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Kate Bush - Happy Birthday

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  • Mrkinski
    Mrkinski Posts: 957
    bobmunro said:

    Happy birthday, gorgeous.

    Thanks Bob.
  • soapy_jones
    soapy_jones Posts: 21,350
    Love Kates Bush...

    Happy birthday.
  • SomervilleAddick
    SomervilleAddick Posts: 3,575
    golfaddick said:

    Happy Birthday was by Altered Images not Kate Bush....get your 80's tunes right.

    Kate Bushs dad was my doctor when I was a kid. The lead singer from Altered Images is the cousin of the guy in the office next to me.

    Almost famous.
  • Macronate
    Macronate Posts: 12,890
    HardyAddick said:

    se9addick said:

    DA9 said:

    Does she still live in Eltham, near royal Blackheath golf club? Court road?

    No, don’t think she’s lived there for a long time, however the house still has “Wuthering Heights” on the gates, bit of a local landmark.
    Kate did not put those gates in. It was subsequent owners.
    Kate wasn't living there at the time but she actually installed those gates.

    She had hit on hard times following the release of her Lionheart album and sought work with a local gate installation company on the basis that she could always rely upon her 'Gate Installation' 'O' Level.

    Not many people know that Running Up That Hill was based upon her gate installing exploits. This arose after her very first gate installation job involved running up a hill after the gate supplier's van who had driven away from the property after ringing on the bell twice without anybody answering the door.
  • Brendan_O_Connell
    Brendan_O_Connell Posts: 8,938
    Kate says thanks for the birthday messages guys. She would say thank you herself, but she only looks at Charlton Life as a guest. She can't be arsed to create a log in.
  • SoundAsa£
    SoundAsa£ Posts: 22,477
    Saw a post earlier that made a reference (in jest I believe), to Kate once having a soft spot for Charlton....now I’m not 100% sure of this, but I believe that may well be true.
    Just something at the back in my mind that somewhere along the line she did watch us at The Valley on a few occasions......maybe something to do with the crowd she hung out with from Blackheath or a boyfriend she had at the time.
    I believe her father also had a medical practise in Brockley, as well as living there.
  • happyvalley
    happyvalley Posts: 8,996
    Her parents lived at the Upper Wickham Lane and of Wickham Street for a while.
  • Norman_Smith
    Norman_Smith Posts: 338
    I'm pretty sure her Dad was the club Doctor at one time?
  • bobmunro
    bobmunro Posts: 20,842
    happyvalley said:

    Her parents lived at the Upper Wickham Lane and of Wickham Street for a while.

    Yep - just around the corner from where I lived in Swingate Lane.
  • SoundAsa£
    SoundAsa£ Posts: 22,477
    Norman_Smith said:

    I'm pretty sure her Dad was the club Doctor at one time?

    Not heard that before?

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  • seth plum
    seth plum Posts: 53,448
    Her first ever gig was in Lee.
  • vff
    vff Posts: 6,881
    RedChaser said:

    Wow! wow! wow! Unbelievable! :wink:

    Her GP Dad Dr Bush had a surgery in Abbey Wood.

    It’s true. He was the family GP & I remember going there when I was a kid.
  • Alex Wright
    Alex Wright Posts: 8,214
    seth plum said:

    Her first ever gig was in Lee.

    The Rose of Lee?


  • seth plum
    seth plum Posts: 53,448
    Alex Wright said:

    seth plum said:

    Her first ever gig was in Lee.

    The Rose of Lee?


    Yes.
  • Rob
    Rob Posts: 11,781
    Yeah. I can always remember my mum saying that her family’s doctor was Kate Bush’s dad.
  • DA9
    DA9 Posts: 11,091
    SoundAsa£ said:

    Saw a post earlier that made a reference (in jest I believe), to Kate once having a soft spot for Charlton....now I’m not 100% sure of this, but I believe that may well be true.
    Just something at the back in my mind that somewhere along the line she did watch us at The Valley on a few occasions......maybe something to do with the crowd she hung out with from Blackheath or a boyfriend she had at the time.
    I believe her father also had a medical practise in Brockley, as well as living there.

    @Goonerhater may be able to help, if he wants to share
  • Six-a-bag-of-nuts
    Six-a-bag-of-nuts Posts: 8,127
    Has a new compilation box set in the pipeline called "Withering Hits"
  • TEL
    TEL Posts: 10,100
    I knew her when she was 14-15 living in Wickham Street. She was quite shy. I also bumped into her at a recording studio in Catford in about 1977 before she became famous. She had been doing some demos. Can’t say I knew her well but well enough for her to remember the scruffy litle urchin working at Bin-A-Way in Wickham St during the school holidays. I personally love 50 words for Snow myself.
  • Covered End
    Covered End Posts: 51,989
    Six-a-bag-of-nuts said:

    Has a new compilation box set in the pipeline called "Withering Hits"

    More like Withering Tits.
  • Callumcafc
    Callumcafc Posts: 63,763
    https://www.theguardian.com/music/2022/jun/10/kate-bushs-running-up-that-hill-climbs-higher-than-ever-to-no-2-in-charts
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  • soapy_jones
    soapy_jones Posts: 21,350
    Love a bit of Bush!
  • Dave2l
    Dave2l Posts: 8,866
    soapy_jones said:
    Love a bit of Bush!
    The running up the hill music video increases natural love for some nice bush 
  • Braziliance
    Braziliance Posts: 8,353
    Callumcafc said:
    https://www.theguardian.com/music/2022/jun/10/kate-bushs-running-up-that-hill-climbs-higher-than-ever-to-no-2-in-charts
    The power of modern social media,

    I always get annoyed when I see crap modern artists have a billion views on their songs and when I see actual talents like Kate Bush not have anywhere near the numbers. Just goes to show there still would be room for music like that in modern society, there’s still hope 
  • North Lower Neil
    North Lower Neil Posts: 22,949
    Braziliance said:
    Callumcafc said:
    https://www.theguardian.com/music/2022/jun/10/kate-bushs-running-up-that-hill-climbs-higher-than-ever-to-no-2-in-charts
    The power of modern social media,

    I always get annoyed when I see crap modern artists have a billion views on their songs and when I see actual talents like Kate Bush not have anywhere near the numbers. Just goes to show there still would be room for music like that in modern society, there’s still hope 
    Power of Netflix in this case.
  • jonseventyfive
    jonseventyfive Posts: 3,353
    Loved the duet with Peter Gabriel, super talent and a lovely lady/ woman. 
  • MuttleyCAFC
    MuttleyCAFC Posts: 47,728
    Very talented artist. Some great songs. My favourite is Cloudbusting but I must admit I have always had a soft spot for Babooshka, especially the video.
  • addix
    addix Posts: 1,183
    Amazing talent and great to see new interest through these newfangled ways of watching the telly and social media - something she doesn't engage with much.
    A personal favourite has always been Army Dreamers, and for a cover of a Kate Bush song, Placebo's version of Running up that Hill is a pretty decent effort.
  • Rothko
    Rothko Posts: 18,801
    Best concert I’ve ever been to, very lucky to have seen her live a few years back.

    the scene in Stranger Things where Running up that Hill features, is some of the best TV of a generation 
  • jimmymelrose
    jimmymelrose Posts: 9,750
    In which episode of Stranger Things 4 is 'Running Up That Hill?' I've already watched the first two episodes. I'm amazed that so many people have already got so far into the series for this to happen.
  • ShootersHillGuru
    ShootersHillGuru Posts: 50,619
    jimmymelrose said:
    In which episode of Stranger Things 4 is 'Running Up That Hill?' I've already watched the first two episodes. I'm amazed that so many people have already got so far into the series for this to happen.
    Have you heard of binge watching?

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