| Bush, Kate - Eat The Video |
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| Great collection of various TV appearances and specials. Overall, very good quality. Info, taken from the cover art: KATE BUSH The Love-Hounds Collection: Eat the Video Disc A Abba's Snowtime Special (December 21, 1979) - December Will Be Magic Again Taped for the BBC February 18, 1979, for the second of two Abba TV specials (this one called The Winter Snowtime Special), broadcasted December 22, 1979 on BBC1. (Sometimes called the 'bongos' version.) 'Kate,' the Christmas Special (December 28, 1979) A forty-five-minute television special, BBC 2 TV, featuring songs old and new. Some of these were filmed during live television-studio performances, others were videos prepared in advance and featuring studio recordings in more or less the same form as their album counterparts. In addition, one or two small pieces of incidental music were recorded specifically for the programme, which includes a guest appearance by Peter Gabriel, and a duet by Peter Gabriel and Kate of Roy Harper's song, Another Day. - Intro music A simple melodic phrase, without lyrics, sung by Kate while a glittery hand creates the title on the screen. - Violin Pre LP mix, used for lip-synch, without some of the sound effects heard on the final version, otherwise identical. The choreography is essentially the same as that used for the Tour of Life shows. - Satie's Gymnopedie No. 1 Played by KT Bush Band as a background for the two giant violins (Paddy and his friend Andrew Bryant), who mime an introduction for the next song: - Symphony In Blue Sung live with the KT Bush Band. Kate sings and accompanies herself at the piano. - Them Heavy People Lip-synched to a live recording. - Here Comes The Flood by Peter Gabriel Starts with an a cappella introduction Peter the Angel Gabriel sung by Kate, Paddy and one of Kate's female vocal supporters from the Tour of Life, which segues directly into Peter Gabriel's performance of his song, which he sings at an electric piano. - Ran Tan Waltz (known at this time as The Ran Tan) Lip-synch to the same mix later released on vinyl. This is, in IED's opinion, one of Kate's three finest stage performances. An absolutely brilliant piece of modern-dance choreography, packed with subtle narrative details stunningly and beguillingly executed by Kate, Stewart Avon-Arnold and Gary Hurst. - December Will Be Magic Again An early version, sung by Kate at the piano, with Kevin McAlea behind her adding keyboard embellishments on an electric piano. - The Wedding List A video which alternates in-studio ('live') lip-synch performance and pre-recorded footage which incorporate imagery based on old westerns as well as the Truffaut film The Bride Wore Black. The stage section of the performance is very similar to the live choreography for James and the Cold Gun, in which Kate's character goes on the rampage with a rifle. - Another Day Another pre-recorded video mixed with in-studio stage performance. The music was all pre-taped, then acted out by Gabriel and Kate, who sit stonily at a tea-table. A second set of pre-filmed images of the characters is seen in a picture-frame behind them. - Egypt A video performance with Kate's flighty, superficial protagonist standing in romantic, exotic clothing. Toward the end two veiled men, referred to by Peter F.-M. as 'Phantom Phlingers' (a TISWAS) surround and threaten Kate's character. - The Man With The Child In His Eyes Again, a combination of 'live' performance (Kate singing at the piano) and pre-recorded video. At the end the small figure in the video looks around trepidatiously (watching out for video pixies!) and jumps into a garbage can - which serves as a segue to: - Don't Push Your Foot On The Heartbrake A live stage performance, done to a pre-recorded (?) audio performance of the song; finally fading to end titles, which roll to the accompaniment of the LP version of Wuthering Heights. 'Dr. Hook' TV Special (April 7, 1980, BBC 2) - Babooshka. Taped March 20, 1980. - 'Interview' with The Dr. Hook Band - Delius. Taped March 20, 1980. (Also shown November 25, 1980 as part of a programme about the composer Frederick Delius from the U.K. TV series The Russell Harty Show). Never released, the video includes a figure which represents an image of Delius much like the one depicted in a BBC television film about Delius's late years, which was directed by Ken Russell in the early 1970s and which had greatly impressed Kate as a child. Leo Sayer Show (November 17, 1978) - Don't Push Your Foot On The Heartbrake Lip-synch from the U.K. TV programme The Leo Sayer Show. Kate performs an early routine for the song. BPI Awards (March 6, 1986) - Hounds of Love Lip-synch. Delia Smith's Cookery Course (U.K. TV, February 28, 1980) This clip was apparently taped in the garden of the family home. Kate talks with great enthusiasm about the healthful dishes which she and her sister-in-law have prepared for the programme; and Kate makes a touching case for vegetarianism, concluding: 'I hope people will think about it, because there really is a lot in vegetables!' The BPI Awards (February 27, 1980) Best Male Singer award - Kate reads, presents to Leo Sayer on behalf of Gary Numan, who appears by satellite from Pittsburg. Best Female Singer award - won by Kate. - Wow At this same BPI Awards show, this lip-synch from Top of the Pops, March 22, 1979 (excerpt). The Russell Harty Show (November 25, 1980) Kate appears on the BBC TV chat programme The Russell Harty Show for an edition dedicated to the composer Frederick Delius. She is interviewed with the cellist Julian Lloyd-Webber and Delius' assistant and collaborator Dr. Eric Fenby. Following a screening of part of Kate's Dr. Hook video of Delius, Fenby suggests that the composer would have seen it as 'a very gracious tribute'. Profiles in Rock (Canadian TV, December 1980) An extensive interview at her home for a Canadian television production company which is preparing a series of programmes entitled Profiles in Rock, with interviewer Doug Pringle, to be aired on CITY-TV, Toronto. Razzmatazz (July 14, 1981) Kate appears on the children's programme Razzmatazz to explain how the Sat In Your Lap video was made. Looking Good, Feeling Fit (August 6, 1981) Kate appears on the BBC TV programme Looking Good, Feeling Fit. Friday Night and Saturday Morning (November 21, 1981) Kate appears on the commercial TV programme Friday Night, Saturday Morning, a new chat show, at the invitation of the host, noted zoologist Dr. Desmond Morris, to talk about her music and expressive dance. The Old Grey Whistle Test (August 17, 1982) Kate is interviewed by Mark Ellin and David Hepworth about The Dreaming single; with the premiere of the video. Under The Ivy (The Tube, March 19, 1986) Kate records a live performance of Under The Ivy at Abbey Road Studios for the 100th edition of the Tyne Tees TV programme The Tube. Disc B The Secret Policeman's Third Ball (March 28/29, 1987) - Running Up That Hill Kate performs Running Up That Hill with David Gilmour at Amnesty International's Secret Policeman's Third Ball concert. The BPI Awards (February, 1992) - Rocket Man (video) Black and white and cosmic. From Saturday Night Live (December 9, 1978) Eric Idle, guest host. - The Man With The Child In His Eyes - Them Heavy People This is the only performance Kate has ever given of her music for American television, is still a vivid memory in many U.S. fan's minds. After a very sincere introduction by Eric Idle, Kate appeared sitting cross-legged atop a grand piano. The accompanist was Paul Shaeffer (now a nationally famous musician in his role as leader of the David Letterman Show's band), and additional off-screen backing was heard as well. This performance is also the only unexpurgated version on film, so far as IED knows. Kate's choreography is brilliant throughout, and adds considerable nuance to the lyrics' meaning. Later in the programme she re-appeared to perform Them Heavy People. For this song she was dressed much as in the version performed for the Tour of Life, with female and male vocal backing which sounded live. Her performance of both songs was absolutely flawless, and her enigmatic expression at the conclusion of each - like the whole presentation - was quite unprecedented on American television. Finally, Kate appeared on-stage during the end-credits, along with all the other guests and cast-members. Aspel (June 20, 1993) - Moments of Pleasure Lip-synch of the album track for 'The Red Shoes', at the piano, on Aspel & Company TV show. Comic Relief (April 4, 1986) - Do Bears Sh...? Kate participates in the first of three Comic Relief shows at the Shaftesbury Theatre. She performs Breathing live and performs a duet of Do Bears Sh... in the Woods? with Rowan Atkinson. Wogan (October 31, 1986) - Experiment IV One of the most important of all Kate's television performances. The band appears on stage, and the instruments include at least two Fairlight CMIs. Kate herself sits behind an elegant desk. She is studying several files in manila folders, much as the 'General' is doing in the official video. Clearly a great deal of preparation and care went into the preparation of this set and the performance. Midway through the song the violinist Nigel Kennedy appears in military uniform. During the mysterious 'secret-message' section of the song, on the screen of the monitor on Kate's desk is seen, what looks like Paddy's head appears, mouthing some indecipherable (?) words in synch with the spoken 'messages' heard in the record (between the lines 'It could sing you to sleep' and 'But that dream is your enemy', and again directly after the latter line). Altogether a fascinating and intriguing performance, and far more challenging than other artists' television lip-synchs. Ferry Aid (Summer 1987) - Let It Be Kate appears briefly in excerpts from a film about the making of the Zeebrugge Ferry Disaster benefit Let It Be single, an all-star cover version of the Beatles song. Summer 1987. Juke Box Jury (September 24,1989) - Review of The Sensual World single [*Funny!*] Rapido (BBC2, October 14, 1989) Kate appears (briefly) three times in all, in excerpts from a single interview conducted at her home studio (behind the mixing desks, with Del) for this UK series. Wogan (January 1990) - This Woman's Work Lip-synch performance on The Wogan Show. Wogan (August 1985) - Running Up That Hill Kate appears on the BBC TV programme Wogan to perform Running Up That Hill. The single is released the same day. Later, this becomes the 'video' that MTV uses for the song in the USA. Old Grey Whistle Test (November 1985) - Cloudbusting Kate is interviewed about Cloudbusting, and the video is shown (abridged), on U.K. TV. The BPI Awards (February 10, 1986) - Hounds of Love Kate performs Hounds of Love live at the British Phonographic Industry Awards presentation. She is nominated for (but does not win) three awards: Best Album, Best Single and Best Female Singer. This is a very interesting lip-synch performance. Kate added a powerfully remixed rhythmic introduction to the (otherwise standard mix of) Hounds of Love. Her band consisted of two drummers with full kits, flanking a third, standing, drummer; Del Palmer at a small synthesizer; and flanking Kate herself, Paddy and Jonathan Williams playing celli (Paddy's efforts obviously faked, Williams's obviously not). In the final moments of the performance Kate's companion from the video, an actor chosen by Kate for his strikingly 'period' facial type, appears by her side, and he and Kate perform a few quick but dramatic dance steps, while Kate continues to lip-synch. Kate's make-up is also striking and 'cinematic'. - Annie Lennox on Kate In a back-stage informal interview after the BPI Awards show from which the previous clip was taken, Best Female winner Annie Lennox volunteers some strikingly positive remarks about Kate. The unedited Night Flight Interview (November 17, 1985) A dub of the original unedited working-master from the studio taping of Kate's interview for Night Flight. (Thirty-eight minutes long.) November 1985. So far as IED is aware this is the only unedited (not-for-broadcast) video-taped interview in circulation. It is also the most excruciating of all Kate Bush video-clips. For more than half an hour Kate sits absolutely still before an unblinking stationary camera, answering with remarkable patience and professionalism an interminable series of asinine and shockingly ill-informed questions from an unseen American bimbo. Several times Kate is asked to repeat long answers she has just given, simply because the sound technicians had mis-adjusted the mircophones. Finally, after the hopelessly inept interviewer finally subsides, Kate is further exploited by the boorish American studio crew, who pressure her into delivering a series of advertising 'spots' for a number of television programmes. As usual Kate suffers through all these indignities with perfect grace - all the more remarkable because she had earlier that afternoon suffered through Sue Simmons on 'Live at Five', after spending hours that afternoon signing albums at Tower Records on Broadway. 'Kate Bush' at De Efteling (Dutch TV, May 16, 1978) Six videos (some refer to seven, but IED only knows of six), taped in the Efteling Gardens (a gothic theme-park), nowhere near Amsterdam, April 1978. These performances are all of a piece. They were all videotaped at the amusement park, using some of the spooky props (moving tombstones and the like) to add a touch of humour to the presentations. The final video seems to have been more carefully worked out; at any rate it reflects its song's narrative far more than the others. It features Kate as the doomed heroine of The Kick Inside, and at the end of the song, she sails slowly down a placid river, evoking images of Elaine and The Lady of Shalott, classic poetical figures of Arthurian legend. Kate is memorably made-up in this video: her hair has been painted white (or perhaps platinum-blond). The result is striking. - Moving - Wuthering Heights - Them Heavy People - The Man With The Child In His Eyes - Strange Phenomena - The Kick Inside The Infant Kiss Video by Chris Williams Video made by Chris Williams in 1984 with clips from 'The Innocents' (produced and directed by Jack Clayton in 1961, with Deborah Kerr, script by Truman Capote from The Turn of the Screw by Henry James), the film which inspired for this song. DVD design and mastering by |>oug. Cover art by IED. Liner notes compiled and adapted by Peter Manchester from The Garden by IED. Booklet and back cover by Tippi Chai. Source material provided by Thomas Estes. Duplication facilities and services provided by KJB. Beta testing by He Is John. Zapf Chancery font provided by Matt. Moral support provided by the Love-Hounds. Sublime beauty and inspiration provided by Kate. |