Kate Bush

if you h8 k8 yr soul is old and decrepit

his allmusic credits don't include 50 Words for Snow, although they do include the Aiden Grimshaw album

http://www.allmusic.com/artist/bill-hawkes-mn0000212207/credits

The credits for 50 Words for Snow just mention an orchestra with no names named

hired plain, with no names mentioned

haha

load of old bill hawkes

I enjoyed that Bill Hawkes' letter - it was refreshing in the face of what we've heard over the past month. I like KB well enough but "obsequious, unquestioning critical acclaim heaped upon this manifestly overrated singer" is pretty otm and I do rate her. She's good, but ffs she ain't that good!

yes she is.

we don't need a KB backlash, thanks tho

she is that good, but some of the fanwank is a bit wanky tbf

The latter is just 'classical musician doesn't really rate pop musician pt-10000000000000000' rather than 'speaking truth to power' but I'm pretty sure there are some really annoying fans at those gigs.

Balanescu quartet's repertoire is straight up garbage.

I have to admit I didn't check anywhere else but here, but are there still no reviews from the later shows?

Most publications will only review the first night of any performance or series of gigs.

First night is up on d1m3 if anybody is interested.

Any chance that will make it outside of dimadozen any time soon?

If the mods would let a wetransfer link on the thread, maybe

assume it'll be on slsk eventually

if anyone still uses that

slsk is quietly still really good

Links are out there on some blogs but unfortunately all are dead as a doornail. Wonder if she's got a Prince-like anti-bootleg radar on now.

old british man doesn't much care for kate bush old british woman, news at 11

I did wonder if there was likely to be any of it appearing anywhere. I now have the 1st night playing so wonder if any others are going to appear. I think this is pretty obviously an audience recording, sounds pretty clear but has a very enthusiastic crowd audible.

Steveolende would love to hear it!

It's on Dime. Does sound pretty good though.

& Dime's worth getting onto if you get the chance to.

They don't allow anyone to sign up right now, is the problem.

Oh right, I thought it was a question of persistence. Certainly was when I joined. Having to keep going back over a period of several hours and try again. After being initially told that there were no places at the moment.
Has that changed?

Just struck me that it would take far less time to get copies from that source than having to wait for a copy to come through the post etc

Found links. thanks

2nd Night up too, I'm told

Yeah, just found a load of early demoes are up there too. & several dates from the '79 tour. Including an Xmas special video from Birmingham.

Hearing her do "And Dream Of Sheep" is just... This first night recording sounds great, btw. Fantastic for an audience recording.

Listening to Night 2 now and noticing her voice is more confident in the first few songs compared come to Night 1. Beautiful witchy energy. LOVE

Also - an amazing audience recording. Technology sure has moved on haha

*SPOILER*

One of the things I loved is the Gregorian part in Hello Earth that they looped about 5 times at the end, while she was carried off stage into the audience by the fish skeleton people.

dear god i wish i was there to see that

Georgian not gregorian (/pedant)

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsintskaro

I love that piece. Looking forward to hearing these bootlegs.

Wow, thanks for that — I had no idea that wasn't original to her song.

Whoops, indeed, hardly pedantry when faced with such brazen wrongness :)

There are four version on Spotify, one of which sounds like it was recorded in an aviary and uses female voices, it's lovely

Wow. Always thought this was recorded by Popol Vuh for "Nosferatu". Never knew its origins.

love that song and georgian male choir music in general

I used to have a cassette on the Touch label of Soviet-era choral music. I just found the sleevenotes on the web:

"In 1932, a group from the remote town of Pik Grandiosnyy, situated in the Vostochnyy Sayan near the Mongolian border, set out to escape the Great Famine and headed west. Having eaten their livestock, the villagers were forced to walk; the journey would take two years. This collection represents some of the songs they sang on their way."

I think of Schnittke's Choir Concerto too.

11 albums in the top 50 album chart this week.

http://www.officialcharts.com/albums-chart/

I'm going tonight. I don't think I've been this excited about a gig since I was a teenager.

Going Saturday. I, much to my surprise, haven't got excited at all.

Unlike my son, who got so into it he became an information source for the Mirror and the Guardian on the first night DESPITE NOT EVEN BEING THERE. He's as excited as an excited thing about Saturday.

THAT WAS SO GOOD.

Like, I was prepared for it to be great but nowhere near as surprising and astonishing as that.

Fucking incredible. So glad I avoided this thread & had no idea what was in store. The 2nd half was exactly what I was praying it would be, and executed better than I could have hoped. Jamie otm, so many ear-to-ear grins

Had to love the unofficial merch guy outside selling BEFORE THE DOWN posters for £2 :-D

incredible show. her voice is in such fine shape

lol @ all the concern trollers upthread who thought it'd all be too much for her