Kate with John Lydon
As far as Q Magazine were concerned, the magic moment of the awards came when Kate persuaded John Lydon to sit down and have their picture taken. They write: “Who’d have thought it? Kate Bush out of hiding and John
Lydon proving vaguely approachable!”. John Lydon is asked “You’re obviously quite a fan of Kate Bush?”, to which he replied: “Kate Bush is a true original. It’s not nice that she’s been imitated – Torrid Aimless, sorry, Tori Amos. But Kate Bush is a genuine talent. She went through the same shit I did when she started, “Oh that’s not singing”. Who the f*&k wrote the rules about music?.”
Nigel Godrich, winner of Best Producer for Travis and Radiohead said that the best thing for him so far in 2001 was meeting Kate: “I’m in awe of her. Her records fundamentally enforced what I am as a person. When you listen to stuff as a teenager, you identify with elements in the music. There’s a real hidden wisdom there. It’s beautifully written. If she needs anyone to mix her new album, I’m after the job….I’m going home to listen to Kate.”
Elsewhere Midge Ure wistfully recalled his first encounter with Kate: “It was in the late ’70s and I was in The Rich Kids and we were appearing on a TV show together. I was desperately trying to get off with her and get a lift back in her limo.” QTV (the magazine’s digital televison channel) reports that Midge introduced Fran Healy, Travis lead singer, to Kate, but that he was so in awe of her that he was lost for words! The magazine also pictures Kate chatting to Donovan (Kate recorded his “Lord Of The Reedy River” as the b-side to Sat In Your Lap in 1981).
Singer/songwriter, actress and TV presenter Toyah Wilcox has been interviewed on the BBC website in their “Music Memories” feature in which music fans discuss memorable songs/albums and how they’ve affected them. In a soundclip on the site Toyah discusses how she “adores” Kate, even though she admits she was always described as “a poor man’s Kate Bush” and she says she finds the “pure form of femininity” that Kate produces in her work to be wonderful. In a soundclip on the site you can hear how Toyah responded whilst driving to a tape of Moments Of Pleasure – she was so moved that she actually crashed her car! See and hear the whole feature 
Kate’s music artist fans have been talking about her in recent interviews promoting their latest albums. Firstly, on Friday Björk was asked by fan Rudi de Jong in a question and answer session on The Times website: “Would you like to work with Kate Bush? I see a lot of parallels between you and her.” She responded “I like Kate Bush very much. Regarding working with her, I’ve thought about it in the past but not recently. I guess the obvious parallel is the fact that she is an artist who wrote and produced a lot of her own material.” Björk has previously commented that she feels honoured to be compared to “such a genius”. Read all of the Q&A with Björk 
us about a (relatively) new (issued late 1999) Kate song/music book entitled “MIDI Kate Bush” by International Music Publications Ltd. “The music is usually in the original key, and is shown as a single melodic line in normal music script, with a chord symbols and lyrics for each song. The data is GM (General MIDI) standard. Songs include: Wuthering Heights, Running Up That Hill, Babooshka, Hounds Of Love, Cloudbusting, Moments Of Pleasure and Rubberband Girl…..Darren Brown heard Kate’s The Man With The Child In His Eyes used to accompany a lingerie challenge on Channel 4’s off-the-wall comedy ‘gambling’ programme Banzai!….Danny Diess says “we are having a dance tryout in October for additional people to perform in the tribute show”, if you’re interested in Danny’s work read more in previous stories (or the review in a recent HomeGround) and contact Danny by 
Larry Adler has died at the age of 87. The famed harmonica player collaborated with Kate on their 1994 single The Man I Love (from The Glory Of Gershwin tribute album). Many news reports have mentioned his work with Kate, BBC TV in the UK played part of the track’s monochrome video in it’s tea-time news reports.
Tracy Story has this month carried out interviews with two of Kate’s collaborators, Charlie Morgan who used to play drums with Kate, and Simon Drake the magician from the Tour of Life. The interviews are nicely done and should be very interesting to all Kate fans. They are featured as part of Tracy’s Kate Bush forum at Yahoo! Clubs – “Rolling The Ball”. Tracy writes: “The interviews don’t really break much new ground, but they are quite interesting in places. (They were for me anyway…) I’m hoping this will be a regular feature at the club. The interviews are featured in the “photo” section of the club. Another new feature in the photo section is an album called The Players, where there are photos of people who have worked or collaborated with Kate in someway in the past.” Join the club at its website 
International covers: Sozo from Japan tells us of a cover version on This Woman’s Work by ACO. It is featured on her 5th album called “Material”. Read more at Sozo’s 
The June edition of Record Collector magazine features a six page article by James Blandford on the history of the “Early Years” and “Cathy Demos” bootleg recordings which have surfaced since 1989. A complete listing of all known demos is given. Also there is a page long article by the same writer musing on Kate’s current musical activities. He writes: “And while we await the highly anticipated new studio album there have been whispers for some time now that EMI are in the process of remastering Kate’s back catalogue for a series of reissues spanning a year. And, with the prospect of previously unreleased tracks on the horizon, Kate Bush fans can relax a little, finally having something concrete to look forward to. It has been a long and winding road, but we’re still behind her.” See also
The recent issue of “Stereo“, one of the leading German magazines that deals with testing audio equipment and reviewing music, comes with an extra booklet called “Stereo CD Guide: 100 Audiophile Pop, Jazz and Classic CDs” and features Kate’s The Whole Story, “…this compilation of Kate Bush’s most important hits and tracks is impressive because of great variety and musical quality. And its sound quality is smashing too…”. (thanks to Michael Leitz)…Kate was voted No. 45 in the 100 Best Voices Of The Century by BBC Radio2 in a programme presented by Paul Gambicini over Easter. Frank Sinatra topped the poll. Read the full results