(Re Tracey's several Kate questions)

[Mike Wade <mwade@oxfam.org.uk>]

Sorry - I've been away - you may have had answers to all of these
already.

Firstly - Welcome to Lovehounds!  Pleased you found it at last.

> 1) Is Del Palmer still Kate's S.O?
No. as I understand it they split up a few years ago.

2) Is there an address where I can write to HER
KBC (Kate Bush Club) is probably your best bet. Address is:  The
Official Kate Bush Fan Club
PO Box 120, Welling, Kent  DA163DS  England. If writing from the States,
best to enclose an SAE's. I assume you know the UK fan magazine
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>4) I recently bought the CD bootleg "Collaborations" ...
Yeah - these tracks are brilliant. There is a studio quality release of
"Do Bears" and (I think) Breathing, in the Amnesty album of the Concert.
No idea if this is still available, but I can get the details for you if
you want.

>5) When I first heard the song 'Under Ice" I really got chills...
Hmm - the idea of drugs in the Nintyh Wave is a new one on me. Not sure.
Though that's always been my understanding of "Kite". You can interpret
it in lots of ways, but the "big eyeball calling me" can only have a
drugs context for me. You can carry the imagry successfullly through the
whole song.

>6) Does anyone have any books on Kate for sale?...Visual Documentary... How
credible is this book?
Pretty poor IMHO.  All the independent books are well dogy, but of
course interesting 'cos they're on Kate. Some of the sheet music  &
books are worth looking at (Eg Kate Bush Complete") - there's often more
than just the music itself.

>Okay, okay, I'll stop now.  I have so much more I want to talk about ...
OK - now I'll probably wade through the rest of my emails and find
10,000 people have answered making the smae points as me. Ho-hum.

Happy w/ends everyone. And enjoy LoveHounds Tracey.

Mike
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