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Post by hannes on Apr 7, 2007 15:51:38 GMT
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Post by tannis on Jul 6, 2008 23:42:49 GMT
THE TOUR OF LIFE... How I wish, how I wish I'd been there... Kate Bush tour programme 1979 (Sexual Healing) www.youtube.com/watch?v=8nocjuHZ2mA 1:02-1:12The programme for the KATE BUSH TOUR (renamed The Tour of Life), has a forward written by a 'Nicholas Wade', who was very probably Kate Bush herself... Welcome to the Kate Bush Concert, which I am sure you are going to enjoy.
The organisers have asked me to point out a few things to you, and would like you to remember that no photographs or tape recordings are to be made, and any equipment found, will be confiscated until the end of the evening.
A ten minute bell will be rung before the concert, and seats should be taken at that time. Please do not leave your seats during the pause at the end of Act I, as it will be a very short break. There will, however, be a fifteen minute interval at the end of Act II, and a three minute bell will be rung at the end of this period to give you time to return to your seats.
Please wait for a convenient break between numbers before leaving or taking your seats.
Please note that "Hammer Horror" will be danced to a backing track.
Finally, if there are any comments or thoughts created by the show, the back of this handout contains room for a note, which can be placed in the letter box by the merchandise stand.
Have fun, and keep in touch.
Nicholas Wade, Fan Club Secretary.Jeremy Birchington & Nicholas Wade A semi-imaginary character whose name has made ephemeral appearances in Kate-related spheres over the years. The character is possibly connected to or based on one Jeremy Cartland, a literary friend of Kate's brother John Carder Bush and his partner in the Salatticum Poets group; it should also be noted that Birchington-on-Sea is thought to be the village in which the Bush family has long owned seaside property. Trivia buffs might also note the nearby village of St. Nicholas-on-the-Wade, and the curious disappearance, after several early issues, of the Kate Bush Club Newsletter's first Editor-in-Chief, Nicholas Wade, who was very probably Kate Bush herself. GAFFAWEB DICTIONARY INDEXgaffa.org/diction/list.htmlThe programme for the KATE BUSH TOUR also has a welcome note written by Kate... Remembering the streets of a rush-hour London, with my carrier bags and dancing clothes under my arm--Mad people, mad things and me, a hoping heart with no idea what was going to happen just around the corner. Then the adventure of the gigs in English pubs, scented of summer beer. Wondering--dancing--sweating--and waiting, waiting, waiting.
My obsessions, my teachers, my aching bones, my comforts and frustrations. So much laughing and crying but always music, music everywhere.
And now, crashing out in traffic jams all over the world, longing for home but waking with that same strange feeling--whether from a plane, a bed or a dream--"How come...it's happening to me?" And it's only just begun: you're carrying me into a land of the stage, a place for swallows and trapped mice.
Since the time I saw magic made by loving bodies that moved me beyond words, I've craved my own troupe of gypsies, my own show, the chance to take a trip with you.
And now it's here--the best and bad times rock'n'rolled into one. The fear and sparkle in my stomach.
Sure, it's for me--but it's for you, too. So take it--take me away with you...
Lots of love Kate xxxx Kate's Tour Programme Welcome Notegaffa.org/garden/tourprog.html
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Post by tannis on Jul 17, 2008 9:50:26 GMT
THE TOUR OF LIFE... "a vegetarian tour" ... "Now she began seriously visualising a 150-minute multimedia extravaganza in which every song would be a one-act play in itself. There would be supplementary dancers, Simon's illusions, and no fewer than 17 costume changes. She would call it nothing less modest than The Tour Of Life, and it would be like nothing anyone had yet seen!" ~ Waiting For Kate Bush by John Mendelssohn (2004, pg.85)Kate Bush tour programme 1979 (Sexual Healing)www.youtube.com/watch?v=8nocjuHZ2mAProgramme from the Liverpool Empire, 3-4-79WIKI: The tour, named The Tour of Life, began in April 1979 and lasted six weeks. Typical of her determination to have control, she was involved in every aspect of the show's production, choreography, set design, and staff recruitment. During the tour, Bush became the first singer to use a wireless headset radio microphone on stage, which allowed her to incorporate extensive dance routines into her live shows.KATE BUSH Tour (Rare original 16"x 23" illustrated UK tour poster featuring large fantasy drawing image with Kate photo at the bottom).eil.com/shop/moreinfo.asp?catalogid=144647Kate Bush On Tour: documentary report on the preparations for the Tour of Life, aired on U.K. TV programme Nationwide, April 3, 1979. This film presents a valuable look at Kate's preparations for the Tour of Life concerts. There are brief interview sections featuring Kate, her brothers John Carder Bush and Paddy Bush, and her dance instructor and co-choreographer Anthony Van Laast. At the end of the film Kate is interviewed in a recording studio where she is working on her third album, Never For Ever. [Transcribed by Ronald Hill, above comment by IED] Gaffa: Nationwide "KB on Tour", April 4, 1979 gaffa.org/reaching/iv79_ot.htmlMendelssohn, Wiki and Gaffa refer to "the Tour of Life". But the Nationwide Special ("KB on Tour", April 3, 1979) does not. Throughout the programme, KT's concert is referred to as the tour, the Kate Bush Show, but never "the Tour of Life"..."There'll never be another night quite like the first Kate Bush show at the Liverpool Empire. Even parts of the audience were nervous, wondering if the young lady with brittle voice had brittle nerves as well." ~ Nationwide, KB on Tour.The tour poster and programme for the Kate Bush Concert of 1979 are titled KATE BUSH TOUR. The Nationwide Special on KaTe's tour is called "KATE BUSH: On Tour". In KaTe's contributions to the second issue of the KBC Newsletter (summer 1979), KT talks of "The tour", "the show", "On stage", "the concerts"; but she never refers to the tour as The Tour Of Life.
So, since when did the KATE BUSH TOUR become known as "The Tour Of Life"?KATE BUSH - ON TOUR (Nationwide special) www.youtube.com/watch?v=ddeAUyAsq4I 3:13-3:45... [Announcer in front of Liverpool Empire] A: In early January this year, Kate Bush had never performed before an important live audience. She had several successful singles to her name, a couple of albums in the charts, a string of TV appearances. But in a sense, she was a media singer. When she took the decision to go on tour, no one doubted how important it could prove to her career. Cause most live artists make their mistakes either in private, or before a very small audience. Tonight, here at the Liverpool Empire, Kate Bush starts at the top, before several thousand. She can't afford to fail.The posters at 3:13/45 signify that the tour is "THE LIONHEART TOUR". Indeed, in KaTe's contributions to Issue 5 of the KBC Newsletter (April 1980), KT says, "we were calling the people around us during the Tour 'Lionhearts'." Moreover, there seems plenty of space in the poster's circular design to have officially called the tour "The Tour of Life", if that was to be its name. But the poster is simply titled "KATE BUSH TOUR". [Madonna officially called her debut world tour the "Who's That Girl World Tour 1987"; and David Bowie officially titled his concert tour of 1972-73 "ZIGGY STARDUST AND THE SPIDERS FROM MARS".]Kate Bush - Nationwide special bit 2 www.youtube.com/watch?v=meaGiD_yD7g&NR=1 8:08-8:12... It's almost a vegetarian tour, isn't it? Yeah, you could say that... Kate Bush - Nationwide special bit 3 www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oe2_ztS5mUk&feature=related [Scenes from opening night] A: There'll never be another night quite like the first Kate Bush Show at the Liverpool Empire... A: In all, the six week sell-out tour was seen by a hundred thousand. Kate Bush had proved, to her audience at least, an all around entertainer. She's back now to the recording studio, comfortably making her third album...In September 1979, KaTe released an EP of 4 tracks recorded at the final dates of the tour, called "Kate Bush ON STAGE". A 'KATE BUSH On Stage' promotional advert read: "Four tracks capturing a magical 16 minutes of Kate Bush on stage. Recorded live during the most electrifying debut tour of '79. This 33 1/3 r.p.m. E.P. is presented in a limited edition full colour souvenir gatefold sleeve."
In October 1981 a video of the concert was released, called "LIVE AT HAMMERSMITH ODEON". Neither EP nor video refer to the concert as "the Tour of Life".
Then, in Issue 5 of the KBC Newsletter (April 1980), we read of 'The Tour of Life'. Is this the earliest reference to the mythologizing? ...
What has happened to the band since the Tour of Life? Will any of them be working with you again? KB: "Since the Tour of Life we've worked together and they're also doing lots of work with other people. They're in great demand, being such wonderful musicians, and of course I'll be working with them again, and you will see more of them. They send you their love." Kate's KBC article, Issue 5 (April 1980), "With Love from Kate" gaffa.org/garden/kate6.html
And, referring to the Never For Ever (1980) album, JCB writes:
"Many old friends turned up during the making of this album, and on one strange occasion the survivors of the Tour of Life all turned up exactly one year from the last concert gig, with no previous organisation or planning--they'd all got it into their heads to come along; and from early evening 'til late morning they were still arriving." John Carder Bush's KBC Newsletter contributions 2: Album Images gaffa.org/garden/jcb2.html
The following comes from Record Mirror, September 1981; and the interviewer also refers to Kate calling her tour the "Tour of Life". The Shock of the New Depression, introspection and reassessment--they've all been part of Kate Bush's life since her "Tour of Life" over two years ago... It's been two years now since what Kate calls her "Tour of Life", a massive circus of a tour that won't, repeat won't take place again until next year at the earliest... And now that all those ideas in the past--a theatrical tour that was a combination of the innovative and the unexpected, an album last year that surpassed all that went before it--have become reality, she's a powerful personality... "The last album [NFE] was the first one that I would actually hand over to people with a smile," she says, almost seeming to imply that it was the first one she was actually pleased with, "and that was followed by a greater period of non-creativity, when I just couldn't write properly at all. It happened before, when the tour was over, and then I felt I'd just given so much out that I was like a drained battery, very physically and tired and also a bit depressed. This time it was worse; a sort of terrible introverted depression. The anti-climax after all the work really set in in a bad way, and that can be very damaging to an artist. I could sit down at the piano and want to write, and nothing would happen. It was like complete introspection time. I suppose I had about two months out earlier this year...and that was a break I really needed. It gave me time to see friends, do things I hadn't been able to do for three years. It wasn't really as if I was missing out on normality," she laughs. "I'd rather hang on to madness than normality anyway, so it was more like recharging" ... Twenty-two years old, a Tour of Life and three albums behind her...and the rest can wait. Treading devastatingly and surely between the doubters and the devotees, Kate Bush may well continue to "amaze" us all.Record Mirror, "The Shock of the New", September 1981 gaffa.org/reaching/i81_rm.htmlI put on my pointed hat And my black and silver suit, And I check my gunpowder pack And I strap the stick on my back. And, dressed as a rocket on Waterloo Bridge...Her last excursion in 1979 was an elaborate affair full of costume changes, dancers and even magicians. She can't get worked up to do it again, and doesn't see the validity of, as she said in 1987, just being "up there onstage being me." Musician, "Kate Bush's Theater of the Senses" (1990)gaffa.org/reaching/i90_mu.htmlsee more: Kate's KBC article, Issue 2 (Summer 1979), "Hello Everybody" gaffa.org/garden/kate2.html Nationwide, "KB on Tour", April 4, 1979 gaffa.org/reaching/iv79_ot.html
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Post by saloldgal on Dec 17, 2009 7:13:00 GMT
Digging up an old thread here...
My Kate collection includes the basics, plus some other items that aren't all strictly Kate...
All the CDs (multiples of The Dreaming so I won't keep giving mine away) TWW Boxed Set (CDs) A limited-edition 7" vinyl picture disk of "King of the Mountain" The Live at the Hammersmith-Odeon VHS tape Her other videos on a DVD sent to me by Lori... thanks! Various back issues of the Homeground Fanzine A few magazines that contain reviews of Aerial
As for the following items, although I originally got them because of their connections to Kate and her music, they have stood on their own quite well...
The 1982 Zaine Griff album FIGVRES (mentioned on another thread), which has Kate doing backing vocals on the song 'Flowers". As far as I know, this only exists on vinyl.
A signed and numbered copy of John Carder Bush's novel The Cellar Gang
A signed and numbered copy of Del Palmer's 2007 album Leap of Failth on CD, with a "Thanks for your interest in my music" letter also signed by him, and the mailing envelope which appears to be addressed in his hand, who can say for sure...
The 1994 album Trio Bulgarka-Penev: Folk Songs on CD
A Book of Dreams by Peter Reich
The things I would most like to add to my collection are Kate Bush Club newsletters and the T-shirt that has the cover of The Dreaming on it (I think it was produced by the some of the folks behind Gaffaweb, not sure though)
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Post by tannis on Dec 17, 2009 10:27:10 GMT
^ Nice collection, Sal A Book of Dreams by Peter Reich goes for a small fortune on eBay!The things I would most like to add to my collection are Kate Bush Club newsletters and the T-shirt that has the cover of The Dreaming on it (I think it was produced by the some of the folks behind Gaffaweb, not sure though) I don't own the Gaffaweb version, but I do own a bootleg T-shirt that has the album cover of The Dreaming on it which I won on eBay. The bootleg seller is no longer registered, but keep an eye on eBay in case one shows up.
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Post by Adey on Mar 1, 2010 19:13:06 GMT
Oh wow T shirts..
I have a white, half heart/half lion face (Lionheart) shirt. It was the official tour shirt that I got at the first Hippodrome show. It was cut in an unusual feminine style so I hardly ever wore it. It's miniscule size reminds me that my physique has seen better days..
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Post by tannis on Mar 1, 2010 22:27:27 GMT
And no one's getting fat except Mama Cass...
Burger King and McDonald's didn't arrive in the UK until the mid-/late-1970s, and back then the fast food, ready meal, transfat, microwave culture didn't exist. Society wasn't populated by obese teenagers, hence flares and size-0 t-shirts! If you missed dinner, that was it until your mom cooked you a fried-bread breakfast with beef dripping! Then "Margaret Thatcher, Milk Snatcher" made local authorities open up school meals to competitive tender, which caused an enormous drop in the standard of food being fed to children - all burgers and greasy fries!
...so your miniscule sized Lionheart t-shirt is perhaps a relic of a well-fed age! ;D
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Post by Adena on Mar 2, 2010 0:29:32 GMT
Give us this day our daily greasy burger and fries... ;D
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Post by saloldgal on Apr 3, 2010 5:26:04 GMT
Adey, I've never seen that T-shirt or even heard of it. You should post a picture of it! As for minuscule articles of clothing, they can be a rude awakening can't they? Mine is a T-shirt from the 1982 US tour of The Who. And I thought I was fat ...
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Post by Barry on Aug 23, 2010 21:08:59 GMT
I also have a programme from the opening night of the tour at Liverpool Empire.
I remember the day vividly, it is one of the most pleasant days I have had. Myself and a friend arrived in Liverpool early in the Afternoon and located Kate at the Atlantic Towers Hotel. We chatted, took some photo's and got some stuff signed. We then walked with her down to the Pier Head where a photo session had been arranged for the press. I took about 20 photo's and still have the negatives somewhere.
In the evening I had front row tickets for the concert and it remains my favorite gig almost 500 concerts later. No onw knew what to expect and the whole evening was breathtaking - to this day, I have never heard an audience make as much noise as they did at the finale.
The following day we again travelled down to Liverpool and met up with Kate at the hotel where I got my Programme signed and she gave us some EMI promo photo's.
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Post by Adey on Sept 17, 2010 12:55:59 GMT
Nice little history Barry. My experience of Kate's arrival in Birmingham for the 2 Hippodrome shows were remarkably similar. She was very tolerant, but her band were extremely protective!
In my home town Kate and her entourage stayed at the Albany Hotel. I was tipped off by Lisa, her assistant and costume handler..
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Post by Gelid on Mar 9, 2014 1:56:52 GMT
I've recently purchased a turntable and am slowly acquiring a modest collection of high-quality used and new LPs. Today I received my new copy of Hounds Of Love from Audio Fidelity and have two questions: When did they stop numbering these "Limited Editions", and while the site didn't specify the color of the marbled vinyl, I expected it to be pink or gray. Color me pleasantly surprised when I slid it out to reveal a rich, deep plumb. Has anyone else seen this color? I'm really not looking for rare items, I just want good quality vinyl that I'm not afraid to enjoy from time to time on my new TT.
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Post by Flyman on Jan 13, 2016 23:48:41 GMT
Oh wow T shirts.. I have a white, half heart/half lion face (Lionheart) shirt. It was the official tour shirt that I got at the first Hippodrome show. It was cut in an unusual feminine style so I hardly ever wore it. It's miniscule size reminds me that my physique has seen better days.. Hello, I hope you don't mind a guest contributing to such an old thread but I found my 'Lionheart' T-shirt yesterday and, yes, Adey, mine is tiny, too! I can't believe it ever fitted but am sure I used to wear it back in '79. It must have shrunk in the wash as I certainly wasn't that small at the time. I found my badge from the tour and the ticket stub from the Manchester Apollo gig I was lucky enough to attend, too. I went to a fair few concerts back then but Kate Bush is still the most vivid in my memory. It was a theatrical tour de force the like of which I'd never seen before - or since. For instance, during the stacatto drumming on 'James and the Cold Gun' Kate pulled red ribbons from her abdomen simulating blood from a gunshot wound. I also recall a 'magical' floating ball which danced around her during another song. Was there flying, too (Kirby's flying harness)? I think there may have been. The whole show was a triumph - the lighting, the choreography, the costumes, the clarity of sound and, of course, the music. I don't use the word 'awesome' lightly but I will use it here. I was in awe. Quite rightly, she and the band received a standing ovation at the end of the evening. An utterly unforgettable night. I also remember seeing Granada TV cameras filming from the balcony but I've never seen any of their footage nor heard of it being broadcast. Does anyone know if it (the Mcr. gig) was ever shown on telly or released on video? Fwiw, I turned up in a black tailcoat and white collarless shirt, half of my face black, half white with a black tear drop (I raided my mum's stage make-up box). Ah, the folly of youth!
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Post by Averagebear6 on Jun 18, 2016 20:05:13 GMT
The Heart Shaped Red Shoe box. Bought it at Best Buy many years ago. Kept it safe, but it came loose.
A few books, the Single file VHS, Hammersmith VHS and cd set. Lots of bootleg cd's and a couple of dvd's.
Keyboard mag with Kate on the cover. Prog Rock mag w Kate plus a few other mags.
All of her cd's. That's what comes to mind.
I have been searching the internet today trying to find quality Kate downloads of demos/rare stuff..
Was thrilled to find Before The Dawn concert download.
Any other suggestions would be appreciated.
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