This.

I've noticed a lot of men in particular don't seem to understand you can find someone of your own gender to be drop dead gorgeous while still being straight, but oh well.

http://www.katebushnews.com/index.ph...-for-concerts/

Man the life boats
If this is true I think we'll be in for a theatrical feast.

I always thought that Sian Lloyd the BBC weather presenter, modeled her presentation style with all her "wavy hand movements" on this performance by Kate Bush.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BW3gKKiTvjs

What day is it today??

Doh, hook, line and
Worse than that I just needed to ask someone what day it was

I got the first volume of the Homeground Anthology today. Can't wait to get my teeth into it - it's bigger than War and Peace!!!

I'm going to buy those books too. I wasn't around when the fanzine era was popular so it will be a fascinating look into how fandom was done pre-digital age.

I was going to buy both hard cover versions March's pay day, but something else came along that I had to spend my money on (guess what!)

It'll probably take a couple of months before I can afford to even buy one of them now, just glad that I didn't buy them earlier other wise I wouldn't have had enough to buy the tickets!

I still can't work out how I got to this situation, bouncing around the place like a kid on Christmas Eve in anticipation of seeing Kate Bush live in five months time.

Back when I was little I used to hate her. Proper full-on, visceral, skin-crawling loathing. If one of her songs came on the radio or telly I would dive across the room to switch it off and sit there for the next hour or so tamping mad that I'd had to listen to four or five seconds of Kate Bush. By the time I went to university in the late 90s I'd pretty much forgotten about her, partly because that's when she dropped off the radar completely and partly because I was more concerned with going to see punk bands like Police Bastard, Sick on the Bus and In The Shit.

Then, one night, I was lying in bed flicking through the telly channels and on something like VH1 they were playing an hour of Kate Bush videos. I turned on in the middle of Wow and I was instantly hooked. I pressed record on the video (that's how long ago it was) without caring what was already on the tape and I watched the whole thing on loop through the night. Then, without going to bed, I was in the record shop at 9am in the morning buying The Kick Inside.

Within a week I had bought her entire back catalogue including The Whole Story video that I was severely pissed off with because it didn't have the proper version of Wow that had started me off and that I didn't get to tape.

I was still going to see bands like the Subhumans, Oi Polloi and The Varukers most nights but when I got home I would be listening to The Dreaming on a loop.

Strange how things work out.

Interesting post, Finny.

Kate Bush totally passed me by for most of my life, I suppose because when she took that 12 year break in 1993 I was only ten and would have not been interested in her anyway back then. I discovered her music through pure luck, when someone name dropped a couple of songs and I thought they sounded intriguing. I gave the song a listen and I was hooked instantly. Aerial was the first album I listened to, and I worked back from there and Kate has fascinated and amazed me ever since. It was like an instant addiction.

(Those song were Under the Ivy and King of the Mountain, by the way)

Interesting posts Finny and Jane.

I became a fan about 15 years ago. The only Kate songs I knew were Babooshka and Wuthering Heights, then I saw Cloudbusting on VH1, and absolutely loved it.

I had a friend who was a big fan and she lent me Hounds of Love on vinyl, and I never looked back. It was like I'd discovered the music I'd been waiting my whole life to hear!

I remember the announcement of King of the Mountain well. It was about 7 in the morning and I got a text off a friend saying that Kate Bush was releasing a new album and single so I got up, looked on the web and saw that everything was kicking off. That's when I signed up to katebush.com that had only just become active and that's what got me my tickets last week.

They had an exclusive premiere of the video on Channel 4 one night. I remember making my girlfriend at the time sit there and watch it with me. It was a bit like that episode of The Simpsons where Nelson Muntz makes Bart, Milhouse and Martin go and see Andy Williams with him. They're falling asleep while Nelson is enraptured.

Also Jane, like when you shouted at me in the other thread when you thought I was touting I want to shout at you for making me feel old by being a little girl when I was a drunken punk idiot at university.

Now we're even.

I remember all that too! I think they announced it on Sean Twomey's katebushnews website cos Kate didn't even have a website at that point! I then took the day off work when Aerial was released so I could enjoy it in all it's glory.

Ah, Hounds of Love vinyl, another great memory.

My missus used to work until midnight so I'd spend the evening having a couple of beers and rolling us a few joints while listening to The Dark Side of the Moon on vinyl.

Then, when she came home we'd have a smoke listening to the first side of Hounds of Love and then do something else () while listening to The Ninth Wave on side two.

The interesting thing could be that she is now getting married to another bloke but is still coming with me to see Kate in September. Am I allowed a cheeky wink and a thumbs up if Kate plays The Ninth Wave?

I think so, definitely! Music is so evocative, you can't help but associate certain songs with certain times. And taking the ex missus to see KB is bound to bring back memories. Although I'm not sure The Ninth Wave is a particularly sexy set of songs!

I think that's a given!

Old punk here myself, yeah used to go see Subhumans, Rudimenary Peni, Crass etc... and I've been to a few Mob gigs recently. Someone played me The Kick Inside back in 1980 and I've been hooked (and bored everyone I know about Kate) ever since.

I had the vinyl and the CD versions of Aerial on pre-order from Diverse Vinyl but I couldn't bring myself to listen to it for months. I think I was scared in case it didn't live up to what I was expecting.

I will admit it isn't one of my favourite KB albums but then when you consider the esteem in which I hold the first five albums that's not really a criticism.

In the last 12 months or so however I've really got into The Red Shoes. Considering I used to proudly tell people that I paid £60 for a copy of that album on vinyl even though I already owned it on CD and I didn't particularly like it. That's another big turnaround.

I've heard the theory that I like it more because I've recently seen and enjoyed the film (the Moira Shearer, Powell/Pressburger one, not The Line, The Cross and The Curve) but they haven't really got that much in common really (apart from the title and the plot).

It didn't used to be one of mine, but some of the tracks like Sunset and Nocturn are amongst my favourites now. Sunset, when the 'flamenco' bit kicks in ahh......

The Red Shoes is actually my favourite Kate album (which I know makes me a rarity as far as Kate fans go!). I just think there's so many damn good songs on it (You're the One? Heartbreaking!). It's definitely the album I listed to the most (followed by HoL and Aerial).

Well they were back then. More so than her choice of bloody Savage Garden; even typing their name makes little Finny retreat inside.

We tried doing it to a Madness compilation album once. All was going well until the song In The City came on. Three minutes of absolutely no dice.


Looking at your user name I'd say you're more than acquainted with the work of Blyth Power as well.

After buying Kate tickets the other day I was thinking about my favourite bands and artists that are still alive but I haven't seen live yet. I'm basically down to just Tom Waits and Blyth Power. Tom Waits isn't going to happen but BP probably will as long as I'm willing to travel to some folky pub in some village in Yorkshire.

I nearly booked Joseph Porter to play my 30th birthday. It was only 200 quid, a bed and a hot meal but I was on the dole at the time and couldn't afford it. I can afford it now, I think I'll book him to play in my kitchen. How much would Kate charge for the same thing? £300, £400?

hehe - yeah I used to squat with Joseph (then Josef) back in the day, I remember a gig at the Centro Iberico in Westbourne park around '82 when he drummed for all three bands playing (The Mob, Zounds and Null & Void). Yep, you're the first person on DS who has recognised where my user name came from! I had a quick chat with him recently actually after I donated a few quid to the kickstarter for the new Blyth Power album, looking forward to that.

*edit - I think on the Kickstarter you could have got Blyth Power to play in your kitchen for £400!

*edit again - Just looked it up it was £750 and no one went for it: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects...horses-power-a Joseph and Annie as a duo would have cost you £450.

Prices have gone up in the last six years then.

I'm still thinking of booking Blyth Power to play in my little, middle of nowhere Welsh valleys town just to get the chance to see them. £750 minus ticket sales, minus landlord beer subsidy. It'll probably only end up costing me about £675 personally.

Good to meet you.

Seeing as we've gone well off topic, here's one of my favourite Kate videos, Suspended in Gaffa:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V3XAeg3B0To

I don't want to drag this thread off topic too much (and I also don't want to start a The Mob/Zounds/Blyth Power/Josef(Jospeh) Porter/Red Wedding/Mad Dogs and Englishmen thread in the music room because we will be looking at six or seven hundred posts a day in that one) but Joseph and Annie are pretty bloody cool.

I ordered the Better To Bat 12" off them a few years ago and it was the right sleeve but it had The Barman and Other Stories disc in it. They let me keep it and send the right copy free. Later I ordered On The Viking Station and they accidentally sent me Land, Sea and Sky. They sent Viking out to me again and when I offered to send the other one back they told me to give it away to a friend.

Top banana them pair are.

I love the whole The Dreaming album like Wesley Willis loves a milkshake.

But for me the bait was this....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fRFQVMJf5eI

Then she reeled me in terminally with this one...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-4csr6pLZLg