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Kate Bush interview, March 1978
Posted by Patrick Crowther on 12 October 2011 - 12:53pm.
Watch it and weep. And curse Steve Blacknell...
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Well
that's brightened up my lunch hour. Is she the perfect woman? Personally, I think she is, as well as Mrs Axekeith of course!
Perfect woman?
Nah. She is unique, beautiful and talented. But I suspect she is also someone who needs a lot of time to herself to the extent that those in her closest orbit find it difficult to develop or nurture relationships with her. It's not a criticism. I just can't accept the idea of someone who has made such a significant and visionary canon of popular music and has had public attention drawn to her from a very young age is also someone who isn't very selfish of her time and emotional investment in people other than herself and in ideas other than her own. Nothing to do with gender, all to do with the art.
Perfect fantasy woman I could go with because I often can't believe that Kate Bush is real such is the powerful combination of her beauty and talent.
Man Alive
she was/is fit.
Brief...
and to the point. Have an up.
Ooh Ooh... can I tell my Kate Bush story?
A few years ago (January 2008 I think) I was working on the radio and played a bizarre version of Wuthering Heights by an Australian singer named James Reyne (ex frontman for Australian Crawl - not bad). His claim to fame is an almost incomprehensible singing voice, so the lyrics to WH, along with his strangulated vocal stylings, made for a wonderful combination.
Anyway, I played the track, made some flippant remark (but, importantly, I did mention how much I love the song) and then, bugger me - I get an email, supposedly from Ms Bush enquiring about the version I'd just played. Considering this is in New Zealand, and the email came from an NZ address, I was suspicious. Promptly went back on air, telling the world about the email, and saying that if it really WAS Kate Bush, then she'd remember about 15 years earlier when I actually went to her parents farm (where I think she was living) to do an interview. Minutes later comes the reply: "I remember you... you were the tall DJ who tried to nick my fags".
I'll quickly add here that that's not strictly true. I do remember something concerning tobacco products, but I could NEVER steal from someone with eyes like that. Never seen anything like them - sitting there with tape recorder in hand, being completely overwhelmed by her phenomenal stare.
I'll always remember how she signed off her email on that day in 2008 - "Thanks for playing that version. I've never heard it before. You've made an old slapper very happy."
A wonderful day....
The perfect woman
If only she didn't have that terrible speaking voice.
very much
part of her charm.
I feel
ever so slightly melty.
She's a Doctor Who fan, too. Sometimes in my dreams we recline on velvet and silks, discussing The Brain of Morbius.
Amazing someone as sensitive as that ..
..actually survived at all. But she did. Pity she can't or has no interest in writing commercial tunes anymore.
Well I've not heard the new LP yet
but given that it has 7 songs spread over 65 mins and if you search down the the blog threads you can hear "the single" it's safe to say there aren't any Chartbusters on there.
...Or maybe the last track on the LP is actually two new 3 minute classic Kate Bush pop songs in a medley....