Kate Bush

[Ric.ror]

I believe tonight is the night for the opening concert
Has anyone got any tickets?

[sp1814]

Incidentally...keeping my gob shut about it on Sunday and Monday has been the most difficult thing I've ever had to undertake.

Worse than my A Level Maths exam.

[B00]

Innit weird how peoples tastes differ?

Whilst I'm not knocking it you'd personally have to pay me to go to see Kate Bush, I cannot think of anything more torturous to watch/listen to, well apart from a jazz concert possibly.

[sp1814]

I've just read my description back.

I really haven't given the show justice.

After the sequence with the floating house, it went very...ethereal...almost ghost-like.

A wooden puppet...an 18th century artist on stage, completing his masterpiece...giant doorways to nothingness.

It was...just...unimaginable. That's the best way I can describe it. It was like nothing I've ever seen before. It was art, rock, theatre, dreams and it was all 'very Kate Bush'.

[wolf63]

I don't like Kate Bush but it was brave of her to return to the stage after so long.

From what sp and others have said it must have been a brilliant show. Be he is glad that you can now talk about it.

[Sipowicz]

Well, if the the show doesn't tour, I hope there is a DVD in the offing!
Sp, I'm seriously jealous!

[ummmm]

Dave Gilmore...now you're making cry, sp!!!

[Ric.ror]

Sp - thank you so much for your reply
I'm so glad you had the experience - just wish I had not been such a coward and got tickets now. Still, as I have just said to my colleague, she might now have gotten a taste for it and do more
Hope she doesn't go the arena route though

[Ric.ror]

Sorry Sip - I'm giving your BA award to Sp

[flump1]

Wow, I have always loved her and her music and would have been over the moon to see her. Lucky sp !!

[New Judge]

What I don't understand is how an artist whose main success was one fairly poor recording made 35 years ago, who toured just the once and whose success since can only really be described as that of a journeyman, has managed to grab the headlines of the national dailies for a week because she decided to do a live tour again at the age of 54.

It's a funny old world.

[Ric.ror]

I don't know who your talking about Judge - this posts about KATE BUSH
;-))

[sp1814]

ummm

Yes - the Dave Gilmour bit was a major 'icing on the cake' moment...especially as we got to chat for a bit before he got served.

Actually, I was in front of him, and when the barman turned to me to serve, I said, "No way...serve him first. He's Dave Gilmour!"

It made him chuckle.

[sp1814]

NJ

Part of it is rarity value.

A vase from Debenhams is a vase, but a Ming Dynasty vase is a 'vase'.

The other thing is - nobody ever thought she would ever perform live again. That (for me at least) made it special.

And I assume your summary of her career (one poor recording) is you teasing.

I would argue that KB is the most influential English female recording artist of the late 20th century.

In fact - the campaign to get her Damehood starts here!

[ummmm]

When I went to see Pink Floyd I stayed at my step mothers friends house. The week before her daughter had been to a party at his house. I just looked at her sulking thinking 'why not me' :-)

[New Judge]

I'm not really teasing, sp.

Let's look at Miss Bush's credentials:

1978 - "Wuthering Heights" (the one poor recording I refer to and her only significant success)

1978 to date - Ten albums (about one every four years).

1979 - one tour

1979 to date - Nil tours (bar the current that all the inexplicable fuss is about)

During the same period it seems she has had 25 Top 40 singles (average just under one a year). I must admit to knowing none (hardly surprising) but her followers probably do. None of these, it seems, sold sufficient to top the charts even during periods when the UK music industry was, shall we put it kindly, not at its best.

I'm sure she has a certain "fringe" following as most artists do. But the top half of the front page of today's Telegraph described, no, not the Rotherham child sex scandal, not the latest truce in Gaza, not the situation in Iraq, not Nick Clegg in bare feet and a turban, not even David Cameron on a surf board. No, none of these was deemed important enough. Instead we have a picture of a 54 year old one time karaoke singer at the only concert she has seen fit to provide for her (apparently) millions of adoring fans in 35 years!!! Ye Gods !!!

[EcclesCake]

Sp you are a super jammy git, that is a truly golden ticket.

As far as NJs view of Kate Bush, she has either been a very canny investor or she has enjoyed a steady income for her musical career as she is valued at £30m, none too shabby by most peoples estimate!

[andy-hughes]

AOG - you can apply stastics to absoutely any piece of art and make an argument that it is invalid on that basis.

The wonderful thing about art is that it transcends such mundanity.

The fact that Ms Bush has been producing work of unique quality and inspiration since her early teens, and that such work has connected with millions of people worldwide is why she is so newsworthy.

To equate sales as a barmoeter of value is utter nonsense - that makes the Satuday Night Fever soundtrack more important than Grace by Jeff Buckley - by several million times.

But as I say - art is not measured in those values, so you appear somewhat graceless in your criticism.

The entire joy of popular music is the passions it creates - or indeed not.

[B00]

"To equate sales as a barmoeter of value is utter nonsense - that makes the Satuday Night Fever soundtrack more important than Grace by Jeff Buckley - by several million times."

Why is the latter more important than the former? Personally speaking I love the SNF album!