They don't allow anyone to sign up right now, is the problem.
― ambient yacht god (Le Bateau Ivre), Saturday, 30 August 2014 22:23 (nine years ago) link
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
― Stevolende, Saturday, 30 August 2014 22:47 (nine years ago) link
Found links. thanks
― Acid Hose (Capitaine Jay Vee), Saturday, 30 August 2014 22:55 (nine years ago) link
2nd Night up too, I'm told
― FML Threads (MaresNest), Sunday, 31 August 2014 10:53 (nine years ago) link
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.
― Stevolende, Sunday, 31 August 2014 12:24 (nine years ago) link
Hearing her do "And Dream Of Sheep" is just... This first night recording sounds great, btw. Fantastic for an audience recording.
― Acid Hose (Capitaine Jay Vee), Sunday, 31 August 2014 12:31 (nine years ago) link
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
― Acid Hose (Capitaine Jay Vee), Sunday, 31 August 2014 17:00 (nine years ago) link
Also - an amazing audience recording. Technology sure has moved on haha
― Acid Hose (Capitaine Jay Vee), Sunday, 31 August 2014 17:01 (nine years ago) link
*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.
― MaresNest, Sunday, 31 August 2014 17:27 (nine years ago) link
dear god i wish i was there to see that
― owe me the shmoney (m bison), Sunday, 31 August 2014 17:31 (nine years ago) link
Georgian not gregorian (/pedant)
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsintskaro
I love that piece. Looking forward to hearing these bootlegs.
― Milton Parker, Sunday, 31 August 2014 18:37 (nine years ago) link
Wow, thanks for that — I had no idea that wasn't original to her song.
― Øystein, Sunday, 31 August 2014 18:51 (nine years ago) link
Whoops, indeed, hardly pedantry when faced with such brazen wrongness :)
― MaresNest, Sunday, 31 August 2014 19:30 (nine years ago) link
There are four version on Spotify, one of which sounds like it was recorded in an aviary and uses female voices, it's lovely
― MaresNest, Sunday, 31 August 2014 19:55 (nine years ago) link
Wow. Always thought this was recorded by Popol Vuh for "Nosferatu". Never knew its origins.
― Acid Hose (Capitaine Jay Vee), Sunday, 31 August 2014 20:59 (nine years ago) link
love that song and georgian male choir music in general
― the other song about butts in the top 5 (forksclovetofu), Sunday, 31 August 2014 22:00 (nine years ago) link
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.
― Michael Jones, Sunday, 31 August 2014 22:11 (nine years ago) link
11 albums in the top 50 album chart this week.
http://www.officialcharts.com/albums-chart/
― Kitchen Person, Sunday, 31 August 2014 22:20 (nine years ago) link
I'm going tonight. I don't think I've been this excited about a gig since I was a teenager.
― Matt DC, Tuesday, 2 September 2014 14:52 (nine years ago) link
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.
― and she's crying in a stairwell in Devon (aldo), Tuesday, 2 September 2014 15:30 (nine years ago) link
THAT WAS SO GOOD.
Like, I was prepared for it to be great but nowhere near as surprising and astonishing as that.
― Matt DC, Tuesday, 2 September 2014 22:52 (nine years ago) link
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
― kick yr eyeballs (wins), Tuesday, 2 September 2014 23:01 (nine years ago) link
Had to love the unofficial merch guy outside selling BEFORE THE DOWN posters for £2 :-D
― kick yr eyeballs (wins), Tuesday, 2 September 2014 23:02 (nine years ago) link
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
― lex pretend, Tuesday, 2 September 2014 23:28 (nine years ago) link
Ha yes
― kick yr eyeballs (wins), Tuesday, 2 September 2014 23:56 (nine years ago) link
I feel like week one of a really long engagement is maybe not quite time to judge ykno
― ♛ LIL UNIT ♛ (thomp), Wednesday, 3 September 2014 08:54 (nine years ago) link
You're right, I withdraw my earlier praise & will reserve judgement on the show until all the data is in
― smithery loves cuntery (wins), Wednesday, 3 September 2014 09:44 (nine years ago) link
-_-
― ♛ LIL UNIT ♛ (thomp), Wednesday, 3 September 2014 10:09 (nine years ago) link
That was pretty great overall, but personally I thought the Ninth Wave was a bit too actor-y for me and I didn't enjoy the final song at all - way too umpty-tum for my taste. The main part of the second half was astonishingly good though, and the new part to it just made it even more prog (which is of course no bad thing).
― and she's crying in a stairwell in Devon (aldo), Saturday, 6 September 2014 23:09 (nine years ago) link
prayers answered and all that:
http://www.theguardian.com/music/2014/sep/11/kate-bush-to-release-dvd-of-london-comeback-shows
― john wahey (NickB), Thursday, 11 September 2014 08:51 (nine years ago) link
I will confess that the staging of the end of the Ninth Wave did remind me of that bit in Zelda where all the characters come to greet you on the beach and start dancing around.
― Matt DC, Thursday, 11 September 2014 08:58 (nine years ago) link
Went on Friday. Was in more or less the worst seats in the house* but that was incredible, the second half especially. Emotionally drained after it. A Sky of Honey seemed to end up somewhere much darker than the record.
*back of the circle under some house lights that stayed on. Gave us a good view of anyone slipping off to the loo, arriving late, etc. Special shout out to the couple leaving about a minute before the end of The Ninth Wave, during the Georgian fish-bone-head funeral procession.
― woof, Monday, 22 September 2014 16:27 (nine years ago) link
Anyone read Graeme Thompson's Kate bio? Saw it used today and thought about picking it up.
― Wimmels, Friday, 3 July 2015 20:28 (eight years ago) link
/hijack thread revivalApparently there is 2 versions of the Red Shoes album. The good version is one of my favorite albums. Seriously underrated album. I skip to the end of the first track though.
― The Once-ler, Friday, 3 July 2015 23:20 (eight years ago) link
Not the very end. I still listen to the weird experimental section of rubberband girl.
― The Once-ler, Friday, 3 July 2015 23:24 (eight years ago) link
which is the good version? there was a remastered one that came out with director's cut box, which I haven't heard but does it really sound any different beyond some mastering changes?
― akm, Saturday, 4 July 2015 02:14 (eight years ago) link
Just finished the Thompson bio. Liked it very much. Lots of detail re: recording. It's worth picking up for sure.
― Acid Hose (Capitaine Jay Vee), Saturday, 4 July 2015 02:46 (eight years ago) link
The 2011 remaster is the one I'm most familiar with. Honestly, I don't know if it's much different than the original - but boy did that original get a lot of hate back then.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l_ivkVwIG9Qonly 480p but here you go
― The Once-ler, Saturday, 4 July 2015 02:53 (eight years ago) link
Maybe I've just always assumed there are 2 versions since I don't really know what the haters are listening to
― The Once-ler, Saturday, 4 July 2015 03:47 (eight years ago) link
Only 480p? But I want to watch that album artwork in 720p!
― Chewshabadoo, Sunday, 5 July 2015 16:26 (eight years ago) link
480p is typically 128kbps stereo, albeit comparable to something better because YouTube down samples quite well. With 720p and higher you can usually expect 192kbps or higher stereo AAC quality
― The Once-ler, Sunday, 5 July 2015 19:41 (eight years ago) link
I got the Rob Jovanovic bio last year in the Google Play store, but it's still there laying dormant. I'm pretty much a non-fan of Jovanovic, unluckily he's the only one writing bios of some of my favorite groups. I've already had to endure his books on Big Star and Pavement.
― cpl593H, Tuesday, 7 July 2015 12:41 (eight years ago) link
did we never talk about the fact that those live shows contained a very long interlude about sausages
― oh, amazonaws (wins), Saturday, 25 June 2016 13:54 (seven years ago) link
the film of this is never coming out, is it
― akm, Saturday, 25 June 2016 15:19 (seven years ago) link
Kate Bush live album from 2014 shows to be released
Tracklist:
01. ‘Lily’02. ‘Hounds Of Love’03. ‘Joanni’04. ‘Top Of The City’05. ‘Never Be Mine’06. ‘Running Up That Hill’07. ‘King Of The Mountain’08. ‘The Astronomer’s Call’09. ‘And Dream Of Sheep’10. ‘Under Ice’11. ‘Waking The Witch’12. ‘Watching Them Without Her’13. ‘Watching You Without Me’14. ‘Little Light’15. ‘Jig Of Life’16. ‘Hello Earth’17. ‘This Morning Fog’18. ‘Prelude’19. ‘Prologue’20. ‘An Architect’s Dream’21. ‘The Painter’s Link’22. ‘Sunset’23. ‘Aerial Tal’24. ‘Somewhere In Between’25. ‘Tawny Moon’26. ‘Nocturn’27. ‘Aerial’28. ‘Among Angels’29. ‘Cloudbusting’
― the tightening is plateauing (Le Bateau Ivre), Thursday, 29 September 2016 11:40 (seven years ago) link
― Mädchester Amick (wins), Thursday, 29 September 2016 12:24 (seven years ago) link
nice, but I thought they filmed it and were gonna release a video?
― erry red flag (f. hazel), Thursday, 29 September 2016 17:21 (seven years ago) link
Been listening to two boots from the first couple of nights for a while now. I skip the silly "comedic" interludes w/ her kid but the rest is so great. Looking forward to this release.
― Acid Hose (Capitaine Jay Vee), Friday, 30 September 2016 02:20 (seven years ago) link
there is video on youtube, which I haven't watched yet, of entire shows
― akm, Friday, 30 September 2016 02:40 (seven years ago) link
But I imagine that is not an official recording?
― Chewshabadoo, Friday, 30 September 2016 05:42 (seven years ago) link