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From: IED0DXM@aol.com
Date: Tue, 16 Aug 94 23:37:32 EDT
Subject: Early Kate Bush video issues
To: Love-Hounds@uunet.uu.net
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> Chris already has (from me with the much > appreciated help of Tim Cook > Couriers) a recording of KaTe's Top Of The Pops > debut performance of WH, > so that's available for inclusion too. > -- Geoff Parks IED has been in a state of confusion about Kate's "debut" performance of WH ever since he first read about it in Peter FitzGerald-Morris's chronology in Kate Bush Complete. If IED recalls correctly, Peter described Kate's debut-performance costume as consisting of a RED top, black slacks and "stiletto heels". The performance (or at least the orchestral accompaniment) was less than stellar, and Kate was later quoted as saying of the experience: "It was "like watching myself die." Since then IED has come across "Kate's debut on TotP" on at least four different fans' video collections, and each time the clip in question did not show Kate in that costume. In at least two of those copies, the clip turned out to be the same performance as one which IED had formerly understood to be the "Scene '78" appearance (German TV). Can Peter F-M or anyone else please help IED to understand this mystery? Could Chris, Geoff or Tim at least describe this "debut" clip in detail? There is also the "second" (or even later) TotP clip, in which Kate is dressed in a white dressing gown. An excerpt of it was shown during the Ask Aspel appearance, but IED has yet to see the original, complete version of that clip, either. Anyone have this in its entirety? IED agrees with Lori Karn, who rightly praises Kate's "Rolling the Ball" performance, which in IED's opinion is nothing to be ashamed of at all. It shows a nineteen-year-old Kate Bush performing brilliantly in an unfamiliar environment, after only minimal rehearsal, with wonderfully entertaining results. She dances extremely well, and generally proves herself as a consummate professional who makes the best of whatever circumstances present her with. Apropos of these early Kate Bush video performances: In IED's opinion, a second Lovehounds Collection would ideally contain ALL of Kate's earliest television appearances, in chronological order. This would mean we'd need considerable help from collectors in the UK, who might have the clips that IED has never ever seen anywhere, including the Vor de Vuist Weg clip, the Late Show (not the U.S. show) clip, the Tonight (again not the U.S. show) clip, the Saturday Night at the Mill clip (not to be confused with the Pebble Mill at One, Saturday Superstore, or Friday Night and Saturday Morning clips!) , and others. Yes, it's seems like a pipe dream, but when you consider how well the first Lovehounds Collection turned out, and how much high-quality video source tapes it turned up, it doesn't seem too terribly unrealistic to think of somehow retrieving the least accessible Kate tapes of all. -- Andrew Marvick (IED) SRRRI