emv@msen.com (Edward Vielmetti, MSEN) (03/22/91)
Archive-name: /news/news-archives/rec-music-gaffa/1991-03-18 Archive-directory: hayes.ims.alaska.edu:/pub/love-hounds/ [137.229.30.200] Rec.music.gaffa is a 5-year-old newsgroup dedicated to the sublime artistic genius of Kate Bush. "Gaffa" comes from her song "Suspended in Gaffa" (on _The_Dreaming_), and (according to Kate) refers to gaffer's tape, or duct tape, used to keep people from tripping over electrical cabling, and metaphorically, apparently, to a sort of frustrating limbo-dimension: "Suddenly my feet are feet of mud/ It all goes slo-mo I don't know why I'm crying/ Am I suspended In Gaffa?" Rec.music.gaffa is run as a moderated group only because submissions to it are forwarded to an extensive mailing list of people without netnews access, who form an informal fan club called "Love-Hounds". (The mailing list was r.m.g's original format, when started by |>oug Alan so many years ago.) You can mail submissions, without fear of censorship, to: love-hounds@eddie.mit.edu To subscribe to the mailing list, send a message to the "moderator", Bill Wisner (who's actually in Alaska), via: love-hounds-request@eddie.mit.edu Love-hounds celebrate Kate's birthday (Katemas) each year on July 30, with parties all over the world (she was born in 1958). The big event of 1990 was the Kate Bush Fan Clubs Convention, November 17 at London's Hammersmith Palais, celebrating the release (in the UK, Canada and Japan) of the "This Woman's Work" boxed set, containing all her albums in conventional form, along with two CDs (or three LPs) of B-sides and alternative mixes. Of the 1300 convention attendees, some 50 were Love-Hounds, many from the US and Australia, meeting face to face for the first time. Kate spent an hour answering questions submitted by audience members, and announced that she hopes to have a new album finished very quickly, having begun composing at the piano again. She also claimed she's planning to "play some dates" at the end of 1991, possibly including some in the US. (Old Kate-Hounds are protecting themselves from disappointment with a wait-and-see attitude, having heard all this before.) Kate's earliest band was called the KT Bush Band, (KT being readable as Katey), and all her albums have had a KT emblem hidden somewhere on the cover. With the boxed set she introduced a new version of the symbol, integrating the astrological symbol for Venus (ie, the biological symbol for woman). Topics of interest to love-hounds include other alternative female artists, and Kate-related others like Peter Gabriel and Roy Harper. Many new discoveries have been brought to our attention by Vickie Mapes (of Vickie'n'Chris), whose radio show "Suspended in Gaffa" focuses on alternative female artists, airing Wednesdays from 7 to 8pm on WZRD in Chicago (88.3 FM), and Saturdays from 10 to 11pm on KKFI (90.1 FM) in Kansas City. Vickie is especially big on Jane Siberry, Happy Rhodes, and Victoria Williams. Another welcome fixture in the group is the numinous curmudgeon "IED", Andy Marvick's self-parody as the ultimate "true believer" Katefan. IED has acted at times as the flame-wielding bouncer of the group, but has mellowed of late into the simpler role of a supremely well-informed and selfless devotee of the cause. All five years of rec.music.gaffa/love-hounds-digest can be ftp'd from the love-hounds archive at hayes.ims.alaska.edu (137.229.30.200) in directory /pub/love-hounds/archives Song lyrics, interviews, etc are in /pub/love-hounds/kb on the same host. GIF files are also available.(???) To get to the archives, you use a program called FTP. If your system has FTP, then you use it to connect to hayes.ims.alaska.edu, log in as anonymous, use "guest" as your password, then use commands like "cd" for change directory, "dir" for directory and "get" to get a file. For those without FTP capabilities, Richard Caldwell has started a BBS that offers the GIFs and current r.m.g postings. The Big Sky BBS can be reached 24 hours a day at 614-864-1198 (1200 or 2400 baud). =================================================================== "Kate Bush is God!" (She really IS!) =================================================================== -- -Dave datta@vacs.uwp.edu [....uwm!uwpvacs!datta] The moon goes around in orbit. It's the only place the moon does go. The moon only makes left turns. To get anywhere else you have to get off. WANT TO GET OFF?