The latest KBC newsletter (#11) brought the following info from Kate herself (brought to you by [WW]):
Dear All, I've been taking time off work this year and it's been really good for me. I've still kept busy but I've also had lots of time to rest and catch up things.
Many, many thanks for your continued support - I've had such positive feedback from you about the last album and the film. I feel so priviledged to have such nice people responding to my work. I've just done a song for Donal Lunny who's putting an album together of traditional Irish music. It was fun and very challenging.
The lyrics are in Gaelic so I will eagerly await comments from all Irish-speaking listeners in particular. I'm sure Ma gave me a helping hand!
Much love to you, a very Happy Christmas and warm wishes for '96.
Kate x
Lisa added:
There is no definite release date yet but it will hopefully be available in or some time after March 1996. The title is to be "Common Ground (Celtic Voices)" and it will be released by Premier Records which is part of EMI Records. We understand that it will be available worldwide.
At present the artists appearing on this will be:
- Maire Brennan - "O Bhean A'Ti" (accent on the 'O')
- Tim Neil Finn (of Crowded House)- "Mary of the South Seas"
- Bono & Adam Clayton - "Tomorrow"
- Sharon Shannon - "Cavan Potholes"
- Paul Brady - "Help Me to Believe"
- Sinead O'Connor - "On Raglan Road"
- Brian Kennedy - "As I Roved Out"
- Elvis Costello - "The Night Before Larry Was Stretched"
- Kate Bush - "Mna Na h-Eireann" (accent on the 'a' in Mna)
- David Spillane Donal Lunny - "Whistling Low/Errigal"
- Andy Irvine - "My Heart's Tonight in Ireland"
- Liam O Maonlai (from Hothouse Flowers)- "Cathain"
- Christy Moore - "Bogie's Bonnie Belle"
The album "Common Ground" is now out worldwide.
Kate has also designed some charity Christmas cards for the Brian Eno project "Warchild".
Early in November '94 the last set of singles for The Red Shoes appeared, again in the UK only: "And So Is Love." Two CD singles (regular and with 3 video-prints), a Cassingle and a 7" picture single in a poster bag (giant 40"x60" poster) have appeared.
See also Scott Telford's The Red Shoes Discography in Wieland Willker's Moments.
"Moments Of Pleasure" is the first Kate Bush single that is NOT available on 7" vinyl (but there is a poster bag 12"). Guess this again marks the end of an era. (In the UK only four different formats will count as a single release for chart counting, and in this case there were two CDs, the 12" and the cassingle.)
See also Scott Telford's The Red Shoes Discography in Wieland Willker's Moments.
The Line, The Cross, and The Curve finally appeared on video and should be available in good shops around the world.
The following is not intended to be a complete discography. Something that qualifies better for that title will be available separately soon. See also the section 4.6. (Chart success), all singles are listed there.
The Cathy Demos (24 early songs, ca. 1975-77???, a MUST for every fan)
More information, including lyrics, can be found in Wieland Willker's Phoenix
Twelve of these are demos of songs that later appeared on albums, They are available on various bootlegs. (Anybody have an early 80's album called THE EARLY YEARS?).
Tracks (compiled from various boots - none contains all. The names are not officially known, so there are some songs with more than one name. Some names are from a radio broadcast in Arizona [KLN], the matching was done by [AR]):
- The Kick Inside (Brother) [note subtitle]
- Hammer Horror
- It Hurts Me (A Rose Growing Old, Feeling Like A Waltz)
- Keep(ing) Me Waiting (Stranded at the Moonbase)
- Davy (While Davy Dozed)
- Disbelieving Angel
- Moving
- Kashka From Baghdad
- Surrender Into the Roses (Coming Up, Carmilla)
- Oh To Be In Love
- Rinfi the Gypsy (Playing Canasta (in cold rooms))
- On Fire Inside a Snowball (Snow, Hot in the Ice)
- Dali (Ferry Me Over)
- Where are the Lionhearts (Lionhearts, On the Rocks) [NOT Oh England My Lionheart]
- Violin
- The Craft Of Love
- The Gay Farewell (Queen Eddie)
- Something Like a Song (In My Garden)
- Frightened Eyes
- Never The Less (You'll Do)
- Come Closer To Me Babe (Goodnight Baby, Who Is Sylvia?)
- So Soft (You're Soft)
- Rare Flower (I Don't See Why I Shouldn't (Pick the Rare Flower)
- Organic Acid
The Studio Demos (7 songs, 1977?, often listed along with The Cathy Demos)
Most of the times these share the space on CDs, LPs, singles or tapes with The Cathy Demos, the biggest distinction is that the studio demos were done together with the KT Bush Band instead of Kate alone at her piano. (Babooshka differs in style and might have been recorded at Dave Gilmor's studio, some comments on various bootlegs about the second version suggest this)
Tracks (same comments about the names as above):
There have been rumors about a 'new' old Kate song called Turkish Delight. Unfortunately the song is not from Kate, but rather from the Japanese group Sandii and the Sunsetz [VM, WW, Homeground #32].
The Kick Inside (TKI, February 17, 1978):
The 'official' young Kate, full of passion, including her up to date only British number one megahit Wuthering Heights.
Tracks:
Lionheart (LH, November 13, 1978):
Quick follow-up to TKI, but still true Kate, i.e. great stuff. This album now is available in a special $80 "Lioness At Heart" edition, which includes a T-shirt, an album sized photo book, a poster and a postcard. It's out of print now, and you might have to search a bit. Caveat Emptor: This boxed set, while not really a bootleg in the traditional sense, in not in any way authorized by Kate or EMI.
Tracks:
Never For Ever (NfE, September 8, 1980):
Shows the beginning of Kate's career as a producer and a general change of style away from the girlish high pitched voice from the first two albums.
This album is also available in a special edition similar to the "A Lioness At Heart" box. Also out of print it additionally includes a numbered certificate. Again, this is not an official re-packaging.
Tracks:
The Dreaming (td, September 13, 1982):
Many say this is Kate's best work to date, though it was not as successful commercially. Difficult to get into, but if you finally reach it, then: play it...LOUDER!
The Single File (TSF, January 23, 1984):
Box of all UK 7" vinyl singles up to 1984, very collectible. It contains a booklet and the following singles:
- Wuthering Heights/Kite
- The Man With The Child In His Eyes/Moving
- Hammer Horror/Coffee Homeground
- Wow/Fullhouse
- On Stage (Them Heavy People/Don't Push Your Foot On The Heartbrake/ James And The Cold Gun/L'Amour Looks Something Like You, all live)
- Breathing/The Empty Bullring
- Babooshka/Ran Tan Waltz
- Army Dreamers/Delius/Passing Through Air
- December Will Be Magic Again/Warm And Soothing
- Sat In Your Lap/Lord Of The Reedy River
- The Dreaming/Dreamtime
- There Goes A Tenner/Ne T'Enfuis Pas
- Ne T'Enfuis Pas/Un Baiser D'Enfant
Hounds of Love (HoL, September 16, 1985):
Two sided album, even on CD. One side light, one side dark. The dark side once was supposed to be filmed, but the movie got lost in all the promotion that came around HoL and TWS. Side two, also called The Ninth Wave, is about a woman drowning alone at night in the sea. All her dreams, emotions, thoughts, memories pass by in the songs. Is she rescued? Kate says so, your mileage may vary.
Tracks:
The Whole Story (TWS, November 10, 1986)
A compilation of Kate's biggest hits to date, also available on video.
Tracks:
- Wuthering Heights (new vocal)
- Cloudbusting
- The Man With The Child In His Eyes
- Breathing
- Wow
- Hounds Of Love
- Running Up That Hill
- Army Dreamers
- Sat In Your Lap
- Experiment IV
- The Dreaming
- Babooshka
Additional on video: The Big Sky
Additional on new edition of (PAL) LaserDisc:
The Sensual World
This Woman's Work
Love And Anger
The Sensual World (TSW, October 17, 1989):
According to Kate this is her "most feminine" album. Any idea as what this means? Many complain about noisy engineering, which seems to vary at least a bit with the country of origin of the CD. Some love it, some don't quite love it, especially "Reaching Out". Tracks:
This Woman's Work Boxed Set (TWW, 1990).
Not released in the USA, only in UK, Japan, Canada and France. Awfully pricey, and no lyrics or credits on the extra disks except for the Japanese version.
The box includes all 6 regular albums (no TWS of course) as well as two special extra discs that normally aren't available separately. These two discs contain almost all B-sides, dance-mixes and other incidentals. Some are unfortunately missing, major ones are:
- Dreamtime (The Dreaming instrumental/remix)
- Running Up That Hill (instrumental)
- Breathing and Do Bears... (live, from "The Utterly Utterly Live Comic Relief)"
- The Sensual World (instrumental)
- Be Kind to My Mistakes (original soundtrack album version, much longer than and very different from the single remix, most like it better)
- The Confrontation (instrumental from the Comic Strip film GLC).
It doesn't contain any previously unreleased material or session work with other artists. Great music though, yeah! And the first time most of these songs are available on CD.
The French version is a re-shrink-wrapped UK version. The Canadian version, lately easily available and relatively cheap, does contain the Canadian CDs which do have thinner booklets for some of the regular albums that do not always contain the lyrics. The Japanese version has:
- none of the 4-12 stickers with the new KTfem symbol. Any idea of what to do with them?
- more and bigger booklets in Japanese, including lyrics in English and Japanese, especially also for the two special CDs. The Japanese text basically is a hybrid of the biography entries from "Kate Bush Complete" and "A Visual Documentary" [TC2]. The text parts of the English booklets are contained completely in the Japanese booklets (in English language even).
- the Japanese cover art for TKI and NfE, as well as
- Japanese CDs which have the usual benefit of somehow "sounding better". This IS true (come here and I'll show you), but mainly comes from better pressing, not from different data. Better pressing means less drop outs and less need of error correction. If you've got a good player this doesn't matter at all.
The LP and Cassette version of this box have 9 LPs/CCs, but the same track listing.
Tracks: (CD1:)
- The Empty Bullring
- Ran Tan Waltz
- Passing Through Air
- December Will Be Magic Again
- Warm And Soothing
- Lord Of The Reedy River
- Ne T'En Fui Pas
- Un Baiser D'Enfant
- Under The Ivy
- Burning Bridge
- My Lagan Love
- The Handsome Cabin Boy
- Not This Time
- Walk Straight Down The Middle
- Be Kind To My Mistakes
Tracks: (CD2:)
- I'm Still Waiting
- Ken
- One Last Look Around The House Before We Go...
- Wuthering Heights (New Vocal)
- Experiment IV
- Them Heavy People (live)
- Don't Push Your Foot On The Heartbrake (live)
- James And The Cold Gun (live)
- L'Amour Looks Something Like You (live)
- Running Up That Hill (Maxi)
- Cloudbusting (The Organon Mix)
- Hounds Of Love (Alternative)
- The Big Sky (Meteorological Mix)
- Experiment IV (12" Mix)
The Red Shoes (TRS, November 1, 1993):
Her "most accessible" album. At first it sounds untypical for Kate, but this has been valid for every new album so far. There are several special editions of this album, one official from UK, one official from the USA, and several unofficial repackagings.
Tracks:
Live At The Hammersmith Odeon (1981/1994):
CD of the official video tape (see next section).
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