Garden is Andrew Marvick's compilation of reference material on
- Kate, available in ftp://ftp.uu.net/usenet/rec.music.gaffa/kb/garden/ ,
- including a detailed chronology of her life and career (much more
- complete then anything available anywhere else) [GARDEN01]. Also, a
- listing of all known Kate recordings, videography (which includes both
- official videos and the television appearances), and an extensive list
- of fan magazines [GARDEN02]. ALL of the lyrics (including background
- voices) to ALL of Kate's known songs (including unreleased songs)
- [GARDEN04]. All of John's and Paddy's [GARDEN03] interviews and
- articles for the Kate Bush Club Newsletter, as well as Kate's articles
- for the KBC [GARDEN05, GARDEN06]. Also included are about sixty
- interviews [GARDEN07 through GARDEN10].
-
- A Hypertext version of The Garden is also available:
-
- http://www.ecto.org/garden/
-
- "Cloudbusting - Kate Bush In Her Own Words"
- This is Ron Hill (the [ex-]keeper of this monthly post)'s compilation
- of almost 200 interviews, sorted by song, story, and subject order,
- forming the closest we may ever see to a full-fledged Kate
- autobiography. It is available in regular text format, or in
- Wordperfect 4.2 format, which makes use of Wordperfect's underlining,
- bolding, and italicizing, ability, and contains an extensive index.
- It is also available in MacWrite II, PostScript, and Word 4.0
- versions. (Eventually the extra unedited interviews will be added
- into The Garden).
-
- There are also a series of Cloudbusting GIF (picture) files, which are
- located in ftp://ftp.uu.net/usenet/rec.music.gaffa/kb/cloudbusting/gif/
- [APPARENTLY THESE ARE TRASHED]. A title page [CTITLE.GIF and a larger
- version, CTITLEB.GIF], a title page for Part II [CSTORY.GIF] and part
- III [CSUBJECT.GIF], a credits screen [CREDITS.GIF], and a pic of 3 inch
- disk label [CLABEL.GIF, and a b&w version CLABELBW.GIF]. There are
- also pictures for most of the albums which show the picture of Kate
- from the album cover next to a listing of songs [titles begin with
- "O"]. There are also "alternative" pics for some of the albums, which
- show pictures SIMILAR to but not identical to the album covers [files
- begin with "A"]. There are also "full" pictures for some of the albums
- [titles begin with "F"], which are the raw, uncropped, pictures.
-
- Cloudbusting is available in
-
- ftp://ftp.uu.net/usenet/rec.music.gaffa/kb/cloudbusting/
-
- The text version is in .../kb/cloudbusting/text. Filenames are
- cloud0.txt, cloud1a.txt, cloud1b.txt, cloud1c.txt, cloud2a.txt,
- cloud2b.txt, cloud3a.txt, cloud3b.txt, cloud3c.txt, cloud4.txt,
- cloud5.txt, clouds.txt. It is also available compressed with ZIP in
- .../kb/cloudbusting/zip as filenames cloud045.zip, cloud1.zip,
- cloud2.zip, cloud3.zip.
-
- A Hypertext version of Cloudbusting is also available:
-
- http://scott.cogsci.ed.ac.uk/~rjc/hyper_cloud/cloudbusting.html
-
- "Deeper Understanding - A collection of Kate Bush articles"
- This third, in-progress book, also by Ron Hill, will compile the
- "best of" the Love-Hounds as well as a few articles from fan magazines
- and lots of published reviews. It'll be about five megs in size.
-
- "Moments - A Red Shoes Collection"
- This is a collection done by Wieland Wilker [WW] which brings in all
- the stuff around The Red Shoes that came through love-hounds.
- You can find this collection on:
-
- ftp://ftp.uu.net/usenet/rec.music.gaffa/moments/
-
- 4.10.Where are those d*mn KT symbols on all the albums?
-
- I don't want to spoil these answers, so they are encoded with a rot13
- scheme. If you do not have means to decode this, here's a description
- of how to do it by hand:
-
- Rot13 encoding assigns a new letter to each letter that is in the
- alphabet. Every letter is replaced by the letter 13 positions further
- into the alphabet. Add another alphabet (...xyzabc...) to the end to
- get enough letters. Alternatively you can also subtract 13 positions.
- Coding and encoding are the same this way. Here's a table:
-
- abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz
- nopqrstuvwxyzabcdefghijklm
-
- This says that every 'a' has to replaced by an 'n', every 'b' by an 'o'
- and so on. Now here are the solutions:
-
- The Kick Inside:
- Lbh arrq n ivaly pbcl be na Nzrevpna PQ. Gur onpx pbire (ivaly) naq gur
- ynfg cntr bs gur obbxyrg (aba-HX PQf) unf n cvpgher jvgu pybhqf naq n
- xvgr ng gur gbc. Guvf xvgr'f yrsg jvat fubjf gur XG flzoby.
-
- Lionheart:
- Abg ernyyl qvssvphyg, whfg ybbx ng gur jbbqra obk.
-
- Never for Ever:
- Lbh arrq n tngrsbyq ivaly irefvba (HX) be n HF ivaly irefvba jvgu gur
- ylevpf cevagrq ba gur vaare cncre fyrrir. Gurer'f n cnvagrq ebfr. Ybbx
- ng vgf fgrz.
-
- The Dreaming:
- Ybbx ng gur fyrrir bs Xngr'f wnpxrg. Qverpgyl orybj gur ybjre qnex
- fgevcr gur flzoby vf qenja yvxr jvgu n onyycra.
-
- Hounds of Love:
- Lbh jba'g unir yhpx jvgu HX PQf, ohg naljurer ryfr lbh pna svaq vg va
- gur onpx pbire/obbxyrg cvpgher qverpgyl orybj Xngr'f evtug fubhyqre. Vg
- vf zber be yrff ghearq hcfvqr qbja naq 'znqr bhg bs funqbj'.
-
- The Whole Story:
- Lbh arrq n HX ivaly irefvba bs gur nyohz. Va gur ehabhg nern bs gur
- qvfp gurer'f gur XG flzoby fpengpurq va vg.
-
- The Sensual World:
- Qenj n pybpx bagb gur pbire. Ng gjb b'pybpx gurer'f gur XG flzoby,
- cnvagrq jvgu na nveoehfu. Vg'f abg pyrneyl ivfvoyr ba nyy irefvbaf.
-
- This Woman's Work:
- Are you really that blind? ;-)
-
- The Red Shoes:
- Ybbx qverpgyl nobir 'GR' sebz 'XNGR' (HX irefvba) be nobir 'E' sebz 'ERQ'
- (HF irefvba). Gurer lbh'yy svaq n fyvtugyl orag XG gung ybbxf yvxr n
- cebwrpgvba ba gur tebhaq.
-
- Kate Bush Live at Hammersmith Odeon:
- There is none :-(
-
- 4.11.What about the inscriptions on the vinyl discs?
-
- On a lot of English first pressings of vinyl records you can find an
- inscription in the runout area of the disc. Sometimes these can still
- be found on later pressings, sometimes not. Except for the messages on
- the 'Breathing' and 'There Goes A Tenner' discs these messages do not
- appear on the singles from the 'The Single File' boxed set. Kate does not
- only know about the inscriptions, she even writes them, so most of them
- are of some significance (comments in []s). Most vinyl records do have
- some numbers and/or the name of the mastering facility/person scratched
- in the runout area (e.g. Townhouse, Orlake). These normally appear on
- more than one record and are not written by Kate.
-
- Here's a list of the inscriptions on the first releases of the vinyl
- editions:
-
- Wuthering Heights / Kite:
- Side A: Remember the whales
- [Moving intro sound]
- The Man With The Child In His Eyes / Moving:
- Side A: The child hides in the light
- Hammer Horror / Coffee Homeground
- Side A: Were all playing a hunch
- Wow / Fullhouse:
- Side A: Thank You Emily
- [Emily Bronte, author of the novel Wuthering Heights]
- Breathing / The Empty Bullring:
- Side A: We all share the same air
- [TSF: yes]
- Side B: Happy anniversary to the p's
- [TSF: no]
- Army Dreamers / Delius / Passing Through Air:
- Side A: Life is to love
- December Will Be Magic Again / Warm And Soothing:
- Side A: Happy Christmas
- Sat In Your Lap / Lord Of The Reedy River:
- Side A: Well done JB 1st dan
- [JB is John Barrett (assistant engineer, see SIYL sleeve), not
- John Carder Bush [WW]]
- Side B: Thank you Donovan
- [Donovan wrote Lord Of The Reedy River]
- The Dreaming / Dreamtime:
- Side A: For Rolf
- [Rolf Harris]
- There Goes A Tenner / Ne T'Enfuis Pas:
- Side A: Rays
- [TSF: yes]
- Cloudbusting / Burning Bridge:
- Side A: For Peeps
- Hounds of Love / The Handsome Cabin Boy:
- Side A: Woof!
- This Woman's Work / Be Kind To My Mistakes:
- Side A: "Up yours Ugly!"
- The Red Shoes / You Want Alchemy:
- Side A: One for the Archers
- [= M. Powell + E. Pressburger]
- Side B: Buzzzz
-
- 12" maxi singles:
-
- Hounds of Love:
- Side A: Woof!
- Rubberband Girl:
- Side A: Whack It On
- Moments Of Pleasure:
- Side A: Alive and Kicking
-
- LPs:
-
- The Kick Inside:
- Side A: Remember yourself
- [also on the Portugesian release!]
- Lionheart:
- Side A: Hope you like it
- The Whole Story:
- Side A: KT
- The Red Shoes:
- Side A: For H
-
- Bootlegs:
- (these inscriptions are obviously not written by Kate Bush herself)
-
- Cathy Demos volume one:
- Side A: She smokes the blackest hash
- Side B: Fan fan, Cecile & Jackie
- Cathy Demos volume two:
- Side A: I have bellie bad luck
- Side B: You wished it on yourself
- Cathy Demos volume three:
- Side A: Gee, our old lasalle ran great
- Side B: Big Black Beard
- Cathy Demos volume four:
- Side A: I should be at college or sailing
- Side B: Zezezozee zadfrack glutz
- Cathy Demos volume five:
- Side A: Please don't hurt my baby
- Side B: I'm so happy, 'cause I'm so stupid
-
- This list might not yet be complete, I'd appreciate further info. So
- far there are contributions from [EML], [RG], and [WW].
-
- 4.12.Kate Bush World Wide Web (WWW) pages
-
- Stev0 [SB] provided the following reviews, since I still don't have WWW
- access at home I cannot comment on these.
-
- The Very First Pages to Visit:
-
- Ultimate Band List Kate Card
- http://american.recordings.com/WWWoM/cgi-bin/ubl?card+1032
-
- This is part of the excellent Ultimate Band List, which you should
- definitely bookmark:
-
- Ultimate Band List
- http://198.147.111.1/WWWoM/ubl/ubl.shtml
-
- This is the 'mother of all musical web pages', by far the best general
- source for music information on the web, because it lists almost all
- other resources, including the above Kate Card.
-
- Vickie's Kate Index
- http://miso.wwa.com/~vickie/artists/kb.html
-
- This is basically a HTMLified version of Stev0s full reviews, done by
- Vickie Mapes in a very nice way.
-
- Vickie's Ecto-artists index
- http://miso.wwa.com/~vickie/artists/artists.html
-
- This is Vickie's complete artists index, kind of a specilaized Ultimate
- Band List for people with love-hounds like tastes.
-
- Top-Notch Bookmark These And Come Back Often Pages:
-
- Cloudbusting: Kate Bush in Her Own Words
- http://scott.cogsci.ed.ac.uk/~rjc/hyper_cloud/cloudbusting.html
-
- This is Ron Hill's "Cloudbusting" book (see also section 4.9)
- in a great hypertext format. Also lots of other resources for
- the Serious KateFan(tm).
-
- David Benson's Kate Page:
- http://www.acy.digex.net/~dobenson/kate.html
-
- Some of the BEST photos of Kate I've EVER seen. Now also features
- the Kate Bush Web which works like a newsgroup with real people
- posting (not bots).
-
- The UWP music archives:
- http://archive.uwp.edu/pub/music/artista/b/bush.kate
- ftp://ftp.uwp.edu/pub/music/artists/b/bush.kate/
-
- The first is just a webbified version of the latter, which is the ftp
- version of the UWP music archives. You'll find everything here, though
- only via FTP directories: lyrics, pictures, The Garden, Cloudbusting,
- Moments of Pleasure, and the love-hounds archive. See also sections
- 6.1 and 6.2.
-
- Really Great Must-See Pages:
-
- The Garden:
- http://www.ecto.org/garden/
-
- IED's stunning E-text, "The Garden", in an HTML format done by woj.
- Drawback: Still heavily under construction.
-
- The Kate Bush Musical Extraveganza:
- http://actor.cs.vt.edu/~wentz/index.html
-
- This is done by Brian Wentz <wentz@vt.edu>, and mostly features
- digitized songs by Kate (two from each album), and a digitized
- interview(!) - which, at 10 Meg, is not for those with less-than
- robust computers.
-
- Lionheart
- http://136.169.23.78/Lionheart.html
-
- Run by Stuart Wilsdon. This site has lots of lyrics, lots of images,
- and lots of other nice stuff.
-
- Under the Ivy:
- http://area51.upsu.plym.ac.uk/~garrick/kate_bush.html
-
- Info about Homeground and gatherings of KateFans. Unfortunately, the
- nice scans of Top Of The Pops had to be taken down. But the pictures
- are not lost, here's their new home: [GT]
-
- http://www.lysator.liu.se/~calle/KaTe/
-
- They can also be found in a shockwave movie at No Dead Trees:
-
- http://www.acy.digex.net/~dobenson/benson.html
-
- See These Pages When You Have the Time:
-
- Experiment IV:
- http://www.aitec.edu.au/ExpIV/
-
- Nice layout of stuff that's going to come "Real Soon Now".
- Drawback: Page is all excited about "Kate's soon-to-be released album,
- 'Never For Ever'."
-
- Sony Music's "Official" Kate Bush Web Page
- http://www.music.sony.com/Music/ArtistInfo/KateBush.html
-
- This page mostly covers information in this FAQ and offers some nice
- photos seen never before. Sony Music is the label Kate has been signed
- with in America since The Sensual World. Unfortunately, there's not
- much more than these three interesting GIFs.
-
- Minor Kate Pages:
- (they may be tiny, but they're mostly worth seeing)
-
- Marcel's advertisement for his "Kate Covered" project:
- http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/marcel/katebush.htm
-
- If you want to join the crowd doing cover versions of Kate songs for
- Marcel's project, check this out!
-
- The Illustrated Guide to Kate Bush:
- http://www.icom.ca/cgpinc/kate.htm
-
- This is about the book with the same name (see section 4.7).
-
- The Lovehounds T-shirt Page:
- http://www.chaco.com/~stev0/lhshirt.html
-
- This shows Stev0 wearing a love-hounds T-shirt (see section 1.5).
-
- Music Kate Did for Fruitopia Commercials:
- http://www.click3x.com/spots/fruitopia.html
- http://www.click3x.com/spots/fruitopia95.html
-
- The Red Shoes discography:
- http://www.epcc.ed.ac.uk/~st/kt93.txt
-
- This is Scott Telford's compilation of The Red Shoes related releases.
-
- Obligitory Yahoo Link:
- http://www.yahoo.com/Entertainment/Music/Artists/Bush__Kate/
-
- New And Therefore Not Yet Rated By Stev0 Pages:
-
- The Kate Bush VRML site:
- http://fly.hiwaay.net/~cbullard/index.htm.
-
- You need a Netscape browser with a Live3D plug in for these four
- virtual reality worlds there. These pages need a while to load over
- the net, because they're quite big. [LB]
-
- To use these services you need a direct internet connection and a WWW
- client, for example Mosaic. WWW is a worldwide multimedia hypertext
- document system where you basically can use your mouse to navigate
- through myriads of documents all somehow linked to each other.
-
-
-
- 5. Questions about Kate's music
-
- This area is divided into the different albums as well as a section
- for the home demo recordings and for miscellaneous tracks.
-
- The lyrics for all of the songs can be found on both gaffa relevant
- ftp sites: ftp.uu.net and ftp.uwp.edu. They are too long to be cited
- here. The file
- ftp://ftp.uu.net/usenet/rec.music.gaffa/kb/lyrics/most-lyrics.ied
- contains all lyrics up to The Sensual World and its singles, including
- all non-official songs and all non-official parts of the lyrics (backing
- vocals, spoken passages etc.)
-
- Right now there are areas where I haven't found the time to say
- something. Feel free to contribute!
-
- More information about most of the songs can be found in the archives,
- so sometimes I will only give a pointer to a long story if it is too
- long to be cited here in full.
-
- 5.1. The Cathy Demos / The Studio Demos
-
- Kate has never commented on any bootleg material, and so she hasn't
- said anything about these as bootlegs. But she has said plenty of
- things about these recordings - generally to the effect that there
- are about 200 or more of them (20-30 have been 'released' on bootlegs)
- and that they should remain buried and will never re-record any of them.
- The sound quality of all of them reminds of a boombox set to 'record' in a
- living room. Nevertheless most fans do LOVE these songs and would almost
- kill to hear the rest.
-
- 5.2. The Kick Inside
-
- First something about the album itself. There are six completely
- different album covers for this album:
-
- 1. UK (big eyeball and Kate on a kite)
- 2. US (Country & Western, Kate in a wooden box wearing red socks)
- 3. Canada (Vogue picture, Kate holding her head with her hands, was
- also used for 1st US pressing)
- 4. Japan (pink leotard picture)
- 5. Yugoslavia (white dress picture)
- 6. Uruguay (Kate's head only, technically a very low-quality picture)
-
- The last two are quite difficult to find and everything but cheap, the
- others should be relatively easy to find and are also available as CDs.
-
- Wuthering Heights
- Kate's first hit and (until now) only British number one single
- is based on Emily Bronte's novel of the same name, though Kate
- first saw the old film of it and later read the book.
-
- 5.3. Lionheart
-
- Coffee Homeground
- This song features three lines in German, but it's not as prominent as
- in Hello Earth. The lines read "Es schmeckt wunderbar" (it tastes
- wonderful), "Noch ein Glass mein Liebchen/Liebling" (another glass, my
- darling), and (maybe) "Dann sterb ich wohl" (then I will die). The
- last of these is still not yet finally decided, since it's even
- difficult for native speakers of German to make out. It might be
- something completely different, only Kate can tell...
-
- 5.4. Never for Ever
-
- Delius:
- Frederick Delius is a classical composer who lived and worked ca. 50
- years ago. There's also a film about him and Eric Fenby ("in B,
- Fenby!") who worked for Delius by writing down the compositions for
- him (Delius was paralysed and couldn't do that by himself anymore).
- Excerpts from that film are shown during an interview of Eric Fenby,
- Kate Bush and Julian Lloyd-Webber in the Russel Harty Show. During
- that show the video to the song Delius was shown for the second time
- (the Dr. Hook special being the first time).
-
- The Infant Kiss:
- The song is inspired by the movie "The Innocents", starring Deborah
- Kerr, which is based on Henry James' book "Turn of the Screw".
-
- 5.5. The Dreaming
-
- Leave It Open:
- The 'backwards' lyrics at the end of the song aren't really backwards.
- They've been recorded backwards, but they are pretty much straight
- forward and say "we let the wierdness in". Kate listened to the
- phrase backwards and tried to sing what she heard, which then was
- played backwards again - resulting in a wierd sounding forward phrase.
- On the other hand, you can hear something backwards as well: "And they
- said they won't let me in" (this isn't official, while the forward
- phrase is - it was a long unanswered quiz question in the KBC).
-
- Houdini:
- Harry Houdini (born Erich Weiss) was an escapologist who managed to
- escape by using a key that was passed to him by his wife Bess with a
- kiss she always gave him before he was bound and drowned. ("With a
- kiss, I'd pass the key.") Now Houdini and his wife previously agreed
- on a secret code ("Rosabel, believe!"), which he should use via a
- medium after his death to let her know about after-life. At one point
- Bess was given the code by a "psychic," but she later found out that he
- obtained it from a former servant of Houdini's (it *was* simply their
- favorite song, rather than some involved code.) So, it's easy to see
- how the confusion has happened. Bess *once* stated that a "psychic"
- had given her the code, then she retracted that statement. As usually
- happens, the people who want to believe in "psychic phenomena" accept
- want they want and disregard the rest. So the first claim of contact
- is more widely reported than the true (but less romantic) story.
- Kate's song is closer in the details to the Hollywood film starring
- Tony Curtis than to the real events of Houdini's life and art. This is
- in no way intended to disparage Kate's song, which concentrates on the
- *emotional*, rather than the biographical aspects of Houdini and Bess'
- relationship. [some of this by CW]
-
- 5.6. Hounds of Love
-
- Hounds of Love:
- The beginning ("It's in the trees! It's coming!") is from the 1957
- UK horror movie "Night of the Demons" (US title: "Curse Of The Demon",
- original title: "Casting The Runes"), though Kate re-recorded the bit,
- because she couldn't get enough quality from the original.
- Another conection of that film to Kate's work is in "The Line, The
- Cross & The Curve", where as in the film symbols drawn on paper have
- great power.
-
- Cloudbusting:
- This is based on Peter Reich's book "A Book Of Dreams" (you can see
- this book in the video, in Donald Sutherland's pocket). Peter writes
- about his experience in his youth, when Wilhelm Reich (his father)
- got problems with the government due to his questionable actions as a
- scientist. Wilhelm got arrested and died while in prison, and this
- experience later made the then-9-years-old Peter write "A Book Of
- Dreams". Wilhelm was arrested for refusing to appear at an arrangement
- hearing that resulted from a lawsuit by the American FDA for selling
- his "orgone energy accumulators" across state lines. The FDA said it
- was quackery to sell these boxes made of aluminum and wood as
- therapeutic devices; Reich insisted it was serious science and refused
- to have anything to do with these "spurious" legal restrictions on his
- research and therapy. Of course, he was quite mad by then - this was
- nearly a decade after he claimed that orgone energy was not simply the
- libidinal buildup that resulted from a lack of proper sexual release,
- but was also the substance out of which the whole universe was formed.
- Interestingly, several well-known people, including Norman Mailer,
- had orgone accumulators. More about Wilhelm Reich can be found in the
- file ftp://ftp.uu.net/usenet/rec.music.gaffa/kb/reich .
- [part of this is from JAC (see credits section)]
-
- There is no such thing as a song called Cloudbursting (regard the
- spelling), and there is no remix of Cloudbusting called The
- Meteorological Mix, despite of what EMI America wants to tell us.
- EMI UK isn't really better, for the real spelling of what the world
- knows as the Organon Mix should have been Orgonon Mix (Orgonon was
- the name of Reich's home/center in Maine, Orgone energy was Reich's
- subject of studies). [IED]
-
- The song name comes from hunting clouds, not from breaking them, and
- the remix called Meteorological Mix is from The Big Sky. There are
- two remixes of Cloudbusting: The Orgonon Mix and the video version.
-
- Hello Earth:
- At the end of "Hello, Earth" the German words are: "Tiefer, tiefer,
- irgendwo in der Tiefe gibt es ein Licht" This means: "deeper, deeper,
- somewhere in the depth there is a light." They are not spoken by
- Kate, but by Gabi Zangerl, a friend of Kate.
- The choir part of this song was inspired by Werner Herzog's film
- Nosferatu that features a very similar chant. Recently it became known
- that the chant originates from Georgia, it's a traditional lyrical song
- from Kakheti-Kartli, the easternmost region of the (former Soviet)
- Republic of Georgia, the area around Tbilisi, the capital. The song is
- actually best transliterated as "tsintsqaro" (At the Spring, By the
- Source or At the Well), a boy meets girl love song. You might find
- this song, also spelled as Tshintsharo or Zinzgaro, on some CDs with
- traditional Georgian music (eg "The Marvels of Polyphony in
- Sakartvelo", CD Ethnic Sound Series #17, Victor, Japan 1987). [W, CHB]
-
- 5.7. The Sensual World
-
- The Sensual World
- This song at first should have included the original lyrics of the
- end monologue of Molly Bloom in James Joyce's "Ulysses", but Kate
- didn't get permission, so she had to rewrite them.
-
- Ken
- The Confrontation
- One Last Look Around The House Before We Go
- These three pieces appeared in the soundtrack to the half hour
- British TV programme "The Comic Strip Presents... G.L.C". G.L.C.
- stands for Greater London Council, Ken was played by Robbie Coltrane,
- playing Charles Bronson, as 'Red' Ken Livingstone, who was - as the
- song 'Ken' reminds us - the leader of the G.L.C. 'Red', that is, as
- referring to his hard-left policies. Ken was fighting against the
- 'Iron Lady' Margaret Thatcher.
- [partially from TC]
-
- 5.8. The Red Shoes
-
- Moments of Pleasure
- This song is Kate's tribute of several of her friends who've
- passed away. Murph is Alan Murphy, her guitarist who died in
- 1993(?) of AIDS. Bill is Bill Duffield, the lighting technician
- for The Tour of Life, who died in an accident while setting up
- for the tour. "Teddy" is the late John Barratt, assistant engineer at
- Abbey Road Studios during the recording sessions for "Never for Ever".
- Bubba is for Gary Hurst (dancer in '79 tour), Maureen is Kate's
- aunt [YS, WW]. No one (except Kate, as far as I know - [SB]) knows who
- anyone else is in this song, especially "George the Wipe". The verse
- about the "balcony in New York" refers to her meeting of Michael
- Powell, director of the film "The Red Shoes".
-
- 5.9. Miscellaneous
-
- December Will Be Magic Again
- This is originally a single on its own, but has now been used in
- almost too many singles as a b-side (Experiment IV, Moments Of
- Pleasure (UK)), and is quite often used on Christmas samplers by EMI.
- One of these featured an alternate ('bongo') version of the song.
-
- Experiment IV
- This is the 'teaser' for the semifans on the sampler The Whole Story.
-
- Rocket Man
- Candle In The Wind
- The Elton John cover version Rocket Man appeared on the Elton John
- and Bernie Taupin tribute album Two Rooms featuring a whole bunch
- of cover versions. Rocket Man also is available as a single where
- it is backed with another EJ cover, Candle In The Wind, which is
- available in a normal and an instrumental version.
-
- Brazil
- This cover of the 30s song was originally supposed to be included
- in the film of the same name. Unfortunately it was left out. But
- we were lucky, since the soundtrack for Brazil (which only appeared
- in 1992) includes the song.
-
- Fruitopia Commercials
- Kate did the music for nine commericials only seen on American TV
- for Fruitopia, a line of fruit drinks produced by Minute Maid (which
- is a subsidiary of the Coca-Cola company). There was also a longer
- advertisement seen in movie theatres which Kate also did the music
- for. Another series of Fruitopia Commercials just started, the
- first one being spotted during a commercial break of the '95 Academy
- Awards show. The British versions of the Fruitopia commercials don't
- contain Kate's music, but rather Elisabeth Fraser from the Cocteau
- Twins. The original US commercials (i.e. those with Kate's music)
- do have caleidoscopic effects, short subtitles, and just Kate's music
- on the audio channel. Kate's voice can be heard, though there are
- no words to be understood.
-
-
- 6. The Archives
-
- The Love-Hounds archive resides on ftp.uu.net [137.39.1.9], in the
- directory /usenet/rec.music.gaffa - if you don't know how to do ftp
- (or what ftp is), then see section 6.3.
-
- All addresses are given as URLs (Universal Resource Locators), the address
- format of WWW. URLs always begin with the service it uses, here always
- ftp. The complete URLs here look like following:
-
- ftp://machine/path/file
-
- or
-
- ftp://machine/path/directory/
-
- Without URL-capable software this means to enter
-
- ftp machine
- [login procedure for anonymous ftp, see 6.3, don't forget 'bin'!]
- get /path/file
-
- There's also an incoming directory [which may not work].
-
- Most of these files can also be found on Dave Datta's music archive
- residing on ftp.uwp.edu, though they are in different directories there.
-
- 6.1. Previous messages from Love-Hounds
-
- All previous messages from Love-Hounds can be ftped from the archives,
- residing in yearly directories under
-
- ftp://ftp.uu.net/usenet/rec.music.gaffa/archives/
-
- Often the archives are a bit behind reality, uunet often refuses uploads
- nowadays.
-
- 6.2. Other files
-
- All other files are in ftp://ftp.uu.net/usenet/rec.music.gaffa/kb/ , these
- include:
-
- - The three electronic books mentioned above
- - lyrics to ALL songs
- - interviews
- - reviews
- - pictures, mostly GIF, all under .../kb/pix:
- - from the 1990 Kate Bush Convention, including pics of Kate's house
- and a Love-Hounds group pic (lovename.pic)
- - from the Cathy book (cathy??.gif)
- - from the This Woman's Work booklet (TWW??.gif)
- - from the Tour of Live booklet (page_??.gif)
- - from all albums [anyone with The Red Shoes?]
- - and uncounted more
-
- To view these GIFs you will need a program for your type of computer.
- Public domain picture file viewers include CSHOW and PICEM for the IBM,
- TURBOGIF and HAMGIF for the Amiga, Giffer or QuickGif for the
- Macintosh, xv for X-Windows, and ImageViewer for the NeXT.
-
- 6.3. How to do ftp?
-
- To use ftp directly you have to have direct access to the internet.
-
- You connect by typing
-
- ftp ftp.UU.NET [or: ftp 137.39.1.9]
-
- Log in as "anonymous" or "ftp" and use your username as your password.
- To change directories e.g. type
-
- cd /usenet/rec.music.gaffa
-
- Other commands are:
-
- dir <dirname> [get a directory, <dirname> is optional, current
- if omitted]
- get <filename> [get the requested file]
- bin [set transfer to binary mode, this is needed
- for pictures and compressed files. Best is
- if you always do 'bin' first, so you don't
- forget]
- bye [end the ftp session]
-
- If you don't have FTP (file transfer ability) you can still get the files
- by using an FTP mail server run by DEC. You send it a list of commands
- and then it sends you the files as regular mail messages, so anyone who
- has the ability to send and receive private mail can use this. If a file
- is larger then 60k it will be send as more than one message.
-
- If you want to GET binary files (GIF picture files, Wordperfect files, or
- anything that's not straight text) it will send you the files in a
- special text format called UUENCODED, you will need a program called
- UUDECODE for your computer to decode these. Note that this is not always
- the most reliable way of getting files, i.e. you may have to do it
- several times.
-
- To start off using this, send a message to ftpmail@decwrl.dec.com, the
- first message should read simply HELP - don't bother with a subject line
- as these are ignored. You will be sent back the basic commands and some
- examples, read this carefully (as much as you are able to understand).
- Here are some specific examples for accessing the Love-Hounds archives,
- don't type the parts in brackets []. Note that when typing in file
- names, upper and lower case are important! Parts in <> have to replaced
- by something useful.
-
- [There is another similar service that can be reached at
- bitftp@pucc.Princeton.edu - send a message with body HELP (subject
- isn't important), and you will receive instructions. This site seems
- to be faster than ftpmail@decwrl.dec.com]
-
- -> Connect to the archives and get a directory of some of the main areas:
-
- reply <your address> [this may or may not be needed on all
- messages for your system]
- connect ftp.UU.NET [connect to the file archives]
- chdir usenet/rec.music.gaffa/kb [change to the main area, only one
- CHDIR per session]
- dir [get directory of main area]
- dir garden [get directory of GARDEN files]
- dir cloudbusting [get directory of Cloudbusting dirs]
- dir pix [get dir of pix directories]
- quit
-
- -> Connect to the Cloudbusting section and get some text files:
-
- reply <your address>
- connect ftp.UU.NET
- chdir usenet/rec.music.gaffa/kb/cloudbusting/text
- [change to Cloudbusting subdirectory]
- get cloud1a.txt [GET a file]
- get cloud1b.txt [GET another file, only 10 at once]
- get cloud1c.txt
- quit
-
- -> Connect to the GARDEN section and get some GARDEN files:
-
- reply <your address>
- connect ftp.UU.NET
- chdir usenet/rec.music.gaffa/kb/garden
- [change to garden subdirectory]
- get GARDEN01 [GET first GARDEN file]
- get GARDEN02 [GET another file, only 10 at once]
- quit
-
- -> Connect to pix.hill and get Love-Hounds picture:
-
- reply <your address>
- connect ftp.UU.NET
- chdir usenet/rec.music.gaffa/kb/pix/pix.hill
- uuencode [specify UUENCODE format]
- binary [specify BINARY format]
- get LOVENAME.GIF
- quit
-
- If you can't FTP and you don't have the patience to figure all this out,
- the BBSes listed above offer the GIFs and many of the other files too.
-
-
-
- 7. Credits
-
- The history of this FAQ starts with Jorn Barger writing a first FAQ for
- rec.music.gaffa/Love-Hounds. Later Ron Hill continued writing it.
- After Ron stopped to post I (i.e. Uli Grepel) continued this with a
- halfway rewrite. Even if I've written a lot of the stuff above it's not
- all my knowledge, it's yours, since I've pulled most of it from
- rec.music.gaffa itself. To list the contributors in finest detail would
- be impossible, since there are so many, especially of those who 'just
- pointed out some errors' to me. Steve Berlin, who spell checked it,
- and wrote small (very small - [SB]) parts of this FAQ.
-
- Some contributors that I somehow do remember (feel free to suggest more,
- I'll verify it...):
-
- AK: Aaro Koskinen <Aaro.Koskinen@Helsinki.FI>
- AR: Andrew Russ <endwar@phys.psu.edu>
- AR2: Aaron Ridlex <RIDLEY@ZASU.SPRL.UMICH.EDU>
- BLR: Brian L. Rachford <rachford@uwyo.edu>
- BW: Bill Wisner <wisner@uunet.uu.net>
- CHB: "Charles H. Baum" <au766@freenet.carleton.ca>
- CW: Chris Williams <chrisw@fciad2.bsd.uchicago.edu>
- DC: Dominic Chua <audrey@signet.com.sg>
- DC2: David Clarke <ac151@freenet.carleton.ca>
- DMcK: Daniel Kian Mc Kiernan <dmckiern@weber.ucsd.edu>
- DR: Dirk Rosholt <rosholt@pipeline.com>
- DR2: David Reff <dsearch@aol.com>
- E: Elana <elana@netcom.com>
- EML: Emmy May Lombaerts <lombaeg@donald.interpac.be>
- GP: Gregg Primm <gprimm@vnet.net>
- GT: Garrick Twinney <garrick@area51.upsu.plym.ac.uk>
- IED: Andrew Marvick <IEDSRI@aol.com>
- JAC: James Alexander Chokey <jchokey@leland.Stanford.EDU>
- JC: John Copeland <copelandj@aspen.uml.edu>
- KLN: "Karen L. Newcombe" <kln@a.crl.com>
- KO: Kathleen Ostridge <birdie@netcom.com>
- LB: Len Bullard <cbullard@HiWAAY.net>
- MR: Marcel Rijs <mfgr@bart.nl>
- MT: Meredith Tarr <meth@delphi.com>
- NB: Norman Buchwald <nbuchwa1@ix.netcom.com>
- PC: Peter Chow <100427.2530@compuserve.com>
- RG: Ronald Girardin <Ronald.Girardin@Dartmouth.EDU>
- RH: Ron Hill <76375.3340@compuserve.com>
- RMC: Robb McCaffree <nsrjm@nursepo.medctr.ucla.edu>
- SB: Steve Berlin <stev0@chaco.com>
- SMC: "Stuart M. Castergine" <scasterg@cd.columbus.oh.us>
- SZ: Steve ZPJ <zpj@huskbeat.demon.co.uk>
- TC: The Crow <thecrow@eskimo.com>
- TC2: Tippi Chai <aj796@freenet.carleton.ca>
- VM: Vickie Mapes <vickie@wwa.com>
- W: Willtre <willtre@aol.com>
- WW: Wieland Willker <willker@chemie.uni-bremen.de>
- YS: Yamamoto Sozo
-
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- "What the world or Kate doesn't need is any more 'casual Kate Bush
- fans'... What the world and Kate need is more FUCKING KATE BUSH
- MANIACS." - IED
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- "Any day now." - The Kate Bush fan mantra.
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- "I think you're all completely mad, and thank you very much."
- - Kate Bush to her fans.
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- "Take your bizarre and petty discussions elsewhere." - New Fan
- "This *IS* 'elsewhere'." - |>oug, Love-Hounds founder
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- "How do you sing normally?" - Ray Cokes
- "I try to sing in tune" - Kate Bush
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