Re:Love-Hounds Compilation

[Steve ZPJ <zpj@huskbeat.demon.co.uk>]

> 
> Now that the new Love-Hounds video collection is starting to become available
> to people, IED thought some of you might want 
> to know a little about its contents. 
> 
>   1.  Top  of  the  Pops,  February  1978: "Wuthering Heights" (lip-synch  at
>  the  piano).
>   
> Now you know why IED was asking all those boring follow-up questions about
> the various "Wuthering Heights" performances from the old Top of the Pops
> programme on UK TV from 1978.  The first clip on the new tape is the TotP
> "piano version", which, as far as IED is aware, has not been available in the
> U.S. before.  
>        
>   2.  Fruitopia  ad  No.  1a: "Summer Solstice".
> 
> This tape's original raison-d'etre was the collection of all of Kate Bush's
> Fruitopia spots in one place, in order to make the music available to any
> Kate Bush fan who wanted it.  This is one of the first spots to be broadcast
> in the U.S. -- a longer, widescreen version of the same spot was the first
> seen in theaters (it is included toward the end of this tape). The tape
> gathers a total of ten different Kate Bush Fruitopia "scores":  "Summer
> Solstice", "Nice", "Fighting Fruit", "Soul", "Thirsty", "Skin", "Person",
> "Passion", "Where Were You?", and "Some People", as
> well as the Japanese "Summer Solstice" and the sixty-second version, called
> "What If?").  Of these, only "Some People" is 
> a "new" ad -- that is, not among the initial batch of Fruitopia spots.  It
> promotes the newer, lighter-tasting line of drinks, including the Iced Teas.
>  Although other "new" spots have aired for these new flavors, this is the
> only one that features new Kate Bush music -- all of the others just recycle
> older scores with new graphics.
> 
> Six of the ten Fruitopia spots in this collection come from a promotional
> tape that Karen Newcombe snagged for us.  The balance were taken off U.S. TV.
> 
>   3.  The  Seventh  Annual  Tokyo  Song  Festival, June  1978: "Moving" (live
> performance).
>   4.  Sound  in  'S' (Japan),  June  1978:  "She's Leaving Home",   "The
>  Long  and  Winding  Road", "Let It  Be",  "Rolling  the  Ball" [sic) (live
> performances).
>   5.  Fruitopia  ad No.  1b ("Summer Solstice",  Japan).
> 
> These Japanese clips are among the most entertaining of all
> Kate Bush artifacts.  We have Sozo Yamamoto to thank for the
> much improved picture quality of the present copies, as well
> as for the wonderful 15-second Japanese edition of the Fruitopia 
> "Summer Solstice" spot.
>   
>   6.  Parodies, 1978-1979.  
> 
> The first of these is an interview with Kate Bush in which she watches and
> comments on Faith Brown's  parody  of  the Rockflix "Wuthering Heights"
> video;  this is followed by Brown's parody of  "Wow" (to which is appended a
> relevant clip from "Musical Chairs", a BBC film about Keith MacMillan's
> videos),  Brown's "interview"  with "Kate Bush" and her performance of the
> old pop standard, "Three Little Fishes"; and finally, Pamela  Stephenson's
> "Oh, England, My Leotard", a parody from "Not the Nine O'Clock News", 1979.
>  
>    8.  Fantastico (Italy) :   "Cloudbusting",  1985. 
> 
> This lip-synch is the only Kate Bush performance of this song of
> "Cloudbusting" other than the original.
> 
> 10. Don't Give Up, 1986.
> 
> This is a montage of the two official Peter Gabriel videos, merging the live
> audio-track from the only performance Kate Bush has given of  "Don't Give Up"
> to date (London, 1987) with parts of the two official Peter Gabriel videos of
> the song.
> 
> 12. This Is Your Life (Nigel Kennedy), 1990.
> 
> This is a brief clip showing Kate Bush's guest spot on an episode of the
> long-running British version of this old TV show. In this episode the
> "victim" was Nigel Kennedy, and Kate appears very briefly.
> 
> 14. The Wogan Show: "Rocket Man", 1990 (lip-synch.).
> 
> 15. "Rocket Man" ad (UK TV).
> 
> 16. The Last Show on Earth (titles), 1992.  
> 
> This is just the title sequence of a U.S. documentary that was aired on
> Public Television in 1992, using a large part of Kate's "Hello Earth" as the
> soundtrack.
> 
> 18.  The  London  Film  Festival.
>   
> This is the first bit of unofficial, fan-generated video of Kate Bush that
> IED has ever encountered.  It shows Kate introducing  the premiere of "The
> Line,  The Cross,  and the Curve" at the British Film Festival, 1994.
> 
> 20.  MTV: "Rubberband  Girl", the alternate, or "MTV" version,  1994.
> 
> 22.  Top of the Pops: "And So Is Love", 1994 (lip-synch).
> 
> One of the best latter-years performances, in IED's opinion -- given that
> these are collectively characterized by a relative lack of commitment and
> choreographic prep-work by Kate Bush, this one at least is expressively
> static and spare.
>  
> 24.  Kate Bush, with Larry  Adler: "The  Man  I Love" (video for  "The Glory
>  of  Gershwin", 1994).
> 
> 26.  "RockPop" (Netherlands):  "Babooshka" and 
>         "Army Dreamers" ("Mrs Mop"), 1980 (lip-synchs.).
> 
> The "Mrs Mop" (Mopp?) performance is included here (out of chronological
> order) mainly because it's one of IED's favorites.
> We're fortunate to have this improved copy from Love-Hound Marcel Rijs.
>  
> 27.  The Seiko commercial (1978). Apart from the Fruitopia spots and the
> various TV ads for Kate Bush's own releases, this is the only advertisement
> she has done to date. It aired on Japanese TV, and as far as IED is aware,
> this crummy copy is the best one available so far.
> 
> 29.  "May I ask you what you're doing?":  a short film by John Light. 
> 
> This compilation was the result of a collaboration by IED (Andrew Marvick),
> John Light and Karen Newcombe, but we couldn't have done it without the help
> of a lot of other generous and talented folks, most of whom are credited at
> the end of the tape. 
> 
> We hope you enjoy it!!
> 
> -- Andrew Marvick (IED)
>    S         R        I
> 
> 
Is this tape available on PAL format?
--
Steve ZPJ (zpj@huskbeat.demon.co.uk)

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