barger@ARISTOTLE.ILS.NWU.EDU (Jorn Barger) (03/05/91)
Rec.music.gaffa is a 5-year-old newsgroup dedicated to the 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 metaphorical, apparently, for 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". 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, via: love-hounds-request@eddie.mit.edu 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, 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 [also in Kansas City]. Vickie is especially big on Happy Rhodes, Victoria Williams, and Jane Siberry. 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). 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/kh [[[[[kb?]]]]] on the same host. GIF files are also available.(???) 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!) ===================================================================
L-H@cup.portal.COM (03/07/91)
In some other post that I don't know how to answer directly yet, Jorn thought: >... Vickie is especially big on Happy Rhodes,Victoria Williams, and >Jane Siberry. Well, I think that Jane should be mentioned first. I mean, Victoria is simply a joy, and Happy is simply great, but Jane is _Jesus_, brother. :-) Also (editorially), I think this whole paragraph should be moved to right before the pargraph beginning with "All five years...". This might be being nitpicky, but as IED so correKTly points out, this group is mainly concerned about Kate. So this explanatory message should refleKT this. >================================================================= >"Kate Bush is God!" (She really is!) >============================================================ Well, absolutely no doubt about that! Yes, believe it, you all: She really IS! Larry (Love-Hound@cup.portal.com)