Kate Bush

[RobB]

Here's a very early tv appearence by Kate Bush from early 1978 ........i can hardly believe that its 32 years ago.

Stina would have been a week away from her 9th birthday when this was broadcast.

(embedding has been disabled so you'll need to click again on the 'watch on youtube' link)

[pgss]

I really think that Kate Bush has aged gracefully . She looks quite young nowadays.

[RobB]

When she made her last video for 'King Of The Mountain', she apparently made it clear to the director that they had to make her look young.

[blue]

Did she indeed? I bet that's dented the illusions of a few Homeground types.

Sort of explains why in the few promo photos for Aerial she was continually holding her face up!

[RobB]

yep, keep those saggy multi-chins at bay.

[blue]

To be fair, I rather admire Kate for not going down the Botox/surgery route - that's why I was sort of disappointed at the obvious airbrushing of her Aerial photos, and the 'holding her face back' pose. There was a completely natural photo of her in Q magazine a couple of years before Aerial was released, you probably know the one I mean Rob, where she has a huge smile on her face and her wrinkles are borne proudly. She looked beautiful to me, a pretty woman ageing gracefully.

[d.a.walker]

I'm currently in the midsts of a Kate frenzy having just finally got the remaining studio albums I was missing, The Dreaming & Lionheart.

Now I'm wondering if my opinion on what her best work is will change. Currently Never For Ever is on top, for a long time though it was The Sensual World (which I've only recently purchased on cd after years of vinyl - amusingly the cd I got is a vinyl replica from Japan, very lovely cd in mini vinyl packaging)

[RobB]

I'm currently in the midsts of a Kate frenzy having just finally got the remaining studio albums I was missing, The Dreaming & Lionheart.

Oh well, you've only missed the boat by 28 & 32 years respectively.

I'm not sure what i would make of Lionheart if i was discovering it now for the first time?

happy birthday Daniel....enjoy your KB birthday frenzy. [bday]

[d.a.walker]

Haha I was 3 when Lionheart came out!! I remember it well as I couldn't get down to HMV because I was watching Rainbow

I'm already loving The Dreaming...

[RobB]

Haha I was 3 when Lionheart came out!! I remember it well as I couldn't get down to HMV because I was watching Rainbow

Wow....you were going to Ritchie Blackmore gigs as a three year old? I'm impressed.

I'm already loving The Dreaming...

That album is to Kate what Dynamite is to Stina !!!

I love 'Suspended In Gaffa'....should have been a single in the UK instead of 'The Dreaming'.
'Sat In Your Lap' was a single of course but was released eighteen months before the album,far too early for the album to benefit from the hit single.

[blue]

'The Dreaming' will always stand up as one of the best albums ever made I think, it was genuinely out there, unique and strange and thrilling. Her best work as far as I'm concerned.

I hardly ever listen to Kate these days, but the odd time I do it's invariably The Dreaming. 'Houdini' is one of my favourite tracks ever, by anyone.

[pgss]

Funny, I tend to listen to The Red Shoes most of the time. It includes the best song of Kate: Moments of Pleasure. I play that song sometimes endlessly on repeat. I can listen to it all day.

[blue]

Looking back, I think I was really over my Kate phase when The Red Shoes was released, which is why I found it so awful. A couple of years previously I would probably have lapped up a song like 'Moments of Pleasure', but in '93 it seemed cloyingly sentimental to me - lovely music, but the lyrics/vocal turned me right off. Then when I saw the relevant sequence from the accompanying film it just put the tin lid on it for me, I couldn't stop laughing, especially at the bit where she sings 'the buildings of New York' and actually POINTS to the backdrop of New York. Still makes me giggle now.

I do wish I'd kept or recorded to mindisc the instrumental version of the song that appeared on one of the vinyl singles, because I did like that a lot. The strings are beautiful.

[d.a.walker]

I loved The Red Shoes at the time, but in retrospect compared to her other albums it's very much the deformed sister locked in the attic.

I think Moments Of Pleasure is a bit of a This Woman's Work knock off. I do absolutely love the title track of the album though. Despite it's god awful music video (which Kate described as absolute bollocks )

Never For Ever is my favourite, she feels so adventurous and energetic on it

[blue]

The title track and 'Why Should I Love You' are really the only things I like from that record.

I'm glad she realised what a balls-up she made of the film, at least it stopped her doing another one! To be fair though she got one thing right in her film debut, the cinematography is beautiful - they really managed to capture those gorgeous rich colours that the Powell and Pressburger movies were so famous for. Just a shame the story, dialogue and acting didn't do the cinematograpy justice.