Thomas tells us about an upcoming tribute night in Chicago on November 30th: December will be magic! The music of Kate Bush and the artists she has influenced. Also, Kate Bush “Performs!”. Dan Bridgens and Mario Bucca in their drag debut!
W/ Djs Belazauberin, Joshua, Tiger Lily (PROCESSION)
& Guest Dj Peroxide (Bittersweet)
Late Bar 3534 W. Belmont Ave, 10pm-4am November 30th 2010
21+ No Cover
Website: http://www.facebook.com/#!/event.php?eid=177077385643146
Here’s a chance to catch up on the music of another legend heavily associated with Kate…we’ve added a Brian Bath page to the features section here. Del Palmer has popped by to leave a comment about his friend there too. I’ll always remember Brian’s trippy cartoons from the early KBC newsletters, fans of those drawings will love the look of his Myspace page, link to that in our new page also. Check it out.
Del Palmer and Brian Bath in the early days
London duo, Paper Crows (Emma Panas and Duncan McDougall), have released an inspired cover of Cloudbusting which uses instrumental elements of Björk’s Human Behaviour, and it gets a big thumbs up from me – this instantly gets into my Top 5 best ever Kate covers! (thanks to Kyle for the tip from this blog post)
Paper Crows – Cloudbusting by The Big Beat
More on Paper Crows at their Myspace page.
A dance theatre show, entitled “Kate”, featuring seven of Kate’s songs, will be performed in Berlin in December. Linda Weissig has choreographed the show, which includes several performers with disabilites, and features Cloudbusting, Hounds of Love, And Dream Of Sheep Under Ice, Waking The Witch, Hello Earth, and The Morning Fog in the form of “dream sequences”. More information on the show (in German) can be found at the theatre’s site here.
Glasswerk reports that the Music Industry Trusts Award charity dinner, now in its 19th year, was held on 2nd November at London’s Grosvenor House Hotel in aid of Nordoff Robbins and The BRIT Performing Arts & Technology School. It was attended by over 1000 guests from the UK music and entertainment industry including Sir George Martin, Michael Ball, Helena Bonham Carter and Rob Brydon.
As a first for this year, Spotify sponsored the MITS first digital auction, which included items from the legend himself, an original 1970’s 18k yellow gold with 19 diamonds ring from Tom Jones own collection and a very rare John Lennon and Yoko Ono naked statue donated by Kate Bush. The Music Industry Trusts’ Award has raised £4 million to date for its two charities, Nordoff Robbins and the BRIT Trust (which includes the BRIT School for Performing Arts and Technology)
From HomeGround:
At the end of the year (1981) Kate’s name emerged from its new obscurity when it was widely publicised that she had participated in the annual Sotheby’s auction of Rock Memorabilia, buying a rare perspex and plastic sculpture of John Lennon and Yoko Ono in the famous ‘Two Virgins’ pose, and a copy of the shooting script of the McCartney inspired Magical Mystery Tour film …”Five Years Ago October – December 1981″
The Satelite reports: TO celebrate the 25th anniversary of the classic album The Hounds Of Love, a selection of Brisbane’s most unique cabaret performers will perform their favourite Kate Bush songs live on stage. With a DJ, film clips and rare footage, the Kate Bush tribute will be held this Sunday, November 7, at the StageDoor Dinner Theatre. It will start at 5pm and tickets cost $15 per person. There will be a fully licensed bar at the event with hot food available. For bookings phone 3216 1115.
David Mitchell whose unusual novel, Cloud Atlas, the Wachowsi brothers are turning into a movie, is asked by Indian paper The Pioneer how other media had influenced the way he translated literary images: replies: “Some singer-songwriters’ albums feel like novels: Dylan’s 70s purple patch, and later Kate Bush being inspiring examples” … ““Unless you’re Kate Bush, you can’t really write interesting songs about domesticity, washing baby clothes and breast-feeding”: Charlotte Church in the Daily Telegraph … Pop singer MPHO performed Kate’s Running Up That Hill as part of an all star bill which came together to celebrate the frontman of electro pop band Ou Est Le Swimming Pool, who took his own life shortly after an appearance at the Pukkelpop festival in Belgium in August … More about Frisky and Mannish‘s “twisted pop cabaret” act which includes Kate’s Wuthering Heights as delivered by Kate Nash … Questioned about the new sound on her Epic album Sharon Van Etten says: “I feel like a cheesy Kate Bush. … It’s just that saturated, that wind-in-your-hair mountain music. Oh, that’s so silly. I would say my version of ’90s music. Like, epic ’90s music” … Chris Roberts (there’s a name I remember from way back) thinks Kate’s backing vocals on Games Without Frontiers are “barely audible” … Kate’s Delius part of a set performed by The Song Company at Auckland Town Hall … “Although the idea of covering Kate Bush’s “Running Up That Hill” is somewhat blasphemous, Placebo does the song justice with their moody, downtempo interpretation” – Consequence of Sound on the Vampire Diaries soundtrack album … Corin Tucker, formerly the guitarist and singer of feminist punk rock trio Sleater-Kinney asked what music the band was listening to whilst making new album 1,000 Years? says “I also really loved Kate Bush’s last album Aerial, which does refer to motherhood” … “I would wander in looking for a Blondie release, and a wise record store clerk would send me home with a Kate Bush album instead” thus Anil Prasad who created the online music magazine innerviews.org … “Christian Dior’s Poison was another one that promised a sensory trip to the dark side. It belonged to that strain of stridently purple-packaged products – Silk Cut, Dairy Milk, Kate Bush – against whose evil influence we girls were constantly warned” Judy Rumbold recalls her complicated relationship with beauty products as a “pasty-faced Catholic teenager growing up in Birmingham” …
Thanks to the hundreds of you who entered our competition to win a copy of The Sensual World on vinyl. As well as your answers we also received so much positive feedback and support about the site in general – thanks, we really appreciate it! The answer to the competition question (who co-directed The Sensual World video with Kate?) was Peter Richardson. We have notified the five winners.
Coupon code details: If you wish to go ahead and order the vinyl edition of The Sensual World at the Audio Fidelity store here site visitors can use the following code at check-out (enter it into the coupon code section of the check-out screen) to receive a very nice 20% discount:
The coupon code to use at the Audio Fidelity checkout for this item is: june16th
Again, thanks to Audio Fidelity for doing this. This coupon code can be used till the end of February 2011.
Simon Chan in Brisbane has created a “sing-a-long” version of Under the Ivy for people attending the Brisbane Kate Bush tribute party on November 7th. It was arranged by his long time collaborator, David Lazar, and Simon describes it as “a very faithful and remarkable rendition, considering David had no idea of the song.” You can hear it here. Simon adds: “Hope you’ll all download it and sing along with us down under!” For more on this party in Brisbane see October 5th news below.
In related news, Paul Rackstraw lets us know that the UK singer Chapman recently covered ‘Under the Ivy’ in a live recording. It’s on Youtube here and his website is http://www.mrballad.com/
The Chicago Tribune reports that the Decibelle Music and Culture Festival comes to Chicago Filmmakers on Friday with a program that includes the short film “Two of Hearts” (a “spinning kaleidoscope of skin and hair” that is an homage to early music videos of Kate Bush and ABBA).
A new site, kbarchives.org has been put together which aims to compliment the information already available on the brilliant Gaffaweb site with newly gathered material. One resource offered are full scans of every single edition of the (now seemingly defunct) Kate Bush Club newsletter. These carefully-produced magazines were a means for Kate, Del, Paddy, John and many others close to Kate’s work to keep fans posted on what was going on. Big thanks are due to the lovely Lisa Bradley for all her hard work on running Kate’s official fan club and producing these wonderful magazines.
Another site to check out is Sozo’s Japanese translation of katebushnews.com – an incredible labour of love, he’s been quietly providing this service for Japanese-speaking fans for many years now. All the more impressive considering he has managed to mimic the new site format successfully! See it here.
Kristian Fletcher sent us the following about a Kate Bush tribute party in Australia. Date: Sunday 7th November 2010. Venue: StageDoor Dinner Theatre, 4 Cintra Rd Bowen Hills, Brisbane Australia. Celebrating the 25th Anniversary of HOUNDS OF LOVE. With tribute performances, DJ, licensed bar, film clips, footage – and much more! Tickets $15.00 per person. Bookings 3216 1115 or available at the door. “25 years ago, the Hounds of Love album by Kate Bush was released to commercial and critical acclaim. Featuring the hits Running Up That Hill and Cloudbusting, Hounds of Love took the British singer from cult artist to mainstream success in 1985, and marked a return to the UK and Australian charts. This party pays tribute to this special album… the enigmatic woman… her vast music catalogue… and the fans she continues to inspire. Hot food will be available for purchase. More info under Music events here: http://www.kristianfletcher.com/
I missed these blog posts which appeared in August and September. Little Girl Lost elevates Kate to the Galactic Monarchy. Dislocated Underbites et al reviews The Dreaming. The Aardvark likes Cloudbusting. The Politics of Music whacks in a heavy article covering Kate’s entire career, and reviews Aerial.
The Straight Dope polls for the most popular Kate album. Hounds of Love is way ahead.
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