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A brief write-up from Irish newspaper The Evening Herald about The Sensual Walk on Saturday is here. Thanks to everyone who took part – a great day as always!

Walpurgis Family (Jeroen Saegeman) performing ‘Pull out the Pin’ up on Howth Head, as part of The Sensual Walk, June 13th 2009

This year I’m again organising the very enjoyable Sensual Walk gathering for fans and friends in Howth, Dublin, Ireland on Saturday June 13th 2009. I’m posting details for this event on this forum thread here. Please don’t hesitate to email me if you are interested in joining us or if you have any other questions, I’ll be happy to help you out. Hope to see some of you on the hill! Sean T 🙂

I’d like to wish all our site visitors and forum members a very merry Christmas, and all the very best for a wise and healthy 2008! Thanks for all your support this year – a year which unexpectedly ended with Kate singing the theme song to a film that has hit No.1 in the box office on both sides of the Atlantic – great stuff. We especially wish Kate and her family all the very best for the Christmas season and a bright and happy new year. 2008 sees a number of landmarks in Kate Bush fandom, not least the 30th Anniversary of Kate’s first record, Wuthering Heights, and her debut album, The Kick Inside. We’ll even be celebrating 10 years of this website – any excuse for a party eh? Best wishes – Sean.

Regular visitors to the site and forum will know that, lacking live shows to attend, Kate Bush fans have a tendency to organise informal gatherings to meet up with like-minded souls for chat, fun and merry-making. These events are listed in the Announcements & Fan Events section of our forum. I’m giving this first Irish gathering a special mention as I’m organising this one myself! You can click on the banner below for all the up-to-date details or please email me with any questions, whether you’re an Irish fan or coming along from further afield. The event itself consists of a meet-up at the summit of Howth Head, a pleasant stroll along the cliff walk (40 minutes or so) and an afternoon and evening quenching our collective thirst in the fishing village of Howth in the Abbey Tavern (one of the oldest pubs in Dublin) – toasting Kate, James Joyce and the Blooms – it’s happening onBloomsday you know! Music on the hill will be provided by Thinguma*jigSaw and Mike Stevens. Hope to see some of you there – Sean.

Here’s a little something Brian rustled up – some decoration for your computer, click image to enlarge 🙂

Blimey! What an amazing 2005 we’ve had. The album and single have been hugely successful, Kate has produced probably the most beautiful work of her career thus far and the critical reception from the media and fans has been overwhelming in its positivity. It is almost too much to take in to be honest. Here’s hoping that you all enjoy the seasonal good cheer and that the album continues to surprise and delight you as we embrace the Christmas holiday. Thank you all SO much for the support you’ve given to this site, to the forum and to HomeGround Magazine (what a brilliant new issue!) over the past year – you are all truly fantastic. Special thanks to Kate for this amazing new music.

Hi all. As we gear up for KB8 it’s become obvious to me that I need more space. The old site was hosted for free with eircom.net and is limited to 10MB in size – basically, it’s full! So I have moved the entire site over to this new address which gives me 25 times the space to host the site, much more control and basically puts me in a much better position to cope with the daily news that’s going to be pouring in come album time. This improved hosting is going to cost money so I will have to consider some sort of discreet advertising (such as Google ads) somewhere on the site, something that I’ve managed to avoid for the last 7 and a half years. Don’t worry, I hate ad banners so will keep it to a minumum! The old eircom address will remain for the time being but please do update your bookmarks and spread the word. At the moment the new address simply mirrors all of the content from the old site, but over the next while I will be re-structuring the news section to deal with the practicalities of the upcoming expected volume of updates. Thanks as always for all your help and support, here’s looking forward to the excitement of hearing that voice again. Seán T

Shameless plug: Thought you might be interested to hear that some friends of mine in the Dublin band Settler have been invited over to Chicago by “I Wanna Be Kate” tribute CD producer Thomas Dunning to take part in some shows around the city over Easter. Although no Kate songs will be performed (well, on stage anyway), the band will be involved in Tom’s famous Hoot Nite on March 27th in Schubas, the theme of the night is “The Cure vs Diana Ross”, so its battle of the big hair-dos! Those wanting to find out more about Tom’s tribute album (Kate loved his CD by the way, she said “I think it’s absolutely wonderful…”) go to this page. If you’d like to read more about a Dublin band on the up, read more about my Settler pals here. And finally don’t worry, while I’m away in Chicago The Duck will be here in case of any important updates. Just wanted to fill you in on an exciting site-related happening, many thanks again to Tom.

Kate News Now In Japanese! Our friend Sozo in Japan has taken on the mammoth task of translating this website’s news pages into his native language. You can see the results of all his hard work here. (thanks and well done to Sozo!)