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Post by Lori on Feb 20, 2002 0:13:35 GMT
Is it true that Kate never tours and if so does anyone know why not? I've heard she doesn't do tours but her 'Wow' video looks like a load of clips from tours. She'd be great in concert!
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Post by flashpics on Feb 21, 2002 11:47:24 GMT
Kate toured once and played a small number of concerts. She says she does not like to perform on stage, she is a composer and singer. Her goal in life has been to make albums and to write songs . She has always said she never had the desire to perform on stage and finds it uncomfortable to do so.As a result she will never do another concert tour, she also give very few interviews as she is not comfortable revealing how she thinks and works.However the few interviews she has done are normally very interesting.I seem to remember she did the Parkinson show once but as far as I know this is the only public talk show that was not musically based she has ever done.
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Post by Lori on Feb 23, 2002 17:19:38 GMT
Oh. I bet she could perform a fantastic concert too. But she doesn't feel comfortable and I respect that. She's still a star!!!
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Post by MALCOLM XERXES™ on Nov 10, 2002 11:40:29 GMT
I have been told that after her performance on SATURDAY NIGHT LIVETM, she became afflicted with a morbid fear of flying. However, I have never heard this corroborated from herself or any other credible source.
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Post by Martyn Richard Jones on Nov 21, 2002 15:30:18 GMT
My guess would be that the compositions are extremmely difficult to reproduce satisfactorily in a live concert.
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Post by Chas on Feb 2, 2003 23:49:11 GMT
I worked in the 'touring' business for a while and, someone (who was very in the know at the time) that she was rehearsin on stage for a live performance and a light fell out of the rafters onto a technician next to het and killed him. That's apparently why she quit!
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Post by Lori on Feb 13, 2003 0:13:03 GMT
Yeah that's sadly true. The song 'Blow Away (for Bill)' was written by Kate dedicated to him, and his name, believe it or not, was Bill.
I got this information from 'TKI':
BILL DUFFIELD
In March 1979 – The Tour was to open officially on April the 3rd at the Liverpool Empire but first there was a preview at the Poole Arts Centre near Bournemouth to iron out any last minute hitches. Everyone was naturally very nervous but the show went tremendously well and afterwards, Richard Ames recalls, “We went back to the hotel having a few drinks, everyone was very up. And I got the call from the hall that Bill had run back up to the top of the auditorium where the (Lighting) desk had been and where he’d been running the show. He was doing the ‘idiot check’ – you rush up after everything’s in the truck to make sure nothing’s forgotten. Someone from the auditorium had lifted up a panel from the flooring on the very last step of the aisle between the seats and placed it on the step below the top step. Bill rushed up, tripped over it ‘cos it wasn’t lit very well, and went head first down 17 feet onto concrete. He lasted a week on the life support machine.
May 12th 1979 a special benefit concert was staged at the Hammersmith Odeon. David Lewis reviewed the show for Sounds, confessing that he had gone along principally to hear Steve Harley break his two-year silence. But David admitted: “Like practically all the other gnarled old cynics, I cannot deny that I was wrong, her fans were right and she was left to reap the applause for a show that sometimes teetered on the farcical but was never short of compulsive to watch.”
The set order had been revamped and it was near the end of the show when Steve and Peter (Gabriel).”Crept slowly out of the wings in trench coats and fedoras to singalongaKate on ‘Rolling The Ball’. “Then after a solo from Steve, he and Peter sang ‘Woman With The Child In Her Eyes’ as a duet. Later Peter sang ‘Here Comes The Flood’ unaccompanied and finally Steve Harley had the crowd joining in with ‘Best Years Of Our Lives’ and ‘Make Me Smile (Come Up And See Me)’. As the show ended they were mown down by Kate in ‘James And The Cold Gun’. The encore for Bill was The Beatles ‘Let It Be’.
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Post by MALCOLM XERXES™ on Mar 11, 2003 21:54:09 GMT
LORI,
Thanks for the intel! 
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Post by Kates Guardian Angel on May 22, 2003 0:18:07 GMT
The time will come she`ll meet a man,
who`ll show her that she really can,
sing and dance and entertain,
with great pleasure and little pain.
The time is coming very near,
her fans who love her very dear,
will thrill the sight on stage of Kate,
and I for one just cannot wait!
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Post by Lori on May 22, 2003 13:56:44 GMT
Erm... is that you MT?  |
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Post by Al Truest on May 22, 2003 14:32:07 GMT
Lori, I almost posted that same question last night. It's gotta be MT. He just can't admit that he can not stay away from this board.  Dude, don't quit your day job.  |
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Post by Neo Stella on May 25, 2003 23:02:18 GMT
Am I that obvious?  Yes Al, I cannot keep away from this board, you`ve sussed me! Sorry Lori, I didn`t try to mislead, it was just a pathetic attempt to contribute incognito, how sad! Well Al, I have given up the day job to press ahead and finish the book. You guys are going to love it, of that I have no doubt. Kate, if you are reading this, it won`t be long before the penultimate eclipse. |
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Post by Al Truest on May 26, 2003 0:11:44 GMT
LOL! MT the ham in you rears it's head. You're a big man to admit your weakness. |
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Post by Neo Stella on May 27, 2003 22:29:53 GMT
On a "normal" and realistic level, can you imagine Kate touring again? On a "spiritual" level, I believe there is a piece of Kate`s life puzzle missing and when she finds it you won`t be able to keep her away from entertaining the people. Yes, it is her choice. But what would you do if you found that you were holding that missing piece?  |
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Post by Al Truest on May 27, 2003 23:48:27 GMT
Give it up man I think you're just antagonizing me now. |
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Dude, don't quit your day job. 
