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From: Douglas Weiman <WEIMAN@SRI-NIC.ARPA>
Date: Fri, 2 Sep 88 19:07:17 PDT
Subject: The final word on Gaffa
Posted-Date: Fri, 2 Sep 88 19:07:17 PDT
Okay, here we go. In the official magazine of The Kate Bush Club in 1984 (they don't have issue numbers), Kate, herself, described "gaffa." The issue is from 1984, and there's a picture of Kate on the cover in a grey turtle-neck sweater, and on the back she's in a suit (Annie Hall style). Anyway, on page 12 of this issue, in the Kate Interview section, is as follows: WHAT IS GAFFA? WHAT DOES "SUSPENDED IN GAFFA" MEAN? "Gaffa" is Gaffa Tape. It is thick industrial tape mainly used for taping down and tidying up the millions of leads and particularly useful in concert situations. "Suspended In Gaffa" is trying to simulate being trapped in a kind of web, everything is in slow-motion and the person feels like they're tied up, they can't move. Okay? Right from Kate's very own mouth. Enough said. [ Independently, I recently found this quote too. I found it a bit more indirectly, however. In issue four of *Break-Through* I found a photograph of a Kate Bush fan who had suspended herself in duct tape to illustrate the song. Next to the picture was a pointer to the Kate-interviews-herself section in the KBC newletter. -- |>oug ] I am not bringing this forth to take any sides in this debate, but I hope we can now talk about something else. I mean, the woman's put out six albums and many B-sides, and Love-Hounds is discussing a friggin' single word. I can't wait until we discuss the meaning behind the word "the" in the title of Man with the Child... But seriously, I generally agree with IED's opinion's over |>oug's, but the facts are there in black and white. Sorry, IED about *this* one, but you are absolutely correct about the last verse of There Goes A Tenner. So sleep well. I hope to see something else discussed now, like the images of "Sat In Your Lap", the point of view of "Symphony in Blue", or a comparison between Joyce's "The Dead", and "My Lagan Love". I'd also like to see Ne T'en Fuis Pas get credit as the best thing that Kate (or anybody else, for that matter) has ever put on vinyl. Let's get on with it! Douglas Weiman WEIMAN@SRI-NIC.ARPA