If you want to listen to Kate live, I highly suggest you check out her triumphant return to the stage in 2014, in her series of 22 performances at the Hammersmith Apollo entitled "Before The Dawn" (audio only, there is no official video). When these concerts were announced, all 22 shows sold out over 100,000 tickets in less than 15 minutes (a record for the Hammersmith).This outstanding live album documents her nearly 3 hour show that she performed in three acts: Act 1 consisted of single hit songs, in Act 2 Kate performed her entire "The Ninth Wave" suite (side B of Hounds Of Love album), and in Act 3 she performed her entire "A Sky of Honey" suite (disc 2 of her Aerial album), plus 2 encores. Kate is backed by a KILLER band of world-renowned musicians, including David Rhodes (guitarist for Peter Gabriel), the great Omar Hakim on drums, jazz percussionist Mino Cinélu (who played with Miles Davis), Jon Carin on keys and guitar (played with Pink Floyd, David Gilmour, The Who, etc.), John Giblin on bass (who's played with everybody!), Kevin McAlea on keys and Irish pipes, and jazz guitarist Friðrik Karlsson. "Before The Dawn" was highly successful, award winning, and critically acclaimed as setting new standards in music performance. I suggest you listen to songs off of Act 1 first, including her opener "Lily," and other tracks such as "Joanni," "Top OF The City," "Never Be Mine," and her 2005 hit single "King Of The Mountain."
Great reaction vid and much appreciated. This is one of Kate's most criticized albums and 'Big Stripey Lie' hardly ever features on essential listening to KB song lists. But I have always liked it: it has Nigel Kennedy's violin and has a nasty, grimy, decayed feel to both the music and Kate's singing. You can find videos of her Tour of Life tour which is well worth it (check for instance the 2 hour Manchester Apollo gig video - which I particularly like: you can hear her talking to the band most of the way through it and comments about how things in the theatre went wrong and worked against them and how some things went great). I think it really showcases "The Man With The Child In His Eyes", "Egypt", "In The Warm Room", "Symphony in Blue", "Feel it", "James and the Cold Gun" (and oh but she looks cool on it), and "Wuthering Heights" particularly well, but for me the highlight is how it conveys the utterly wonderful "The Kick Inside" - effectively a suicide note set to music, based on an old folk song of incest and murder (but be sure to have the volume up after "Kite" just to get the feel for the introduction to it). There is a remastered version of her Hammersmith Odeon concert also from that period which has better quality picture but is quite a bit shorter. There is also a live "Running up that Hill" featuring Dave Gilmour (and a magnificent mullet). You can come across other live versions of individual songs like "Under the Ivy" and so on, and there are some recording of her doing some covers such a "Come Together" and so from very early on in her career. If you liked this song and want a deep dive, I think you would like "Leave it Open" OR "Pull out the Pin" from her most experimental album "The Dreaming" just as ways into that utterly wild beast of an album.
Yeah, this is a very interesting thing, because I think it's one of her top songs - just because it's so original. Not that her other songs aren't original, but I like her weird songs the most, like Get out of my house.
If You have 3 mibutes to spare, maybe you could listen to Be Kind To My Mistakes. And I think you might enjoy The Wedding List. Thanks for doing these reactions, Im having a good time watching them!
"The Red Shoes" was a difficult album for Kate because she was hit with a number of Hammer blows in her life, she broke up with her long term partner "Del Palmer", the track "You're The One" is a song about a break up of a relationship, a reflection of what happened to Kate herself. Kate's mother was seriously ill at the time the album was being produced, sadly she died a short while after the album was completed. Kate also lost a long term collaborator the guitarist Alan Murphy (or Murph as she used to call him). So since some of the tracks reflect all this you could say that it was her most personal album. There was a deliberate choice to go for a live band feel, as there was a potential live tour pencilled in, which I guess due to all the things that were happening in Kate's life unfortunately never happened.
I'd love you to react to the song Violin from Kate's third album Never For Ever (released 1980). Extraordinary vocals and a real bonkers vibe. I think you'd love it! :) I don't think you've already done it?
Didn't take you long to respond to the suggestions. That's cool. Kate decided she wanted to play some bass and guitar on "Red Shoes" and wanted to learn how. Her guitarist (Danny McIntosh, whom she later married) gave her a Fender Strat, showed her a few chords and said "go home and muck around with this" A week later Kate recorded the bass and guitar. So the story goes. Edit: It's not so much her skill, as her attitude that impresses.
Not one of my favourite Kate Bush songs. Unfortunately there is not much live stuff from Kate in between her 1979 tour (and the ‘Top of the Pops’ and other BBC performances from the same period) and her 2014 return to the stage in the ‘Before the Dawn’ series of concerts at London’s Apollo theatre. There is that live performance of ‘Running Up That Hill’ with David Gilmour and Tony Franklin at The Secret Policeman’s Third Ball in 1987 (an Amnesty International fund raising event). If you don’t mind doing one of her official music videos I think you would like drum heavy ‘Sat in Your Lap’, which was the first track and the first single release from her famously experimental ‘The Dreaming’ album from 1982. This single was actually released in the summer of 1981 when she was 22. The video has some entertainingly wacky choreography.
I love this song: All young gentle dreams drowning in life’s grief’ such a poweful dramatic line
If you want to listen to Kate live, I highly suggest you check out her triumphant return to the stage in 2014, in her series of 22 performances at the Hammersmith Apollo entitled "Before The Dawn" (audio only, there is no official video). When these concerts were announced, all 22 shows sold out over 100,000 tickets in less than 15 minutes (a record for the Hammersmith).This outstanding live album documents her nearly 3 hour show that she performed in three acts: Act 1 consisted of single hit songs, in Act 2 Kate performed her entire "The Ninth Wave" suite (side B of Hounds Of Love album), and in Act 3 she performed her entire "A Sky of Honey" suite (disc 2 of her Aerial album), plus 2 encores. Kate is backed by a KILLER band of world-renowned musicians, including David Rhodes (guitarist for Peter Gabriel), the great Omar Hakim on drums, jazz percussionist Mino Cinélu (who played with Miles Davis), Jon Carin on keys and guitar (played with Pink Floyd, David Gilmour, The Who, etc.), John Giblin on bass (who's played with everybody!), Kevin McAlea on keys and Irish pipes, and jazz guitarist Friðrik Karlsson. "Before The Dawn" was highly successful, award winning, and critically acclaimed as setting new standards in music performance. I suggest you listen to songs off of Act 1 first, including her opener "Lily," and other tracks such as "Joanni," "Top OF The City," "Never Be Mine," and her 2005 hit single "King Of The Mountain."
Great reaction vid and much appreciated. This is one of Kate's most criticized albums and 'Big Stripey Lie' hardly ever features on essential listening to KB song lists. But I have always liked it: it has Nigel Kennedy's violin and has a nasty, grimy, decayed feel to both the music and Kate's singing. You can find videos of her Tour of Life tour which is well worth it (check for instance the 2 hour Manchester Apollo gig video - which I particularly like: you can hear her talking to the band most of the way through it and comments about how things in the theatre went wrong and worked against them and how some things went great). I think it really showcases "The Man With The Child In His Eyes", "Egypt", "In The Warm Room", "Symphony in Blue", "Feel it", "James and the Cold Gun" (and oh but she looks cool on it), and "Wuthering Heights" particularly well, but for me the highlight is how it conveys the utterly wonderful "The Kick Inside" - effectively a suicide note set to music, based on an old folk song of incest and murder (but be sure to have the volume up after "Kite" just to get the feel for the introduction to it). There is a remastered version of her Hammersmith Odeon concert also from that period which has better quality picture but is quite a bit shorter. There is also a live "Running up that Hill" featuring Dave Gilmour (and a magnificent mullet). You can come across other live versions of individual songs like "Under the Ivy" and so on, and there are some recording of her doing some covers such a "Come Together" and so from very early on in her career.
If you liked this song and want a deep dive, I think you would like "Leave it Open" OR "Pull out the Pin" from her most experimental album "The Dreaming" just as ways into that utterly wild beast of an album.
Yeah, this is a very interesting thing, because I think it's one of her top songs - just because it's so original.
Not that her other songs aren't original, but I like her weird songs the most, like Get out of my house.
If You have 3 mibutes to spare, maybe you could listen to Be Kind To My Mistakes. And I think you might enjoy The Wedding List. Thanks for doing these reactions, Im having a good time watching them!
"The Red Shoes" was a difficult album for Kate because she was hit with a number of Hammer blows in her life, she broke up with her long term partner "Del Palmer", the track "You're The One" is a song about a break up of a relationship, a reflection of what happened to Kate herself. Kate's mother was seriously ill at the time the album was being produced, sadly she died a short while after the album was completed. Kate also lost a long term collaborator the guitarist Alan Murphy (or Murph as she used to call him). So since some of the tracks reflect all this you could say that it was her most personal album. There was a deliberate choice to go for a live band feel, as there was a potential live tour pencilled in, which I guess due to all the things that were happening in Kate's life unfortunately never happened.
Yea, Moments of pleasure is a song about that.
I'd love you to react to the song Violin from Kate's third album Never For Ever (released 1980). Extraordinary vocals and a real bonkers vibe. I think you'd love it! :) I don't think you've already done it?
Didn't take you long to respond to the suggestions. That's cool. Kate decided she wanted to play some bass and guitar on "Red Shoes" and wanted to learn how. Her guitarist (Danny McIntosh, whom she later married) gave her a Fender Strat, showed her a few chords and said "go home and muck around with this" A week later Kate recorded the bass and guitar. So the story goes. Edit: It's not so much her skill, as her attitude that impresses.
I hear a lot of Bowie influence in Kates music though I have no idea if that is a thing.
Or Prince?
She was a fan of Bowie's, so it's definitely possible!
Not one of my favourite Kate Bush songs.
Unfortunately there is not much live stuff from Kate in between her 1979 tour (and the ‘Top of the Pops’ and other BBC performances from the same period) and her 2014 return to the stage in the ‘Before the Dawn’ series of concerts at London’s Apollo theatre. There is that live performance of ‘Running Up That Hill’ with David Gilmour and Tony Franklin at The Secret Policeman’s Third Ball in 1987 (an Amnesty International fund raising event).
If you don’t mind doing one of her official music videos I think you would like drum heavy ‘Sat in Your Lap’, which was the first track and the first single release from her famously experimental ‘The Dreaming’ album from 1982. This single was actually released in the summer of 1981 when she was 22. The video has some entertainingly wacky choreography.
No two Kate Bush songs are the same or even similar