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Post by tannis on Jan 8, 2009 6:40:28 GMT
BBC1 is making a major 2-part documentary that celebrates Britain's most admired female singers from the Sixties to present day, from Dusty Springfield to Kate Bush, etc. The documentary is currently scheduled to transmit on primetime BBC1 in Spring '09. Del is doing an interview for the programme on Jan 12.
This from Del's myspace:
Saturday, January 03, 2009
BBC DOCUMENTARY
Email received just prior to Christmas...
Dear Del.
BBC Music Entertainment, the department that bring you Later...with Jools Holland is producing a major 2-part arts documentary that celebrates Britain's most admired female singers from the Sixties to present day, currently scheduled to transmit on primetime BBC1 in Spring '09.
From Dusty Springfield to Kate Bush to Annie Lennox, we'll profile the pioneers who've shaped the landscape of popular music, and who have proved a huge and enduring influence on fellow and future musicians.
We understand Kate's a very private person, so it would be good to talk to you, as an artist who's worked closely with Kate, about her unique songwriting style, her creativity in the studio and the songs which have inspired so many musicians. We're approaching people who have worked with Kate, or who are fans of her music and some of these include David Gilmour, Mark Radcliffe, Tori Amos, Alison Goldfrapp, Andrew Powell and John Carder Bush.
To give you an idea of the areas we'll be touching on during the interview are:
Early beginnings with Kate - how you came to work together in the KT Bush Band. Kate's creativity as a musician in the studio. Inspiration from working with Kate. Her influential lyrics and vocals. Her role as an empowering female artist. Her uniqueness' and artistic control. Kate's critical acclaim.
We could set aside January 12th for your interview.
My feeling is that this is quite an exciting prospect providing they do justice to Kate and her work..
5th. January...
just to let you know I'm doing this interview on Monday 12th. at 11 AM!!... (Oooer!!)
12th.January...
Phew!!.. Glad that's done... Interesting interview although not what I was expecting.. The documentary is due to air here in Britain in late March...
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Post by tannis on Mar 14, 2009 23:27:26 GMT
A new two-part series, Queens Of British Pop, is to be shown on BBC One. Episode 1 will be shown during BBC Week 13 (28 Mar to 3 Apr). As mentioned already on this forum, Del has been interviewed for this series.
From the BBC Press Office:Network TV BBC Week 13
Highlights 28 March-3 April 2009
Queens Of British Pop Ep 1/2
Day and time to be confirmed BBC ONE
Queens Of British Pop is a two-part series which celebrates 12 female singers and icons who have influenced British pop music from the Sixties to the present day. The series features new interviews with iconic stars including Sandie Shaw, Suzi Quatro, Siouxsie Sioux, Annie Lennox and Leona Lewis.
In the first programme, narrator Liza Tarbuck takes viewers back to the early Sixties and on to the cusp of the Eighties, exploring the lives and careers of Dusty Springfield, Sandie Shaw, Marianne Faithfull, Suzi Quatro, Kate Bush and Siouxsie Sioux. They are all female artists who pioneered some of Britain's defining musical movements, from the Swinging Sixties through to glam rock and punk.
The programme features new interviews with Sandie Shaw, Marianne Faithfull, Suzi Quatro, Siouxsie Sioux and contributions from friends and fans, including Sir Tom Jones, Lulu, Burt Bacharach, John Lydon, Martha Reeves, Nancy Sinatra, Mark Radcliffe, Henry Winkler, Marc Almond, Peter Gabriel, Claire Grogan, Jarvis Cocker, Kiki Dee and Adele. They give an insight into the constraints and obstacles these pop icons have had to overcome, how they have defied and defined contemporary opinion and changing notions of pop femininity over the years and how their journeys helped shape and influence the next generation of female pop stars.
This celebration of British female pop stardom concludes next week, as Liza takes viewers from the early Eighties to the present day, completing the odyssey by looking at the impact made by Annie Lennox, Alison Moyet, Kylie Minogue, Geri Halliwell, Amy Winehouse and Leona Lewis.www.bbc.co.uk/pressoffice/proginfo/tv/2009/wk13/unplaced.shtml#unplaced_queens
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Post by Barry SR Gowing on Mar 15, 2009 0:12:30 GMT
Thanks - I get BBC1 ;D
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Post by tannis on Mar 24, 2009 14:27:29 GMT
The time and date of the first episode have been confirmed as:
Queens Of British Pop Ep 1/2
Wednesday 1 April
10.45-11.50pm BBC ONEKate Bush, Rolf Harris, and Her Majesty The Queen
Apparently, when [Kate Bush] attended a music industry reception at Buckingham Palace this year, she asked the Queen for her autograph. Is that true? Instantly a grin spreads across the face of the Most Elusive Woman in Rock. "Yes, I did!" she exclaims, only half-embarrassedly. "I made a complete arsehole of myself. I'm ashamed to say that when I told Bertie that I was going to meet the Queen, he said, 'Mummy, no, you're not, you've got it wrong' and I said, 'But I am!' So rather stupidly I thought I'd get her to sign my programme. She was very sweet.
"The thing is I would do anything for Bertie and making an arsehole of myself in front of a whole roomful of people and the Queen, I mean ... But I don't have a very good track record with royalty. My dress fell off in front of Prince Charles at the Prince's Trust, so I'm just living up to my reputation."
The Guardian, "I'm not some weirdo recluse", October 28, 2005www.gaffaweb.org/reaching/iv05_gua.html"Pussycat pussycat, where have you been?"
"I've been up to London to visit the Queen."
"Pussycat pussycat, what did you dare?"
"I frightened a little mouse under her chair"
"MEOWW!" Rolf Harris, the Australian entertainer also known for his dubious talents with a wobble board and didgeridoo, has received the ultimate recognition of his artistic talents.
Harris, 75, has been commissioned to paint a portrait of the Queen to mark her 80th birthday next April, it was announced yesterday.
The Queen, who has sat for more than 120 artists, including Lucien Freud, Pietro Annigoni and John Wonnacott, is according to a Buckingham Palace spokesman, "no doubt aware of his portfolio of TV work and therefore decided to give him permission". The spokesman also said that as with the other portraits, "the style, dress and backdrop is the artist's prerogative".
The sittings, which will take place this summer before the Queen goes to Balmoral for her traditional summer holiday, will be filmed for a BBC1 television special, Rolf on Art, to be screened on 21 April next year. While admitting that there were no Harrises in the Royal Collection, the spokesman said: "He is a well-known presenter with an excellent reputation for making art accessible."www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/this-britain/can-you-see-what-it-is-yet-maam-rolf-to-paint-the-queen-490710.html Harris's portrait of The Queen was voted by readers of the Radio Times the third favourite portrait of Her Majesty.
"I wanted to avoid that state portrait thing with the jewels and the pomp and splendour," he said. "I wanted to capture the lady as she is, with her humanity and reality." In this endeavour, he tried to make her smile. But Her Majesty was at first rather stiff, so Harris began to patter.
He didn't ask her, "Can you tell what it is yet?" - a catchphrase from his TV performances - as he slapped strokes of blue paint onto the white canvas. Instead, he wondered whether she minded the smell of turpentine. "Well, we'll tell soon, won't we?" she replied.
Finally Harris got what he wanted. "I asked the Queen to look out the window then turn to me as if I were her favourite grandson and give me a welcoming smile," he said.
According to a spokeswoman for the BBC, which filmed the moment, the Queen even giggled.www.smh.com.au/news/arts/rolfs-brush-with-royalty/2005/12/20/1134840801613.html
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Post by Barry SR Gowing on Mar 31, 2009 20:06:59 GMT
The time and date of the first episode have been confirmed as:
Queens Of British Pop Ep 1/2
Wednesday 1 April
10.45-11.50pm BBC ONEKate Bush, Rolf Harris, and Her Majesty The Queen
I just remembered to set my recorder, so that any Kate Kontent™ can be saved and reproduced for your entertainment later - possibly via one of those Tubes that the Internet is so famous for. --Paul-- |
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Post by tannis on Mar 31, 2009 20:27:55 GMT
Kate Kontent™ ...  Here are some Exclusive clips from the Queens of British Pop: Kate Bushwww.bbc.co.uk/musictv/queensofbritishpop/artists/katebush/Over six minutes, featuring: Kate Bush on Top of The Pops; Anthony Van Laast on 'the Bush mike'; Del Palmer on first impressions; John Lydon on her originality, her notes and tones, and 'the desert song'; Mark Radcliffe on the female equivalent to Peter Gabriel; and Peter Gabriel on Don't Give Up.I knew she had refused similar projects, and sadly Kate turned down our offer.
Someone who made up for the lack of Kate was my personal highlight - John Lydon - one of Kate's biggest fans.
I found myself in Santa Monica waiting for John who turned up with his treasured Kate Bush box set. John recounted the time when he played Wuthering Heights to his mum.
"Oh Johnny, it sounds like a bag of cats," she said, but for John, his love for Kate's music was instant and we spent an entertaining hour discussing it.
I'll leave you with John's words: "At last there is a decent Bush in the world, there always was. We've just had a rotten one in between…there's plenty butch babes out there, this is Bush baby, love her, love you Kate, best songs ever"!news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/7974231.stm
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Post by Barry SR Gowing on Apr 2, 2009 12:19:19 GMT
The clips on the BBC website don't seem to be working. Never mind, just quietly I have put the Kate part of the BBC1 Documentary up: www.youtube.com/watch?v=d_6hAJ_F0RgThe actual segment ran to about 10 minutes and 20 seconds, and you can only put 10 minute clips up, so I have edited this a little. Almost everything that I've removed is just bits of Kate's videos that we've all seen. Although Kate declined to be interviewed for this documentary, John Carder Bush, Del Palmer and Peter Gabriel all were interviewed, so I suppose that John and Del are "representing" Kate in an official capacity. --Paul-- |
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Post by tannis on Apr 2, 2009 20:27:19 GMT
JOHN WAYNE AND HIS SADDLE, A BAG OF CATS, and THE KORAN OF MUSICJCB: "If there is a reluctance to get involved with the media, it's because she doesn't want to play with the bullshit. And through those years where people say she hid away from the world and so on, she was just making records. It might take 10 years to do it. And if that's the way she works, that's the way she works!"
Del: "She is definitely a pioneer. A serious pioneer."
Peter Gabriel: "I think she was one of the first female artists that started a creative community around her, and controlled it, and shaped it really, and was just unafraid to experiment for better and for worse."Thank you, Paul, for uploading this clip.  The segment is warm and nostalgic, and a nice tribute to Kate. And you're right about JCB and Del representing 'Queen' Kate in her official duties. Queens of British Pop is also dependent on the pleasures of old telly clips – a breezy and slightly purposeless celebration of pop divas, which didn't appear to be able to distinguish between the genuinely great and influential (Dusty Springfield) and acts who just hit a good wave and knew how to ride it to the beach (Suzi Quatro). It's a little disappointing, really, because they had interviewees who might have delivered something more substantial, from Burt Bacharach to Lulu (admirably unsnippy about appearing only as commentator rather than a subject). The biggest surprise here was John Lydon, on hand to express his enthusiasm for the music of Kate Bush. "Those shrieks and warbles," he said of "Wuthering Heights", "are beautiful beyond belief to me." His mum didn't agree, apparently. "Oh Johnny," she said, "it sounds like a bag of cats." Curiously, they were both right.www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/tv/reviews/last-nights-television-alan-whickers-journey-of-a-lifetime-bbc2br-the-apprentice-bbc1br-queens-of-british-pop-bbc1br-1659935.html
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Post by tannis on Apr 6, 2009 10:27:56 GMT
KATEWORKDon't want your bullshit, yeah
Just want your sexuality
Don't want your excuses, yeah
Write me your poetry in motion
Write it just for me, yeah
And sign it with a kiss LT [voice over clip of Babooshka]: "With success Kate found herself on the old promotional treadmill.
[Cut to clip from "Ask Aspel" September 5, 1978.] ...
LT [voice over clips from: "Kate" - Christmas Special, Dec 28, 1979 (KaTe in bizarre niqab for 'Egypt'); "Dr Hook", Apr 7, 1980 [KaTe in bizarre swan outfit for 'Delius']; and "Kate", Dec 28, 1979 (KaTe in bizarre suicide finale for 'The Wedding List')]: "But Kate and light entertainment were at times a bizarre mix."
JCB: "She'd turn up at a telephone station expecting to be interviewed seriously, only to find that they were ready to talk to her about her boyfriends or something."
[Cut to clip from "Ask Aspel" September 5, 1978:
MA: "One last question from Jane Fear, about your hair. What do you do to it? She loves it."] ... ... ...
JCB: "If there is a reluctance to get involved with the media, it's because she doesn't want to play with the bullshit. And through those years where people say she hid away from the world and so on, she was just making records. It might take 10 years to do it. And if that's the way she works, that's the way she works!"
Queens Of British Pop Ep 1/2, Wednesday 1 April, BBC ONEwww.youtube.com/watch?v=d_6hAJ_F0RgHow many pop stars are on the 'Network' when they have nothing to promote? Not many. Sure, some are. But most aren't. And Kate is no exception. Further, looking through Gaffaweb, I doubt if there is a reluctance on KaTe's part to get involved with the media, certainly not when there's something for her to promote. 1978/79 saw her media hungry, attracting a youth fan base, promoting two albums, and selling out a tour. 1980 saw her promoting NFE, 'December Will Be Magic Again', and writing a weeklong diary for a teen magazine. In 1981, she promotes 'Sat In Your Lap' and is interviewed by Desmond Morris and Richard Stilgoe. In 1982/83, she promotes TD on both sides of the pond; and in 1984, there's 'The Single File' video collection. 1984-mid-1985, Kate has nothing to promote, so makes no TV appearances. However, 1985/86 sees the global promotion of HoL (including the Night Flight interview), followed by The Whole Story, 'Experiment IV', and 'Don't Give Up'. 1987 sees tribute shows, the Laurie Brown interview, and Kate singing live at the London Amnesty International Benefit, 'The Secret Policeman's Third Ball'. In 1989, Kate promotes TSW and does 'Les Dogs'/Comic Strip Presents. In 1990, KT's in Q promoting This Woman's Work boxed set. In June 1993, Kate appears on Aspel and Company promoting 'Moments of Pleasure', and throughout 1993/4, Kate promotes TRS and TLTC&TC (and also there are the Fruitopia media commercials). In November 1994, she appears on Top Of The Pops promoting 'And So Is Love'. Without anything else to promote, Kate enters The Dark Ages.
Then, in 2005, though to a lesser extent than TRS, the architectural and alchemical Aerial is promoted on radio, in press, and on Network TV. Kate is even willing to promote the mere idea of touring Aerial (an idea she promotes with all her albums), to keep those hungry aerial fans willing and waiting for Kate Bush...
KT: "I never consciously gave up touring," she explains. "I only did just one, in 1979 and 1980, and I think other people gave up on me. I remember it as a fantastic experience, like being on the road with a circus. We're working on some ideas about doing some shows to promote this album, but it's early days."
The Toronto Star, "Lost and Found", Greg Quill, November 5, 2005
www.gaffaweb.org/reaching/iv05ts01.html
Of course, what fans want is more (competitive) promotion; and this time round, KT did very little (I wonder how many TV requests for live appearance and/or performance she turned down).
No doubt with her next album, KT will once again find herself on the old promotional treadmill - press, radio, and Network TV. And if it takes 10 years for her to produce an album, then we won't see or hear from her for 10 years, unless she takes a break from her experiments in sound to speak to Q, or suchlike. Bullshit doesn't keep KaTe BuSH away from the media; running out of bullshit and nothing to promote does!  Howard Beale: "But I'll tell you what happened. I just ran out of bullshit... Am I still on the air? ... I don't know any other way to say it, except that I just ran out of bullshit... Bullshit is all the reasons we give for living. And if we can't think up reasons of our own, we always have the God bullshit ...going through all this pointless pain, humiliation and decay, so there better be someone somewhere who does know - that's the God bullshit... Man is a noble creature that can order his own world. Who needs God? If there's anybody that can look around this demented slaughterhouse of a world we live in, and tell me that man is a noble creature, believe me, that man is full of bullshit... I don't have any kids. And I was married for 33 years of shrill, shrieking fraud... So I don't have any bullshit left. I just ran out of it, you see..."
~ Network (Sidney Lumet, 1976)KaTe is not one for promoting herself on music quiz shows or reality TV, etc. But, who knows, maybe next time round KaTe and her grand piano will appear on Later With Jools Holland or Loose Women (à la Tori Amos), or she might even discuss her new album with Mark Lawson on Newsnight Review.JCB: "You got to remember that record companies are only there to make money and if you saw them as washing machines, manufacturing companies, it's like that. And I can't really blame them. If they don't make the effort in some direction it's something that they don't think is going to make them money."
PADDY: "They tend to promote at the time, when there is something to promote."
Convention 1985, Romford, Englandwww.gaffaweb.org/dreaming/con_85.htmlSlooshy sloshy slooshy sloshy
Get that dirty shirty clean
Slooshy sloshy slooshy sloshy
Make those cuffs and collars gleam
Everything clean and shinyTori Amos - Velvet Revolution [ Live at Loose Women]
www.youtube.com/watch?v=JcF285zwjpU&feature=related
Tori Amos Programmable Soda Live on Loose Women (3 of 3)www.youtube.com/watch?v=xADgPdPqwiITori Amos - Suede (Live from Jools Holland)www.youtube.com/watch?v=5YNCS9DLsZg&feature=relatedsee more:
Passing Through Air
www.gaffaweb.org/passing/index.html
The Interviews, Articles and Reviews of Kate Bushwww.gaffaweb.org/reaching/ro_int.html
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The segment is warm and nostalgic, and a nice tribute to Kate. And you're right about JCB and Del representing 'Queen' Kate in her official duties. 