Kate Bush: On Location - a new book

Experience the real-life locations that have shaped Kate's music and career. Paperback and eBook available from

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Kate Bush: On Location. Available in paperback, eBook, and from today to Amazon Kindle Unlimited subscribers. https://t.co/bdUfNG0r84

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Though there were a couple of new @KateBushMusic books published last year, I cannot find any from this year.
With plenty of scope to explore, are authors waiting for a new album, or perhaps waiting for that unique idea?
I discuss my theories:
https://t.co/gFzs6bXGvC

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The beautiful Vale of the White Horse, Dragon Hill & Uffington Castle, Oxfordshire, England.

Location for the filming of the Kate Bush 'Cloudbusting' music video, 1985.

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Kate Bush in the garden of East Wickham Farm discussing vegetarianism with Delia Smith @DeliaOnline - Summer 1979.

The segment was made for Delia's popular TV series, Delia Smith's Cookery Course, which aired on BBC2 on 29 Feb 1980.

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The original stage and lighting plans for the 1979 Kate Bush Tour by Production Designer David Jackson, including the hand drawn and annotated lighting design, as well as a printed plan of the stage design.

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The former Super Bear studios, Berre-Les-Alpes, France, where Kate Bush's second album, Lionheart, was recorded in July 1978.

Other albums recorded at Super Bear include Queen's 'Jazz', Elton John's '21 at 33', and, of course, 'The Wall' by Pink Floyd.

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The building at 41-44 Great Windmill Street, Soho, London was once home to the studio of photographer Gered Mankowitz, where, on the 3rd floor of the building, he first photographed Kate Bush.

He was commissioned by EMI to provide some shots for Kate's first single and album.

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@christiancalgie Stay in the pool and I'll get you a other beer

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Kate Bush - There Goes A Tenner

Filmed at Ewart Studios, Wandsworth Plain, London, in the late Autumn of 1982.

The video was directed by Paul Henry, who had also directed the video for Kate's previous release, The Dreaming.

The studios were demolished in 2023.

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Kate Bush photographed by John Carder Bush during a session which provided the cover images for both the Experiment IV single and The Whole Story album, 1986.

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Poole Arts Centre (now the 'Lighthouse') photographed in 1978 not long after its construction.

It was here that Kate Bush performed the first of her tour concerts (inside the Wessex Hall - pictured) on Sunday the 1st of April, 1979.

(Images courtesy of https://t.co/p7Nv7Wxy92)

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(Images courtesy of the fabulous https://t.co/kyV9NXz6EA and its contributors.)

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'Beautiful'
'Wonderous'
'Breathtaking'

Cream Creative Marketing - the company behind EMI's first Kate Bush marketing campaign. (The one that caused a bit of bother when Gered Mankowitz's 'pink leotard' portrait ended up plastered across the front of many a London bus.)

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I've not been able to share anything on X because of copyright, but do take a look!

If you type 'Kate Bush' in the search bar, you'll also find a number of contact sheets for Kevin Cummins, who photographed Kate in 1989 and at the Manchester Apollo during her '79 tour!

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For all you Kate Bush fans, I thought I'd share this page with you: https://t.co/YTv7fIlHOo

It has some fantastic shots of Kate taken during her sessions with Gered Mankowitz in 1978/79 and includes a number of Gered's contact sheets with loads of images I've never seen before!

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"When I am a man, I will be an astronaut and find Peter Pan."

- Kate Bush, In Search of Peter Pan, 1978

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KT Fellowship durante a apresentação de A Sky of Honey na Before The Dawn (2014)

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Kate Bush 'Lionheart' promotional poster from the UK.

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Kate Bush performing Wow on the Spanish TVE programme, 'Aplauso', 28 July 1979.

Recorded at the Estudios De Prado Del Rey, Madrid, Spain.

(I'm not sure what TVE had been feeding Kate that day, but she does look slightly unhinged.)

See for yourself:
https://t.co/DyWoCWLngu

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Kate Bush performing 'Oh England, My Lionheart' live at the Hammersmith Odeon, May 1979.

Video directed by Keef MacMillan.

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Kate Bush performing Running Up That Hill on the German ARD television programme 'Extratour', September 1985.

Extratour was produced by Radio Bremen at their studios in Bremen, Germany.

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