was the high point for Bargepole.

I've mentioned this before but I went on my own aged about 12/13 to Kate Bush at the Palladium. Great gig from what I remember and pleased to say my ears were working well aged 12.

Has she died or retired? I know she doesn't qualify as prolific but let's hope there's more to come from her. She strikes me as incapable of making anything less than a very good record.

people like Bowie, Cliff Richard"! :0

and proves that imagination in pop music is not solely the preserve of the young. A wonderful record by a wonderful musician.

God Bless Kate Bush. Cloudbusting is my toppermost out of a very high quality field.

The best opening track of all time?

Here's Kate performing it live, with musical godfather David Gilmour and a spectacularly coiffed bassist.

is someone I had completely forgotton about before I found the Word Blog. Mention of Babooshka and it all comes flooding back. God bless you all.

the title track from The Sensual World. The album cover is a pastiche of this image by the Japanese photographer Eikoh Hosoe:

...Yes - indeed.

Searched on YouTube for the clip of Kate on Wogan performing Running Up T'Hill and a shy young Mr Ellen interviewing La Bush to no avail. Have the 12" mix instead...

Is it a qualification that to read the Word you have to idolize (in almost every sense) Kate Bush? I think her music is pretty tedious, although my wife got 'Aerial'. Can't remember the last time it was played round at Boz Towers though.....

Can't remember exactly, but I think it was the video for Wow! Black leotard, black background. But there was definitely a moment during all her arm flinging where a cheeky little breast pops out for a moment. Wore my old Ferguson VCR toploader out trying to pause on those few frames I can tell you. Bloody great huge useless buttons.

I was working with a make up artist a few years ago, who told me that he was the assistant to the man who did the lightning flash on Ziggie Bowie's face and actually did the work himself as his boss was indisposed. Impressive.

Then he said he played bass in Curve. I could vaguely remember the lead singer, so not quite as good.

And then, well, he said he went out with Kate Bush when she was 16 or so (the Gered Manokowitz back of the bus photo period - half way down http://www.wordmagazine.co.uk/content/half-price-poster-sale).

Now that was really, really impressive. Completely believable character too.

Kate Bush is surely the best british female artist by a country mile - can anyone think of a close comparison?
I think her career can be split in to two halves: - pre Dreaming and post Dreaming. The stuff before Dreaming had a charming unrestrained innocence along with the shrieking vocals which are the bugbear of her critics. While pre-Dreaming there were some fab tunes and two consistently great albums (Kick Inside and Never Forever), her reputation as a creative genius is surely down to the post Dreaming albums. Dreaming, Hounds of Love and Aerial are all masterpieces. I have to say Red Shoes is the one real duffer in her catalogue, while Sensual World is not consistently great it has its moments and the title track is possibly the best thing she ever recorded. When this song came out it was one of those rare things - a top 10 hit which sounded like nothing else before or since. Interestingly, around this time (1989) there were two other tunes which this could also be said for - The Cure's Lullaby and Siouxsie and The Banshees' Pee-Ka-Boo (oh thats the other great Brit female)

As stated earlier in the thread how many artists have produced so many albums with so few duds?