HomeGround - The Kate Bush Magazine - Issue 80

emotional voicing on it seems to escaped me in Kate’s original the days of Love-Hounds on be the one I always come back GaffaWeb. to first. I love how the ringing version. Gaute recorded the out of the guitar sounds like song in his living room on his There are a few Easter eggs there’s a trumpet or an oboe on in this rollicking romp of a the track, but there isn’t! piano. There were limitations number for the die-hard Kate on the source tape with a patch academicians reading this! Dan told me “Kate Bush Tristan says “The reel at the was a huge blind spot in my here and there, but the end of the song is in three musical knowledge, but figuring performance was exquisite, parts: the first one is the out this B-side helped me grasp traditional ‘The Emyvale,’ the her energy a bit more. None of passionate, raw and real. On middle section is by me, and the the lyrics rhyme, and the verses my life I would not let this most last one is from Call Across the are downright free-form, which Canyon by Davy Spillane, which was a challenge - especially in beautiful recording be was a wink to Kate’s long-time Gaute Grimeland the verses. But I really like the orphaned just because the collaborator.” There’s also a (Gaute) theme of finding the charming nod to Running Up miraculous in the mundane, tracking process was That Hill (A Deal With God) Michael Ross and while my lo-fi version could inadequate, nor did I want to which I thought was quite never touch the grandeur of the clever. Tristan an Arzhig original, I was able to mimic lose the spontaneity I felt in this Carol Keogh the lift of the choruses, and I exquisite recording. I listen to Lastly, Nocturn. Like the like to think it has a certain artwork for the remastered and Mike Stevens lightweight charm.” I couldn’t this one every day; I adore it expanded edition of IWBK, this Nora O’Connor agree more! and it brings me great comfort. special track is also a two- headed hummingbird and Liam Davis Cloudbusting. I first A Coral Room. Michael serves as both the opening of heard the band Yules on the EP and closing of the re- VAUXHALL AND US, A French Ross is another musician whose release of the digital album. Tribute to Morrissey for the sublime voice makes my heart Rightfully so, as its execution French magazine à l’écoute. The was manifested in two countries sweetest vocal of Guillaume skip a beat. Having lost his own on two continents with my two Charret singing Now My Heart mother years earlier, Michael closest musical partners next to Is Full grabbed me instantly and me in each of the two cities. I fell in love. As Yules are an connected with A Coral Room, Mike Stevens and Carol Keogh established and successful Kate’s exploration of grief, recorded in Dublin; while Nora group, I was worried they O’Connor (The Saxophone Song), wouldn’t be keen to do another love, and memory triggered by Liam Davis and I recorded in cover song on another tribute reminders from intimate family Chicago. Calling both cities album. Fortunately, they said ‘home,’ it meant something quite enthusiastically, “Oui!” spaces and physical artefacts. very deeply to me to have both Michael says “The bridge is my of my musical families working I love the foundation of the together on one piece of music. song laid by the acoustic guitar favourite part. Bush takes us with the drum programming into a dreamlike flashback of Mike, Carol, Liam and and synths added on top for Nora are each individually punch. Guillaume says “I have her childhood with memories bedrocks for my own a lot of respect for Kate and for of her mother. I’ve never heard relationship to music, her discretion and humility. I performance, interpretation tried to stay close to the a song do that before and I find and production. emotion of the song. Then I it very moving.” summoned Kate’s voice as the Nocturn may be the last Tom epilogue of this journey.” That As Gaute did for me with Dunning & Your Boyfriends cheeky overdub served not just Among Angels, Michael’s take on song ever released. It’s a as the epilogue for the song but triumphant coda for a little for the whole EP as well; sitting A Coral Room finally gave me a project dreamt up back in 1996 perfectly as the last of the seven relationship with a song that I in Chicago that went on to new songs before the “p.s.” of change everything. Not This Time. had struggled to establish previously. It’s interesting to me Thanks to the Kate Bush News Among Angels. This website and HomeGround project needed something from that Gaute puts both songs in magazine for their constant 50 Words For Snow and I stalked the same ‘family.’ These artists support and encouragement of Gaute until he sent me this I WANNA BE KATE over the demo of Among Angels. It burst opened a door for me with their years. Thanks to everyone who my heart open and the song interpretations which has contributed in any way, small or made sense to me in a way that large.  helped me to enjoy the original versions even more. Joanni. The impact and the impression of the epic work that went into this particular track by Tristan an Arzhig is something that will stay with me for the rest of my life. Tristan’s swirling, time- travelling, Celtic, Breton, prog- rock interpretation is nothing short of a masterpiece. I feel that Tristan’s Joanni is the track which I was waiting for, and needed as a kind of sledgehammer of authenticity for the project. 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Watching Her Without Kate … Dave chats to Sarah-Louise Young Sarah is the star of Hi Sarah-Louise, how would the fans as well as Kate. We’ve father and daughter, a mum and her and co-creator of you describe An Evening seen some great reactions from son, even a mother-in-law with her the hugely popular Without Kate Bush? the fans, how have they been ex daughter-in-law who hugged and and award-winning It’s a joyful, moving and magical with you? sobbed their way through the song. show, ‘An Evening celebration of Kate Bush’s music seen The fans have been amazing. It was It’s a beautiful moment and the Without Kate Bush’, through the eyes of her devoted fans, a bit daunting sharing the show for couple often seek me out after to say a mix of fan with songs, costume changes and the first time. It mattered to us so thank you, which is very touching. celebration, tribute playful audience interaction. it’s been much that the Fish People approved Any time the audience join in and and engagingly described as ‘a tribute act within a and so far, they more than have. sing is always a delight. But every funny cabaret that’s tribute act’ and ‘uplifting, We’ve had people come and see it show has different highlights as much about the otherworldly and hilarious’, which multiple times and even bring us gifts. depending on who is there and what fans as it is Kate. makes me very happy to hear. One chap who heard I’d had to miss they bring. More HERE How did the idea come about? the Hammersmith shows came back Are there other songs you’d like Russell Lucas (the show’s brilliant to gift me his programme, including a to include? Photos: Steve co-creator) and I had worked together piece of The Ninth Wave! Even Oh gosh! SO many! Picking the songs Ullathorne on a number of productions and we Kate’s 1979 backing singer Glenys was one of the hardest things, Artwork opposite: began to explore the idea of fans and Groves came to see it and loved it. I especially for the one act version. We Sam Burton fandom and with our shared love for always meet the audience after the did a poll on Facebook and tried to Kate Bush it was a natural show so I get to chat properly. I love establish which songs we had to progression for us. Her fans had a include (the fans would not forgive us particularly special relationship not hearing their stories and its deeply for omitting) and which ones we just with her music but with each moving when people come and tell me could sneak in from the back other. We are a community and as their personal experiences. The other catalogue and B-sides. We’ve hidden part of that community ourselves, we day a lady told me about her partner a few gems in there which if you pay wanted to gift them something back. who adored Kate’s music. He had careful attention you’ll spot as a The show is very respectful to recently passed away and she felt his spoken lyric or underscore. But if I Kate. How difficult was it to presence profoundly during the show. could create the 10-hour Ring Cycle strike the balance and avoid We’ve dedicated the night to friends version of the show I would include being a parody or a tribute? who couldn’t be there and woven Deeper Understanding, Under the Ivy Thank you, that means a lot stories and anecdotes into the night and Suspended In Gaffa for starters, especially coming from you, Dave. In based on who is in the room. Each but really they all deserve a place! his biography ‘Under The Ivy’, performance feels different. It’s such a Are there more dates coming Graeme Thomson describes how some joy and a privilege to share it. ‘You up following the success of people find her ‘easier to parody than made me laugh and cry’ is a popular RUTH? to understand’. We wanted to make a response from people. We’ll be back at the Edinburgh show which was full of love and What are your favourite parts Fringe this August playing the Piccolo respect but was also playful and of the show? Tent at 5.55pm, 3rd to 29th (not mischievous: to reflect and pay There’s a part in the show where we 15th/22nd). I’m also doing a new homage to Kate’s own sense of invite a couple up to dance to Don’t show called The Silent Treatment at humour and creativity as much as her Give Up. I’m very careful with all 1.50pm which is about a singer who incredible songs. We always said that audience interaction - it’s definitely loses their voice. It’s a great if Kate were to see the show we ‘opt-in’. You’re as welcome to come companion piece to the Kate Bush would want her to love it, so that was and sit in the dark and enjoy the show as her voice is such a mysterious our guiding light whilst rehearsing it. music as you are to get up and sing powerful enigma. Then we’re back on When you watch the videos she made backing vocals. Over the run we’ve the road all over the UK: Liverpool, with the Comic Strip team or her had a couple on their honeymoon, a Lincoln… maybe even back to appearance on The Kenny Everett London. New dates are being added Show or duetting with Rowan all the time to withoutkatebush.com. Atkinson for Comic Relief, you know We are also doing a special double she has a great sense of humour. It bill with my Julie Andrews show in would be painting only half the Bath on 29th July in The Garden picture if we didn’t acknowledge her Theatre Festival. With the success of humour too. There are some amazing RUTH I’m looking forward to tribute acts out there, such as Baby meeting a whole new generation of Bushka and Cloudbusting, I think fans and hopefully sharing the love there is room for us all. and laughter of An Evening Without The show is very much about Kate Bush for many years.  102 HomeGround Summer 2022

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Before the (Golden) Dawn Geoff Boswell considers Kate , Lily, and the Lesser Banishing Ritual Lily How does this tie in to this article to exlore and Oh thou, who givest sustenance to the ceremonial (or ritual or high) rehearse the many uses and magick as I contend? Does this universe imply Kate Bush is not only benefits of using chant to reach From whom all things proceed familiar with what, for brevity, points of trance or meditation, I’ll call ‘magick’, but was being To whom all things return trained by Lily, or even was or but I’m sure in this New Age of Unveil to us the face of the true became, a practitioner of the mix-and-match spiritual art? spiritual sun processes, and a wealth of Hidden by a disc of golden light The song opens with the diversity in our interfaith lyric dialogue section that is That we may know the truth delivered by Lily and runs from experiences, and the many And do our whole duty “Oh thou, who givest sustenance to cultures and traditions resident the universe” to “As we journey to As we journey to thy sacred feet. thy sacred feet”. This is a mantra in the West, you will have your from the Hindu tradition own viewpoint and opinions, Well I said known as the ‘Gâyatrî Mantra’ “Lily, Oh Lily I don’t feel safe or ‘The Gâyatrî’. More for good or ill. However, apart I feel that life has blown a great big accurately from the Sanskrit from that, the Eastern tradition, it is thought to be one hole of the oldest, if not the oldest, traditions of both the Indian Through me” of world mantram. Often sub-continent and the Far East And she said recited 108 times (1), it is said “Child, you must protect yourself that fixing it in your heart and (especially but not limited to) I’ll show you how with fire” mind, and repetition of it, will China and Japan), have had an ensure happiness as long as you Gabriel before me carry on in life by executing the impact on the West, including Raphael behind me work ordained for you. in the spiritual and magickal Michael to my right Uriel on my left side I cite Kate Bush’s career as traditions. In the circle of fire evidence of the efficacy of the It has to be borne in mind chant. The word ‘Gayatri’ has I said its origin in the Sanskrit phrase that as the concept of exploring “Lily, Oh Lily I’m so afraid ‘Gayantam Triyate iti’, and refers the occult and escotericism I fear I am walking in the Veil of to ‘the mantra which rescues the chanter from all adverse grew in widened popularity, Darkness” situations that may lead to especially in Victorian and then And she said mortality’. The Gayatri mantra “Child, take what I say is composed of a metre Edwardian times, the traditions With a pinch of salt consisting of 24 syllables, and practices of the East were And protect yourself with fire” generally arranged in a triplet of eight syllables each. regarded as exotic and were Gabriel before me Therefore, this particular meter little known. This rarity and Raphael behind me (tripadhi) is also known as the Michael to my right ‘Gayatri Meter’ or ‘Gayatri mystery imparted its measure Uriel on my left side Chhanda.’ (2). We start, of attraction (as mystery does), In the circle of fire therefore, with an altered concsiousness. and many academics quickly (Kate Bush (1993), The Red shoes, chose to translate the Eastern EMI Records, Novercia Ltd) So we now address the point that many of you may be sacred works, though activists in An essay such as this should not considering at this early the field of the occult in the presume that the intended juncture: it’s all very good so audience of committed Kate far, but how on earth does a West may sometimes have Bush fans will not be aware of Hindu mantra have anything to beaten them to it. The Tantric the song Lily from Bush’s 1993 do with magick in a European album The Red Shoes, nor the context? tradition especially was a basis general bent of its narrative. for much of what became the For mere context I will restate I don’t think it’s the place of what you already know in that Western Esoteric Tradition, the the narrator (Kate Bush) is Western Mystery Tradition, talking to a mentor or guide (Lily Cornford). and any other tradition that could legitimately have ‘Western’ prefixing it. Because H.P. Blavatsky included a raft of Eastern techniques, beliefs and teachings into the system of Theosophy (3), which she developed (and it is still there to this day), it should come as no surprise that individuals who were members of her Theosophical Society (4), or collectives who split off to form their own similar organisations, 104 HomeGround Summer 2022

took those concepts with them. undoubtedly many would be doubt they are the fruit of happy to recognise and admit the innumerable adepts and true Theosophy draws upon both enormous debt they owe to it ... initiators, the result of whose older European philosophies Whatever else may be said of verified and tested experience has the Order and its scheme of been handed down to us from such as Neoplatonism, and instruction, at least this is true. countless generations.” (5) Asian religions such as It taught the true term of Hinduism and Buddhism. As Mysticism and the art of presented by Blavatsky, Ceremonial Magic as few other systems have … Certainly some Theosophy teaches that of the parts of the Golden So, we have by the 20th there is an ancient and Dawn rituals may be discovered Century one of the in different ancient and secretive brotherhood of mediaeval books on Magic. leading ceremonial spiritual adepts known as This has never been denied by magickal orders any of its more informed ‘the Masters’, who members who have an eye to introducing or even although found around research. But what the Order adopting, without and its scribes have performed is the world, are centered in a much subtler thing. They have sometimes knowing it, Tibet. Theosophy, for synthesised into a coherent whole Eastern principles, this vast body of disconnected instance, played an and widely scattered material, methods, or wisdom. To important role in highlight the ongoing and have given it form and promoting belief in meaning. All these separate items desire by occultists for reincarnation among of knowledge garnered from Eastern works we can cite innumerable sources have been Westerners. wielded into a practicable and as just one example The founders of many effectual system … But the Aleister Crowley’s own coordination, the synthetic nature later movements had been of the entire scheme, the effectual 1898 translation of the Tao te involved in Theosophy. Many soul of the Rituals, as it were, Ching (11). Crowley was one of these have their foundation in esoteric groups, such as Alice sources which have never the infamous members of the Bailey’s Arcane School and previously found their way into Golden Dawn and himself left any written work. Without a Rudolf Steiner’s to form his own Order and go Anthroposophy, are directly his own inimicable way. dependent on Theosophy. The leading lights of the There was, additionally, a GD had been its founders major cross fertilisation with the William Robert Woodman, Rosicrucian movement, which William Wynn Westcott, and in turn imparted many Samuel Liddell (MacGregor) influences into esoteric and Mathers; unsurpisingly, all were occult organisations: Freemasons. Westcott appears to have been the initial driving \"The Hermetic Order of force behind the establishment the Golden Dawn is an of the Golden Dawn, organisation which has but Mathers, arguably, exerted a greater influence its greatest exponent on the development of (apart from Crowley). Occultism since its revival Later luminaries in the last quarter of the included Dion Fortune, 19th century than most who herself later people can realise … and formed the Society of a great many other occult the Inner Light, still in organisations owe what existence today. little magical knowledge The greatest is theirs, to leakages advocate, champion issuing from that Order and essayist for the GD and from its renegade has been Israel members. The membership of Regardie (6). The one time the Golden Dawn was recruited secretary to Crowley, Regardie’s from every circle, and it was written works have been the represented by dignified portal for innumerable professions as well as by all the numbers of people finding their arts and sciences ... It included first footings in ceremonial physicians, psychologists, magick, its mysticism, and its clergymen, artists and way of life. His comment on philosophers; and normal men the GD was quoted above. and women, humble and unknown, from every walk of Now we begin to see where the Golden Dawn, Regardie, and in Credits centre page: life have drawn inspiration from the modern world Lily and Guido Harari its font of wisdom, and HomeGround Summer 2022 105

Kate, come together within the I said that always Order) would change the facts, performing a banishing ritual context of the song. In many and always performing an earth moving things around, giving of Regardie’s expositions on the ritual can be argued against. the wrong titles, simple The intent of a given ritual and rituals and techniques of the its inclusions or content, or omission, or inaccurate group, such as The Golden Dawn (especially) its hoped for result, instructions. It was believed that may mean that the selection (7), or even his then concurrent and performance of either those ‘with eyes to see and ears The Middle Pillar (8) he teaches, banishing or invoking, of air, to hear’ would understand. water, fire or spirit (as well as as part of the opening of such a earth of course) would be the That would be those with a ritual, what has become known wisest course of action. modicum of legitimacy able to However, I contend that Kate as the ‘LBRP’, or The Lesser does find herself encouraged to understand the context and Banishing Ritual of the conduct a banishing earth ritual true accuracies, those now by Lily. Pentagram. training or trained, in the art. The novice (or practitioner In the lyric Lily is adamant So, it seems that what you are that Kate protect herself with if you prefer) is advised first of fire and with “a pinch of salt”. told must sometimes be taken all, to complete both a The use of this exact phrase is with a pinch of salt. interesting. Firstly, it ties in with Qabalistic Cross, then the my contention that it is an earth I contend further that the Middle Pillar technique, then ritual, as salt has been the blind comes up again, in the the LBRP. By standing in a most repeated part of the song. central position, facing East It is this repetition of the sleight (this is important and comes up of the blind, that also cements later), one visualises a flaming for me, the contention that the blue ray coming from one’s song is a genuine portrayal of hands, athame (knife), wand or magickal protective activity. other pointing implement. A The blind comes with the pentagram (five rayed description of where star) is drawn in the air the archangels stand, in in front of the eastern relation to the East facing magician in one direction the movement, using the practitioner (Lily or said blue flame. The Kate, of course) faces, movement starts from as one is instructed to the lower left ray (Earth) do. and moves away Now, traditionally, towards the top ray Raphael is the Eastern (Spirit). As the flame is angel of healing, moving away from carrying a Caduceus Earth this is a staff or wand; Michael ‘banishing’ motion, is the Southern Angel specifically called with the flaming sword corresponding element ‘Banishing Earth’. There is also (material) to signify the earth. It of fire; Gabriel is the western an ‘Invoking Earth’, and it angel with the Messenger’s is the symbolic metaphor for follows there is both an earth, and it clears, purifies and trumpet, or chalice of water; Invoking and Banishing and Uriel is in the North, protects material spaces. It does movement for Air, Fire, Water not channel this energy, but guardian of the Gates of Eden, and Spirit too. It is often taught and holding a sheaf of wheat. absorbs it and holds it instead, (especially in Wicca) to deliver a and it is this central property (In some rituals Sandalphon Banishing Earth pentagram and Metatron may be added to which accounts for its many each time, in each direction (or different uses in magick. those petitioned). Now, you will quarter) but this can be argued know from the song that Kate But why does Lily tell Kate against. Regardie urges us to to use a pinch? Surely more is places two of the Archangels in make the LBRP using a different (opposite) quarters or better? Why not a cup of salt? Banished Earth pentagram in or a bowl? Or so on? Well, I cardinal points: the East, the South, the West think the answer lies in the and the North, linked by a regular use in magick Gabriel before me (East) - circle of the same blue fire. The incorrect explanation of ‘the blind’. forming of each pentagram is When magickal practices, Raphael behind me (West) - accompanied by two taught incorrect techniques, or beliefs have been movements (omitted here for written of publicly, discussed Michael to my right (South) - brevity). It is this blue flame correct widely, or exhibited openly, the circle that constitutes Kate’s earnest and loyal practitioner Uriel on my left side (North) – ‘circle of fire’, a short form correct (often under pain of sanction description of carrying out the through their fraternity or whole circular protection ritual. I have argued that this is 106 HomeGround Summer 2022

one of Kate’s ‘blinds’ and as quarters, and the Archangels. she is doing, and knows how to END NOTES such, is proof of esoteric She may have passed this on to do it. Moreover, when the Before knowledge and experience. But Kate, or Kate may have been the Dawn residency kicked off, (1) Times of India it might not be so. There may well versed herself to know and thereafter each night it 15/4/20 be another reason why this independently. continued, Kate undertook Lily (2) Learn Religions: swap of Gabriel and Raphael is as her opening performance. the Gayatri Mantra presented in the lyric, and it too Finally, we look at the rationale Just as a protective magician (3) Wikipedia: would prove Kate’s expertise for the action in the song. Kate would at the commencement of Theosophy and experiential knowledge in needs Lily’s help. She is their sacred ceremonial ritual. (4) The the matter. It concerns what seemingly in a bad place, When that is done, the show Theosophical modern practitioner ‘Foolish possibly experiencing the ‘Dark can and must go on. Society Fish’ calls, in his You Tube Night of The Soul’. She (5) Israel Regardie: channel, the LBRP Heresy (9). describes it as the ‘veil of “The song is devoted to My Rosicrucian darkness’. Now, for those of you Adventure (1936) In the same vein as my that believe Christianity plays Lily Cornford, a noted (6) Wikipedia: Israel contention that the ritual no part in the Western Esoteric spiritual healer in London Regardie practitioner should wisely Tradition and in Occult (7) The Golden choose either a banishing or practice, then you’d be furthest with whom Bush became Dawn: the original invoking pentagram, as befits from the truth. Biblical works close friends in the 1990s. account of the the individual ritual, and that like Revelation and the Gospel teachings, rites and the most appropriate form of of John are much beloved of “She was one of those very rare ceremonies of the pentagram (earth, air, fire, mystics and occultists alike. It is people who are intelligent, hermetic order [4 water or spirit) should be in John 6:45 that Jesus (a volumes] (1937– selected and performed, then intuitive and kind,” Kate has 1940) there is a centuries old Master in the Esoteric said of Cornford, who (8) The Middle difference of opinion on traditions discussed) says the Pillar: the balance the correspondences of “veil of darkness can be believed in mental colour between mind and the four quarters (air, removed when the gospel is healing - a process whereby magic (1938) fire, water and earth) preached” meaning that when (9) YouTube: and/or the position of the correct and sacred words patients would be Foolish Fish the Archangels in them. (‘good news’ = ‘gospel’) are restored to health (10) Kate Bush pronounced (the chants and Encyclopaedia: In some traditions incantations of the ritual Lily is by seeing various Cornford, Lily and Michael may not be teaching Kate) then the hues. “I was really ditto: Lily corresponding with fire negativity (‘dark’) is dispelled. I (11) The Tao Teh or might not be won’t comment much on that it moved by Lily and King (or Liber stationed in the South. is a ‘great big hole’ that has impressed with her CLVII) A New Similarly in the same or brought this veil, for the occult Translation By Ko other traditions Gabriel relevance of holes is too large strength and Yuen [Aleister might not be West and to include in this article, and is knowledge, so it led to Crowley] water; Raphael may not one rabbit hole too deep to fall be East and air; and into (forgive the pun). a song - which she IMPORTANT: The Uriel may not be earth and thought was “Golden Dawn” North. This may then explain I hope the foregoing goes some Group to which Lily’s (or Kate’s) seeming way to making my case for a hilarious.”(10) Geoff refers is The repositioning of Gabriel and belief in the contention that Hermetic Order of Raphael in the wheel of ritual, Kate Bush knows exactly what “Ah,” you say “but the Golden Dawn a and so it may show that Lily if Kate got it wrong, or society devoted to and/or Kate have been trained the study and through a specific tradition, presented it practice of Order, sisterhood, or fraternity. inaccurately lyrically, metaphysics during the late 19th and I have, of course, and then sings it early 20th considered that Kate/Lily is wrongly, then it’s a waste of Centuries, of which standing facing West, but this Algernon still means that, this time, Uriel time, surely?” As I tell novices Blackwood, E and Michael are reversed, and I and trainees in my own Nesbit, Bram know of no Western tradition Stoker and W.B. of The Great Work that tradition, what is important Yeats were commences circlework in the above all other considerations members. It has no West. connection in ritual is intent. If the intent is whatever with the I must interject promptly gathered and garnered with banned neo-Fascist and say that as a professional Greek political party colour healer, Lily would have due honour and respect then which misuses that been well aware of the colours the Divine makes due name. asociated with the elements, the allowance. Geoff Boswell is the Chosen Chief of Please don’t write to me, or to Coryk’s Grove in HomeGround, to point out the North Cornwall and flaws and errors in my the Tamar Valley. argument and in the facts and He is a founder and evidence I have set out. How do trustee of The Druid you know these aren’t my own Network; is trained blinds? Perhaps Lily and Kate to Druid grade were just ships that passed in membership in the the night and I’ve made it all up Order of Bards, like Kate made up a song. Ovates and Either way, Lily, I think, would Druids:He is laugh.  associated with, or a member of other esoteric, spiritual, or magickal organisations or traditions that he can’t or won’t mention. He is not a Freemason. HomeGround Summer 2022 107

Our Kate Experiences … Janine, Joby & Susan tell us their stories Watch and listen to Janine King convention that she was putting and Songwriting at Brighton. I Joby’s tracks: on in Birmingham later that have been a massive Kate Bush The best night of my life was year. What Lisa didn’t know fan since I was 12 years old and undoubtedly watching Kate was that I had dabbled in DJ- have loved everything I have perform at The Hammersmith ing too, playing for family and seen and heard. Apollo on 2nd September 2014. friends under the DJ name of I felt I had waited my whole ‘Experiment IV’. Although, I I am the middle child of life. I have been a Kate fan had never DJ-ed on my own in two siblings and I often felt since the age of 11, when a front of strangers before. overlooked and under friend of mine played me The However, the opportunity to DJ appreciated by them. My father, Whole Story. I was instantly in front of fellow Kate fans was Adrian, one day recorded the hooked, and as soon as I was an opportunity to good to miss. 2014 BBC documentary for me old enough to earn my own Fortunately, Lisa thought so too. to watch because he thought I money, I started to collect every would like it. I watched it once piece of Kate vinyl that I could. So, on 26th September 2015, and was instantly hooked onto Anyone who knows me, knows there I was, behind the decks at Kate and I watched the of my obsession and to see the ‘After the Dawn’ Kate Bush documentary over and over. I Kate live on stage that night, Convention. I wasn’t just going was fascinated by her. was a moment that I honestly to play the classic tracks, oh no. thought would never happen. Knowing Kate’s back catalogue I remember my dad Suddenly, everybody was a inside out, it was easy for me to Kate Bush fan, we even saw put a set together, knowing showing me his original Never Jimmy Page leave by a side what I loved was probably was For Ever and The Dreaming LPs door. He walked right past us! other fans would love too. One which he bought when he was of the highlights for me was at university. I had never seen a Little did I know that the meeting a girl who said how record before (I had lots of second best ‘Kate’ experience much she had enjoyed my set. CDs). He had The Kick Inside - of my life would happen just a There were fantastic Hounds of Love records before I year later. A few years before, I performances from other Kate could buy my own, which was had gone to see Cloudbusting tribute acts, like A Sky of incredible for me. I have since perform with their original Honey and talks from Stewart then collected vinyl myself of vocalist, Lisa Oliver. I would Arnold and Guido Harai. I also all artists I love. I have all the never have believed that anyone met Del Palmer, who very Kate albums on original could get close to Kate, but I kindly signed my convention pressing (even The Red Shoes) was so impressed with programme. It was ‘a lovely because the originals feel more Cloudbusting, that I went to see afternoon’. special to me. Despite this, I them a few more times. I got to remember vividly where I was know Lisa, as she lived not far Joby Bond in life when Kate announced from us at the time, and my the reissues and the pop-up husband Andy, was also a fellow I am Joby Bond. I am 18 years shop. Midlander. old, I’m from Greenwich, London but I study Popular Since discovering Kate, her Andy has been a Music Performance (Vocals) music has been such an integral professional DJ since the age of part of my growth during my 23, and Lisa approached him in teen years and music taste. I early 2015 as she was looking love every album, every song, for a DJ for a Kate Bush every b-side, every video, every interview that she has done. I love it all. The Dreaming is my favourite Kate album but also my 108 HomeGround Summer 2022

favourite album in general of Susan Clarke - Kite - I had to work out those Artwork below: all time. My biggest Kate words by raising and lowering Andrew Fry wishes are that she reissues her It’s 1978 and I’m standing in the stylus on my mono Alba remasters on coloured vinyl and the 5th Form Common Room record player over and over, that somehow and some way at my secondary modern school writing down a phrase, and we hear updated versions of ‘It for girls. I’m 15 and held repeating, and learning and Hurts Me’, ‘Rinfy the Gypsy’, spellbound as I heard her voice absorbing. It was a satisfyingly ‘Where Are the Lionhearts?’ for the very first time. As 5th beautiful task and I learnt both and ‘Organic Acid’ demos. I Formers, we had privileges, songs off by heart. I could know these won’t happen but which included lunch-time claim that it was my music now, wouldn’t that be amazing?! listening to a stereo music a John-the-Baptist metaphor system, tuned to Radio One that was heralding the release I am also an artist, singer 247 medium wave. The song of an entire album of new and songwriter. I have a song coming from the radio - a music a few short but impatient out called Fire and Rain which I splendid soprano which weeks later. I was mesmerised wrote at quite a dark time of swooped and swirled - was by the poetic lyric of Kite and my life in which listening to captivating me. That music was astonished at how it was Kate helped me get out of. something that would be mine - possible to engage with the Musically, it doesn’t bear many and mine to relish and love for personality of an inanimate resemblances to much of Kate’s the rest of my life. It was special object - a limbless feather on work, but it was written with and I had to absorb it all. the wind. I learnt of how it my idol in mind. I reference could feel an adrenaline rush RUTH in the first verse.. Not long after that, I had along its belly but then wanted made a visit to Woolworths and to get back to its safe home, just “Slowly running up that hill, paid (what was probably) 50 like Dorothy in The Wizard of and for that I thank Kate”. pence to own a new 45 rpm Oz, back on the grou-oh-wow- disc, wrapped in a plain white oh-wound. I sang along with Kate is a massive inspiration paper sleeve. I played both sides each note, matching and for everyone, younger and endlessly. Smash Hits had emulating each phrase, each older, she doesn’t have an printed the lyrics for Wuthering breath, each intonation, each expiry date of relevance, which Heights, enabling me sing along swoop. My music. My Kate.  is incredible and hugely word perfectly… but the b-side inspirational to me. HomeGround Summer 2022 109

Paper Dolls … It’s December 1978, and a teenage Lisa Cartmell is watching TV As a pre-internet American I was soon submitting drawings Although my fanzine days were teenager in the ’70s, I did not to a fanzine in Canada called replaced with college and life, know Kate until I saw her as Breakthrough. my love of Kate Bush musical guest on Saturday Night continued. It culminated in Live doing v-sits on a piano as And creating a paper doll seeing her amazing Before the Paul Shaffer played. purely for my own amusement. Dawn concert in London. She was so strange and foreign Here are scans of the originals. Lisa from Campbell Hall, to me and soon I was obsessed. Before that they were colored NY, USA  I bought anything related to her pencil drawings of a teenager that I could find in a day when in the ’70s you had to depend on your local record store. 110 HomeGround Summer 2022

HomeGround Editorial Note: though this is a fairly undocumented area of Katedom, we know for sure that Lisa was not the only Kate fan who created Kate paper dolls. HomeGround Summer 2022 111

My Kate Story … Tracy Hodson Tracy says: “I live It was 1978. I was incredibly response but my dearest friend, dismissal. I learned, too, that on the ocean on pregnant, and feeling it in also a soprano, echoed my we had written our songs about the West Coast of several very uncomfortable sister: “Why does she have to a lover who came and went at Oregon with my ways. We had one record store sing so high?” I could match the same age, in the same year. very large cat in my Connecticut town, and I Kate note for note (I can’t now), Oscar. I’m the decided a walk around the and tried to learn something I went on to become a film- curator and director shops would be a nice idea. I about her and what she was maker, and wrote music in that of the Bandon went into the record store. doing with this album of hers. context, and songs now and Library Art Gallery. I There was a song playing on It was radical and exciting, but again for myself. In 1993, our make the turntable, haunting and no one shared my interest in films were shown in the same contemporary beautiful; a woman’s voice, her until I got to Berkeley, film festival in Berkeley. mosaics using piano and, low underneath the California, two years later, and materials and rest of the instrumentation, a discovered a few more Kate Kate has been my constant methods that date French horn following her vocal listeners. By then, Lionheart was (in all senses of the word) to Antiquity. My on the chorus. I stopped to out, and she was still singing companion, and my daughter’s, work usually starts listen, and was startled as the out of the top of her head, too. My daughter is now a from a words became clear, because I which I loved. musician, singer and songwriter, psychological place had written a song, at the age and credits Kate as a huge or a storytelling of 14, that told a story very Eventually I learned all of inspiration. At 63, I’m a mosaic place, and I am close to what she was singing. what she allowed us to know, artist, and still listening to Kate attempting to and read about her father and Bush. I will listen to her until express emotions I had been playing the how he listened to her, the day I die and on my and states of being piano for years, but I wrote my encouraging her all the while. deathbed, I will request The through this very song on the mandolin hanging My heart broke a little for my Ninth Wave, turned up LOUD, difficult and on my father’s wall. I 14-year old self, who had never with no one permitted to speak challenging performed the song for my tried to write another song a word. And when it’s over I’ll medium. I started father and sister. It didn’t go again after that painful say goodbye, and thank you, singing when I was well. In disdain, my sister said, Kate.  8, at the same time “Why do you have to sing so I started studying high?” My father merely told piano. I later taught me to hang up the mandolin myself to play when I was done with it. hammer dulcimers as well, and wrote The song ended, the clerk and recorded music lifted the needle, and showed for my films and for me the album. I bought it, not my own pleasure. I just because of her voice, the studied film- lyrics, and the French horn, but making, art, and art because the album’s title was history at California The Kick Inside, and my own College of Art, and daughter was kicking like mad was a film-maker at that moment. It all felt for 15 years, until I fateful, and important. And I became too ill with loved that voice, and the picture Lupus to continue. I on the front, of Kate curled am much better into a wooden box. now. I got home, put the album See here. on immediately, and was shocked to hear that soaring “By the way, my voice, so different from what I’d daughter recorded heard in the record store. a cover of Kate’s Where was that voice coming version of My from? It sounded like it was Lagan Love a few coming from inside my own years ago. Her head. I listened obsessively, and name is Liz Wolf; played the record to everyone it’s under the name who came over. As we were all ‘Dream Tiger’ on musicians and singers, I Bandcamp. I sang expected an enthusiastic to her every night as she was growing up, and both the traditional and Kate’s version of that song where among the many songs I sang. She covered it for an album called ‘Running Up That Hill: Kate Bush Covers for Reproductive Rights’. It is a very strange and experimental collection of artists who put that album together”. 112 HomeGround Summer 2022

Kate Mastermind Quiz … Set by Chief Inquisitor Simon O’Donovan Round 1. Facts About Kate 20.Which of Kate’s songs Round 5. Rarities If you like Kate 1.What was the name of the mentions Elvis ‘dancing on his 41.Which track, previously quizzes, try some of farm where Kate lived as a grave’? unreleased, was part of The these: child? Other Sides collection? 2.Who helped Kate produce a Round 3. The Albums 42.The demo Passing Through Kate Bush Trivia demo tape in 1975? 21.Which dancer/artist said Air was the B side for which Quizzes (Gateway 3.In which towns were ‘The that Kate (a student of his) single? to yet more Kate Bush Fan Club’ PO Box pushed a copy of The Kick Inside 43.With whom did Kate duet quizzes!) located? under his door before he on the Comic Relief song Do 4.With which TV chef did realised her immense talent? Bears? Ultimate Kate Bush Kate discuss vegetarianism, in 22.Which earrings does Kate 44.With which two Peter Quiz! 1980? wear on the Lionheart album Gabriel songs did Kate (on 5.Which TV service did Kate cover? BVs) have top 10 UK hits ? ProProfs Kate Bate launch in 1984 (she cut the 23.Where is the KT logo on 45.Which actor/TV presenter Quiz ribbon)? the Never For Ever album cover? dressed as Kate, appeared in 6.Which soft drink did Kate 24. Who appears with Kate on 2011’s Comic Relief show Let’s Ultimate Kate Bush help advertise in 1994 with 12 the album cover of The Dance? Lyrics Quiz short tracks? Dreaming? 46.Which four words are 7.What is the name of Kate’s 25.A still from which video missing from the Before the Dawn son? features on the front of The confetti prose below? 8.Which honour was Kate Singles File video case? “Wave after wave, each mightier than awarded in the 2013 ‘New 26.The title track of The the ****, Till last, a ninth one, Year’s Honours List’? Sensual World is based on which gathering half the **** And full of 9.Kate broke two records for a book? voices, slowly rose and ******* female UK recording artist. 27.What happens when Kate Roaring, and all the wave was in a What were they? wears ‘The Red Shoes’? ***** ” 10.Kate was also first to invent 28.Whose voice was removed 47.Kate made a bronze statue and wear what? from Ariel in the 2018 remaster? called ‘Strange Fruit’. To which 29.Who ‘duets’ with Kate on inspirational singer was it Round 2. The Songs the title track 50 Words For dedicated? 11.Which track did EMI want Snow? 48.‘Mother Mary’ comes to released as the first single 30.Name the two concept Kate on which 1987 charity instead of Wuthering Heights? pieces featured in the Before the single? 12.Whose name does Kate sing Dawn live shows and album? 49.Kate sang on which 1979 at the very start of Wow? charity single for the UN 13.Which song features a Yo- Round 4. TV and Videos ‘International Year Of The Yo? 31.Which song presented in the Child’? 14.What is the name of the 1979 Tour did Kate not sing? 50.Which US rapper 1957 horror film from which 32.Which TV performance announced in 2021 that he had the Hounds Of Love opening line features a wheelchair? completed a collaboration with “It’s in the trees; it’s coming!” is 33.In which video does Del Kate? taken? Palmer play a get-away driver? 15.Aside from Saint Nicholas, 34.In which video does Dawn Answers on page 133  which two famous men appear French appear? in the lyrics of December Will Be 35.In which video does Kate Magic Again? wear a dunce’s cap? 16.Which single did Kate write 36.In which video does Kate’s for the 1988 movie She’s Having mother Hannah feature? A Baby? 37.In which video does 17.In which song does Kate Miranda Richardson co-star? conjure up an image of Jesus 38.In which video does a dog laughing? feature? 18.Which song features 39.Which new video was made Hannah’s ‘Little Brown Jug’? for the Before the Dawn set? 19.Which of Kate’s songs 40.Which are the two videos featured in the 2012 London made by Kate for songs she did Olympics Closing Ceremony? not write? HomeGround Summer 2022 113

BushBibliography … Peter and Seán try to list all those Kate texts Once, a long time ago, there Books Actually by (or and the University of Oxford. was a dearth of substantial edited by) Kate Kate said: “I really enjoyed reading published material about Kate. all of these poems. Full of life, fun Press and magazine articles Leaving my Tracks and expression. I wanted to keep there were many, and in those by Kate Bush (Sidgwick & them all but it wasn’t allowed. I now seemingly far off pre- Jackson 144 pp) 1982. sneaked an extra one in.” internet days, the fans we were, Originally conceived as a we hugged our press cuttings replacement for an unpublished How To Be Invisible scrapbooks closely. Now that official response to the by Kate Bush (Faber & Faber Kate is a ‘National (if not unofficial biographies of 1980, 224 pp) 2018. international) Treasure’, many this was to be Kate writing an Limited edition signed boxed want to write, at length about exploration and explanation of version (500 copies only) her. Others want to quickly what and who and where she including Aerial Tal lyric print, cash in. was. She was actually working sold out on Waterstones site in on this in Spring 1981, but an less than 30 minutes (see page But the usual cautions apply. Autumn 1981 publication date 88). This includes virtually all Except, plainly, where Kate is came and went. It was then put of Kate’s lyrics, with an the author, virtually none of back to Spring 1983, when it introduction by David Mitchell: these books have been prepared was “shelved indefinitely”. “One paradox about Kate is that with Kate’s assistance or Whether it got as far as an even while her lyrics are proudly authorisation. But unofficial as completed manuscript is not idiosyncratic, those same lyrics evoke they are, there may still be some clear. A book called Popular emotions and sensations that feel enjoyment for us fans. We hope Music Since 1955: A Critical Guide universal ... You don’t learn much there may at least be something To The Literature’ edited by Paul about Kate from her songs. She’s fond here of which you were as yet Taylor, contained the following: of masks and costumes ... Yet, these unaware. “In this beautifully illustrated book fiercely singular songs, which nobody Kate Bush gives an account of her else could have authored, are also Some of these things are approach to her work, techniques, maps of the heart, the psyche, the quite rare now, and we certainly inspirations and life style. An imagination. In other words, art”. don’t have them all, which is interesting, unselfconscious attempt at why some of the information is autobiography, it does not appear to Unofficial Biographies only fragmentary. Many of be written with the aid of a ghost these publications are out of writer and is surprisingly fluent.”. Kate Bush: Biography (Princess of print, but still may be had Taylor later explained that he Suburbia) second hand from online book had been given the information by Fred and Judy Vermorel searches. Some are viewable on by Sidgwick & Jackson and had (Target Books 36 pp) 1980. web sites such as The World of not seen a copy of the book. The Secret History of Kate Bush Kate Bush. Where there is a Curiously in Spring 1991, the and the Strange Art of Pop link, we have provided it. newly published Oxford by Fred Vermorel. (Omnibus Encyclopaedia of Popular Music Press 96 pp) 1983. “There is of course another cited Leaving My Tracks as a In his 2018 interview with caveat to printed material reference. In the 1984 KBC Mark Duffet Fred says of the concerning Kate. Some of it newsletter Kate says in answer 1980 book: “I basically wanted to although interesting from the to a question about this: “It was write something about music, and just point of view of at one time planned but I just could wanted to do something different from understanding how Kate was not find the time amongst my album punk. I looked around. She seemed to viewed and (mis)understood, projects and perhaps I am not yet be very different from punk when I is perfectly useless if not ready to write a book about myself ”. saw her. The first idea I had was to actually misleading from the lampoon the form, and try and create point of view of The Mays XXV a very lurid account of her that was understanding Kate and her Guest Edited by Kate Bush designed to look like a concert music. So with that warning (Varsity Publications Ltd 112 programme. One that had gone ringing in our ears, to the pp) 2017. horribly wrong, like EMI had had a lists”. A book of the best new short paroxysm. It was printed on heavy stories, poetry, art and glossy paper. That sold quite well, (From the introduction to photography by students from but we got legal problems”. Both the Bibliography article in the University of Cambridge not to be taken at face value. HomeGround issue 30, January 1988) 114 HomeGround Summer 2022

Over the years it became clear the ever-expanding websites. I looked Kate Bush a Visual Biography that Fred Vermorel’s interest in for her during the London conventions by Laura Shenton (Wymer Kate fandom was merely a to have the privilege, now reserved for Publishing 208 pp) 2022. vehicle for his interest in a few, to see her up close, to listen to New this year. “A celebration of (sometimes quite bizarre) post- her voice, to be sure of her actual Kate’s career to date … packed situationist theories relating to existence... I tried to find it in all with photos, many of which the overthrow of capitalism by these things. … but it’s only a small have never been published the destruction of celebrity. Or part of her”. before … includes many photos some such. from Kate’s 1979 tour, Kate Bush: The Biography including photos from the very Kate Bush-An Illustrated Biography by Rob Jovanovic (Portrait- first show in Liverpool on 3rd by Paul Kerton (Proteus Books Piatkus Books 256 pp) 2006. April 1979. The book is also 112 pp)1980. “What Jovanovic has done - and adorned with lots of stunning A passable press cuttings job, rather skilfully, I think - is to collate off-stage photos”. Shenton is but important as a source of a huge amount of information that the author of the same Kate’s early poems. has been ‘out there’ for several years publisher’s books about The and splice it all together into a Kick Inside and The Dreaming (see Kate Bush: The Whole Story readable and engrossing overview of below). by Kerry Juby (Sidgwick Kate’s working life”. (Johnny and Jackson 161 pp)1988. Burke HG76 2005). Running Up That Hill: 50 Visions Not part of the official Whole of Kate Bush Story project, but published to Under the Ivy: The Life & Music of by Tom Doyle (Bonnier Books) coincide. “The last thing that was Kate Bush 2022. needed was another addition to the by Graeme Thomson New this Year. Hastily retitled long list of misinformational (Omnibus Press First Edition from The Big Sky … Doyle says: resources on the subject of Kate Bush 346 pp) 2010. “Kate is an outstanding and complex … Let’s just hope that the publishers Second Edition 2012. artist, and so I feel that examining take a little time to rectify some of the Revised Edition (includes her work and career from 50 different more glaring mistakes before they material about Before the Dawn) angles will illuminate the girl who commit to a second pressing”. 2015. lived in her imagination, reluctantly (Andrew Marvick HG33 1998). “On the one hand, we know very became famous because of it, then well that Kate doesn’t approve of had to deal with unwanted outside Kate Bush – A Visual Documentary books like this ... and finds them forces, before battling on and emerging by Kevin Cann and Sean intrusive, and as far as their veracity triumphant, to become one of the Mayes (Omnibus Press 96 is concerned, anecdotal at best ... On most ground-breaking, idiosyncratic pp)1988. the other hand, this is clearly the best and singular music figures of our “They have assembled the ‘facts’ written, most well researched and time”. Based on his interviews about Kate’s career that are already in critically applauded biography of with Kate and others featured the public domain ... added these to Kate yet released. There is nothing in Mojo and elsewhere. the interviews conducted for the ‘In mean-spirited within its pages and Other Words...’ project (a common the book respects and celebrates Kate’s Analyses legacy with Kerry Juby), conducted work without losing perspective. I some useful research of their own … found it intelligent and very fair”. Adventures in Kate Bush and Theory gathered photos old and new, and (Seán KBNews 2010) by Deborah M. Withers completed it with an exhaustive (HammerOn Press 190 pp) discography and trivia list. If the Kate Bush 2010. aim was to create a compact Kate by Diane Paterson (Blurb 110 “It’s an alternative viewpoint, Bush fans’ vade mecum, the authors pp) 2019. opinion, and is full of humour. This have largely succeeded”. (Peter This author seems to have is a book about the Bushian Feminine HG33 1988) produced a number of self- Subject ... changes shape, gender, published and very basic music sound; taking on an ever shifting Kate Bush. I Segugi dell’Amore biographies, of which this is guise on its journey through each by Monica Tessarin (Firenze one, illustrated with commonly album ... The birth, life, continuity, Atheneum 208 pp) 2004. seen photos. change, breakdown, death and rebirth Italian language biography and are explored with reference to folklore discography with illustrations Kate Bush and fairy tales, colonialism, by Paulina Stuckey: “It was not by Arthur Miller (no, not that nationalism, gender, oh and a little easy to find Kate Bush. I have long one!) 2019. bit of Orientalism thrown in for good searched among the furrows of the This appears to be the same measure. Brave, funny, silly, beloved vinyl, among the dusty pages book as the above. What is informative, and probably the best of old newspapers, in the fanzines of going on? book written about Kate and yet not other times, in the video tapes now about Kate”. (Ian McLauchlan consumed by too many viewings, in HG79 2011). HomeGround Summer 2022 115

The First Time I Heard Kate Bush occasional collaborations with that first, more musically zany, Edited by Scott Heim (Roseclif other artists. original hit.” Press 96 pp) 2012. Part of an ongoing series where Kate Bush: All The Top 40 Hits This Is Woman’s Work: Kate Bush, musicians and writers tell their by Craig Halstead (Self Female Fans and Practices of stories of first hearing the music Published 180 pp) 2021. Distinction of an iconic artist or band. Part of an illustrated self- by Laura Vromen (PhD Thesis Thirty-nine different musicians published series, Craig details University of Warwick) 2002. and writers remember their Kate’s Top 40 hits with data “This thesis proposes a broader initial reactions on hearing and chart runs, ‘The Almost understanding of the nature of Kate. Top 40 Singles’, and relevant women’s investments in popular trivia. music. Through a case-study of a Kate Bush: Hounds of Love group of mostly mature, middle class, (Pearson Set Works Guide PDF Finding Kate: An illustrated journey white and heterosexual female fans 10 pp) 2012. through five decades of the music of for the British performer Kate Bush” Analysis of Cloudbusting, And Kate Bush Dream of Sheep and Under Ice for by Michael Byrne and Marius Kate Bush’s Subversive Shoes A-Level study in English Herbert (self-published 96 pp) by Bonnie Gordon (12 pp essay schools, listening to and 2021 (see page 96). in Women and Music A Journal of appraising music. This beautiful book “explores a Gender and Culture University of selection of the author Michael’s Virginia January 2005. Symphony in Blue: Kate Bush and favourite Kate songs which he has “If you know the lurid details of her Legacy chosen from her extensive five decade Hans Christian Andersen’s fairy tale by Marta Oliehoek-Samitowska long career, each one conceptually The Red Shoes, then Kate Bush’s (Muse(ic) Books 226 pp) 2013. visualised as double page spreads song of the same name presents a “In this very readable new book with accompanying text detailing fascinating twist … In Bush’s sung Marta has delicately interrogated a song facts, together with his own version the projection of multiple goodly number of new and recent personal insights into the music - all subjects and the creation of a female artists to determine exactly beautifully digitally illustrated by soundscape that celebrates and what that influence was, whether Marius”. inspires dance transform the story direct in terms of musical into precisely what it is meant to composition, or indirect in terms of Academic Works denigrate-the dance of female excess” inspiration to do their own thing and take personal charge of their career In Praise of Kate Bush A Daughter of Albion? Kate Bush … An excellent volume which we by Holly Kruse and mythologies of Englishness highly recommend with much to (12 pp essay in On Record: Rock, by Ron Moy consider about the nature of Kate’s Pop, and the Written Word, edited Popular Musicology Online, art”. (Peter KBNews 2013). by Simon Frith and Andrew 2006. Goodwin, Pantheon Books) “Within the popular music world, Kate Bush : Los Dominios de lo 1990. Kate Bush is a long-standing Invisible “Kruse writes a paean to Kate Bush commercial and artistic success. Her by Juan José Vicedo Miso. (66 and includes close analysis of her body of work is a rich terrain that RPM Edicions 178 pp) 2016. recordings. The analysis is more in allows for the critical exploration of Spanish language mostly the mode of literary analysis, a range of socio-musical dimensions. enthusiastic (apart from The Red focusing on lyrics, and is non- This essay will refer to ... the artist’s Shoes) examination of Kate’s theoretical” Monica Berger in relationship to English identity. It work song by song. Playing with a Different Sex: will pay particular attention to Academic Writing on Women in Hounds of Love, yet also reflect back Kate Bush: Le Temps du Rêve Rock and Pop. upon earlier works, and look forward by Frédéric Delâge (Mot et le to works produced since 1985.” Reste 213 pp) 2017. Cathy’s Homecoming and the Other French language review of World: Kate Bush’s ‘Wuthering Kate Bush: Performing and Creating Kate’s work from Wuthering Heights’. Queer Subjectivities on Lionheart Heights to Before the Dawn, By Nicky Losseff by Deborah M. Withers 17 pp concentrating on the albums (12 pp essay in Popular Music 2006. and the context of their (Cambridge University Press) Earlier work by author of recording. May 1999. Adventures in Kate Bush and theory: “No other song of hers has had the “In her second album, Lionheart, Kate Bush: Song by Song same public appeal … and perhaps Kate Bush continued the process of by John Van der Kiste (Fonthill the smaller group of admirers who exploring gender roles through music, Media 164 pp) 2021. remain loyal engage more with the performance and dramatization that An analysis of the songs on all intensely personal visions into which began on her debut, The Kick Inside. Kate’s singles, albums, and her lyrics have matured, as opposed to From early on in her career, Bush 116 HomeGround Summer 2022

was conscious of how ‘The woman that we all need’ : Kate reading this volume I simply got the heteronormative, patriarchal gender Bush in the eyes of American fans. idea that Moy likes Kate’s music very roles can delimit restrictive boundaries By Sara Nyman (University of much, but feels the need to justify that and designate permissible sites from Jyväskylä Bachelor’s Thesis) simple emotion in the bizarre lingo which the female sexed subject can 2015. his academic colleagues use to speak or sing”. Who says: “The purpose of this communicate. Plainly a volume that study is to bring out American fans seeks to elucidate every single track Die Umsetzung des Songs of Kate Bush and explore how they Kate had recorded has got to be „Wuthering Heights“ von Kate Bush see Bush as an artist. The study interesting to fans, and this book in einen Videoclip examines Bush’s status in the lives of made interesting points if you could by Kathrin Ehlen (Grin Verlag participants and their emotional get over the alienating jargon”. (Peter 28 pp) 2011. attitude toward Bush and her music”. HG78 2007). Essay on the function of music videos, from the 2007 ‘Don’t let me go! Hold me down!’: Hounds of Love (The Emi University of Paderborn event Inspiration, Voice and Image in Kate Remaster) ’Pop and Poetry: On the Bush’s ‘Hounds of Love’ by Tracing Limelite & Intermediality of Music and by Ian Cawood Nekrobomb Jones Literature in the 20th Century’. 22 pp essay in Popular Music (Independently Published 151 “The advantage of music videos is (Cambridge University Press) pp) 2018. that they create a new dimension to January 2016. The Author(s) say: “After being the text and the notes with the help of “This paper explores how, with the turned down because 33 1/3 is more the images and thus also the overall release of her fifth album, Hounds of interested in other Kate Bush albums effect of the song is changed. The fact Love, in 1985, her popular appeal (or they didn’t like my book) I that the viewer is exposed to both was widened into a genuine decided to self-publish my passion acoustic and visual stimuli creates a acceptance of her idiom by project about this specific version of synaesthetic experience for him”. contemporary cultural commentators. Hounds of Love. Inside are things … The paper concludes by … like facts, opinions, dreams, Kate Bush,The Red Shoes,The Line, offering a contextualised explanation information and special fictional for Bush’s perceived ‘authenticity’ as stories created for every track. There the Cross and the Curve and the Uses an artist and performer.” are also film and book reviews of of Symbolic Transformation everything (probably) that inspired Playing with time: Kate Bush’s Hounds of Love”. by Deborah M. Withers 13 pp temporal strategies and resistant time 2010. consciousness Kate Bush The Kick Inside: In-depth by D-M Withers 12 pp essay in by Laura Shenton (Wymer “In ... The Red Shoes and The Line, Popular Music (Cambridge Publishing 121 pp) 2021. the Cross and the Curve she deploys University Press) January 2017. Part of the ‘In Depth’ series “This article focuses on two of Kate from Wymer. “this 112 page book various form of occult, pagan or Bush’s post-Aerial (2005) albums is indeed a rich smorgasbord of magickal practices in order to … I argue that self-reflexive internal quotes; from interviews, articles, KBC time consciousness is a process that fan club magazines, TV appearances challenge the dominant symbolic logic enables a listener to gain some and promotional materials … In of ‘The Red Shoes’ story. I have understanding that they are embroiled fact, the author relies so much on the in an act of perception forged via quotes to do the heavy-lifting of demonstrated how she deploys an active engagement with recorded narrating the story of Kate’s first immanent feminine spirituality that is music.” album that perhaps she assumed they cover the whole album “in-depth” … devotional, sexual and Into the Sensual World: Gender This approach falls short of that. transformative, that ... serve to Subversion in the Work of Kate Bush There is a lot to be said for the tried Author not stated (BA Thesis and trusted track-by-track approach challenge the morality tale formed in English Literature) 2019. most other books take when the context of misogynistic, nineteenth “This thesis analyses a selection of considering albums”. (Seán her earlier work in order to establish HGNews 2021). century bourgeois society”. how she represents issues of gender and sexuality in her lyrics and Kate Bush The Dreaming: In-depth Towards a musical stylistics: performances”. by Laura Shenton (Wymer Movement in Kate Bush’s ‘Running Publishing 112 pp) 2021. Up That Hill’ Individual Albums Another in Wymer’s album by Massimiliano Morini series, and for all its merits, also Essay in Language and Kate Bush and Hounds of Love suffers from the same defects in Literature Vol 22 issue 4 2013. by Dr Ron Moy (Ashgate 148 the earlier tome, pointed out by In this article, a multimodal stylistic pp) 2007. Seán, above. analysis is attempted on a genre Not just Hounds of Love. “From which has attracted little critical attention in linguistics – modern pop- rock music. ... ‘Running Up That Hill’, is studied linguistically and musically. ...the author explores the complex ways in which meaning is created in a pop-rock song. 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Discographies and classic photos of Kate. contact sheets, unseen photos collecting Published, along with Guido’s and other materials including below to coincide with the test polaroids and personal The Illustrated Collector’s Guide to photographic exhibition at notes by Kate, and his extensive Kate Bush Snap Galleries, which itself set of unseen photos from the coincided with Kate’s 2014 live making of The Line, The Cross by Robert Godwin. shows. and The Curve. First edition (Collector’s Guide Kate Bush: Photographs Three Nights in Hammersmith Publishing) 1991 (up to Rocket by Guido Harari (Published by Max Browne Man) monochrome photos only, with Wall of Sound Gallery 64 (Blurb.com) 2021. pp) 2014. Two hundred and fifty photos includes collectibles. “a useful The little book of Guido’s taken by Max Browne during round-up of Kate’s work in all classic photos, including Kate’s three nights at the frontispiece by Kate, and Hammersmith Odeon at the media” HG44 (1992). introduction by Guido. end of Tour of Life in 1979. Second Edition (Apogee Books Foreword by renowned Kate: Inside the Rainbow photographer Jill Furmanovsky. 104 pp) 2005 (up to Aerial). by John Carder Bush (Sphere Full-colour collector’s guide 288 pp) 2015. Kate Bush: Symphony of You Was also available as a signed by Gered Mankowitz (Cassell including music and video 500 copy limited edition boxed 256 pp). discography, promotional version, including three colour Projected but not (yet?) realised photo prints, which sold out follow-up to Gered’s Wow! This material, bootlegs, and guest almost immediately on release was to be a complete appearances. (see page 89). celebration of Kate - her music, Essential: “I think the shimmer and her look, her impact, her Kate Bush: Complete Recordings glow of what’s unearthed here creativity. With hundreds of Illustrated enhances and even changes how I photographs from the early by A P Sparke (APS Books e- think about some of the work that years of her career, and essays book) 2016. Kate has produced, so utterly from authors across a number Essentially a simple no-frills associated as is it is with the visuals of disciplines - from writers and discographical list. over the decades. It’s also a supremely artists to musicians and loving tribute to the entire extended academics. Opposite: Shameless Kate Bush On Track: Every Album, Bush family, with an unexpected and plug ct’d - Publicity Every Song sensitive biography of Kate thrown Sheet Music poster for the by Bill Thomas (Sonicbond into the bargain. … Every aspect of HomeGround Publishing 176 pp) 2021. it … means that John has achieved Kate Bush Words & Music from Anthology What it says on the tin. An what amounts to THE most The Kick Inside. examination of Kate’s entire relevant, important and visually (EMI Music Publishing 12 pp) recorded catalogue from The sumptuous printed publication on 1978. Kick Inside through to Before the Kate Bush to date”. (Seán A slim folio with the simple Dawn, including B-sides and KBNews 2015). melody lines and guitar chords rarities. to seven of the songs on the Wow: Kate Bush album. Photograph Books by Gered Mankowitz (Ormond Yard Press 96 pp limited to 750 Kate Bush Lionheart. Cathy copies) 2015. Edited by Cecil Bolton (EMI by John Carder Bush. The very big book (24” x 18”) Music Publishing 53pp) 1978. Original self-published 500 containing 250 of the very best Nice illustrated folio containing copies 1986. of Gered Mankowitz’s Kate piano parts, melody lines and Second edition (Sphere 144 pp) Bush photographic archive. guitar boxes to all the songs on 2014, finally has the tasteful the album. slipcase JCB wanted, contains a The Kate Inside new introduction by John and by Guido Harari (Published The Best of Kate Bush. was made available as a limited with Wall of Sound Gallery) Edited by Cecil Bolton (EMI edition box set with three Regular and De Luxe Editions) Music Publishing 64 pp) 1981. signed photo prints. 2016. Colour illustrations, short bio, Originally first conceived as the Including Guido’s own and piano parts, melody lines first volume in a trilogy, this is a commentary, this contains over and guitar chords to 13 songs beautiful collection of photos 300 photos from his extensive from Kate’s first three albums, by John Carder Bush of his Kate archives, including all of and December Will Be Magic sister Kate as a young girl, with his classic images, out-takes, Again. Does not quite make up accompanying text. Kate Bush: Portraits by Gered Mankowitz (Published with Snap Galleries 48pp) 2014. The little book of Gered’s 118 HomeGround Summer 2022

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for the fact that EMI did not Kate’s first four albums, with Very useful compilation of make available sheet music piano parts, melody lines and press cuttings 1978-1986 books for either Never For Ever or guitar boxes. One b/w photo. The Dreaming.. The Garden: A Compendium of Kate Bush The Red Shoes. Information for the Serious Kate Hounds of Love Kate Bush. (IMP 103 pp) 1994. Bush Fan (2 Vols) Edited by Cecil Bolton (EMI Fact sheet, lyrics, melody line, Edited by Andrew Marvick (“A Music Publishing 36 pp) 1985. piano parts, and guitar boxes. publication of the Wickham Not as good as the previous two There appears to be another Street Irregular Press” 461 pp) volumes. Monochrome photos version of this only with simple 1988. (but a colour poster), simple melody lines. Indispensable privately printed melody lines and guitar boxes collection of press and fan club for all the basic album tracks. Kate Bush Collection: Off the features (vol 1) and interviews Record. (vol 2). Kate Bush The Whole Story. (IMP 232 pp) 1994. Edited by Cecil Bolton (EMI Spiral bound book which Cloudbusting - Kate Bush In Her Music Publishing 40 pp)1986. fetches very high prices on the Own Words Much like the above volume, collectors market. 12 songs for Edited by Ron Hill fewer monochrome photos, but vocals and instrumental Second Edition 575 pp 1992. including a colour poster. ensemble. “this is excellent, very WP Document which assembles Melody lines and guitar boxes. thoughtful, elaborate … A few nice Kate’s own published words photos too. And: full orchestral scores into topics including the music IMP Presents Kate Bush. … the arrangements are very (by album and single), life, and Editor unknown probably Cecil complete, well researched and A to Z misc subjects. Bolton (EMI Music Publishing/ readably printed. Guitar and bass IMP 24 pp) 1987. parts have tablature as well, for more Kate Bush - The First Twelve Years Can be found in both white and inexperienced players. … If only by The Editors of Never For Ever black cover variations. Very every music book could be as good as fanzine 1992. basic folio containing eight this” (Nion1967 KBForum). A collection in two volumes, of songs (seven from Kate’s first newspaper and magazine four albums, plus Experiment IV). Kate Bush: 8 Midi Arrangements cuttings, covering the years Melody lines, lyrics and guitar 1978-1990. boxes. (IMP 48 pp) 1996. Words and music to eight songs. Moments - A Red Shoes Collection by Wieland Wilker Includes 3.5 inch floppy disk in Document 1992. Kate Bush Complete. wallet on inside cover Collects together the material about The Red Shoes which Edited by Cecil Bolton (EMI containing MIDI file appeared on the internet Music Publishing arrangements of the songs in newsgroup rec.music.gaffa (aka love-hounds.) First Edition 180 pp) 1987. the book. Detailed MIDI charts Second edition with slightly at the back of the book have A Lioness at Heart (UFO Books 48 pp) 1992. different cover design titled The channel assignations for every Originally available in the Complete Kate Bush. Lyrics, instrument or sound used. unofficial box set of the same name. Thirty-three of Gered simple melody line, and guitar Mankowitz’s photos, together chords for all Kate’s released Kate Bush Aerial. with a narrative covering 1978- Edited by Lucy Holliday (Kate 79 by Carmel Whelton, songs to that date, illustrated Bush/International Music formerly co-editor of the short- with monochrome photos. Publishing 128 pp) 2006. lived fanzine Under the Ivy. A very nice folio of all the Includes introduction, tracks on Aerial, with colour and Never for Ever chronology, discography, and monochrome photos and (UFO Books 46 pp) 1992. artwork. Piano parts, melody Included in the unofficial box videography by Peter of lines and guitar boxes. This is set of the same name. Colour HomeGround. how it should be done. This is photos, together with a to date the final sheet music narrative covering 1980 also by The Sensual World Kate Bush. book of Kate’s work as, sadly, Carmel Whelton. (EMI Music Publishing 64 none have been made available pp)1990. for either Director’s Cut or 50 Moving - A Collection of Poems A short biography, melody lines Words For Snow. Edited by Anri Kitazawa (Sinko guitar chords for all the songs on the album. Colour and Miscellaneous monochrome photos and colour poster. Hot Songs Kate Bush: Kate Bush With Love (IMP second edition 36 pp) Unknown (no imprint) 62 pp 1993. 1987. Basic folio of eight songs from 120 HomeGround Summer 2022

Music 256 pp) 1993. Blurb 124 pp) 2014. Kate Bush Lyrics of 79 songs from The Either hardcover with image- by Tedine Sanss, Enzo Asui, et Kick Inside to The Sensual World wrap or in a dust jacket. No al. (Paperback 180 pp) 2013. side by side with (apparently longer available. Unofficial but German language stories sometimes not entirely highly praised book, compiled inspired by Kate’s songs. accurate) Japanese translations by the designer as a non-profit and album discography. This fan-made product. Features all The Ninth Wave: A Literary book contains a handful of of the (actually sung) lyrics of Adaptation of Kate Bush’s Concept monochrome photos to Kate’s officially released songs, by Robert Jopling illustrate the songs but none of photographs from throughout (independently published 119 Kate apart from the cover her career, images of all the pp) 2017. image. Published with obi wrap. official single and album Robert says: “I turned each song sleeves, and commentary and into a collection of short stories that Kate Bush quotes throughout. Beautiful. both stays true to Kate’s original work by Jay Allen Sanford & Marshal whilst diverting for art’s sake. The Ross. (Revolutionary Comics 34 A Kate Bush Quiz concept tells of a girl adrift in the pp) 1993. by John A Wilcox (self- Atlantic at night. As death closes in, They said: “The fairy princess of published ebook) 2018 the protagonist undergoes a terrifying rock and an enduring cult favourite. What it says. A 200 question near death experience causing surreal Little seemed to be known about the quiz. out of body experiences and dream- ethereal singer’s life until states that illustrate both the internal Revolutionary got on the case. Six Kate Bush: An Adult Colouring Book and external struggles - her current months in the making, meticulously by Skyler Rankin (self- predicament in the Atlantic as well as researched and beautifully illustrated, published 62 pp) 2019. what is happening in the character’s this one promises to be a perennial Also what it says. An unofficial head”. seller”. We were a bit po-faced Kate Bush inspired, colouring about this when we reviewed it book, with images of Kate. Like Some Kind of Magic: A in HG47 and 48 (1993). Coloring Book for Fans of Kate Bush However, I stand by the Kate Bush: Before the Dawn by Calliope Coloring & Books conclusion I wrote nearly 30 by Paul Sinclair (SuperDeluxe 63 pp. 2021. years ago “If only for Edition 20pp) 2019. Illustrations Inspired by Kate, entertainment purposes, you ought to Paul Sinclair’s experiences including mandalas, patterns, have it. Not to be taken seriously”. seeing the live shows in 2014. and flowers. “We created these Includes interview with David Kate- inspired images ... with lots of Jig of Life: Images Inspired by the Rhodes. love, to help you wind down your day, Music of Kate Bush calm your mind, and crush on Kate by Paulina Stuckey (Privately Inspired by Kate all at the same time”. printed and limited to 60 copies 21 pp)1998. The Thrill and the Hurting: Poems Aerie A collection of Paulina’s and Art Inspired by Kate Bush by Antonello Saeli (Blurb 168 beautiful Kate-related artwork Ed Kyla Clay-Fox & Collin pp) 2021. as used in HomeGround Kelley (Morning Fog Press 66 Antonello’s fictional tribute to magazine and extensively in the pp ) 2006. Kate’s return to the stage in HomeGround Anthologies. Thirty-one authors and artists 2014. (See page 98) presenting poems and artwork Kate Bush, Under Ice inspired by Kate. Foreword by 50 Things Kate Bush Taught Me by Claire O’Brien. (self- Krys of HomeGround. about the Multiverse published Minicomic 16pp) by Karyna McGlynn 2017. Waiting For Kate Bush (Sarabande Books 96 pp) 2022. The lyrics to Kate’s song with by John Mendelssohn A collection of poems “about the monochrome illustrations in a (Omnibus Press 280 pp) 2004. melodrama of girlhood and coming comic format. Foreword by Said by the publishers to be “an of age as a Kate Bush in a Britney Gary Spencer Millidge, creator unusual hybrid of satirical novel and Spears world”. of the critically acclaimed, music biography”, this earned Strangehaven comic book very mixed reviews in HG75 Let the Wierdness In series. Inspired by the October (2005): “reading the book (with all Edited by Evan St Jones (Heads 2016 Inktober challenge, early its faults) was ... a satisfying and Dance Press 283 pp) 2022. copies featured purchaser’s strangely pleasant experience”, on “Twenty-six stories inspired by choice of Kate song hand- the other hand “the author has Kate. Compiled here are stories that illustrated on inside cover. used her name for the sole purpose of undulate between horror and fantasy, shifting copies of his lamentable light and dark, Love & Anger- Kate Bush Book of Lyrics product ...best avoided”. parallel to the atmosphere evoked from Anonymous (self published via Die Große Streifenlüge: Inspiration Kate’s art”. HomeGround Summer 2022 121

Opposite: Kate Shameless Plug magazine, illustrated with continued for a while as Still performs Running photos and the first use of John Breathing. We have eight issues Homeground: The Kate Bush Carder Bush’s “Ophelia” photo 1987-90. Up That Hill for Magazine: Anthology One: on a magazine cover and an Amnesty Wuthering Heights to The Sensual unusual illustration by Borja Dreamtime World Bonafuente Gonzalo. Published by Ricky Williams International, at the Homeground: The Kate Bush and Gaye Godfrey from Secret Policeman’s Magazine: Anthology Two: The Red Kate Bush (Record Collector Australia. We have 23 issues Shoes to 50 Words For Snow Presents) 1984 to 1991. Third Ball 1987 Edited by The HomeGround December 2020. Editors (Crescent Moon 1,178 An entire full-colour issue of Blowaway pp) 2014. Hardcover and Record Collector magazine A fanzine concentrating on the paperback editions. devoted to Kate. Pages of creativity of Kate’s fans. Anthology of 30 years and 79 content illuminate what Kate Published by Jackie Bain, and issues of HomeGround: “For a means to fans, and rich with Jeff Allan from Scotland in 5 Kate Bush fan there was nothing illustrated features about issues 1985-87. more satisfying, other than perhaps collecting. Significant input Kate herself dropping around for a from fans make this very special Under The Ivy quick cup of tea, than the arrival of indeed. Published by Simon Williams, a much awaited issue of Carmel Whelton, Pauline HomeGround. Just as the illusion of Selected Fanzines & Fan Whelton and Andrew being the one and only devotee reaches Club Magazines Whiteside, 5 issues 1985-86. overwhelming heights a surprise The last issue appeared under package is delivered as a joyous Note: It’s very difficult to be the title Kate. reminder of Kate Bush’s hold over, definitive with fanzines. We not just me, but many of us.” From probably didn’t see them all, Cariad Kate the Introduction by Guy and certainly don’t have full Published by Jon Bishop and Pearce. details of longevity. So in this Neville Williams from Wales, 6 bibliography we have confined issues 1987-8 then became CK Bookazines ourselves to those fanzines who International, 7 issues 1998-89, lasted a period of years and then became Never Forever? 8 Kate Bush - The Ultimate Music printed at least five issues. issues 1989-93. Guide (Uncut) 1st edition 2015. The Kate Bush Club Watching Storms Archive features 1978-2014 The newsletter of the official The apazine of the American from NME, Melody Maker and Kate Bush Club (KBC). First Kate Bush Society. We have 36 Uncut and new essays on each published in early 1979, 24 issues from 1986 to 1997. studio album. substantive issues to 1993. Edited by Ernie Heramia from Deluxe remastered edition Articles by Kate, and her Rhode Island USA. December 2017. immediate circle including New cover image, all the same brothers John and Paddy, with The First and Last Forever content, but now also contains many of John’s colour photos. The Italian Fanzine. At least 21 a section on Kate’s Before the After 1993 occasional single issues between 1987 and 1996. Dawn live album set and some sheet updates before ceasing other small additions. physical operations altogether Lionheart in March 2011 in favour of Magazine of the semi-official Kate Bush - 40th Anniversary KateBush.com and the official Japanese Fan Club. At least 23 Edition (Classic Pop Presents) YouTube Facebook and Twitter issues 1982-88. Reappeared as February 2018. accounts. In the Morning Fog fanzine. We Wuthering Heights 40th have 8 issues 1990-98. Anniversary tie-in. Features on HomeGround each album, collaborations, Wait! That’s us. 79 issues Kate Bush and interview with Seán about between 1982 and 2012. See Magazine of the fanclub 20 years of KBNews. Includes the link above as to what is still nederland 10 issues 1981-86, Seán’s article, All We Ever Look available. And here for another reappeared as Kate 18 issues For on Kate’s storytelling, and view. 1986-96. the meanings behind some of her songs. Breakthrough There it is. If you know of The Canadian fanzine something we’ve missed, please Kate Bush (Mojo - The Collector’s published by Dale and Robyn let us know at the Series) Somerville 1982-87 in 11 issues. HomeGround email address September 2020. When Dale moved on to other which appears on the back Mostly reprints from Mojo things in 1988, Robyn cover.  122 HomeGround Summer 2022

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Me and Pigeon, Kate Bush and Prince … Dusan Misic has a tale of two great musicians and a friend Dusan Pigeon and I met in 1986. We readily drank vodka or beer or SO normal, she has beautiful were 16. ‘Pigeon’ was his a lot of wine during the day; I hair. Dusan, you really have a Dusan was born in nickname. It is derived from his couldn’t stand alcohol. He of good taste, it’s because you’re what was surname. We were in the third course, smoked a joint on a normal. How can anyone love Yugoslavia. year of high medical school. daily basis. Me, never. He that Prince? I don’t understand The same class. We learned simply wanted to be with me, what that Prince sings at all. He has experienced how to take blood from the and of course I reluctantly Did you see him on tv the Yugoslav civil vein, and give injections in the accepted his friendliness. We yesterday? His ass was naked! war, and the butt. It was a really happy time. became good friends. I Come on, so it doesn’t make collapse of the Yugoslavia. Rich country. discovered Prince through him. sense Dusan, the man had a Yugoslav economy.. Peace. We had everything in He was crazy about Prince. He naked ass directly on the TV!” abundance. got bootlegs, he got all the Phew! He is a lifelong Kate records, he just listened only to fan. I was already very obsessed his music. We could talk about My mother, who was from with Kate Bush. his music for hours. Hours, Montenegro, could not stand He saw Kate live in days, nights, weeks, months. loud rock and pop music; she 2014. Kate Bush, the whole day called it ‘idiot music’ and she long, and as long I could stay Pigeon’s parents adored me. called Kate ‘shizika’. It was He now lives in awake, Kate Bush. Pigeon was His mother told me, “Dusan, slang for schizophrenic. “You Poland. obsessed with Prince. you are the only normal friend turned up that shizika to the Pigeon has. Everyone else he maximum again! The next Pigeon was the main face of hangs out with is crazy. Dusan” time, I’ll break your turntable, the school. He was unbelievably she said, “you are like our be sure! And you will surely not charming. Extremely intelligent second son. Please, be aware get the money for the new and witty, handsome, he was an you can always come here in one!” This was when I realized absolute No.1. He had a very the middle of the night, I had to buy headphones. strong personality. The girls anytime, as if you were in your were crazy about him. He had own house”. My father loved opera, I sex probably, with all of them. I guess he enjoyed hearing Kate’s was still a virgin. Acnae vulgaris Pigeon’s mother hated first albums. My sister is ten all around my face. Girls simply Prince. She was afraid of him. years older than me, and we ignored me. I had friends, but I She called him Gypsy. Though hated each other! She used to didn’t have what Pigeon had. frankly, mostly Prince could be say that I was endlessly boring And that was what I wanted at heard in her house. She used to with that ‘artist’. I loved that that time. call me on the phone and ask she called Kate an ‘artist’, and me, “Dusan, is it normal for a not just ‘the singer’. And, I I didn’t understand why man to wear make-up, wear admit, she brought me Never For Pigeon liked to hang out with high-heels, false eyelashes and Ever from Chicago in 1987. me. Nobody understood that. I to scream like a woman? And was an outsider at school. He why my son is obsessed with Anyway, my inferiority to was the alpha. And omega. He such a person? I am deeply Pigeon was obvious. For me, he was in action all the time, going worried”. I laughed. She called was a window into that world out into the city every night, me once and asked me, of going out in the city, clubs, concerts, sex, joints, vodka, “Dusan, is Prince normal? He girls and music. He attracted parties, madness... only sings about sex. Dusan, I people like a magnet. The saw him on the TV yesterday, Pigeon enjoyed his ‘power’. Me, I just studied and he was doing ‘that’ with the And his popularity. I accepted studied. I had all the best guitar! Disgusting! Disgusting! that then. I didn’t understand grades. The class teachers isn’t it?” I told her: “you know, then why, but I needed him. I adored me. Pigeon was already Kate Bush sings about sex too”. loved him. I admired him. known to be problematic in the “Ha ha ha”, she burst out school; he missed classes and laughing, “you are such a Although Pigeon got to was liable to come to school sweetheart, oh my dear Dusan, know Kate’s entire opus drunk. A rebel. Teachers I know you comfort me, I know through me, he never really already started to comment that you just try to make me laugh”. truly loved her. He was it was strange that the best arrogant towards her. I believed pupil and the problematic one Every time she saw Kate he never actually listened to her were the best of friends. We Bush on MTV she would call music. He only listened to were heaven and hell. He me on the phone, “Dusan” she ‘Dusan’s choice’. He said she smoked two packets of said, “she is SO beautiful, she is was cold. He was prejudiced cigarettes a day. I never took a against her as a woman. When cigarette in my mouth. He 124 HomeGround Summer 2022

he heard Running Up That Hill metal, rock, funk, jazz, the Give me a tune so I can sing, A message for twelve-inch version, he said, “I whole city knew him. And Me? and I’m in love. He taught me Prince don’t believe Dusan, that a Guess what? I played the to listen differently, to hear woman is capable of doing accordion. hidden parts. To hear the from Kate… such a good production on her background. I am so sad and own”. Okay, those were the times. shocked to hear the The accordion was popular. I Our relationship was really tragic news about Anyway, he loved Breathing. played in the accordion clean and unburdened, but He commented arrogantly, that orchestra that accompanied the then... Then easily, a tense, dark Prince. “She is very talented after all, military choir. We travelled a spirit set in between us. I no He was the most we can see this on Breathing”. lot, we were on TV, concert longer just listened to what that incredibly talented He once admitted, “You know halls, but ... you know, man was saying, but I needed to Dusan, I admire a woman who military ... I learned to play the speak out loud what I thought. artist. dares to put priests singing on a Libertango section from Grace This is where some heaviness A man in complete pop record”. Jones’ Nightclubbing and between us began. Now I knew, control of his work dreamed of playing it myself. the rivalry had begun. from writer and Prince was much more On her record, of course. musician to producer productive. Pigeon would call Pigeon was constantly doing This began to be visible in me often on the phone and say with his hands this irritable all spheres of our relationship. and director. only briefly: “Hello, Gypsy has thing that drummers do, hitting Difficult rivalry. But I will tell He was such an a new song”. Or, “Hello, Gypsy the table, the chairs, his knees. you about the Kate Bush and has a new LP”. He adored The Yes, mostly his knees. Prince. inspiration. Ballad of Dorothy Parker. I really Playful and mind- love that song even today We had a really great time I presented him with my blowingly gifted. thanks to him. Still, even with the music. He somehow newest idea, my hitherto He was the most though he didn’t like Kate very taught me to listen to music, unimaginable desire. It was much, he gave me a nickname, through the way he told me 1988. I remember that Summer inventive and ‘Dule Bush’. Everybody in the about Prince’s music. “Listen to night. We had already extraordinary live school, and even out of the this bass section”, “Pay graduated from high school, school, everybody called me attention to the horn section and we both applied to the act I’ve seen. ‘Dule Bush’. here”, “Listen this rhythm Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, The world has lost machine”, “Listen to him and we were both accepted and We were both into music. improvise here” ... Until then, I happy about it. That night, we someone truly Pigeon played drums. He was hooked only on the tune. were sitting on the fountain at magical. played in various bands, heavy Marx and Engels Square Goodnight dear Prince. Artwork: Andrew Fry HomeGround Summer 2022 125

Starfish and Coffee. (Yugoslavia then was still Offended. I wanted to fight. happiest year of my youth. I Communist), talking. A bottle “So I’m stupid for falling in love played The Sensual World the Prince and the of vodka was next to him, with with Prince through you?” whole day, and Pigeon played Muppets the cigarette in his mouth. He Batman... happy days. was hitting his knees the “What? What did you say rhythm of Dance On with his Dusan? What is your favourite On the other hand, Pigeon hands. He was obsessed with Prince song, he asked” was very friendly towards me. that song, he said it was the best He lost his first year in college Prince song until then, and then “.... uhm ... Starfish and and in 1990 he went to London I said to him... Coffee” I said. to hang out and to try to work. He got a job as a waiter. I “You know Pigeon, I have a He burst out laughing. “It’s enrolled in the second year and strong wish that Kate Bush and his dumbest song”, he said! “It’s stayed to study. He went to Prince should do a duet. I have his filler”. Prince’s concert. He called me dreamed about that for some from the phone booth that time, and that would be a “Don’t tell me Prince has night, 2am, he was delighted, phenomenal song. Imagine fillers?” “Dusan” he said, “it was worth that! I think the planet would seeing this, it was really worth fall to its knees. I think it would “Yes Dusan. Starfish and waiting for the Gypsy, I will tell be a revolution. It would be Coffee is a filler!” you all the details when I’m something that nobody expects. back”. It would be wonderful. I would Then, I didn’t understand really really love to see it”. what had happened to Pigeon. He came back from London Why did he have such a with all Kate’s albums on CD. He burst out laughing reaction? I was really angry For me! Gift! Plus Aspects of the sarcastically. I was shocked. He and fucked up. And I wasn’t Sensual World. Plus Sensual World said, “Dusan, why of all the even aware that it would follow the video tape. stupid things on the planet do me for years. For years! That I you choose to come up with the was a creator of a stupid Kate 1991. The war came. stupidest”. I was more shocked. Bush and Prince idea. That Yugoslavia fell apart bloodily He didn’t stop laughing. “No dark cloud had followed me all overnight. Nobody understood way Dusan, no way. You don’t that time since then... It was what was happening. I know who Prince is”, he said. written on my forehead. Stupid remember going many times to “How dare you Dusan! How do he stamped me, and that is that. the biggest vinyl record store you think that the Living Fire, I am an eternal ignoramus of and I saw that new vinyls were the incarnation of Jimi true music. not coming to the store any Hendrix, will make a duet with more. I refused to accept that that ‘Brontë’ from the Of course, we continued to there was a war. There were no Eighteenth Century?” be friends. We continued to customers, the sad staff were listen to music and talk about sitting idle in an empty shop. I I was still shocked. music, movies, girls, sex, went in once and asked in “Nineteenth”, I said. “I don’t parents, and the future, but that horror: “Sorry, when will you care”, he said, “Eighteenth, something dark remained, it get new vinyl releases?”, and Nineteenth, whatever. They will always hovered above me. the saleswoman started yelling never NEVER meet Dusan! He “Dusan you are stupid and you at me, “Moron”, she said, is a different energy... he is know nothing about music”. I “what records are you talking funky, he is jazz, he is rock, he is didn’t enjoy it any more. I felt a about? People are dying sex, he is all at once. He burden. everywhere!” The record store dictates fashion, he dictates was soon closed. Kate Bush and production, he dictates the type I needed to prove to him Prince vinyls never entered that of make-up, he dictates that I was not stupid. I needed country again. Bad times everything, how are you to rip off that label. The only started. capable to imagine such a non way was for Kate Bush and imaginative thing Dusan? Prince to really record a duet. That year Prince released Prince having a duet with Kate How else? I sincerely wanted Diamonds and Pearls, and we saw Bush??? Ha haaaa... You are that duet. I needed that duet. I it on MTV. It was hard to get stupid Dusan! You really are! I began to have hope that they any other information, but just am disappointed Dusan! You would really make a duet. I watching MTV. Pigeon was as are out of the reality! Only truly hoped that the universe expected, overwhelmed. Get Off someone who absolutely does would make Kate Bush and was his truly favourite track. not know music and absolutely Prince do a duet. And I remember, we really, does not know Prince and Kate really wanted, both, so Bush can conceive such a stupid Anyway, 1989 came. That desperately, to hear the album. thing!” year I was deeply involved in I got the CD through some University and that’s where my connections. An acquaintance I was completely shocked. happy days truly began. New brought it from abroad. I called I was actually bludgeoned. people gathered around. I had more company. I started hanging out every day in the city, mostly jazz and blues clubs, having fun, finally enjoying myself. I remember 1989 as the 126 HomeGround Summer 2022

Pigeon to come over urgently. country was in an even worse to open the CD box, I was Prince “the most He went mad with happiness. economic condition. It was a shaking, “Hurry, hurry!” I incredibly talented We put it in the player, Thunder really bad period in everybody’s screamed, “Hurry!” The CD started, we opened the booklet life there. Hyperinflation fell to the floor. I remember the artist” and started listening and ... occurred. You know what photo on the surface of the then we read ... ‘Thanx to Kate hyperinflation is? That’s when disc, ballerina’s leg... my heart Bush!’ you receive a salary of 1000 was pounding. We played it, billion of something for which opened the booklet. We sat side We both stood paralysed. you can buy only one can of by side joined together like We examined the booklet very sardines. Siamese twins. We both held carefully to see if it was really that booklet (the poster) with written. ‘Thanx to Kate Bush’. I was still studying. Pigeon both hands, with four hands, But, yes, it was really written. left college, he started thinking and yes … there was a song, a ‘Thanx to Kate Bush’. Hm. Let about the Academy of Arts. I duet. Why Should I Love You? me read this once again. saw Rubberband Girl on MTV. Prince and Kate Bush... ‘Thanx to Kate Bush’. Pigeon Kate Bush had a new song! She accepted the truth. They had had a new album! I was crying. Pigeon was dumb. I was met. I couldn’t sleep. How to reach dumb. He just said “I don’t that record! How? How to buy believe it. I really don’t believe I don’t think we both slept it, when we didn’t have the it. They really recorded a for 48 hours. We listened to money. Nothing worked, the duet”. Yes. Finally. After all Diamonds and Pearls for that long country fell apart. I will write to these years, they recorded a to hear her voice. Nothing. But EMI! No, no. I will write to duet. why did he thank her? She Kate! No no, I will, I will, I didn’t do anything on the LP? will... I can’t remember when I “I don’t know”, he said, asked him this, I remember the “Maybe he just listened to all Pigeon made it! He had a bitterness. “You know Pigeon, her albums, and he realized she friend who lived in Paris. He all these years... do you want to was truly big, that’s enough for appeared with the The Red Shoes apologize to me now?” He him to say ‘thank you’”. It was CD in his hands. I will never be looked at me in bewilderment. the first time Pigeon had able to forget that was due to “I won’t”, he said. “No way!” spoken about Kate Bush with Pigeon. And it was the same respect. again. Pigeon came round with “Why?” a CD. He was nervously trying “I still don’t think you Then came 1993. The understand Kate Bush’s music, HomeGround Summer 2022 127

The question is, especially Prince’s music”, he very, very jealous. It burned in “I know. I was there”. what would Pigeon said. “You were just blabbering my chest. He was touched by “You were there?” make of THIS? on. You guessed it, you the song and I was not? He “Yes. I was in London for fantasized, it was not your idea understood and I didn’t? He seven days”. Artwork opposite: as a product of something real. finally better understood Kate “How did you manage to Debi Bowes You were just lucky enough to Bush then me? And he didn’t find the tickets?” make a ‘hit’. I still believe even have any ANY of her “It was a pre-sale for us Dusan, you know nothing records! fans”. about the music. You listen “You travelled by plane?” poppy. Not pop Dusan, poppy. He continued with his “Yes”. How relevant an opinion about invective against her. “This is “But aren’t you afraid of music can be had by a man definitely his song, not her flying?” who...” Dusan! You really haven’t met a “No. Not any more”. woman yet Pigeon? All these He was silent. Then, he Let’s slowly finish this story. years... Haven’t you understood asked me what she looked like. I We were still friends. He what an artist she is? His song said she was infinitely sweet, meant a lot to me. We had Dusan! It is definitely his song!” smiling and relaxed. She was great moments. For years. We happy. She was truly irresistible. helped each other when it was “Fuck you!” He did not come to the high hard. And it was often very “No, fuck you!” school gathering. hard. We had turbulent years in “No, fuck YOU!” our life, and we supported each “No, fuck YOU!” Few years later, I decided to other. I consider I have never divorce. After many, many years been left alone, he was always I graduated from college, I of marriage. We loved each there for me, and he was never started my university career. other very much. We built our left alone, I was always there for Pigeon transferred to the home together. We have a kid. him. But it was clearer and Academy of Arts, where he She was the woman of my life. clearer, day by day, he was the graduated. The 21st Century We had terribly difficult leader. He was that kind of came. We almost dispersed. We moments and we had some personality. The leader. Also, saw each other rarely. He absolutely unforgettable and day by day it became clearer painted the walls in beautiful moments. We were at that I didn’t need a leader. Not monasteries, travelled a lot, and the bottom, we were at the top, in this life. It was a game of I did science. I remember he all together. And if I were born domination. It is always a game got married, then divorced, again, I wouldn’t change of domination. I no longer felt then got married a second time. anything, I would go through it inferior. And that was it. Slowly, I never met his second wife. I all with her again. It was me but surely, we were more never met his kids. I got who wanted a divorce. I packed distant. married too. my pants and T-shirts in a small Anyway, I have something suitcase and went... But once, else to say. Very important. In the end, we completely while we were arguing, just Pigeon would always cry cut off contact. The last time I before I left that house forever, while listening to Why Should I saw him was in 2009. He came in despair, a thought crossed my Love You? I didn’t understand to my father’s funeral. I mind ... why did I fall in love that. He would cry at the part remember we were happy to with her out of all the people in when Prince was singing “the E see each other. The cemetery, the world? of my eye”, and I would just see my father’s funeral, and we tears welling up in his eyes. I started laughing; and people And then I finally understood the didn’t like the song. I didn’t looked at us in shock. It song. understand it. What was that couldn’t have been any different song about anyway? “Of all the when Pigeon was next to me. It was 2018. Pigeon people in the world, why should I We were rivals, but we loved definitely understood Kate love you...The finest purple... The E each other. better then me. of my eye...” What did that mean? “Why do you cry The last time we heard from I went to Poland to live and Pigeon?” each other was in October work there. I remained friends “Don’t you understand 2014. My son was three years with my ex-wife. She keeps my Dusan?” old. Someone from the high Kate Bush collection at her “I don’t understand school organized a reunion. home until I can relocate it to Pigeon.” They called me and told me to Poland. “Then it’s not worth call Pigeon. explaining to you, Dusan. You I think of Pigeon. have to feel it on your own”. I called him. “Will you My favourite Prince album I was jealous. Oh yes, I was come?” is The Truth. What else do you want me “I don’t know” he said. to tell you? Please, just don’t ask “What’s new with you, Dusan? me what my favourite Kate Did you know that Kate Bush Bush album is...  had concerts in London Dusan?” 128 HomeGround Summer 2022

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Among Angels … HomeGround remembers those we have lost since the last issue Alfred Biolek “Bio” Lindsay Kemp, inspiration to Biolek, German TV presenter artistic source of the Babooshka Kate, and appeared in The Line, who championed Kate. Gary costume. Peter’s Mum Olive tells Kate she will the Cross and the Curve. Liz Brooker, played on The Red Morris who did a lot of the be a great artist. Pearson backing vocalist on Shoes and Aerial. Terry Jones, HG back office work. Andy the 1979 Tour of Life. Jimmy who was Professor Need in the Louder, sound engineer at the Bain, played on The Dreaming. Director’s Cut artwork. Ian RVT. Fans John Beaumont, Prince, collaborated on The Newton, monitor engineer on Rod McKie, Lise Gerrard, Red Shoes and his My Computer. Before the Dawn. Nina Leilani Debs Priestly, Helen Liam O’Flynn, piper who Deering of Baby Bushka. Joe Virginia Bye, Donna played especially on Night of the Cassidy who sang Top of the Mineo, Maureen Colgan, Swallow. Geoff Emerick, City on I Wanna Be Kate. Terry Rob McKay, and Martin 1975 engineer on The Man with Wogan, friend of Kate and Parker. Goodbye and thank the Child in his Eyes. Alfred family. Chris Achilleos, you dear friends  Gary Brooker, Farewell John Beaumont playing keyboards … Sharon remembers a dear friend, and HomeGround subscriber when Kate performed at The Prince's Trust in 1982 Terry Jones as Farewell my Vampire Friend ... for to have an insight on other My son Mike even stayed Professor Need that was what I called John people’s loves. And many a with John and he showed him Beaumont. postcard was exchanged the sights of Leeds - and Terry Wogan between us on holidays etc. Whitby Abbey. introduces Kate I used to tell him that I 1989 believed him to be a vampire, We always tried to meet up For my 50th he travelled that he was at least 300 years at the Kate events in London down and we booked a guest Chris Achilleos old, and also that he would live with John travelling free on the house for John to stay in (that’s forever... But sadly even buses, being a bus driver. Then when we learnt that some guest Andy Louder vampires have to leave this we’d meet up again at the houses don’t do breakfast) and world... Wuthering Hike and have a he spent the day with us, eating, I first met John at drink in the pub afterward. I drinking and walking along the 1985 convention remember staying with him and Sheerness beach. The last and we hit it off so fast visiting Haworth Brontë time we saw John was after - two strange people Museum, and the Keighley we’d been on holiday to among many Kate (Worth Valley Railway) train Scotland. We broke our loving fans and us not station (he loved his trains). journey by staying in Leeds knowing anyone. He John would meet me in London for the night, our son with a was so friendly though, and we saw the sights together friend, Mick and I at a he spoke to everyone. and walked round Highgate hotel. John came to visit us Cemetery - my first visit, he’d that evening and had a We became firm been before. drink with us. penfriends – man, could he write a letter! We were pretty close We’d write about every friends and I knew about his conceivable topic with struggles with his family and nothing off limits his life, shared his happiness whether it was about Andrew’s marriage political, factual, royal and Australia, all the or the latest books l was countries he had friends in and reading, and our families, with had visited himself. Then there John telling me about his was Simon and his visits by parties with Ingrid Pitt (see, I train and bus to places in the told you he was a vampire) the UK. I saw pictures of Stephens’ TV he was currently watching, artwork that he was proud of, and the radio he was listening and felt his sadness for Stephen to. He sent me many cassette and Dionne. tapes of the music he loved, not He was my oldest friend... always to my taste, but it’s nice and my oldest.  130 HomeGround Summer 2022

Letters and Ads Bulgarka, further demonstrated her brilliance and creativity. ...We receive them with a strange delight Come 2005 I was as intrigued as anyone could be when trying I’m sure you’re over the moon, the music, news, photos, to decipher the waveform-like Lise Gerrard as am I, with all of the latest magazines, books and podcasts. images that appeared before the Debs Priestly developments. I thought you I asked my late sister Marjolein release of Aerial (was that to Helen Virginia Bye might appreciate some of the if she could make a drawing of become my favourite album of Rod McKie parallels of what was going on Kate. And she did. all time or was it remain Hounds Donna Mineo mid-80s and today. of Love? Well, I still can’t decide Maureen Colgan I have attached her drawing - it depends on where I’m at in Rob McKay I remember when RUTH as a memory of her and my late my head on any given day). first came out, it was in the parents who made it possible to Anyway, on getting to Aerial’s middle of the AIDS epidemic, see Kate live in 1979. All the side two, A Sky of Honey (since when all we ever heard was love, Sylvia renamed An Endless Sky of “don’t exchange bodily fluids.” Honey), the pictorial mystery The word “exchange,” was Little did I realise, when suddenly made perfect sense, heavily loaded with meaning! and I remember feeling blown So to have Kate exclaim at the Kate first appeared on our away, suddenly thinking, in awe, climax of the song, “…let’s radar, that she came from just a ‘Wow! She can even rewrite exchange the experience now,” was fucking birdsong!’ Now, that’s very revolutionary at the time. few miles away from where I impressive!’ And in September It was like, “let’s somehow lived, in Bexleyheath, in Kent, 2014, seeing her bring that to break through this wall that I life, on stage, along with my feel growing up between us.” and I must have passed her wife and daughter, well it’s an There was also much increasing childhood home many times. experience I’ll treasure and feel isolation during the Thatcher grateful for until the end of my era, where everyone was now in The following year, at the age days. Oh, for that elusive video, it for themselves. of 18, sadly I was too young to eh? Gerry O’Hara I think it mirrors a lot of the have the confidence to even I first met Kate when she isolation we’ve all been going contemplate seeing her Tour of came to New York in the ’80s. through the last couple of years After The Red Shoes came out, I with Covid. People are so Life show, in London. What a contacted her via her manager desperate to connect and lost opportunity! I fully got into Hilary, and sent her a copy of exchange their experiences, that my first actual record. One day, it’s natural that this song is the her music, though, when her I got a package via airmail and right medicine for the times! third album, Never for Ever, was it was from Kate full of goodies, and a picture/note which I Take care, big hugs, and released, later being captivated have also attached. thanks for letting me exchange by The Dreaming, and from then my experience! Michael Maher I then made my first video for on buying every album YouTube which was a tribute to Kate fan since beginning of available before and since, her, and according to Del, she Kate’s career. Hearing and loved it, as did everyone else seeing her on Dutch TV, I was along with various bits of that saw it. In the video, I am totally in awe and still am. memorabilia, and seeing the wearing one of the shirts she What is a day without Kate’s send to me. Les July music? My dad got a vinyl of wonderful Cloudbusting The Kick Inside which I have perform many times. Hearing now, and all her music was added later on. Followed by Kate’s amazing, unique sounds going to Kate’s concert in 1979 and admiring the way she in Amsterdam, together with my parents and my younger seemed to be able to work with sister. What an amazing day it and elevate just about anything, was! Still remember it like yesterday and never thought I for example, what she achieved would see Kate live again. But with the choral part on Hello gladly that happened in 2014! What a few days they were in Earth or the wonderful Trio London! So many Kate fans I have met, going to several conventions and absorbing all HomeGround Summer 2022 131

You can find Les While Kate Bush’s song I’m very sorry to be so very impromptu lesson where we HERE. And the Running Up That Hill is taking late in writing this note, played all of side two of Hounds video HERE the entire world by storm, I will especially as my message will of Love, complete with lyrics share a fun story with you. The disappoint you. I am just not shown on the whiteboard. We Artworks by Andy song is Number One on US going to be able to write an listened to the music, and Marvick inspired by and UK iTunes, as well as essay about the show for your discussed what the songs were Kate’s Before the pretty much breaking every wonderful publication. about. That was followed by the Dawn chart throughout the globe! same for Experiment IV, Houdini, My failure is in no way Army Dreamers, Breathing, and Andy Marvick, New In the 1980s I had the reflective of my attitude toward Babooshka. Not every day one York 1993with the privilege and honour of visiting the performance itself, for I gets the chance to share some LoveHounds roses the house where Kate Bush’s couldn’t have been more moving music. My only regret for Kate. parents lived, and once they amazed and satisfied by Kate’s is that we didn’t have more knew my friends and I were concert. Everything about it - time. Lower right: friendly, they would kindly right up to the final first - and Georgina and Del invite us in. second - act finales, and straight Today the students walked Palmer at Kate’s down to the tiniest details that in to the classroom as I was 2014 shows. In 1985 I went on my own, fell from the programme pages playing All the Love, The Dreaming and was allowed to leave a - was splendid beyond and Night of the Swallow, and birthday gift for Kate. Her description. And therein lies my during breaks I play other wonderful mother, Hannah, problem. selections as well. It gives me invited me in, and when I asked great pleasure to broaden the her how Kate was, she left the The truth is that I simply musical horizons of my room and brought her to meet don’t feel that I can do it justice. students, and something about me. Two kisses on the cheek So much hard work so Kate’s music really resonates. and a substantive chat later, I obviously went into the It’s how it makes you feel, and got to truly meet my teenage productions in order to fill it the mental images created. idol! with so many brilliant - and complex - images and ideas, As we gradually get our kids Her father was kind enough that even after reflecting on it I back up to speed and re- to take me back to the train feel unequal to the job of socialized after all the school station as it was raining. (My understanding it to the extent Covid restrictions, music is an oldest son’s version: They were that I feel I would need to, in invaluable tool. It was our salve escorting me off the premises!) order to add anything of value while we were in lockdown, our I was about to leave on a to its reception. comforting blanket when we mission a few months later for needed to feel that somebody the church I belong to, and she I can only say that with understood, and now our volunteered to sign this very “Dawn” Kate Bush exceeded expression of joy. All of that single that the world is listening even my expectations (which, as can be found listening to Kate’s to today - signing “good luck on you can imagine, were pretty music. Thank her for me. All the your mission” at the end. high!); she absolutely floored best, Nicholas Mew me. I have never been so I met her a week later emotionally affected by a piece So, so happy for Kate. I outside the Terry Wogan TV of theatre as I was by that introduced my daughter to her show where she had just evening’s performance, and it’s music years ago and she loved performed, and she very likely that I never will be seeing Kate on Before the Dawn remembered me by name and so again. opening night in 2014, when asked about my mission again. she was 15. So she is as thrilled This 7-inch single was given as Perhaps if she decides to as I am to see the younger a gift to me by Kate Bush release a Blu-Ray film of the generation loving her music herself, and it wasn’t even on show, I’ll be able to review the too! the shop shelves yet! All the best work carefully enough to have Darrell Babidge something useful to contribute. Hope you are well and Love in Kate, Andy Marvick thanks for all you tireless work with HomeGround amongst I’m a 53-year-old teacher in many other things. Georgina xx the public school in Barrie, Ontario, Canada. My students are mainly 12-year-olds. Many of them know and watch Stranger Things. As a result they were aware of the song Running Up That Hill, a song that blew me away back in ’85. Today in class I played the song after it came up in conversation, then I took the opportunity for an 132 HomeGround Summer 2022

Surreal. Friday night, June Answers to the Quiz on Personal Massages At KateBushNews 10th, Warszawa, we had all day & HomeGround we meetings at the university and page 113 Congrats to Peter on his 43 in the evening we went out on 1. East Wickham Farm 2.David years in the Civil Service, are almost stupified the town to celebrate a recognised with an invite to the by the current successful project. Gilmour 3.Brighton and Buckingham Palace party & Welling 4.Delia Smith 5.‘Sky cakes! What a day! Krys xxxx enthusiasm for We went to Koszykowa Kate's Running Up Street, a very popular district TV’ 6.‘Fruitopia’ 7.Bertie To my friends I have made full of restaurants, clubs, cafés, 8.CBE - Commander of the through Kate & HG. That Hill. Looking at a place where there are always Friendship is a tree; don’t the world charts it is an awful lot of people. We went British Empire 9.First UK measure how tall it is; look at in to the club, I don’t remember female artist to have a No.1 hit the roots and how deep they difficult to find the name, a nightclub, a have grown. Sharon anywhere where combination of live music, with a self-written song disco podium, restaurant, bar, (Wuthering Heights) and First UK Thanks to (all 3 of) The Strange the track has not garden; there were people of all Twins for letting me join in the appeared on the ages and categories, including female singer songwriter to HG fun for over 2 decades now us over 50. have a No.1 album (Never For - mighty times! Seán streaming, download, viewing, We found a live band Ever) 10.Wireless headset Space Boy, thanks for all the top playing Latin music, the club microphone banana or actual charts. It was fully packed, people has got to the point danced, ate, drank, there was a 11.James and the Cold Gun Congrats to Beck & David, superb atmosphere. 12.Emily (Brontë) 13. wishing you much happiness xx where some Twitter users are After the live band finished, Cloudbusting 14.Night of the Kate’s Running up that Hill Demon 15.Bing Crosby and complaining about started playing loud on all hearing Kate on the speakers! Shock. Kate at a Oscar Wilde 16.This Woman’s nightclub? Surreal. It’s surreal Work 17.Why Should I Love You? radio too often, or to hear that song after almost complaining about 40 years played at the club, 18.A Coral Room 19.Running Up turned up at the highest That Hill 20.King of the Mountain the number of volume. TikTok posts using 21.Lindsay Kemp 22.Comedy/ I always wanted that. I was Tragedy masks 23.The stem of the track. It's either 14 when Hounds of Love was in that or others the shops. I always wanted to the rose 24.Babooshka 25.Del hear it loudest, at the club, in complaining about the stadium. And I finally got it. Kate's tea-making! Dusan Misic The overwhelming Greetings. I’m a South response on the London guy (Kate Bush’s Bromley/Catford area) who’s internet, be it lived in the United States Instagram, Twitter (California) for 40 plus years. A Kate Bush fan since day or whatever is ZERO! heart-warmingly So my story from today … positive. We are in Missoula Montana waiting to cross the road and Palmer 26.Ulysses by James HomeGround this car comes down the road, booming Running Up That Hill Joyce 27.She can’t stop Since1982 run by Kate Bush fans independently with the windows down and the dancing 28.Rolf Harris driver rocking it out! Not that of any official organisation or record company. the driver was old enough to 29.Stephen Fry 30.The Ninth know the song from its first time Wave and A Sky Of Honey. HomeGround around! 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