NetNews Usenet Archive 1992 #31/NN_1992_31.iso/spool/rec/music/gaffa/3946

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Date: Sat, 2 Jan 1993 23:00:51 -0500
Subject: *Monthly FAQ for people who know "there really is a lot in vegetables"PARTI
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NEWSGROUPS

Rec.music.gaffa is a 7-year-old newsgroup dedicated to the sublime,
peerless artistic genius of Kate Bush, her fans, and other
"progressive" artists.  "Gaffa" comes from her song "Suspended in
Gaffa" (on _The_Dreaming_), and (according to Kate) refers to gaffer's
tape, or duct tape, used to keep people from tripping over electrical
cabling, and metaphorically, apparently, to a frustrating sort of
limbo-dimension ("the idea of seeing something incredibly beautiful,
having a religious experience... but not being able to get back
there"):

"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?"

Submissions to Rec.music.gaffa are forwarded to an extensive mailing
list of people without netnews access.  This means that anyone with the
ability to send and receive mail can take part.  The mailing list was
r.m.g's original format, when started by |>oug /\lan so many years ago.
 Together, the mailing list and r.m.g. form an informal fan club called
"Love-Hounds."  You can mail submissions, without fear of censorship,
to:

[e-mail]

Especially rabid Hounds subscribe to the list as well as reading
r.m.g.,  because glitches can cause you to miss messages [hopefully
fixed with the new system]. To subscribe to the mailing list, send a
friendly message to the
"moderator", Bill Wisner (who's actually in California), via:

[e-mail]

It is possible to subscribe via various other email services:
Compuserve, MCI-Mail, FidoNet, SprintMail, GENIE, Peacenet, Bix,
Envoy-100, Connect, and others.  For example, Compuserve users can use
the above addresses with ">INTERNET:" in front of them.  Right now,
Prodigy, and America OnLine are NOT possible gateways to Usenet.
Love-Hound Richard Caldwell offers access for the price of your
long-distance call via the Big Sky BBS, 24 hours a day at 614-864-1198
(1200 or 2400 baud).  There is also a Kate-related BBS in Canada called
Night Scented Stock, run by the lengendary former editor of the
fanzines BREATHROUGH and Still Breathing.  It's unfortunately note
connect to love-hounds, but may soon be. 1-604-572-4733.

Love-Hounds was founded with the idea of being a newgroup about
"Progressive Artists with emphasis on Kate Bush", so discussions about
other "progressive artists" are generally encouraged.  However,
occasionly the talk about a different artist grows to a point where it
is appropiate to form a seperate group.  This is what happened with
Happy Rhodes, whose CD "Warpaint" has spawned a #1 hit on
Philadelphia's NPR station.  HR traffic has been moved to a
mailing-list that grows more and more active and now includes many
other female artists, shadowing the gaffa-flow.  You can send a request
to subscribe to Jessica via: [e-mail], to post a
message [e-mail].  Ordering info for Happy's tapes:
Aural Gratification, POB 8658 Academy Station, Albany NY 12208. Tapes
are $9.99 plus $2.00 s&h ($0.35 each add'l tape or CD): Vol 1, Vol 2,
Rearmament, Ecto, and Warpaint.  CDs are $13.99 and $2 shipping. UK:
#8/tape, #11/CD, incl. s&h.)

Still another spin-off is the Tori Amos mailing list:
Really-Deep-Thoughts.
The address to subscribe to the mailing list is:
[e-mail].
The address to post to the mailing list is:
[e-mail].
The purpose of the list is to discuss and disseminate information
about Tori Amos and her music, and anything else that seems relevant.

There is also a Roy Harper mailing list. The subscription address is
[e-mail]. Stormcock is the name of his "classic"
album.

There is also "Kate-talk", a process that allows fans to talk to each
other in real time.  For more info contact Jessica at
[e-mail], who provides the following information: You
need a unix machine or a vms machine, connected directly to the
internet. It compiles fairly easily on most unix machines. If you have
trouble with yours, I'm willing to help get it running. Client programs
can be ftped from hardees.rutgers.edu in ~ftp/pub/icb-client.tar.Z for
the unix client and in the pub/icb directory for the vms client.  I
know nothing about vms, and do not have a vms account, so I can't help
much for vms people, and I don't have a clue what to do with the files
that are there. I'd appreciate someone on a vms system trying it out
for me :)

Topics of interest to Love-Hounds include other alternative female
artists, and Kate-related others like Peter Gabriel and Roy Harper,
and, for that matter, anything sproingy, or not-so-sproingy.  Many new
discoveries have been brought to our attention by Vickie Mapes (of
Vickie'n'Chris), whose definitively sproingy radio show "Suspended in
Gaffa" focuses on alternative female artists, airing Wednesdays from 7
to 8pm on WZRD in Chicago (88.3 FM), and Saturdays from 10 to 12pm on
KKFI (90.1 FM) in Kansas City.  Vickie is especially big on Jane
Siberry, the soon-to-be-superstar from Albany Happy Tyler Rhodes, and
Victoria Williams.

A less-frequent visitor these days is the numinous curmudgeon "IED",
Andy Marvick's self-parody as the ultimate "true believer" Katefan.
IED used to act as the flame-wielding bouncer of the group, but seems
to have mellowed of late into the more natural role of encyclopedic
demigod.  Come back soon, IED!

Katefans are generally the nicest people you could hope to meet, but
r.m.g. does erupt fairly regularly into classic Usenet flamewar-
behavior.  **We're les concierges, chez-nous, honey, and we let the
weirdness in.**  This tender agreement sometimes gets abused, and we
try to do the best we can to uphold our ideals in the face of mindless
astral violence, as Kate would surely want.  (If you consider that what
you write here may one day be read by her... be kind to everybody's
mistakes, huh?)  Newcomers can rest assured that you are welcome to
participate, and if you feel ignored or incinerated you can be pretty
sure it's nothing personal, and persist until you feel accepted... for
if your interest is genuine, you certainly will be.  The best way to
deal with rude and/or uninteresting posts is to ignore then and post
something positive and interesting.

Abbreviations commonly used on Love-Hounds include sideways faces, such
as :-), IMHO (In My Humble Opinion), ROFL (Rolling on the floor) and
the initials of Kate's songs, such as RUTH for Running Up That Hill.

Love-Hounds celebrate Kate's birthday (Katemas) each year around July
30, with parties all over the world.  1991 saw parties in Boston,
Washington DC, Cleveland, San Jose, Seattle, Austin, Dallas, Iowa City,
Chapel Hill, Chicago, Ipswich UK, Sweden, and two sites in Australia.
1992 saw parties in Boston, San Fransisco, Chicago, Australia, Israel,
and San Diego.


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