Today Olivia and I had a quintessentially English day visiting the “queen of cathedrals” at Wells in Somerset. The oldest clock face in the world from 1390 in an edifice that was constructed between 1175 and 1490. Original ancient, beautiful stained glass windows and giant organ pipes that were blasting through the stone arches and […]
An odd choice of mood for a Christmas special as Peter Gabriel and Kate Bush duet on Roy Harper’s classic song of regret. Another Day was originally released on Harper’s first album for Harvest Records, Flat, Baroque And Berserk (1970) the album reaching No.20 on the UK chart. The song was also covered by This […]
The Unknown Soldier was Roy Harper’s tenth and last studio album for Harvest Records. Released in 1980, You was co-written with old friend Dave Gilmour and featured a duet with Kate Bush. Although Kate Bush was enjoying enormous success at the time, this amazing track seems to be off most Kate Bush fans’ radar (three […]
Eivør Pálsdóttir is a Faroese singer/songwriter that crosses genre borders with her eclectic influences and her outstanding voice. You are probably geographically aware that the Faroe Islands are situated east of Norway, north-west of Great Britian and south of Iceland in the Norwegian sea and like Greenland belong to Denmark. This isolation and the Nordic […]
When Kate Bush wanted a proper Rock and Roll bass player to drive her powerful and weird music on her experimental album, The Dreaming in 1982 – she called Jimmy Bain. When John Cale was looking for a bass player for a European tour – he called Jimmy Bain. When Roy Harper duetted with Kate […]
To coincide with the upcoming 22 Kate Bush live shows at the Hammersmith Apollo in August and September, Snap Galleries have an exhibition of unseen photography by Gered Mankowitz and Guido Harari. Mankowitz was responsible for early images of her including album cover shoots and promo shots – Guido Harari worked with her later around […]