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The truth about Kate Bush (Wed Feb 16, 2005 1:55am ET) report post

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...

Re: The truth about Kate Bush (Wed Jul 22, 2009 8:28am ET) report post by Robert Moore Hi; I am horrified to read the above - which seems to be a mixture of truths, half-truths and fantasties. I am the author of "The Kate Bush Mysteries: fact and fiction", an article which examines the various claims of Kate Bush's so-called involvement in "the occult". As a consequence I made a breif study of her life - so I therefore feel I can comment on the above with a minor degree of "authority"! 1: Yes, Kate Bush did suffer bullying when a child, largely due to her shy, placid nature. What's also forgotten she also had a large circle of friends at least by the time she was in grammar school. Like all of us when we were young, she had friends AND enemies. 2: Kate is known to have loved her father - I doubt she ever called him "the idiot". She always refered to him as "pops" in her albums ! Rather than being an "authoritarian" presence he has been described as a somewhat placid and generous (if aloof) individual who often included Kate's freinds in his gifts of largess! The Bush family is described as a close and loving one in general. Rather than being an authoritarian household, Kate and her brothers were allowed a great deal of personal freedom. So quite the reverse, in fact! It is said the old farmhouse they lived in often "rang" with the sound of them all singing and playing various instruments! 3: "The Dreaming" video does NOT include a sequence where "abo(rigines) are impailed on a laser beam". The laser is featured, yes, but the laser beam is used only as a visual prop,in the same manner as the pole in a dancer's studio. Remember, Kate did have significant training in dance and mine! If Kate used the "The Dreaming" to avenge herself by the aborigines who supposedly "attacked her" why then is "The Dreaming" SO sympathetic to their plight and their world view?? 4: I don't think it's justified calling her poet brother a "psychotic". Where's the evidence for this - otherwise it's just slander/libel against a notably creative individual! Personally, I've seen NO evidence of this, Kate was never interested in "heavy metal" (more Elton John, Bowie, Floydd etc) while the "occult" he "introduced" her to included such "dark" figures as the Christain mystic Gurdjieff and classical mythology! Eeekk - scary!! ( Comment on this... Re: The truth about Kate Bush (Wed Jul 22, 2009 8:35am ET) report post by Robert Moore 5: Kate and her friends would often mess about telling ghost stories to each other, going on ghost hunts in graveyards and other childish nonsence like this. All this was just teenagers being teenagers, playing about and being silly - most children do stuff like this! So much so I don't even bother mentioning it, only in passing. So I very much doubt she e ran a covern from her parents farmhouse based I what I have read of these youthful games and fantasies!...!( 6:Dave Gilmor actually came to Kate's house to help her start her musical career. Kate didn't need to "stalk" Gilmor, as they were often in contact with each other thereafter! There is no hint Kate became obsessed with Gilmor in a way that made him uncomfortable (the basic definition of "stalking", surely?) Yes, they became friends, and remain so to this day by all account. If Kate was "stalking" Gilmor and he didn't like this surely he would have broken his ties with her? I think her relationship with Al ended because they just drifted appart when she moved to London. I don't think Kate "used" him in any way. She was very shy and reserved with him, reportedly leaving roses on his motorcycle every so often. It was Gilmor who got her "retainer" with EMI - it wasn't a record deal at that stage. Yes, Kate was apparrently stalked when she lived in London - but this hardly anything to note with glee. But it appears to have been a very low level passive affair and was hence mostly unnoticed by Kate and her family at the time. Details of this was openly disclosed on Dutch TV some years back (in a programme called "Come Back Kate") I so pity Kate for the various oddballs that feel they own her and can take liberties with her privacy like this. And everyone wonders why she guards her personal space as she does? 8: As for the last bits - this is just lapsing into incoherent fantasy! What are you trying to say here?? I sense much of this is humourous, or at least totally baseless fan-fantasies. This is the first time I've heard of this suicide rumour. If it's true and Kate is a very private person how then did anyone get to hear of it. There's nothing in the media about it, for sure; if not, then prove me wrong! And does she walk with a "lurch"? Could she have very done the dancing during the 1979 Kate Bush tour and the dancing featured in the numerous videos she made afterwards if she didn't have full control over her ability to move?? This seems silly and is seemingly voided by the various dynamic dance performances she enacted after this mythical "sucide" attempt! "Lionheart" was chosen as the title for her album because (I suspect)the term had personal significance to her. It may relate to the fact that she was born under the starsign Leo and it was Kate's personal term for independently minded (female) free spirits like herself; as suggested in one of her unreleased 1976 demo songs. My article speculates on this in some depth. All in all, I would love for all these gothic rumours of dark deeds and supposed occult doings to be true from a writer's POV - it would make for a more exciting subject! But the truth is that Kate's is but a very talented singer-songwriter with a relatively minor interest in the unusual side of life, who is mainly concerned with developing her "art". The problem is that Kate's private nature has presented a screen upon which people can project their fantasies upon. Hence these various stories. An official biography can't really come soon enough! Comment on this...

Re: The truth about Kate Bush (Tue Dec 23, 2008 2:46am ET) report post by Roman Alsace-Lorraine What a load of rubbish,Ben Dickson! Comment on this...

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