Brian Parker in Melbourne writes: The Nine Network (the most widely watched TV station in Australia) have been playing “This Woman’s Work” to promote the up and coming episode of the American show ER. As the ad is played (I think one of the doctor’s has a brain tumour and has lost a baby!) the bottom left corner of the screen says “This Woman’s Work, Kate Bush EMI”. The ad is played twice an hour. The song is getting more exposure now than it back in 1989! (thanks to Brian and to Cindy Ireland in Australia)
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Brian Parker in Melbourne writes: The Nine Network (the most widely watched TV station in Australia) have been playing “This Woman’s Work” to promote the up and coming episode of the American show ER. As the ad is played (I think one of the doctor’s has a brain tumour and has lost a baby!) the bottom left corner of the screen says “This Woman’s Work, Kate Bush EMI”. The ad is played twice an hour. The song is getting more exposure now than it back in 1989! (thanks to Brian and to Cindy Ireland in Australia)
In episode three of the David Nicholls-penned BBC comedy-drama series Rescue Me it became apparent that one of its major characters – Eden magazine’s Chief Sub-Editor “Eddie Chisholm” (Stewart Wright) is a Kate Bush fan. Whilst reminiscing about a teenage daliance with religion, he reveals the content of a typical prayer to have been : “Please God, let me go out with Kate Bush…”. In a later scene, his 12″ vinyl music collection is rifled through by Daniela Denby-Ashe’s “Julie Carter” who exclaims: “Loads of Kate Bush, God, you’ve got some weird records!” (thanks to Wraith Ravenscroft)…
Stewart found a remix of Kate’s This Woman’s Work on www.winmx.com (Napster style site) called “Kate Bush and Maxwell – This Woman’s Work Speedbliss Club Mix” (thanks Stewart)…
Newsbits: Robert Brown lets us know that Kate is featured on TOTP2 next Wednesday 6th March on BBC2 at 7.05pm (thanks Robert)…the UK’s best-selling men’s magazine, FHM, has included Babooshka in its list of the 100 sexiest music videos. “So she’s really talented and writes all her own stuff and lives like a recluse, but Christ will you look at this – 
chainmail bikini, thighs, wind-machine ebony hair, thighs, leather boots, thighs, and check out that knife! That’s gotta be bondage. Babooshka made a bona fide sex object of Kate and vies with Olivia Newton John’s Physical as the most reliable 3-minute arouser of its day. Sadly, Kate then went and built a studio in her house, and she’s barely emerged since.” See FHM website here…David Sheasby reads in the currrent Q Magazine that they mention the possibility of a Kate album later this year, “‘Though we have been waiting quite a while already,’ said a spokesman”…and one eager (but incorrect) website even lists the “new CD” as coming out this summer here…a tiny clip of the Babooshka video was broadcast last Monday night on the RAI2 programme in Italy “Cocktail d’Amore“, and Kate was also mentioned during the afternoon quiz “Passaparola“, Canale 5, which asked “Which Kate abandoned music to be a mum?” Antonello (who sent in this news) has contacted the TV station to let them know Kate hasn’t abandoned music!
UK theatre performer Ruthie Henshall has a new solo album, and covers The Man With The Child In His Eyes, read more at her official site here. (thanks Robert)….a morning show on French TV called “Morning Live” includes a segment called “Le Tube du Grenier” in which they play an music video on a green screen and the host dresses up as the singer and imitates them. They played Babooshka recently and the host dressed up as Kate in black and danced with a cardboard cutout of a bass (thanks to Jeremy and Tristan in France)….part of “Don’t Push Your Foot On The Heartbrake” was played on UK Channel 4’s Brookside last month, the character Adele was playing it in her KB festooned bedroom. This was not long after another young character described her as a “meff” for liking Kate! (thanks to Boolbar)….Peter & Krys at HomeGround hope to have the next edition out in December, meanwhile check out their back issue sale here.
I’m delighted to tell you all that Kate has won the Best Classic Songwriter award at the 12th Annual Q Magazine awards. Kate was there to receive her award! The ceremony took place at the Park Lane hotel in London today. The BBC website reports: “The awards, which are well respected within the music industry, also singled out veteran singer Kate Bush for a special classic songwriter award. After receiving a standing ovation she said:
“This is just great, I am making an album but it is just taking a little longer than I thought and I have been having a great time with my son.”
Congratulations Kate!
The sponsors of the event, Orange, held a live webcast of the ceremony, but highlights are promised at their site here. Other winners at the star-studded event included Radiohead, Starsailor, Ash, Travis and Elvis Costello. Visit the Q magazine website, which promises more updates on the awards over the next week. (Special thanks to Jane, who rang me from Scotland to tell me that “Kate looked so beautiful!!” after she saw the news.)
Newsbits: This Woman’s Work was featured on the second episode of Alias, a new show by the creator of “Felicity” that airs on Sunday Nights on ABC in the US. The show is about a young woman who just happens to be a secret double agent for the CIA and its enemy organization SD-6. Creator J.J. Abrahms is clearly a fan, This Woman’s Work appears on the Felicity soundtrack….Kate fan Ingo Pohl has taken part in the German quiz show Risiko (see August 8th news). We are happy to report that Ingo won the quiz, his chosen topic being Kate of course, taking home 13,000 DM for his troubles….Bart writes: Guitar One and Rockrgrl magazines have released a special ‘Women Who Rock’ issue, to celebrate the contributions of 100 of the most essential female musicians in pop. Kate is of course mentioned, starting with this quote from Kate:
“Keep laughing and you stand a chance of getting through it alive. I’ll always be tough on myself. But I find strength in being alone, fighting a battle and emerging satisfied that I’ve done my best. Perhaps that’s what is strange about me. It’s music that says it; it says it eloquently enough.” The article continues:”The immensely talented and innovative Kate Bush has enjoyed succes commensurate with her abilities. Discovered while still in school by Pink Floyd’s David Gilmour, Bush has since developed a reputation as a true musical original, creating and executing ever more sophisticated work. Her early discs like 1980’s Never For Ever, were lauded for their style, but her later works – ‘Running Up That Hill’ and ‘Cloudbusting’ – were stunning in scope, mind-boggling triumphs of vision and craftsmanship. Today, though the 43-year-old records sporadically, she is still recognized as one of the most uniquely accomplished artists of her era.”
….also, Kate gets mentioned in the new issue of the Dutch magazine OOR in a special issue on “30 years of pop music according to OOR” on the 1978 pages, and there is also a small piece on the 1982 pages….Hideaki Nishihara writes from Japan:”I have a video tape of Japanese TV programme “Tribute To The Great Song“. A Japanese female singer Mimori Yusa covered Kate’s Wuthering Heights, L’Amour Looks Something Like You & Army Dreamers on the 2nd October. Mimori Yusa is a famous singer in Japan and an ardent Kate Bush fan ever since she listened to Wuthering Heights. She explained that Kate has had a strong influence on her life and music”….
German Newsbits: (from Andreas Ströbl): “On Sunday, 30th September the political talkshow “Sabine Christiansen” (German TV-Station ARD), featured a trailer at the beginning of the show (which was about how terrorism could be dealt with after the attack in New York). It repeated the beginning and end of Kate’s Under Ice as very impressive background music – showing pictures of recent events…also last season the “Hamburger Schauspielhaus” ran a piece called “Alle Lust will Ewigkeit” which connects love songs from different centuries, cultures, languages and music styles and featured Kate’s “Wuthering Heights“…the actress did quite well, singing the song just accompanied by piano and cello and in the end climbing through the audience and up a balcony, looking for Heathcliff, which was quite comic.” (thanks Andreas)
Newsbits: Ingo Pohl writes to tell us that he “took part in a German quiz show called Risiko, which is broadcast every day in the afternoon on German television (ZDF). This is a show in which candidates bring along their own special topics. The shows are pre-recorded and will be aired about 2 or 3 months later, as you might have guessed by now, my topic was Kate Bush. The four shows will be broadcast on the 4th, 5th, 8th and 9th of October, and they will feature extracts from the videos of Love and Anger, Cloudbusting, Running Up That Hill, Rubberband Girl (American version) and This Woman’s Work as well as audio clips of Wuthering Heights, Babooshka, The Sensual World, The Man With The Child In His Eyes and The Dreaming. (thanks Ingo)….Michael Maugeri has “stumbled upon the web site called “Am I Annoying or Not?” and Kate is #1 on the “least annoying celebrity” side, with Thom Yorke of Radiohead currently second. Fans of Kate are encouraged to keep her #1 status up!….Michael Leitz reports on a triple CD from Dressed 2 Kill records called “Take 3 Girls“, cover versions of tracks by Joni Mitchell, Tracy Chapman and Kate, the tracks are the same as those on the tribute CD by Eclypse featuring Jemma Price, available on . Also Michael tells 
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 email….Midge Ure was featured in a recent Review section of The Guradian newpaper: “Another favourite studio album is Kate Bush’s Hounds of Love. ‘I knew the engineer who mixed that, and it was done on a desk that wasn’t meant to be used at all, so you have all these strange noises coming up where they shouldn’t to make this fantastic sound. I’d like to think that she’s still making music, but the last time I saw her she was talking about giving it all up, which would be such a shame.” [Please note that Midge doesn’t mention when he last spoke to Kate and that Kate is still working on new material!] (thanks to Steven Owen)….Herb Leonhard has a couple of new paintings in his Kate art gallery here including an interpretation of Under The Ivy (pictured above).
A special TV trailer highlighting the current storyline in the UK soap Coronation Street featuring the character Alma Halliwell (who has been battling cervical cancer), features the opening vocals from Kate’s This Woman’s Work. The storyline is proving the biggest ratings winner currently on UK television. (thanks to Jon Bishop and JPH)
Thanks to everyone who’s reminded me to tell you that Kate will be featured in next Saturday night’s “Top Ten Pop Princesses” programme on Channel 4 in the UK. The popular series has featured everyone from the Top Ten “one hit wonders” to the Top Ten “electronica” acts. The show will be presented by Cerys Matthews (of Welsh group Catatonia) and pop singer Betty Boo. It promises to “take a look at pop’s female icons” and will also feature Kim Wilde, Sade, Britney Spears, Kylie Minogue and Suzi Quatro among others. Don’t expect any new interview material from Kate, but there may be some clips of the rarer variety. It airs at 10.10pm on Saturday 14th April. (thanks to Phillip Lau, Big Stripey Brian, Tracy Story, Patricia Campbell, Jeanette Payne, Alex McLauchlin, Cheryl Simon, Jon Bishop…phew!)
Last night Comic Relief held it’s telethon of excellent comedy on BBC 1 television in the UK. I was reminded of Kate’s involvement with the charity over the years on hearing her voice from Don’t Give Up used in a heartbreaking sequence on the women of Rwanda. I can’t emphasise enough how worthy a cause this is, so please consider giving a donation at http://www.comicrelief.com and you can also view the clip of Alan Partridge performing his hilarious live Kate Bush medley! Jon Bishop adds: “Also on Comic relief night, after midnight they played the top 50 comic relief moments including Do Bears (well part of it), then directly after that they played Alan Partridge’s Kate medley.” (thanks Jon)
Colin Dowd from Belfast writes: “On Tuesday 13th February, Channel 4’s (UK) soap opera “Brookside” featured a character, named Adele, and you could clearly see a collection of Kate Bush posters on her bedroom wall. The only surprising thing is that Adele is only supposed to be about 18 yrs old, so it is debatable if she would really have known much about Kate. The actress seen in the photos plays her mother, Diane. I reckon the TV programme’s Props Department must have been asked to supply some posters for a teenager’s bedroom and could only find ones that had been lying around for about 20 years!!!” (Seán says: “Adele” has a more (ahem!) recent Rubberband Girl poster too…so she’s obviously just a really big fan!…many thanks to Colin for his report and the pictures.)
Despite being told in advance I ommited to tell you all that a Kate clip was to be featured on Top Of The Pops 2 on Wednesday 14th for Valentines Day. As it turns out it’s being repeated on Saturday 17th February at 5.35pm on BBC2. You can watch Kate’s 1986 performance of Hounds Of Love from the show. The clip seems to have generated some “where is she now?” questions from viewers and I’d like to welcome several new visitors who were curious enough to find this site as a result! (Thanks to Bart, Talia Nix, Jane Blackley and Derek)
Michael Leitz writes: “Hounds Of Love, recently re-released on the “Simply Vinyl” label, is now being listed among their “best sellers” and featured on their indexpage www.simplyvinyl.com (thanks Michael)