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Post by k8fan on May 24, 2007 22:06:38 GMT
Yep! I had this same post on the Homground forum, but wanted to make sure as many fans saw it as possible.
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Post by k8fan on Aug 11, 2007 18:02:44 GMT
I've added several more videos.
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Post by k8fan on Dec 30, 2007 19:58:26 GMT
Updated the list of videos: A career overview from 1987 by the Canadian station MuchMusic using interview clips from various periods. Quality is not great being apparently 3 VHS generations down. "The Story So Far"This was released on VHS and LaserDisc, but I think there was some different interview material on the final release. I'll capture that as well to compare. But this is the original broadcast version. "The Sensual World of Kate Bush" from VH1
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Post by rosabelbelieve on Dec 30, 2007 21:34:19 GMT
Thank you for posting this! The interview compilation especially is great.
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Post by Adey on Jan 2, 2008 3:13:31 GMT
Yay thanks k8fan..
Enjoyed that (mimed) video of Rocket Man from the Wogan Show - never seen that before.
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Post by Al Truest on Jan 2, 2008 16:02:52 GMT
Updated the list of videos: A career overview from 1987 by the Canadian station MuchMusic using interview clips from various periods. Quality is not great being apparently 3 VHS generations down. "The Story So Far"This was released on VHS and LaserDisc, but I think there was some different interview material on the final release. I'll capture that as well to compare. But this is the original broadcast version. "The Sensual World of Kate Bush" from VH1Thanks again for these (I pm'd you @ HG) Any updates you have for Happy Rhodes would also be welcome here. :)
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Post by Barry SR Gowing on Apr 3, 2008 10:02:40 GMT
Marvellous links from k8fan! Much appreciated. I take it that k8fan is actually a big wheel on another forum? --Paul--
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Post by tannis on Apr 19, 2008 13:59:15 GMT
The COME BACK KATE 'documentary' is now on Youtube. Though it's likely to drive KaTe further away... The inclusion of Fred Vermorel has caused some controversy. I had never heard of him until recently, and have not read any of his books. He's written quite a few books on popular culture, including "the first (and arguably definitive) book on the Sex Pistols", which Fred and Judy Vermorel were commissioned to write in August 1977. www.ltmpub.freeserve.co.uk/spheyday.html Come Back Kate (Kate Bush documentary pt. 1/6)www.youtube.com/watch?v=NmloRo5VoOICome Back Kate (Kate Bush documentary pt. 3/6)www.youtube.com/watch?v=lIitCbywSgIetc
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Post by Barry SR Gowing on Apr 19, 2008 15:07:05 GMT
The COME BACK KATE 'documentary' is now on Youtube. Though it's likely to drive KaTe further away... I've heard of this but not seen it before. I'm up to the bit with some woman called Julie who thinks she looks and sings like Kate. Unfortunately she sings about as much like Kate as I do... Thanks Tannis, this is enjoyable in a very odd way. --Paul--
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Post by tannis on Apr 19, 2008 16:38:16 GMT
Julie zingt Wuthering Heights:
"I was working as a wardrobe mistress In a cocktail bar... Singing along and doing the ironing..."
... reminds me of Christopher Lee in The Wicker Man (1973)... The Wicker Man Frolicwww.youtube.com/watch?v=fwyswawiFr0Kote Bush & The Philasapher's Stane!"I got to play with Kate Bush..."Organ On... Organ Off... Maybe KaTe was being extremely intentional? ...
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Post by rosabelbelieve on Apr 19, 2008 23:40:45 GMT
Very interesting find, Tannis. The parts about the woman who had had ovarian cancer and didn't think she would live to see Aerial were very touching, and I liked the story of the man who actually got a letter from Kate. I have to say, though, the Fred Vermorel parts really creeped me out... Watching her exercise through her window, and pondering the methods of aerobics she was using? Definitely makes me not blame her for not giving interviews or being in the public eye. Thank you for posting it anyway, though.
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Post by Barry SR Gowing on Apr 20, 2008 2:32:13 GMT
I have to say, though, the Fred Vermorel parts really creeped me out... Watching her exercise through her window, and pondering the methods of aerobics she was using? Definitely makes me not blame her for not giving interviews or being in the public eye. Thank you for posting it anyway, though. Yes he seems to be a creep. When he was talking early on about where Kate lived and he mentioned "and she only ever leaves the house in a blacked out car" - even just that little detail was enough to let me know that he's a weirdo obsessive. I'm reminded a little of a journalist called Weberman who used to stalk Bob Dylan back in his heyday. The guy would hang around outside Dylan's house and even went his rubbish frequently (looking for discarded lyrics or something). Eventually Dylan confronted Weberman ... although I certainly can't imagine KB doing that with Vermorel! It's a pity she can't lead a normal life - I do know some celebrities who seem to be able to get out and about without too much bother. David Bowie used to just wander through the bookshops and record stores in Sydney like an everyday person when he lived here. I suppose that her reclusiveness only adds to her mystique and increases the desire of the Vermorel's of the world to try to penetrate the veil of mystery...
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Post by rosabelbelieve on Apr 20, 2008 2:47:13 GMT
Yes... Do you think that's really true about her only leaving the house in a blacked out car? Somehow I just can't really imagine Kate being so afraid to simply walk around, and if it is true it's awfully sad that people like him would drive her to that. But it did make me have a lot of sympathy for her reluctance to lead a public life- in some ways as an artist I think you make yourself very vulnerable emotionally, simply by sending your work out into the world, and to have that difficulty augmented by people who take an obsessive interest in your personal life must be very hard to deal with.
Come to think of it, didn't she say in the Aerial interviews that she did live a normal life, and her 'reclusiveness' is really exaggerated by the press?
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Post by tannis on Apr 20, 2008 9:41:26 GMT
Come to think of it, didn't she say in the Aerial interviews that she did live a normal life, and her 'reclusiveness' is really exaggerated by the press? Mojo magazine published one of only two Aerial interviews with Kate (BBC Radio secured the second). The Mojo article presents Kate as "the antithesis of the mysterious recluse" which the tabloid press is so ridiculously fond of portraying her as:...here, in Kate Bush's home, there is a 47-year-old mother of one, dressed in a workday uniform of brown shirt, jeans and trainers, hair clipped up in practical busy-busy fashion, all wary smiles and nervous laughter... around us there is evidence of a very regular, family-shaped existence - toys and kiddie books scattered everywhere, a Sony widescreen with a DVD of Shackleton sitting below it. Atop the fireplace hangs a painting called Fishermen by James Southall [this painting is shown cropped and mirror-reversed in the centre spread of the album booklet; the name AERIAL has also been added to the side of the boat.]... Balanced against a wall in the office next door is a replica of the Rosebud sledge burned at the dramatic conclusion of Citizen Kane, as commissioned for the video of Bush's comeback single, King of the Mountain, and brought home as a gift for her seven-year-old son Bertie. "I go out of my way to be a very normal person and I just find it frustrating that people think that I'm some kind of weirdo reclusive that never comes out into the world... Y'know, I'm a very strong person and I think that's why actually I find it really infuriating when I read, 'She had a nervous breakdown' or 'She's not very mentally stable, just a weak, frail little creature'." If the outside world was wondering whether Kate Bush would ever finish her long-awaited album, then it was a feeling shared by its creator. "Oh yeah," she sighs. "I mean, there were so many times I thought, I'll have the album finished this year, definitely, we'll get it out this year. Then there were a couple of years where I thought, I'm never gonna do this. If I could make albums quicker, I'd be on a roll wouldn't I? Everything just seems to take so much time. I don't know why. Time...evaporates... for the last 12 years, I've felt really privileged to be living such a normal life," she explains. "It's so a part of who I am. It's so important to me to do the washing, do the Hoovering. Friends of mine in the business don't know how dishwashers work. For me, that's frightening. I want to be in a position where I can function as a human being. Even more so now where you've got this sort of truly silly preoccupation with celebrities. Just because somebody's been in an ad on TV, so what? Who gives a toss?" The Guardianarts.guardian.co.uk/filmandmusic/story/0,,1601608,00.html
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Post by Barry SR Gowing on Apr 20, 2008 12:56:41 GMT
Come to think of it, didn't she say in the Aerial interviews that she did live a normal life, and her 'reclusiveness' is really exaggerated by the press? Well, I think she only actually did 2 interviews for Aerial, one for Mojo and one for the BBC. That would indicate that she tends to avoid the press. I'm sure that leads a normal life at home, doing normal everyday things, probably far more than most celebrities; but there's no doubt that she values her privacy when it comes to the media. And who can blame her? I don't think that's "weird"; but it is a little unfortunate that she has a certain (reclusive) reputation that gets mentioned in every article about her and it's also apparent that as a consequence she has (seemingly) little tolerance for the press and goes out of her way to avoid them. I sensed a certain hostility from her in the Mojo interview when the interviewer started quoting things that she'd said years earlier... And that's fine, she's quite entitled to to be private, she doesn't owe the press anything. Also I'm sure that she doesn't want to expose Bertie to the harsh glare of the media. Certainly her behaviour is far more normal than that of celebrities who go everywhere with a huge entourage of hangers-on, bodyguards and more limousines than you could shake a gold tipped stick at, and then complain that they attract so much attention from the paparazzi! --Paul--
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