Show Notes
In this episode of the Kate Bush Fan Podcast, Seán introduces Darrell's chat with Pat Martin, bass guitarist with British band Unicorn. Because of his close association with Dave Gilmour of Pink Floyd, he was asked to play for the young Cathy Bush's first ever recording at the age of fifteen in 1973. Pat can be heard on 'Passing Through Air' from this session which was released as a B-side to 'Army Dreamers' in 1980. The late, Ricky Hopper is also discussed. It was through him that Kate's music was heard in the first place, championing her relentlessly. We get to hear how Pat was invited to this session at Gilmour's house, and his fond remembrances of the young and shy Cathy. He knew there was something very special and that here was an artist, sure and confident about her craft. We also get to hear wonderful stories about Pat's involvement with Unicorn, and the amazing artists they worked with, including Patti Smith, Fleetwood Mac and Linda Rondstadt among many otters. Unicorn's song 'Ooh Mother' was recently played in the USA TV drama 'Paradise'. It has resulted in the song being streamed 115k times on Spotify. It's worth a listen.
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Seán once again joins Darrell and Paul, this time to discuss the wonderful promotional videos for the singles that accompanied The Sensual World (1989) and The Red Shoes (1993) albums. Who now owns the Molly Bloom dress from The Sensual World video? What became of all that fruit from the Eat The Music video set? And why was there a different video for Rubberband Girl for the US market? All this and more in this very enjoyable episode!
NB: Watch the visual trailer for this episode! https://youtu.be/H1Cw7woW3q8 In this very special episode of the Kate Bush Fan Podcast, Darrell Babidge chats to Seán about a memorable day spent in the company of Peter Reich at Orgonon itself! Peter is of course the writer of A Book of Dreams about his father Wilhelm Reich, the book that inspired Kate's Cloudbusting. The visit took place at the Wilhelm Reich Museum which Kate currently also shares a link to on her official website. Because Darrell has so much visual content from the day Seán also created the visual trailer below for you to whet your appetite for the podcast episode: https://youtu.be/H1Cw7woW3q8 Orgonon is located in the state of Maine, USA and is where Wilhelm Reich established his laboratory and observatory where he conducted his work and research into orgone energy among other things. Peter's father Wilhelm was memorably played by Donald Sutherland in the celebrated 1985 music film for the song Cloudbusting.
Seán introduces our first episode of 2026! Following on from their recent countdown from No. 20-11, Paul and Darrell now share each of their Top 10 Kate songs. There are a few surprises along the way! Did they miss out some of your favourites?
Happy Christmas! Seán introduces a fun episode in which Paul and Darrell share each of their top 20 Kate Bush song lists. This is part 1 where they count down from number 20 to 11, without knowing what each other's choices are! They are surprisingly quite different, and they explain why they chose each song. Wishing all our listeners a lovely Christmas and a wonderful, peaceful New Year in 2026!
As we continue to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the Hounds of Love album by Kate Bush, Darrell and Paul from Bush Telegraph (and Seán in Dublin from Kate Bush News!) discuss Kate's incredible music videos from The Hounds of Love album.