Back to Moments 1.0.
Date: Wed, 9 Jun 93 12:55:33 PDT
From: steve.b@TQS.COM (Steve Berlin)
Subject: Stev0's balls (of crystal)
Hi -
Gazing into my crystal ball, here is what I see in the not-so-near future.
Sept 15, 93 - Announced release date for Kate's new album, "Smell the Glove".
Sept 16, 93 - Kate announces that she needs to "polish up" the album a bit more.
Dec 1, 93 - Album is finished, now titled "My Life as a Kickboxer"
Dec 2. 93 - Columbia announces it won't release Kate's new album yet so it "Won't get lost in the Christmas Rush".
Jan 14, 94 - The first single from the new album (Now called "Electric Youth") is released, "Skankin' with the Devil", a trio with Kate, Pato Banton, and Ozzy Osbourne.
Feb 1, 94 - The Album is finally released, called "Thank you Very Much". When asked, Kate says "Thank you very much for asking. I named it after a representative from Columbia asked me what I wanted to call it. He just wrote down the first thing I said. It was very nice of you to ask. Thank you."
Feb 2, 94 - Jon Drukman posts to rec.music.gaffa saying "The new album sucks. It needs more drum machines." Flamewar ensues which lasts until the year 1997.
Feb 7, 94 - Album reaches No. 1 on NME and Melody Maker charts
Feb 9, 94 - A tour is announced. Gaffans have mass orgasm.
Feb 10, 94 - Rumor of tour found to be false.
Feb 14, 94 - Second single is released, a poetry piece by John C. Bush, "Ode to a Small Lump of Putty I found in my Armpit One Midsummer's Morn".
Feb 19, 94 - Happy Rhodes scores a number one single on Billboard with a remake of "In the Year 2525".
Feb 21, 94 - A tour is announced. Gaffans have mass orgasm.
Feb 22, 94 - Rumor of tour found to be false. (this happens again on Mar 12, April 3, April 5, and May 17th).
Feb 27, 94 - "Thank You Very Much" peaks at 97 on the Billboard album chart.
Jun 30, 94 - Overzelous KateFans get carried away at Kate Konvention in Hawaii when they sacrifice Jorn in a volcano.
- Stev0 the Psychic
"Thank you very very VERY very much!" - Kate's response to Grammy nomination for her album to be released next year.
Date: Thu, 10 Jun 93 16:07:55 EDT
From: Andrew B Marvick <abm4@cunixa.cc.columbia.EDU>
Subject: Re: Aspel
... Suspended ...
-- Andrew Marvick (IED)
P.S.: Could this be the moment to begin planning charter airplanes, etc.-- for real, this time???
From: P D Fitzgerald-Morris <s0pdfm@exnet.co.uk>
Date: Mon, 14
Jun 1993 08:32:50 GMT
Subject: ALBUM NEWSFLASH!
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A KBC flyer recieved today has the following news:
The album is to be called:
Featured artists will include Eric Clapton, Jeff Beck, Prince. and the Trio Bulgarka.
Kate is at present working on a film to accompany release of the album. This may include six or so tracks!
Date: Mon, 14 Jun 93 17:36:19 BST
From: Scott Telford <st@epcc.edinburgh.ac.uk>
Subject: Re: ALBUM NEWSFLASH!
> THE RED SHOES
Wasn't there a film called that?
> Featured artists will include Eric Clapton, Jeff Beck, Prince. and the Trio Bulgarka.
WOW! Slow-hand *and* Jeff Beck on a KaTe album!! And the Prince Rumours were true? Is this all for real!!??
> Kate is at present working on a film to accompany release of the album. This may include six or so tracks!
Yes! Sounds like She's managed to do a Ninth Wave-style film/video after all. Could this be KaTe's "Pink Floyd: The Wall"? 8-)
Date: Mon, 14 Jun 93 15:16:53 EDT
From: Andrew B Marvick <abm4@cunixa.cc.columbia.EDU>
Subject: Mailbag
Andrea inquires of IED his reason for raising the subject of charter air flights, suggesting that he might have special knowledge of a tour. The answer is no, Andrea. IED read Peter's amazing HGFLASH, and assumed (rightly, as we have since learned) that Kate would not appear on British television to present a track from a forthcoming album if there were not a real plan to release that album; and that Kate might be planning to tour, too, as she had said she might, back in 1990. IED did not mean that a flight was planned in order to attend the Aspel show appearance (though it would probably be worth it). Special knowledge of a tour? No. Faith that something good is going to happen? Yes!
No, the list of guest musicians does not seem like "too many stars"! This is Kate Bush we're talking about here. Even on a clear night in Yosemite, when the stars seem to fill more space than seems possible, you can always spot the North Star -- the added company makes it seem even brighter, if anything. And when you wish upon a star, your dreams come true...
IED thanks HOMEGROUND for their considerate timely postings of late, which he can confidently say have brightened the world of a great many people, not just the world of this grateful fan. Thanks, Peter.
Take care, everyone. IED will unfortunately soon be heading back into computer oblivion, there to remain until sometime after Katemas 1993. He will continue to be reachable here until June 18, and by phone, as of July 1, at 415/555-0683[vm]. And he will find ways to keep abreast of philo-canine KonversaTions in the meanwhile.
-- Andrew Marvick (IED), heading to the video store to rent that magical old classic movie, The Red Shoes...
Date: Mon, 14 Jun 93 17:13:08 EDT
From: cjsm@hogpa.att.com
Subject: Re: ALBUM NEWSFLASH!
"The Red Shoes" is a well-known SAD story about a ballet dancer. Can't remember the details of the story since its been years since I read it except that it's very very sad. Like someone dies. Knowing Kate's love for literature, maybe this story is a basis for a song and the album title?
-- C. Mount
Date: Mon, 14 Jun 93 19:49 CDT
From: chrisw@fciad2.bsd.uchicago.edu
(chris williams)
Subject: Re: ALBUM NEWSFLASH!
>"The Red Shoes"
If it's the same story I'm thinking of, the magic ballet slippers make the dancer dance until she dies. It's the sort of thing one reads to little girls who want to become ballet dancers; if they have the sort of temperment to become ballet dancers they will think that it's the most tragic and wonderful story they have ever heard and will devote their lives to ballet. If they are sane they will be repulsed and forget all about ballet and go back to playing with their "My Little Pony."
>Knowing Kate's love for literature, maybe this story is a basis for a song and the album title?
Kate's really not a great reader. Her knowledge of the story is probably based on a specific movie. Most of her fiction-based songs are based on films she has seen, rather than the books.
Wuthering Heights was based on a TV movie, The Sensual World was based on a reading of Molly's speech by Siobhan MacKenna, Houdini was based on the movie with Tony Curtis (fictionalized ending), The Infant Kiss was based on the film The Innocents,
The only songs known to be based on books rather than movies are Get Out Of My House was inspired by The Shining, Cloudbusting by A Book Of Dreams.
Kate has other songs inspired by TV and Movies, Pull Out The Pin, Hammer Horror. She has said that she really doesn't read much fiction, and prefers non-fiction.
From: agough@sedona.intel.com (Andy Gough)
Date: 15 Jun 1993 01:20:30
GMT
Subject: Technicolor
C. Mount writes:
> "The Red Shoes" is a well-known SAD story about a ballet dancer. Can't remember the details of the story since its been years since I read it except that its very very sad. Like someone dies. Knowing Kate's love for literature, maybe this story is a basis for a song and the album title?
I know The Red Shoes from a different angle.
One night on Entertainment Tonight, Leonard Maltin had a story on films that made great use of the old (as opposed to the current) Technicolor process. "The Red Shoes," he reported, is considered the film that used the Technicolor process to greatest effect. I believe he said it was also available on videocassette or videodisk (or both).
BTW, the old Technicolor process created three negatives--red, green, and blue. [I believe these were created by shooting black & white film through red, green, and blue filters in the camera] These three negatives were then used to produce the single distribution copy. This process results in a very wide color range--rendering accurately subtle pastels to bright, fully saturated primaries [much like Kodachrome slide film]. The first Technicolor film was Gone With The Wind. In The Wizard of Oz, Dorothy's shoes were changed from silver (in the original script) to "ruby" because the producer [I think] said, "If I'm paying for Technicolor, we're going to use it!"
Regards, Andy
From: jorn@chinet.chinet.com (Jorn Barger)
Date: Tue, 15 Jun 1993
12:22:00 GMT
Subject: H.C. Andersen
I started to transcribe the Hans Christan Andersen version of "The Red Shoes" but it's so moralistic I'm having second thoughts. A pretty girl wears red shoes to church, because they're beautiful, and is punished by being unable to stop dancing until her feet are cut off. She repents, the churchgoers 'forgive' her, and she dies and goes to heaven. Happy ending! (ha!)
Compare this to "Why should I whisper in church, because they say it's sacred ground? My sacrilege will do you good!"
How does the movieplot compare? My Guide says it's a trite story of a dancer who's forced to sacrifice romance for art. Hardly seems connected.
If it's the HCA story, I hope she gives it a twist...
To me the news of Kate's TRS film is the most hopeful omen of sustained new inspiration. But when O when will it play in the USA????
From: eric.walker@channel1.com (Eric Walker)
Date: Tue, 15 Jun 93
05:32:00 -0500
Subject: Re: Technicolor
>BTW, the old Technicolor process created three negatives--red, green, and blue. [I believe these were created by shooting black & white film through red, green, and blue filters in the camera]
Actually, the three colors used in the three-color process were red, blue and YELLOW - the three basic colors. The other colors came from combinations of the three basics, i.e. blue + yellow = green. (Those art classes in second grade finally came in handy!)
>The first Technicolor film was Gone With The Wind.
Watch Errol Flynn in THE ADVENTURES OF ROBIN HOOD (made a year before GWTW) and say that. :) The first film in "true" Technicolor was actually a cartoon, Walt Disney's FLOWERS AND TREES. The first film to be credited as a feature-length live-action motion picture in Technicolor is a 1935 movie called BECKY SHARP.
OBKate: This talk about the new album certainly displays the truth of that humourous statement of last week: "Kate Fans Have Mass Orgasm." :)
And before we dismiss Jeff Beck, listen to his work on Roger Waters' superb album "Amused To Death." Since Waters and Gilmour apparently can't be in the same room together, Waters turned to Beck for that Floydish sound. He does a terrific job on that guitar.
Date: Tue, 15 Jun 93 13:09:15 -0400
From: henrik@husc.harvard.edu
Subject: Re: Technicolor + Red Shoes
> someone sez technicolor negatives were red, YELLOW, and blue
No, I believe the original poster is correct, and the third color is in fact green.
The primary colors of *pigment* are red, yellow, and blue, but the primary colors of *light* are red, green and blue.
"The Red Shoes" is almost certainly referring to the fairy tale, and not the wizard of oz. If it were the latter, it would be "The Ruby Slippers".
There are a lot of different versions of the red shoes story. as i recall all of them involve vanity in one sort or another, or pride, and the punishment is generally to be danced to death by the shoes.
pretty grim, but very bushy stuff when you think about it.
I think the new albums going to be *smashing*.
larry...
A more complete Red Shoes FAQ can be found further on
From: jorn@chinet.com (Jorn Barger)
Date: Wed, 23 Jun 1993 16:12:01
-0500 (CDT)
Subject: The Red Shoes FAQ
[Attention! This is Pre-History! There are several errors due to misinterpretation or lack of information! --WIE]
(additions and corrections requested)
Title of forthcoming Kate Bush album
"The Red Shoes" (TRS or tRS)
Release date: September 13 (?), 1993 (simultaneous UK and US?)
Featuring: Eric Clapton, Jeff Beck, Prince (aka O{+> ), Lenny Henry and the Trio Bulgarka.
An extended video/film that Kate is making now should include some 6 or 7 of the songs.
===== "Moments of Pleasure" (MoP) =============
First listen: "Moments of Pleasure" performed on "Aspel & Co" 20th June 1993. Duration 5:16, lip-sync'ed
Lyrics (transcribed by Mike Quinn, with amendations):
[for complete text, see lyrics section. --WIE]
...
The case [outjoys] the wine [of judgement? endures?]
...
And I can hear my mother saying [Hannah Bush died Feb 14 1992]
...
Hey there mother [morning?]
...
'S Murph playing his guitar refrain
[Alan Murphy, Kate's longtime guitarist, who died several years ago]
...
Hey there Michael [Michael Powell? see below, interview]
Hey there Bill [Bill Duffield, who died at the beginning of Kate's only
tour]
D'you turn the lights up?
Comparisons: This Woman's Work, Reaching Out, The Fog, Under the Ivy, Warm and Soothing, Tori Amos (Winter, Mother?)
Homeground sez: This will *not* be the first single.
==== Aspel interview quotes ================
Transcribed by Flump (D.M.Woodhead)
Q: What do you do, sit at a keyboard, or what?
KB: Yeah, a keyboard. And we tend to put stuff straight onto tape so I'm actually working onto tape and then I'll play the tape back, and, you know, work to the stuff that's on there, so...
Q: What about lyrics? Yours are very passionate and provocative, do you get inspiration anywhere?
KB: I think it is illusive stuff, but I think really the biggest inspiration is people, people are just so inspiring, they're fascinating and wonderful and, I think that nearly every idea that a person has had, has probably at some point come from another person.
[Question about the title "Red Shoes"]
KB: Well, it is very much connected with the film. I was lucky enough to meet Michael Powell, the director of The Red Shoes before he died and he was such a sweet man, he was really sweet, I thought one of Britain's best directors and he had a very strong effect on me, he was a very sweet man and he seems to have popped up in two or three of the songs that are on the album.
=== "Red Shoes" artistic sources =============
"The Red Shoes" was a 1947 Technicolor classic by Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger. The title refers to the title of a ballet within-the-film, based on a Hans Christian Andersen fairytale about a girl punished for her vanity (in wearing red shoes to church) by being unable to stop dancing until she cuts her feet off, and dies. In the film, this was made a metaphor for sacrificing one's life to art.
Martin Scorsese counts it one of his favorite films, for one example. The ballet is beautifully danced and daringly filmed (ambitious-for-the-time special effects). Definitely recommended for serious Katewonks!
==== Kate and Prince controversy =============
Andrea: "I think it would be the ultimate mark of a good producer to be able to add one's talent without adding one's personal style to someone else's work. ...Prince's footprint on Kate's album will only be exactly where she wanted it."
From Stev0 "the scared" Berlin:
What will happen when Kate collaborates with Eric Clapton and The Little Guy in Purple? Maaaybe something bad, Maaaybe something good...
BEST CASE SCENARIO:
WORST CASE SCENARIO:
===== more Aspel quotes ===============
"I think it was a bit rough for me being so exposed publicly, I found that a bit rough. And then I suppose I wanted to just retreat and work."
"I think I prob'ly am truly mad."
From: P D Fitzgerald-Morris <s0pdfm@exnet.co.uk>
Date: Wed, 7
Jul 1993 21:27:06 GMT
Subject: Homeground UK single NEWSFLASH
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In the UK the first single from Kate's new album will be released on 16th August. The title is:
"Eat the Music"
It is said to be a Brazilian/latin type workout regarding music and food (stating the bleedin' obvious!). An extended version entitled:
"The Madagascan Mix"
will be available on the 12" picture disc and the CD single.
The B-side will be a track called:
"Big Stripy Lie"
a non-album track.
The first US single may be a track entitled:
"Rubber Band Girl"
another somewhat upbeat offering. We haven't heard that Columbia have finally made up their mind, though they may have by the time you read this!
From: P D Fitzgerald-Morris <s0pdfm@exnet.co.uk>
Date: Sat, 10
Jul 1993 10:22:29 GMT
Subject: Homeground Ammendment Flash!
Hello Chaps,
Just a quick ammendment to the last flash:
"Big Stripy Lie", the B-side of the first single "Eat the Music" is in fact a track from the album;
It looks like the first US single will in fact be "Eat the Music" same as in the UK.
Date: Mon, 19 Jul 93 4:05:39 EDT
From: WretchAwry <vickie@pilot.njin.net>
Subject: What a difference Kate makes...
Another thing that can put me into mode 3: New Kate! I can't tell the source, but we've actually heard 3 more new Kate songs! Tonight we heard:
"Eat The Music"
(It is indeed salsa-ish, and I like it a lot. It will be great as a single and I think the video will be lots of fun.)
"Rubberband Girl"
(This is the song that Prince is on, we're pretty sure. Think "Ken" or "I'm Still Waiting" and know that this belongs on the same shelf. It's very understandable why Sony wanted this song as the 1st single. I bet it will be the 2nd. Kate fans with heart conditions had better get their nitroglycerine perscriptions re-filled.)
"And So Is Love"
(Beautiful!! Classic Kate ballad, except that it's bluesy and ballsy. Eric Clapton's guitar is on this one. Patented Eric Clapton.)
Apparently, these 4 songs (the 4th is "Moments of Pleasure") were very carefully chosen to be presented to Sony here in America. They're definitely "commercial"-sounding, as commercial as Kate can sound. Which is fine with me, Kate needs a hit. Well, she doesn't "need" a hit, but it would be nice. Why not? Hits or not, I like them (and will almost certainly come to love the ones I don't already) and I'm very much looking forward to the rest of the album.
I know that lots of gaffains will *hate* these songs, but I'm willing to be suprised :-/ :-)
Vickie (one of Yowsa & Merry)
From: jorn@chinet.com (Jorn Barger)
Date: Tue, 20 Jul 1993 22:27:28
-0500 (CDT)
Subject: The Red Shoes FAQ #2 (w/much new info)
[Attention! This is Pre-History! There are several errors due to misinterpretation or lack of information! --WIE]
Title of forthcoming Kate Bush album:
"The Red Shoes" (TRS or tRS)
Release date: Tues. Sept. 14, 1993 (simultaneous UK and US?)
Featuring: Dave Gilmour, Eric Clapton, Jeff Beck, Prince (aka O{+> ) [these four guitarists get one track each-- Clapton's other three rumored performances were apparently replaced], Lenny Henry, and the Trio Bulgarka.
A forty-minute [?] video/film that Kate is making now, called "The Red Shoes", should include 6 or 7 of the songs.
== Complete track list ===================
All songs are reportedly credited to Kate alone, though various magazines have reported Prince wrote one track, and RBG certainly *sounds* like he could have written it.
== The first single ==============
The first single should be out August 16: "Eat the Music" backed with a non-album cut, "Big Stripy Lie".
An extended version of EtM entitled "The Madagascan Mix" will be available on the 12" picture disc and the CD single.
A plan to have the first US single be "Rubber Band Girl" was abandoned.
Andrea's theory of the (puzzling) title "BSL": Stripes are usually used to draw attention to something. Think of cross-walks. If we apply this theory to a lie, then we can (perhaps) safely assume that the lie referred to here is "obvious".
== Lyrics ======================
1. Rubber Band Girl
(Featuring Prince on guitar and bv's)
[see Lyrics Section --WIE]
2. And So Is Love
[VERY low key song, Clapton on blues-guitar, and the same mournful pipe-organ voice as Rocketman?]
[see Lyrics Section --WIE]
3. Eat the Music
[jungle sounds, then fast jangly strummed guitar, and *loud* bass, eventually trumpets and Caribbean bv's]
[see Lyrics Section --WIE]
4. Moments of Pleasure
[Duration 5:16, piano and beautiful strings.
This may after all be the version used on TRS.]
[full text see Lyrics Section --WIE]
The case of George the Wide [of Judge the Wipe?]
On a balcony in New York
It's just started to snow [Dec '78 SNL
appearance?]
He meets us at the lift [Michael Powell???]
And I can
hear my mother sayin' [Hannah Bush died Feb 14 1992]
"Every old
sock meets an old shoe"
Hey there Maureen [mother? morning?]
Hey there bubba [brother?]
Dancing down the aisle of a plane
Smurph
playing his guitar refrain [Alan Murphy, Kate's longtime guitarist, who died
several years ago]
Hey there Teddy
Spinning in a chair at Abbey
Road
Hey there Michael [Michael Powell died in 1990]
Do you
really love me?
Hey there Bill [Bill Duffield, lighting man, who died
at the beginning of Kate's only tour]
D'you turn the lights up?
First listen: "Moments of Pleasure" performed on "Aspel & Co" 20th June 1993 (live show, lipsynched performance).
==== Aspel interview quotes ============
Q: What do you do, sit at a keyboard, or what?
KB: Yeah, a keyboard. And we tend to put stuff straight onto tape so I'm actually working onto tape and then I'll play the tape back, and, you know, work to the stuff that's on there, so...
[Question about the title "Red Shoes"]
KB: Well, it is very much connected with the film. I was lucky enough to meet Michael Powell, the director of The Red Shoes before he died and he was such a sweet man, he was really sweet, I thought one of Britain's best directors and he had a very strong effect on me, he was a very sweet man and he seems to have popped up in two or three of the songs that are on the album.
KB: "I think I prob'ly am truly mad."
=== "Red Shoes" artistic sources ============
"The Red Shoes" was a 1947 Technicolor classic by Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger. The title refers to the title of a ballet within-the-film, based on a Hans Christian Andersen fairytale about a girl punished for her vanity (in wearing red shoes to church) by being unable to stop dancing until she cuts her feet off, and dies. In the film, this was made a metaphor for choosing between devotion to art, and devotion to love.
Martin Scorsese counts it one of his favorite films, for one example. Definitely recommended for serious Katewonks!
Other Michael Powell flicks: Black Narcissus, The 49th Parallel, Ill Met by Moonlight, The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (1943), One of Our Aircraft is Missing, Peeping Tom (1960 shocker, also with Moira Shearer), The Spy in Black, The Thief of Bagdad (1940 version)
== 1994: the year of red shoes? ===============
Apparently Disney is also doing a Red Shoes movie, and there's a Broadway musical planned by that name to open in January.
== Tour speculations ==================
Among the reasons to assume NO tour:
1) We get a movie instead
2) On Aspel, she was asked about touring, and said nothing hopeful, just: "I think it was a bit rough for me being so exposed publicly, I found that a bit rough. And then I suppose I wanted to just retreat and work."
3) She *lipsynched* the Aspel show.
4) She reportedly turned down an offer to do MTV Unplugged.
From: P D Fitzgerald-Morris <s0pdfm@exnet.co.uk>
Date: Thu, 22
Jul 1993 17:49:37 GMT
Subject: Homeground Newsflash
"The Red Shoes" has been put back. The new release date is 3rd October but this is subject to confirmation.
The single "Eat the Music" has accordingly been put back to 6th September, again subject to confirmation.
The reason is certain legal and contractual matters.
From: P D Fitzgerald-Morris <s0pdfm@exnet.co.uk>
Date: Tue, 27
Jul 1993 21:36:59 GMT
Subject: Homeground Newsflash (Another!)
The first single will not be "Eat the Music". Kate has changed her mind. The first single will in fact be "Rubberband Girl"!
Dates still as last posted, but watch this space.
From: Scott Telford <s.telford@ed.ac.uk>
Date: Tue, 3 Aug 1993
11:14:26 GMT
Subject: New photo of KaTe! ('Q', Sept. '93)
The new edition of "Q" magazine has a news item about the new single (out of date info: "Eat the Music" on Aug 16) with an accompanying colour photo. It looks to me like it's one from an album cover shoot: full-length shot of KaTe in a black ballerina-style dress and red ballet shoes, with her hair up, against a grey fabric background. Oddly, what appears to be two extra arms (dark and muscular) are visible behind KaTe, like a male dancer about to lift her by the waist, but ther rest of the dancer doesn't seem to be visible...(must be a pretty small guy 8-)
Date: Wed, 4 Aug 93 13:47:08 BST
From: nbc@inf.rl.ac.uk
Subject:
Re: New photo of KaTe!
Seems like this could be a still from the promo film Kate has been shooting. You can see part of the other dancers head (the ear) as well as the bottom of his legs - I know Scott you could not take your eyes off Kate! Also, maybe he is bending his knees ready to lift Kate - either that or they got Ronnie Corbett to dance!
I don't think the album cover will feature a full length shot of Kate. My choice is for a chocker close up of a pair of red shoes or is that too corny.
From: P D Fitzgerald-Morris <s0pdfm@exnet.co.uk>
Date: Thu, 5
Aug 1993 17:32:05 GMT
Subject: Homeground Newsflash (Yet Another!)
As before mentioned the UK single will be "Rubberband Girl".
However, it appears that the US single will be "Eat the Music".
Kate therefore has got to get two segments of the film finished forthwith for use as promo vids.
Thanks to all those who responded to our request for help with the official US release date for the album. It will be October 5th.
From: gittings@liv.ac.uk (Chris Gittings)
Date: Mon, 16 Aug 1993
13:40:13 GMT
Subject: RBB Girl
Near the end of last night's "Annie Nightingale Request Show" on BBC Radio 1 - the (only?) superb show on 1FM, Annie announced:
Now, a record arrived at Radio 1 this week, and I thought: Wow, this is exciting. A CD, and it had Kate Bush "Rubberband Girl" and I thought: Um, that's exciting - new Kate Bush record. I put it on; this is what happened...
Female voice reading:
"She those trees bend in the wind.
I feel they've got a lot
more sense than me.
You see, I try to resist.
A rubberband bouncing
back to life.
A rubberband bend the beat.
If I could learn to give
like a rubberband,
I'd be back on my feet.
The music comes later."
"Annie N" again: And that was it, the voice of Kate Bush, and it's obviously a collector's item and no, you can't have it. [It didn't sound much like our KT, unless she's been taking elocution lessons.]
Chris.
From: P D Fitzgerald-Morris <s0pdfm@exnet.co.uk>
Date: Tue, 17
Aug 1993 21:51:21 GMT
Subject: Homeground News 17th August 1993
Airplay of "Rubber Band Girl" has begun on UK radio. Kate appeared on the BBC Radio 1 breakfast show on Monday for a 30 min chat and played the single.
When asked about touring, she said she would not be touring this album. (AAAAAARRRRRRGGGGGGHHHHH!!!!!!!)
The single has also been played on the national commercial rock station Virgin 1215.
EMI had previously sent out a CD dressed up as a promo, but actually only containing an announcement of the single and an actress reciting the lyrics. This has been played on Radio 1's Sunday night Anne Nightingale Show, and on Virgin 1215.
Date: Sun, 22 Aug 93 04:05 CDT
From: chrisw@fciad2.bsd.uchicago.edu
(chris williams)
Subject: Eat The Music US release data
Chris here,
A friend gave us the the flyer that Columbia sent out to record stores for "Eat The Music." As Kate once said "...here it is...":
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KATE BUSH
"EAT THE MUSIC"
44T/44K-77165
TRACKS: Eat The Music
Eat The Music (12" version)
Big Stripey Lie
Candle In The Wind
List Price: $5.95/$6.49
Eat The Music is the first new music from Kate Bush in nearly four years. It is mearly a taste of what's to come: the album, her first in four years, will be out on October 6th. The title is "THE RED SHOES".
This maxi-cassette and CD-5 contain the album version of Eat The Music , as
well as the 12" version. Big Stripey Lie can also be found on the upcoming album. The special treat here is Kate's version of the classic Elton John song Candle In The Wind . This track has never before been released in America.
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This is poorly xeroxed onto pink paper. The single pic bag looks (it is really hard to tell) like Kate's hands holding a half of some sort of melon, over a background of half pieces of various fruits, papyia, peaches, pears, plumbs...
The whole flyer is *amazingly* badly done.
From: balliett@well.sf.ca.us (Allan Balliett)
Date: Mon, 23 Aug 1993
03:23:22 GMT
Subject: SONY NEWSLETTER
Greetings Kate Karas!!!
Got the SONY newsletter. This is what is says:
RED SHOES out OCT 5 in US/ Oct 4 in UK
RED SHOES video (orginal flick) is carried by BLOCKBUSTER
US CD to be available in 2 editions. The dlx edition ill have xtra artwork and come in a material wrapped (tafetta - get it?) digi. The CD will be FOUR COLORED (stock copy is TWO COLORED) The dlx will have either one or two extra trx - but they may only be remix versions of existing trax (or perhaps from Paddy's "lost album" :-)
There will also be a CD-sized color sticker of the cover art. It will have the SAME CD bklt as the regular CD. Expect $3 more in cost at the pumps for the delx.
There is no special pkg for the cassette.
The special edition of the CD is currently projected to be between 25 and 50 000 copies. (that's more than 1 per person on the IGG mailing list!!)
SONY expects that there will not be enough of the ltd CD to go around and has no plans for a second pressing.
US CD-5 is scheduled for release Sept 7. Title: Eat the Music. TRAX: Eat the Music/Extended remix/Big Stripey Lie (a lp trk)/Candle in the Wind (This is NO joke!)
UK CD-5 will be Rubberband Girl and will be released on Sept 6. TRX: Rubberband Girl/1 or 2 mixes of Rubberband Girl/Big Stripey Lie. There will be a 12" (PD as far as I know!) and a 7" with PS
Good Luck, Shoppers!
-Allan
From: mas@csa.bu.edu (Mark A. Semich)
Date: 30 Aug 93 11:29:12
Subject: KaTE's Film to be screened in Cambridge, MA
KaTe's new film is going to be screened one day only next month in Harvard Square, Cambridge:
[from this month's Harvard Brattle Theatre schedule:]
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Monday, October 4, 1993
The Line, the Cross, the Curve
at 9:30 & 10:45 pm
(1993) dir Kate Bush w/ Kate Bush, Miranda Richardson, Lindsay Kemp, Stewart Arnold
This new film from acclaimed musician/dancer Kate Bush is based upon the classic "The Red Shoes," and features six songs from Kate's upcoming Columbia Records release "The Red Shoes".
Date: Mon, 30 Aug 93 15:09:15 -0300
From: fmcquarr@atlas.cs.upei.ca
(Fiona McQuarrie)
Subject: The Line etc.
The Line, The Cross, The Curve? Geez, sounds like Kate has been studying (gasp) calculus [holding up cross to ward off evil spirits of math...]
From: Scott Telford <s.telford@ed.ac.uk>
Date: Thu, 2 Sep 1993
15:42:34 GMT
Subject: Ad for RBG in Melody Maker!
This week's Melody Maker has a colour ad for Rubberband Girl on page 17. (Could well be in NME as well -haven't found it yet). It's an amazing photo of KaTe apparently jumping several feet up in the air whilst simultaneously doing a cartwheel, in a dingy-looking studio, wearing some strange baggy dark grey outfit, with a *wild* look on her face. Incredible! The text reads "Kate Bush Rubberband Girl - Out Next Week".
From: Scott Telford <s.telford@ed.ac.uk>
Date: Mon, 6 Sep 1993
12:05:52 GMT
Subject: O{+->
According to the new "Q" magazine (must be the October one now...) the KaTe/Prince collaboration is actually the track "Why Should I Love You?", on which he sings, plays and arranges. Certainly sounds like him on the bvs on RBG to me, though....
From: "Karen L. Newcombe" <kln@crl.com>
Date: Tue, 7
Sep 1993 12:25:03 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: Photogrpr Guido H.
I believe the photographer in question, Guido Herrera is mentioned in the Box photo credits. Isn't he the one who did Kate in the blue crushed velvet with the incredible perm?
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