Post by tannis on Sept 16, 2008 21:21:55 GMT
LA DOLCE BUSH: I change into the Mule...
KB: "I am absolutely fascinated by the states that people throw and put on... Take anger for instance: it's really fun to write from the point of view of someone who's really angry, like in Get Out of My House on the last album. Because I very rarely show anger, although obviously I do sometimes feel it..."
Musician (unedited), Peter Swales, Fall 1985
gaffa.org/reaching/i85_swa.html
Daily Mirror, Sunday Feb. 17th 1990: BUSH WACK
Exclusive by Louise Gannon
SULTRY singer Kate Bush doesn't look in the mood to say cheese as she finds herself staring into photographer Robin Kennedy's lens.
A few moments later it was Kate who snapped - with a well-aimed boot up the cameraman's backside. The pop star had to be restrained by long-time boyfriend Del Palmer as she and Kennedy bumped into each other outside a London nightspot. Afterwards the cameraman said: "I didn't think that anyone so small would be able to kick so hard."
gaffa.org/dreaming/E1_tid2.html
From Homeground, here is a picture of the Daily Mirror article, showing KaTe having a go at Paparazzo...
BUSH WACK: "I didn't think that anyone so small would be able to kick so hard."
thehomegroundandkatebushnewsandinfoforum.yuku.com/topic/16071/t/kate-the-spitfire.html
Hee-haw! Hee-haw! Hee-haw-hee-haw-hee-haw-hee-haw...
Björk has also been hounded by paparazzi. In 1996, after a long flight to Thailand an exhausted Björk emerged from her aircraft at Don Muang Airport with her then 10-year-old son to find a group of journalists and cameramen waiting to greet her. When one reporter greeted her with the words, "Welcome to Bangkok," and then laughed, Björk attacked the reporter and landed several blows before the melee was broken up. Björk even tried to go back and continue attacking the woman, but was helped onto a bus. Her record label said the reporter had been pestering her for four days. Björk later apologized for the attack. On January 13, 2008, Björk made headlines when she attacked a paparazzo who had photographed her arrival at Auckland International Airport in New Zealand for her scheduled performance at the Big Day Out festival. Björk allegedly tore the photographer's shirt down the back.
BJORk ATTAcKS A REPORTER
www.youtube.com/watch?v=w87GvfLh4fw
Welcome to Bangkok!
LA DOLCE VITA: Vendetta and Paparazzo...
Date: Wed, 1 Dec 93
Subject: Q Magazine KaTe Film
Below is a brief write up of KaTe's The Line, The Cross and The Curve that I discovered in the stories pages of Q Magazine.
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There was a high-profile London Film Festival premiere for the film Kate Bush made during the autumn as more or less an afterthought to the three-year process of her Red Shoes album. Shy Kate went so far as to get up on stage before the screening to thank "everyone who'd been a part of making the film" and to speak of her trepidation because her opus was following a brilliant animation by Aardman, the makers of the Creature Comforts ads. She was probably right to be worried as The Line, The Cross and The Curve turned out to be not so much a movie as the sort of linked sequence of promo vids that pop stars are wont to hang themselves with, given a feature-length rope. The plot involves devils, angels, hellfire and those bewitched red shoes. While the metaphor may well refer to the fiendishly obsessive nature of artistic creativity (if you're as driven as Kate Bush, that is), the effect suggests a peculiarly daft corner of the '70s - Black Sabbath's preposterous devilry meeting Jon Anderson in whimsically mystic Olias of Sunhillow mode.
Still, if it's not exactly Saturday night at the movies, if the viewer approaches it as opera or ballet - sod the plot and soak in the sound and vision - it's more lively. The six songs come across at stunning big-concert power and Kate dances with a wild passion which will make devotees ache for her to take to the boards again. On the other hand, the buffeting she took from a combination of hyperfans and paparazzi while leaving the Odeon West End could put her off a further re-emergence from the Bush compound for some time to come.
gaffa.org/moments/3_3a.html
A few days later, at the Q Awards, Kate Bush is less happy. "I was booed outside, I've never been booed," she confides, most distressed. Unaware of awards ceremony etiquette, she ignored to paparazzi outside. In accordance with awards ceremony etiquette they had, therefore, booed her. She looks sceptical at this explanation, for she had honestly thought the general public was so keen to pursue a vendetta against her that they had gathered en masse to jeer. She allows herself to be led by the hand into the empty awards hall where she can sip water and compose herself.
Of course, she has a whale of a time. "When I was told I'd got an award, I thought they'd confused me with somebody else," she giggles. The extraordinary spontaneous standing ovation she received and a vote of confidence from John Lydon gladdened her to the giddy degree where her first words on a British stage this century were, "Ooh, I've just come." Good job she didn't bring Bertie. Del Palmer gets a thank you. Danny McIntosh did not.
Politely she explains she will have her photograph taken, but only with the adoring pussycat that is Lydon and her old chum Midge Ure. Elvis Costello gives her his telephone number in the hope she'll call and work with him. If he's made arrangements this weekend, he'd be best not to cancel them.
Q magazine, "The Big Sleep", December, 2001
gaffa.org/reaching/iv01_q01.html
Kate Bush and John Lydon at the Q Awards 2001
www.youtube.com/watch?v=HPqslmNknoQ
KB: "I am absolutely fascinated by the states that people throw and put on... Take anger for instance: it's really fun to write from the point of view of someone who's really angry, like in Get Out of My House on the last album. Because I very rarely show anger, although obviously I do sometimes feel it..."
Musician (unedited), Peter Swales, Fall 1985
gaffa.org/reaching/i85_swa.html
Daily Mirror, Sunday Feb. 17th 1990: BUSH WACK
Exclusive by Louise Gannon
SULTRY singer Kate Bush doesn't look in the mood to say cheese as she finds herself staring into photographer Robin Kennedy's lens.
A few moments later it was Kate who snapped - with a well-aimed boot up the cameraman's backside. The pop star had to be restrained by long-time boyfriend Del Palmer as she and Kennedy bumped into each other outside a London nightspot. Afterwards the cameraman said: "I didn't think that anyone so small would be able to kick so hard."
gaffa.org/dreaming/E1_tid2.html
From Homeground, here is a picture of the Daily Mirror article, showing KaTe having a go at Paparazzo...
BUSH WACK: "I didn't think that anyone so small would be able to kick so hard."
thehomegroundandkatebushnewsandinfoforum.yuku.com/topic/16071/t/kate-the-spitfire.html
Hee-haw! Hee-haw! Hee-haw-hee-haw-hee-haw-hee-haw...
Björk has also been hounded by paparazzi. In 1996, after a long flight to Thailand an exhausted Björk emerged from her aircraft at Don Muang Airport with her then 10-year-old son to find a group of journalists and cameramen waiting to greet her. When one reporter greeted her with the words, "Welcome to Bangkok," and then laughed, Björk attacked the reporter and landed several blows before the melee was broken up. Björk even tried to go back and continue attacking the woman, but was helped onto a bus. Her record label said the reporter had been pestering her for four days. Björk later apologized for the attack. On January 13, 2008, Björk made headlines when she attacked a paparazzo who had photographed her arrival at Auckland International Airport in New Zealand for her scheduled performance at the Big Day Out festival. Björk allegedly tore the photographer's shirt down the back.
BJORk ATTAcKS A REPORTER
www.youtube.com/watch?v=w87GvfLh4fw
Welcome to Bangkok!
LA DOLCE VITA: Vendetta and Paparazzo...
Date: Wed, 1 Dec 93
Subject: Q Magazine KaTe Film
Below is a brief write up of KaTe's The Line, The Cross and The Curve that I discovered in the stories pages of Q Magazine.
-----------------------------------------------------
There was a high-profile London Film Festival premiere for the film Kate Bush made during the autumn as more or less an afterthought to the three-year process of her Red Shoes album. Shy Kate went so far as to get up on stage before the screening to thank "everyone who'd been a part of making the film" and to speak of her trepidation because her opus was following a brilliant animation by Aardman, the makers of the Creature Comforts ads. She was probably right to be worried as The Line, The Cross and The Curve turned out to be not so much a movie as the sort of linked sequence of promo vids that pop stars are wont to hang themselves with, given a feature-length rope. The plot involves devils, angels, hellfire and those bewitched red shoes. While the metaphor may well refer to the fiendishly obsessive nature of artistic creativity (if you're as driven as Kate Bush, that is), the effect suggests a peculiarly daft corner of the '70s - Black Sabbath's preposterous devilry meeting Jon Anderson in whimsically mystic Olias of Sunhillow mode.
Still, if it's not exactly Saturday night at the movies, if the viewer approaches it as opera or ballet - sod the plot and soak in the sound and vision - it's more lively. The six songs come across at stunning big-concert power and Kate dances with a wild passion which will make devotees ache for her to take to the boards again. On the other hand, the buffeting she took from a combination of hyperfans and paparazzi while leaving the Odeon West End could put her off a further re-emergence from the Bush compound for some time to come.
gaffa.org/moments/3_3a.html
A few days later, at the Q Awards, Kate Bush is less happy. "I was booed outside, I've never been booed," she confides, most distressed. Unaware of awards ceremony etiquette, she ignored to paparazzi outside. In accordance with awards ceremony etiquette they had, therefore, booed her. She looks sceptical at this explanation, for she had honestly thought the general public was so keen to pursue a vendetta against her that they had gathered en masse to jeer. She allows herself to be led by the hand into the empty awards hall where she can sip water and compose herself.
Of course, she has a whale of a time. "When I was told I'd got an award, I thought they'd confused me with somebody else," she giggles. The extraordinary spontaneous standing ovation she received and a vote of confidence from John Lydon gladdened her to the giddy degree where her first words on a British stage this century were, "Ooh, I've just come." Good job she didn't bring Bertie. Del Palmer gets a thank you. Danny McIntosh did not.
Politely she explains she will have her photograph taken, but only with the adoring pussycat that is Lydon and her old chum Midge Ure. Elvis Costello gives her his telephone number in the hope she'll call and work with him. If he's made arrangements this weekend, he'd be best not to cancel them.
Q magazine, "The Big Sleep", December, 2001
gaffa.org/reaching/iv01_q01.html
Kate Bush and John Lydon at the Q Awards 2001
www.youtube.com/watch?v=HPqslmNknoQ
