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| by Ben Dickson I am the infamous Ben Dickson aluded to on the Lionheart and Aerial albums. Now you can visit my website at: http:bensmysteriousworld.homestead.com There is some of my Kate art at the site. I hope you enjoy the site. I recommend Aerial, by the way. Comment on this... | ||||
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| by Ben Dickson Kate Bush was bashed as a child. Everyone knows that. What they may not know is that she was taken to Australia in the 60's by her authoritarian father, whom she describes as "The idiot". She lampooned him when young by playing a spluttering psycho-surgeon and hacking up dolls filled with tomato sauce. She would emit squeals and splutter "Dirty Dollies" and things like that. In Australia, Kate was attacked by Aboriginal youths. She later got her revenge in the filmclip of The Dreaming in which she impales Abo's on a Laser Beam! On her return to Australia, students at her school would shout "Bush is back from the bush. Bash Bush! Bash the Bushie!". She was bashed senseless, lying in a pool of blood, eerily like the dolls she had smashed when younger. Growing older, Kate came under the influence of her psychotic poet brother who introduced her to drugs, the occult and Heavy Metal. She would chant with her friends amidst lit candles, summoning things that sounded like something from some sort of Frog-Language. She had a boyfriend, Al Buckle, but she just used the poor sod. Her attentions were more towards Dave Gilmour, who she stalked and drooled over. he refered to her as "The Horny Mouse Elf" or something. He'd had younger. Eerily, she herself was then stalked in Abbey Woods, near the school she attended. It was family friend..or should I say, fiend..... Ricky Hopper who got her a record deal...after signing a pact with The Devil. Kate then played to Boos and Hisses in London, in the KT Bush band, performing such songs as "Sympathy fo the Devil", That was odd. The Devil had actually just eaten her soul!. Her first record had her hunted by Puritans who labelled her "Ms. Incest". She attempted suicide at that point, using her father's medical equipment. It didn't work. She still walks with a lurch to this day. Much like her lust-prisoner John Lydon. The Devil then had a plan for her. He told her to make an album called Lionheart which would symbolise something in the future. Something about a Ben, a Dick, and a Sun (son). The mystery was now set. Later came the Rolf Harris head smashing incident, the Prince and the licorice incident, the naked shoe-clean, the Peter Gabriel wetsuit incident, the Bulgarian Singers erotic photo blackmailincident, the ostrich hunt and other such well documented facts. That's enough for now. Just thought you should know. Comment on this... |
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| by Adrian Bennett Happy to comment - KB is just the consumate artist, the best female singer/songwriter the UK ever produced. Totally original, with a intimacy in her writing and performance that raises the short hairs on your neck. Listening to her work can sometimes be profoundly moving, like an insight into the soul. She can touch you with just a few words and you think about them all day... She is also an incredible unschooled musician - a brilliant experimental arranger of sounds that should never work together but do (trad Irish behind Bulgarian vocal folk? only KB does that and other wonderfull combos). A national treasure, thank God we have her and that she is still recording (but so so sparingly!) We are the same age, so I have followed her career from the very start, passing the same life milestones together, and it has been fascinating to see how she has developed as an artist in response to these. I so look forward to hearing some 'post motherhood' work from her. Whilst I am a fan of Kate Bush, I am not fanatical about her, and I applaud her frequent isolation from the (now corrupt and bankrupt) music business and the public eye. It has made her a better artist, I am convinced of it. If there is any justice, history will recognise and record her incredible importance as a world artist. One day, I'd love to tell her this myself... Comment on this... |