Kate Bush

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

Ha yes

I feel like week one of a really long engagement is maybe not quite time to judge ykno

You're right, I withdraw my earlier praise & will reserve judgement on the show until all the data is in

-_-

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).

prayers answered and all that:

http://www.theguardian.com/music/2014/sep/11/kate-bush-to-release-dvd-of-london-comeback-shows

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.

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.

Anyone read Graeme Thompson's Kate bio? Saw it used today and thought about picking it up.

/hijack thread revival
Apparently 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.

Not the very end. I still listen to the weird experimental section of rubberband girl.

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?

Just finished the Thompson bio. Liked it very much. Lots of detail re: recording. It's worth picking up for sure.

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_ivkVwIG9Q
only 480p but here you go

Maybe I've just always assumed there are 2 versions since I don't really know what the haters are listening to

Only 480p? But I want to watch that album artwork in 720p!

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

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.

did we never talk about the fact that those live shows contained a very long interlude about sausages

the film of this is never coming out, is it

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’

did we never talk about the fact that those live shows contained a very long interlude about sausages

nice, but I thought they filmed it and were gonna release a video?

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.

there is video on youtube, which I haven't watched yet, of entire shows

But I imagine that is not an official recording?

Prologue from this is really fantastic, extended to twice the length of the studio version with a completely new section. it's a real shame they're not releasing the video though.

it's that kind of primeval thing where you're trying to think, 'Can I get to that tree before the tiger gets me?'

live album is quite a nice piece. really wish i'd been there.