A message from Kate

[nessus (Doug Alan)]

This is the introduction by Kate which appears in the tour program for
her 1979 concert tour:

	Remembering the streets of a rush-hour London, with my carrier
	bags and dancing clothes under my arm -- Mad people, mad things
	and me, a hoping heart with no idea what was going to happen
	just around the corner.

	Then the adventure of the gigs in English pubs, scented of
	summer beer.  Wondering -- dancing -- sweating and waiting,
	waiting, waiting.

	My obsessions, my teachers, my aching bones, my comforts and
	frustrations.  So much laughing and crying but always music,
	music everywhere.

	And now, crashing out in traffic jams all over the world,
	longing for home but waking with that same strange feeling --
	whether from a plane, a bed or a dream "how come -- it's
	happening to me?" -- and it's only just begun. -- You're
	carrying me into a land of the stage, a place for swallows and
	trapped mice.

	Since the time I saw magic made by loving bodies that moved me
	beyond words -- I've craved for my own troupe of gypsies, my own
	show, the chance to take a trip with you.

	And now it's here -- the best and bad times rock 'n rolled into
	one.  The fear and sparkle in my stomach.

	Sure, it's for me -- but it's for you, too -- So take it -- take
	*me* away with you.......

		lots of love
			Kate
			   xxxx

-Doug