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Post by tannis on Dec 4, 2008 10:27:31 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.The programme for the KATE BUSH TOUR has a forward written by '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.htmlNeither forward nor welcome note call the concert show '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 tannis on Dec 5, 2008 13:27:25 GMT
Since the 1979 Kate Bush Tour and the 1979 Kate Christmas Special, Kate Bush has sung live on only a handful of occasions:July 21, 1982: A live performance of "The Wedding List" given during the Prince's Trust Gala Concert on July 21, 1982. Kate is backed by Phil Collins on drums, Gary Brooker on keyboards, Pete Townsend and Midge Ure on guitars and backing vocals, and Mick Karn on bass. This was released on a video-cassette of excerpts from the Gala Concert.Kate Bush The Wedding Listwww.youtube.com/watch?v=m8WNeb_Lg9AMarch 19, 1986: "Under the Ivy" (pre-recorded live). A live performance of the song recorded at Abbey Road Studios for the 100th edition of the Tyne Tees TV programme "The Tube". Kate Bush - "Under the Ivy" on The Tubewww.youtube.com/watch?v=LRTGFP4Mtf0April 4, 1986: Kate participates in the first of three Comic Relief shows at the Shaftesbury Theatre. Kate accompanies herself on electric piano for "Breathing", and sings the comic song (not of her composing) "Do Bears Sh... in the Woods?" with British comic actor Rowan Atkinson. The video version of these concerts features what appears to be a different night's performance of the same two songs. (The programme was performed a total of three times.)Kate Bush - Breathing Livewww.youtube.com/watch?v=epvceH3APmEKate Bush & Rowan Atkinson - Do Bears... (Comic Relief 1986)www.youtube.com/watch?v=lh0N9juV3G428 June 1986: Kate made a guest appearance to duet with Peter Gabriel on "Don't Give Up" at Earl's Court, London as part of his "So" tour. Q: You also appeared at Peter Gabriel's live concert at Earls Court... KB: Yes, it was very much a last minute decision.. Peter had asked me and I wasn't sure if I was brave enough to perform unrehearsed in front of such a large crowd.. it is such a beautiful song to sing but the reception from the audience was overwhelming.. I couldn't hear what I was singing.. so if anyone reading this was there that night.. sorry if I was a bit out of tune and if you were one of those people.. thanks for an incredible experience, I don't think I'll ever forget that welcome. It was a fantastic concert and I am again very honoured to have been involved in Peter's work. Kate Bush Club newsletter gaffa.org/dreaming/hol_colb.htmlMarch 28/29, 1987: Kate performs "Running Up That Hill" and "Let It Be" live in concert with David Gilmour at Amnesty International's Secret Policeman's Third Ball shows.Kate Bush & David Gilmour - Running up that Hill - Live SPBwww.youtube.com/watch?v=vl9OKddQBRg18 January 2002 (Royal Festival Hall, London): Gilmour has performed "Comfortably Numb" during each of his solo tours. In 2001 and 2002, the verse vocals were performed at different dates by guest singers: Robert Wyatt, Bob Geldof, Kate Bush and Durga McBroom.Comfortably Numb - Kate Bush & David Gilmourwww.youtube.com/watch?v=FKuRvBCuwkE
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Post by tannis on Dec 11, 2008 10:00:33 GMT
KATE BUSH COVERS & FEATURES..."We needed a gig to try the band out, so I went to the Rose of Lee pub in Lee Green one night, and told the guvnor about the band. -I got him interested. . . These early gigs were a mixture of Kate’s songs, my own compositions and some popular covers. Kate, Del, myself and Vic sang in harmony adding colour and sometimes humour to the mix. . ." KT BUSH BAND FORMS www.brianbath.com/page9.htm
April 1977: Kate's brother Paddy forms a band with his friends Del Palmer, Brian Bath and Charlie Morgan. Kate is asked to be the vocalist, and the band adopts the title of the KT Bush Band. Starting at the Rose of Lee public house in Lewisham, and then in pubs and clubs in and around London and the Home Counties over a three-month period, the band perform a varying set consisting mostly of rock-and-roll standards (Honky Tonk Women, Heard It Through the Grapevine, Come Together, Sweet Soul Music, Satisfaction, etc.), although latterly Kate sings Saxophone Song and James and the Cold Gun from her own repertoire. A Chronology of Kate Bush's Career gaffa.org/garden/chrono.htmlJune, 1978: Kate goes to Japan to participate in the 7th Tokyo Song Festival. On June 18 she performs 'Moving' (which is the debut single in Japan) live before an audience of 11,000 at the Nippon Budokan. The single is boosted on its way to number 1 in the Japanese chart. Kate wins the Silver Prize jointly with American group The Emotions [!]. During her visit, on June 23, Kate performs abridged versions of two Beatles songs, 'The Long and Winding Road' and 'She's Leaving Home', on the Japanese television programme Sound in S, taped at Tokyo's TBS G Studio. Kate Bush - The Long And Winding Road www.youtube.com/watch?v=CxcRtrDypkQ Kate Bush - She's Leaving Homewww.youtube.com/watch?v=NyWMRNNCiZc&feature=relatedFebruary, 1979: Kate records the song 'The Magician' (music by Maurice Jarre, lyrics by Paul Webster) for the film The Magician of Lublin. Kate Bush -- Magicianwww.youtube.com/watch?v=l9fTNJFamogDecember 28, 1979: Kate, a forty-five-minute television special, is screened on BBC TV, featuring songs old and new. Some of these were filmed during live television-studio performances, others were videos prepared in advance and featuring studio recordings in more or less the same form as their album counterparts. Among the songs performed is a duet by Gabriel and Kate of Roy Harper's song, 'Another Day'. November 17, 1980: Kate is working with Peter Gabriel. They record a new version of Roy Harper's song 'Another Day', for a projected single. They are not satisfied with it, however, and the project is shelved. Roy Harper's "Another Day", performed by Kate Bush & Peter Gabrielwww.youtube.com/watch?v=lsyMPoh1Kco&feature=related21 June 1981: Kate Bush - 'Lord Of The Reedy River'. The b-side of the single 'Sat In Your Lap', a cover version of a song originally written by Donovan. The song was performed by Donovan in the 1968 film If It's Tuesday, This Must Be Belgium, and subsequently released on his album H.M.S. Donovan. Donovan himself is rumored to have contributed backing vocals to Kate's version of the song, but this has never been confirmed in any way. Kate Bush - Lord Of The Reedy Riverwww.youtube.com/watch?v=oJsQ2e7L_ygBrazil (1985): Kate recorded a dark, ominous version of this classic standard, over an orchestral score by Michael Kamen, for the soundtrack album of the film Brazil (1985), a fantasy about a nightmarish Orwellian society directed by Terry Gilliam. Her version of the song is not heard in the movie. Brazil - Kate Bush/Geoff Muldaurwww.youtube.com/watch?v=Ajt_jjtWY9I24 February 1986: 'The Handsome Cabin Boy'. A variation on a traditional song performed by Ewan MacColl, this song was released as the b-side of the single 'Hounds Of Love' in Britain, and on the Alternative Hounds Of Love 12-inch single. "My Lagan Love": B-side of Cloudbusting single. Traditional, lyrics by John Carder Bush. [Note: The melody of this song is traditional. The lyrics most often heard with this melody date from a later period than the tune itself. Kate asked her brother John Carder Bush to compose new lyrics to the melody for her own recording. These are the lyrics which follow.] KATE BUSH - CABIN BOY & LAGAN LOVEwww.youtube.com/watch?v=wzUx2q7FStkFebruary 17, 1986: Kate records a duet with Peter Gabriel for his fifth solo album. The track is called 'Don't Give Up'. 28 June 1986: Kate made a guest appearance to duet with Peter Gabriel on 'Don't Give Up' at Earl's Court, London as part of his "So" tour. Dont Give Up - Peter Gabriel and Kate Bushwww.youtube.com/watch?v=p7aaynDhaVc&feature=relatedApril 4-6, 1986: Kate participates in three Comic Relief shows at the Shaftesbury Theatre. She performs Breathing live and performs a duet of 'Do Bears Sh... in the Woods?' with Rowan Atkinson. Kate Bush & Rowan Atkinson - Do Bears...?www.youtube.com/watch?v=gXp_sd5lS44Q: Have you ever thought of doing a cover version of anybody's song at the moment, and if you did, whose would it be? KB: Oh, it's such a difficult question. There're so many good songs written, and... cover versions, it's uh...it's actually very difficult to try and do something that's better than the original. Like re-makes of movies: they're very rarely better. [Pause.] I have actually done a cover version that might be out in a couple of years as a song. Uhmm... I don't know when it will be out. It's actually beyond my control. It's going through another project. But that's an Elton John song. "Rocket Man" And uh... Well that was one of my favourite songs. And there's a good example of me never imagining when I was about twelve or thirteen- I was so into Elton John, he was just like the biggest hero ever. And ``Rocket Man'' was one of my favourite songs, it was just wonderful. So I never imagined that - how many years later? Don't mention it! [Laughing] - I'd actually get the opportunity to record it. Brilliant, isn't it? Big circle. It's wonderful" (1990 Kate Bush Con). 'Candle in the Wind', a song by Elton John and Bernie Taupin about the death of Marilyn Monroe. Kate's cover version was released as the b-side of the single Rocket Man. Kate Bush - Rocket Man (Wogan) www.youtube.com/watch?v=rYSCHKmvcIY Candle in the Wind - Kate Bushwww.youtube.com/watch?v=CvzyncjEzK8'Sexual Healing' a cover version of the song by Marvin Gaye, recorded with folk musician Davy Spillane for his solo album "A Place Among The Stones". The song was dropped from that album when Spillane's management decided it did not fit in with the more traditional folk material on the album. However, the track is not lost: Kate holds the rights to that recording and intends to release it at some point, possibly as a b-side, so that the playing on the '94 Kate Bush Convention won't stay the only time we could hear this. "Sexual Healing" was released on 24 October 2005 as the B-side to "King of the Mountain". Kate Bush tour programme 1979 (Sexual Healing)www.youtube.com/watch?v=8nocjuHZ2mAKate and harmonica player Larry Adler perform this song by George and Ira Gershwin on the tribute album "The Glory Of Gershwin" (1995). Larry Adler recalled the making of the video: "When we made the video together -- the one you just showed a bit of -- I had gout in my foot, and whenever I had to go to my bedroom, Kate would escort me like a nurse, and I just was so charmed by her." Kate Bush & Larry Adler - The Man I Lovewww.youtube.com/watch?v=2PRYhDItPT0Mna Na H'Eireann, a popular Irish poem, sung by Kate on the 1996 album "Common Ground (Celtic Voices)" compiled by Donal Lunny. Not speaking Gaelic, Kate was obliged to learn the lyrics phonetically. In the 29 May 1996 edition of the Irish music paper Hot Press, producer Donal Lunny described Kate's involvement in the project: "Kate had, via Bill Whelan, assembled a group of Irish musicians to play on a number of her albums. I know Bill developed a close friendship with her which is more than I've had time or opportunity to do. But Kate and I did have a couple of very nice phone calls since we last worked together. When I rang her up about this, her interest was immediate. That was very gratifying. She had taken a year off from work of any kind and this was bang in the middle of it. She opened herself to several weeks' work by taking it on, maybe more than she bargained for. I knew she'd be good and she didn't give up until it was right. She's a real joy to work with. She is exceptionally considerate and thoughtful with people. Add to that how much she cares about what she does and the fact that she will not do something unless she feels she can give of her best. Hats off. She's a wonderful woman. She was very excited with the idea of singing the Irish in a way that Irish speakers would understand. And of conveying the meaning of the song through the sounds of the words. I helped as much as I could. She had Sean O Se's recording of Mna Na h-Eireann as reference. She was as faithful to the pronunciations as she could possibly be. It was with characteristic care and attention that she approached it. She did not stint one bit. Of course you'll get people saying , 'Oh ,you'd know she doesn't talk Irish straight off '. You wouldn't know it straight off. I would defend her efforts as being totally sincere. No matter how perfect she gets it, she's not an Irish speaker. This may rankle with some people." Kate Bush - Mna Na H'Eireann (Montage)www.youtube.com/watch?v=P7vQpaVzcKU18 January 2002 (Royal Festival Hall, London): Gilmour has performed "Comfortably Numb" during each of his solo tours. In 2001 and 2002, the verse vocals were performed at different dates by guest singers: Robert Wyatt, Bob Geldof, Kate Bush and Durga McBroom. Comfortably Numb - Kate Bush & David Gilmourwww.youtube.com/watch?v=FKuRvBCuwkE&feature=relatedMystery Demo: "Don't Let The Sunshine In" -- Kate Bush?www.youtube.com/watch?v=4fWwXo7lJU8see more: Kate Bush - Don't Let The Sunshine In (Demo) ?katebush.proboards6.com/index.cgi?board=allweeverlookfor&action=display&thread=2569&page=1
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Post by tannis on Dec 11, 2008 10:00:54 GMT
FEATURING KATE BUSH...
Kate has worked with a lot of other artists:Leslie Duncan: Sing, Children Sing November 30, 1979: A new recording of Lesley Duncan's 'Sing, Children, Sing' is released, with Kate and Paddy Bush, Pete Townsend, Joe Brown and Vicki Brown on backing vocals. (Kate's voice is indistinguishable.) All profits from the single are to go to the U.N. Year of the Child fund. Peter Gabriel January 19, 1980: Kate breaks off from recording her own album to do some session work for Peter Gabriel, on his third solo album ("III (melted face)"). She does backing vocals on two tracks: Games Without Frontiers and No Self Control, which will be released as singles, and encounters the Gabriel method of working with rhythm boxes and the Fairlight CMI. Also: Keine Selbstkontrolle, Spiel ohne Grenzen, both from the German version of "III". Kate's backing vocals are the same as in the English version. And Don't Give Up, from "So". Peter Gabriel - No Self-Control www.youtube.com/watch?v=QcySWdHnvxA Games Without Frontiers - Peter Gabriel (Uncensored)www.youtube.com/watch?v=LKb9XQ39-zcRoy Harper February, 1980: Kate breaks off again from recording her own album to do some session work for Roy Harper on his "Unknown Soldier" LP. She duets with Harper on the track You (The Game Part III). A rumour persists that Kate and Harper recorded an entire album's worth of duets during the "The Unknown Soldier" (1980) sessions, and that the tapes may someday become available on the black market. Kate also goes into the studio with Roy Harper in the first half of 1990 to record the title track of Harper's forthcoming album, Once.Zaine Griff - Flowers. From "Figures" June 1982: Kate does some session work for Zaine Griff, who with her had attended Lindsay Kemp's mime classes back in 1976. She does backing vocals on a track dedicated to Kemp, called Flowers. May 1986: Kate does some session work for Big Country on the title track of their album The Seer. BIG COUNTRY AND KATE BUSH THE SEERwww.youtube.com/watch?v=Ba7GicJtH-AMarch 1987: Kate contributes vocals to a single release of Let It Be, the proceeds from which are targeted for the families of the victims of the Zeebrugge ferry disaster. Kate Bush on charity singlewww.youtube.com/watch?v=x-ij93xUgHIMarch 1987: Kate does some session work for the second album by Go West, called "Dancing on the Couch". She sings backing vocals on the track 'The King is Dead'.September 1988: Midge Ure releases a new album ("Answers To Nothing"), which features a guest duet vocal with Kate on the track Sister and Brother. Kate Bush and Midge Ure - Sister and Brotherwww.youtube.com/watch?v=XMVRAtm1HaQSummer 1989: Kate appears briefly in a video for a worldwide television programme about ecological issues called Our Common Future. She is seen in a London studio with many other artists, singing two lines from a song written for the programme (not by Kate). The song is called Spirit of the Forest (from "earthrise"). The programme, with the pre-recorded video, is aired on June 4, 1989. There is also a report that Kate appeared at the United Nations with Peter Gabriel and other artists in support of the campaign to save the rain forests; but as of presstime this report had not been confirmed. News on the Spirit Of The Forest single which features Kate. All of the following info is taken from this weeks NME (which also includes a photo of Kate!). It is being released on Virgin this week with all profits being donated to the Earth Love Fund. It's a double A side recorded with different artists singing on each version of the song. Along with Kate the following are also on the record; LL Cool J, Iggy Pop, Debbie Harry, Donna Summer, The Ramones, Little Steven, The B52's, Ringo Starr, Brother Beyond, Sam Brown, Fish, Pink Floyd, XTC, Big Country, Kim Wilde, Chris Rea, Was (Not Was), Fleetwood Mac, Thomas Dolby, Brian Wilson, Belinda Carlisle, Bonnie Raitt, Joni Mitchell, and Olivia Newton-John. There are more than 60 acts on the record. Spirit Of The Forestwww.youtube.com/watch?v=VeV5eR8t5egFrom Roy Harper's 1990 album. Kate appears for the last part (third) of the title track, doing some fairly quiet singing of the chorus of the song, then near the end a few seconds of louder "la-la" type singing. The music was written entirely by Harper - no input came from Kate at all. The album cover photgraphy was done by John Carder Bush, and that (of course) Del Palmer engineered Kate's session in Kent. Kate comes in at "the dance of love". Roy Harper: Oncewww.youtube.com/watch?v=zNletFCsO6IApril 10, 1990: Kate is in France to work on producing two tracks of Alain Stivell's new album, "Again". Lionel Azulay: "The now legendary and hugely all round nice person Kate Bush kindly lent her unique and wonderful voice to one of my songs (Wouldn’t Change a Thing, engineered and produced by Del at The Farm, Welling). However, permission was never sought by EMI to use the track until now and it not only has been included in my new album, 'Out Of The Ashes', but has been posted on here for your delectation." Lionel Azulay: "Wouldn't Change a Thing"profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewProfile&friendID=191976484Others featuring Kate Bush: Prince - My Computer. From "emancipation"www.faqs.org/faqs/music/kate-bush-faq/
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Post by tannis on Mar 8, 2009 14:27:13 GMT
DINOSAUR: "We must move on..."In 1999, Bush wrote and recorded a song for the Disney film Dinosaur, but the track was ultimately not included on the soundtrack. According to the winter 1999 issue of HomeGround, a Kate Bush fanzine, it was scrapped when Disney asked Bush to rewrite the song and Bush refused. However, according to Disney, the song was cut from the film when preview audiences did not respond well to the track.
Here is an article about the Disney film Dinosaur, giving details of exactly where in the film Kate's song was going to be used.The movie is in many ways a departure from previous Disney animation. For one thing, as many critics have noted, there are no singing dinosaurs.
"We never were going to have our dinosaurs sing!" Bloodworth exclaims. "We knew that! At the same time, music is always an important part of our storytelling. It's emotional, it's evocative -- people latch onto music. Our composer, James Newton Howard, a five-time Oscar nominee, brought sensitivity to the sweet moments of the film and dramatic tension to the dramatic moments.
"We did experiment with a song sung over the dramatic action," he says. "Kate Bush, a terrific Welsh singer, came in. There's a moment in the film just after Lemur Island is destroyed, and Aladar comes ashore with the five lemurs and they look back at the island and they're sad, and Aladar says 'We must move on.' She wrote a song that was just poignant and beautiful, for that moment. We laid it in. It was beautiful. It didn't work. It felt out of place."
The Japan Timessearch.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/ff20001215a2.htmlIt seems that KT's Dinosaur song actually got to the point where preview audiences heard it as originally placed in the film. Apparently, Disney tried using the song, but it jarred with preview audiences, as the audience was not expecting a song at that point in the film. The test screenings of Dinosaur are mentioned in John Mendelssohn's book "Waiting for Kate Bush", p.270:Dinosaur part 3 www.youtube.com/watch?v=XCx4wrGnjLA 0:37...
Where are our lives If there is no dream Where is our home
We don't know how There will be a way Out of the storm "We must move on..."
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Post by Barry SR Gowing on Mar 8, 2009 17:35:52 GMT
"We did experiment with a song sung over the dramatic action," he says. "Kate Bush, a terrific Welsh singer, came in. Welsh? I wonder where that came from. She has some Irish in her background, but Welsh? I also boggle at the tone of their description "a terrific Welsh singer", as if Kate is some complete unknown who requires some formal, yet cryptic, introduction... Hooray for Hollywood. Thanks for the information, Tannis. It was very interesting to read. I had heard something about this, but not the full story. Had the song been included in the film, then Kate could have been up for an Oscar (only original songs specifically composed for a film are eligible). Of course, having said that, I notice that "Lyra" (from The Golden Compass) was eligible and they didn't nominate that. I suppose it's up to the studio to push for a song to be nominated and since The Golden Compass was something of a flop I imagine no one had the enthusiasm (or cash) to promote the song. Kate's music would be ideal for films. She's always had a flair for the dramatic, and she can paint lovely textural pictures in sound. Aerial is just the latest installment in a series of beautiful soundscapes. --Paul--
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Post by tannis on Mar 9, 2009 11:11:28 GMT
Welsh? I wonder where that came from. She has some Irish in her background, but Welsh? I also boggle at the tone of their description "a terrific Welsh singer", as if Kate is some complete unknown who requires some formal, yet cryptic, introduction... I think the author may have confused Kate with the cryptic KT sign (which KaTe et al apparently spotted on a Welsh church). The KT sign is, of course, Welsh... Q: How and when did the KT sign develop? KB: The original KT was discovered by my brother, Jay, on the door of an old church in deepest darkest Wales. The commercially used KT symbol was designed by Del Palmer to be used on the first album and it has been with us ever since.www.thekickinside.btinternet.co.uk/inter3.htmHad the song been included in the film, then Kate could have been up for an Oscar (only original songs specifically composed for a film are eligible). Of course, having said that, I notice that "Lyra" (from The Golden Compass) was eligible and they didn't nominate that. I suppose it's up to the studio to push for a song to be nominated and since The Golden Compass was something of a flop I imagine no one had the enthusiasm (or cash) to promote the song. New Line's promotional support for The Golden Compass amounted to $120 million of media value worldwide. No doubt this included an extensive Oscar push for Best Picture and even Best Song. New Line Cinema Announces Extensive Worldwide Promotional Partnerships in Support of The Golden Compass November 07, 2007 New Line Cinema today announced a wide array of promotional partners to support its upcoming fantasy adventure The Golden Compass including Coca-Cola, World Wildlife Fund, Sega, Wal-Mart, Borders, Barnes & Noble, Best Buy, Amazon.com, Emusic, FAO Schwarz, Target, Corgi International, Trans World Entertainment, Circuit City, Marie Claire and Scholastic. Collectively, the promotional partnerships will result in approximately $50 million worth of advertising support, one billion consumer impressions, and $120 million of media value worldwide. Additionally, New Line has over 75 licensed partners producing hundreds of Golden Compass-related products worldwide, in six different categories including retail, beverage/concessions, non-profit, publishing, home entertainment, and in-book and online. "The release of The Golden Compass is a true global event and the scope of our promotional partners on the film reflects that," says Rolf Mittweg, New Line Cinema's President and COO of Worldwide Distribution and Marketing. "There is already tremendous excitement for the release of this film all over the world, and the unprecedented reach of this campaign will continue to fuel that anticipation." Highlights of the promotional partnerships include: - Marie Claire will feature KATE BUSH [ ] Nicole Kidman on the cover of its December issue in the United States and in 13 international editions. The magazine will also run a sweepstakes in its October issue and online giving away a trip to the UK premiere.www.timewarner.com/corp/newsroom/pr/0,20812,1681784,00.html But can you imagine KaTe singing live on the Oscar stage? Or perhaps publicly pulling out of the Academy Awards in protest so that she doesn't have to sing live at the Kodak Theatre? Maybe KaTe sabotaged her own 'Lyra' effort so as not to receive a nomination? Maybe she was relieved the song didn't make the nomination list? Kate's music would be ideal for films. She's always had a flair for the dramatic, and she can paint lovely textural pictures in sound. Aerial is just the latest installment in a series of beautiful soundscapes. Yes, Paul, I agree. Then again, maybe an artist like KaTe would be frustrated by the limitations of film music. "After all, when an art with 30,000 years of tradition is subservient to a craft that is less than 100 years old there are bound to be limitations on the older art. Some composers don't care about this, but I do. Music is a language of pattern, metaphor, emotion and ideas. It is not just about evoking emotion or feeling, although this is a very serious and important part of music which all too often degenerates into sentimentality and pseudo-emotion." (Jerry Gerber)Hans: Thanks. Referring to what you said about the limitations of Film music, something we hear often from other composers, isn't this changing lately? I mean, I hear that on recent films, film makers tend to use the finished music to place their images, so composers don't have to cut their music on some critical passages, is this true? Jerry: I wish it were, but it doesn't seem to be in Hollywood. There really is no artistic or technical reason why music and film (or video, computer imaging, etc) cannot be on equal footing, a true collaborative effort, but it is rarely done. I can think of very few films in the past 25 years (Chronos comes to mind) where the structural logic of music inspires images in an abstract style. To my mind, it is more the economic pressures and greed of the large film companies in Hollywood which dictate the assembly-line mentality in which music's primary role is to exaggerate emotional association. I think all intelligent movie-goers probably are sick of this mechanical sentimentality in some way or another. I wrote an article about this which is published on my web site (www.jerrygerber.com/media.htm). One musician said to me the other day that he thought film music was one of the only ways unsophisticated listeners are being introduced to orchestral music. He is probably correct, and he sees this as a good thing because ambitious listeners may be motivated to discover the great orchestral literature of the past 300 years. Yet this doesn't speak very highly in regard to the contribution of film music to culture if all it is doing is to point the way to better music composed for its own sake. I hope this will change, and with the availability of new technologies that can help to de-centralize who gets to make and distribute visual media, as musicians can now do with compact discs, perhaps it will improve. A lot depends on the musicality and artistic vision of the directors, and what they are really trying to accomplish.www.jerrygerber.com/sonarinterview.htmCut to Dinosaur and Lemurs...
Hooray for Hollywood...
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Post by tannis on Mar 10, 2009 12:27:12 GMT
Kate records song for new Disney Movie - Dinosaur September 23rd [1999]: The editors of HomeGround fanzine have confirmed for me that Kate has recorded a song for the upcoming Disney computer animated blockbuster Dinosaur, which is scheduled for US cinema release on Memorial Day, May 2000. This follows rumours posted on the famous "movie geek" web-site Aint It Cool News. Dinosaur has been a hugely anticipated project which will apparently set new boundaries for animation, and it has been rumoured to be one of the most expensive films ever made. The animated dinosaurs will be voiced (including Joan Plowright, Juliana Marguiles and Kiefer Sutherland) but the film is expected to have strong dramatic elements and is not a musical comedy. The plot is said to centre around an Iguanadon raised by lemurs who tries to survive the end of the Mesozoic era. As Peter Fitzgerald Morris of HomeGround has told me, Kate's track is "...apparently for the emotional turning point of the film.....shades of the death of Bambi's mother??!!" Peter also adds the traditional Kate news story disclaimer: "...not absolutely certain whether it'll be used at this point". We'll keep you posted on all developments. (see update March 17th 2000).www.katebushnews.com/1999.htmMarch 17th [2000]: Joe Tracy emails that the Animation Artist website is reporting that Walt Disney records have contacted them with details of the soundtrack of Dinosaur. "Released May 2nd, it will be 100% scores, no songs. In addition there is a Sound Factory product coming out with eight Dinosaur-inspired songs, none of the songs feature Kate Bush." We'll have to wait and see when we might ever get to hear this composition.www.katebushnews.com/2000.htmThe film overall offers a unique visual feel, with traditional and computer-designed animation integrated into real backgrounds (themselves digitized and manipulated). Sounds that Boyes recorded while on vacation in Hawaii provided the lushness for Lemur Island, while many of the wind techniques he honed working on Titanic [1997] proved useful once the dinosaurs embarked on the long trek through the desert. "We end up in the desert for a long time," Boyes says, "and I wanted to keep it interesting. There's a sandstorm, which was fun to design and edit, with the winds rushing and Foley putting in some great particle sounds. There's night sequences where we play with processed crickets. And there's daytime, where the winds allow you to create this incredible spatial quality so that you feel like you're in this vast, wide open area. There was very little to echo off of, and there was very little life, other than the herd itself. A lot of the initial sound design I did that [Disney] didn't buy off on for specific characters, we were able to use for herd. We created a background of group walla, of dinosaur sounds, that read specific creatures and mass of creatures. In a way, the herd became the most interesting background of this film. Music is big at that point, so the herd pokes through." There are lot of things that are absent, from the T-Rex to the Mosasaur to Aladar's grandparents to the feathered dinosaurs and also the Kate Bush Song. www.retrojunk.com/forums/index.php?view=posts&fid=47&tid=28618I had the chance to preview Disney's money release for next summer (though I've seen it listed in some places as coming out in winter), "Dinosaur." It all started when a buddy and I were tooling around the mall, trying to eat up some time. One of those test screen drones approached us about seeing a screening that night. Normally, I balk at such offers because it seems like the proposed films are stinkers like, "some people at the studio are saying this is Pauly Shore's best" or "another feel-good hit from Whoopi." When the guy said it was a MAJOR animation release from Disney, my buddy at I jumped at the chance to attend, thinking it must be one of two films: "Toy Story 2" or "Fantasia 2000." As you mentioned in your post on "Tarzan [1999]," the movie was, in fact, "Dinosaur [2000]." The audience was composed mainly of twentysomethings like myself and my friend (strange, eh? Though i guess Disney knows it will have the kids and their parents locked in, so they are seeing if the film can garner any appeal with this swing crowd). If the two of us were any indicator, Disney will have to do quite a bit of tweaking to do so. Let me begin the review with two caveats: I'm not Disney's typical audience, and this was a very early print. Concerning the former, the print is so early, much of the animation wasn't completed, and often storyboards were substituted with scenes that had to be animated. The first time a clean, crisp, resolute image cut to a storyboard, much of the unschooled audience laughed, as is to be expected. On to the review: Let me start off with saying the visual splendor of what was completed was spectacular. Standout scenes that had been finished included that initial scene following the path of the dinosaur egg from nest to the jungle (as I believe has been mentioned by those who have seen that footage), the comet impact, and the climactic battle with the carnosaur. . . . The music for the film was temp tracked, with the only recognizable tunes being a pop song from Peter Gabriel (a possibility to do this after Disney enlisted the other former Genesis frontman, Phil Collins, to do "Tarzan"?) and the more dramatic moments of "Titanic"'s score. The Disney PR lady who spoke to us before the film said this "recognizable music" typified the music that would make it into the final version. AICN sits in on a test screening of Disney's DINOSAUR!, June 9, 1999 www.aintitcool.com/display.cgi?id=3763Dinosaur - Growing Up www.youtube.com/watch?v=lDdkNp4CBAE Music: "Growing Up," By: Peter Gabriel (Up,[/i] 2002)[/color] "The music for the film was temp tracked, with the only recognizable tunes being a pop song from Peter Gabriel. . . ." So, was the Dinosaur song a Gabriel/Bush collaboration? ...
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Post by tannis on Jun 18, 2009 23:27:57 GMT
THE LIONHEART TOUR or The Tour Of Life (as it became known to those who were on it) [/color] [/center] Neither forward nor welcome note call the concert show 'The Tour Of Life' ...
So, since when did the KATE BUSH TOUR become known as "The Tour Of Life"? "The original of this cartoon done in biro at rehearsal for the Lionheart Tour will go to the first member who can identify Kate's brother PADDY BUSH." KBC Mag 01 (KBC Issue 1, January 1979)Hello again, Lionhearts... A lot of new members haven't got their signed photos yet, but please bear with us - Kate has well over 2000 to get signed, and we're sending them out as she gets them done. I must say we've all been more than a bit overwhelmed by the flood of new members that poured in as a result of the Tour of Life (as it became known to those who were on it)... Nicholas Wade. KBC Mag 02 (KBC Issue 2, Summer 1979)Back to the drawing board stuff, I'm standing in front of it now and writing on a tiny little section of it marked "Tour of Life II"... KBC Mag 14, Paddy's 8th article for KBC Newsletter (KBC 14, Summer/Fall 1983)The "Kate Bush Tour" bill and rehearsal cartoon, etc. identify the concert as "the Lionheart Tour". It became known as "the Tour of Life" to those who were on it. This nickname stuck. Hence, Paddy's post on "the Tour of Life II", etc.
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