A completely nonsensical post for the benefit of myself

Oliver

Smoke and without fire was twirling like nursery like something being six and totally covered in sequins and gowns and and curtain call. Thinking too much was the problem that beset him from the outset, it was a mistake and he knew it and there wasn't much he could do from this point on but open the drawer and take out the small black globe that he licked when he was angry or taken with guilt. It smashed and he had to get one from ASDA. Or like IKEA trips with his ex who never knew they were even an item until he tried to trip her with terrible, terrible gifts. It's all orchestral, bassoons and contrabass and terrible cockney accents. We're just allowed half an hour and an adventure that could lead toward train tracks cutting through bad deserts that are later found to be around the back of butlins bognor regis. Ack. His brother was found with bucketfulls of crabs taking them back and forth between rockpools and. Crab-bank. He would catch them with a rusty little cage that smelt like bad. A bit of dialogue from a film could take them at any point and they'd start rehearsing rehashing bits from hitchcock and shakespeare adaptations set in the future, all sleek lines and badges and bad bad bad wobbly spaceships. There goes a tenner! There goes a froth, sloth.


C G C G Bb F Bb F

Turn it off, turn it on and repeat.

The Kate in our imagination, in the videos and in the bit between obsession and passion killing,

oliver likes brum fleks in the morning, before he has a single salty nut. Don't worry, you will get your turn tomorrow, he is a fair master.

But if he's very good, he may become slave and he will find a master for his deviant ways...

we are our mothers, we are maria.

Muse my cellulite infested arsehole.

As if you've got any?

We're in our twenties we shouldnt have any?

How can you tell???

im totally paranoid....

cool. Did I just get a txt?

And there's southern comfort calling for brother and sister
Lime's the future because peter pan is coming like all of opening and papa coming into the save this oh. Lovely time. Slosh. They put colour in their feed. Phoebe sings and it feels like angel milk; I'm so fucked up. Oliver loves my dad like a fair weathered friended loves, what about the post? She loves the whole, and she's got limbs, Phoebe is lovely like dreams are. Oh he's here again, cos me and phebs is pissed. Innit. Like when my dad used to displince me with Kate Bush.

It's better to call him in the afternoon when he's got nothing to do. This is the perfect time to reflect on your dad, if you're pissed. Right, we're sober, knob down and bottles sheathed. Ring, ring. Ring, ring. She's gone all cockney.


PHOEBE'S DAD

Mmmmm.... I think she was, sort of, amongst independent school people like me, she was more laughed at than laughed with. I just set the place alight. Yeah, yeah. This may be possible. I like to multitask. When did you first hear? The first thing I remember is wuthering heights. First reaction. She needed a new hairdresser. A voice that I'd never, ever heard before, it was intriguing. Polly Harvey, Joanna Newsom, Bonnie Rait, lots of Kate Bush in them. In 79, I was listening to the 3rd incarnation of Steeleye Span. The Electric Mother's Play. Jethro Tull. Fairport. Stockhausen; the klinky klanky stuff. Not a lot, because of the – it felt like very sophisticated music. It had a veer of unsophistication about it. The thing that took off about Kate Bush was that it was visual. She wasn't the first to use the pop video, but she certainly had a grasp of it. Images- the hair, she seemed spaced out or totally batty, took herself incredibly seriously. A fan? no. Any fans? NO I liked punk. The Clash, Ian Dury. It seemed a world away – sophisticated and artful. Punk was the nearest thing to a British folk tradition. Didn't fancy her, she was like the heroin addict that my mother warned me about. Fancied Debbie Harry, more of a full-on heroin addict. I never knew of anyone that bought Kate Bush albums, it was more singles. I was at university. I listened to lots of folk. I think that the image that she projected through her visual work, it was very male directed – very available and yet very unavailable. Highly unattainable, virginal, a world away from the girl next door. Playing and doing entirely different things. Highly complex idea of feminism, feminine ideal. The height of sexuality on british television was Pan's People. Pan married Robert Powell. Myleen Philips came up with Hot Gossip which appeared on Kenny Everett. I look at this woman on strictly now who came up with this stuff that was very daring, dangerous, exploitative. 'All Along the Watchtower' – sex on a stick. I wasn't allowed to watch ITV – it was television for the working classes. Kenny Everett, the world's worst radio show – 'I Want My Baby Back' about a man whose girlfriend died in a car crash. Pan's people etc. How TV presented femininity – she defied the cheeky seaside postcard sexuality and the edgy, dangerous stuff like Hot Gossip. KATE BUSH THE MUSICAL!!!! Who's Kate Bush? Somebody from my era – other than the 2 or 3 songs, we don't know the whole stuff. I remember reading something in which Frank Zappa said about kate 'one of england's great creative geniuses – of course you don't have many'. He thought she had a whole sort of integrity that was very important to him. I shall be fascinated when you show it – I have lots of questions. She disappeared – there's lots of conspiracy, she goes away to knick ******* one of those women who are destroyed by celebrity. People like Judy Garland, Karen Carpenter, but she's come back.

I suddenly thought – at the back end of the 70s, queen's jubilee – a certain view of what britain was like – inverted by punk. Thereafter, an icon of femininity appeared, lady Di. Negated the way kate presented herself. When I married your mother you can tell ~I got married in the era of Di. Like Kate, quite a complex woman, strong media persona that is then destroyed by that. Virginal white mother. The fact that lady di had chicken legs and was thick as shit. Crafted images of wife, mother, that changes an awful lot of things.



HANNAH'S MUM

When did you first hear Kate Bush? I AM DEBBIE. Call me Mrs Howrie if it sounds better on the interview. First exposure. Blimey. I was at secondary school. In the dark ages. I had a friend at school called CAROL SPIVACK? My last year at school, she looked like Kate Bush. Were you a fan? Definitely. First thoughts? I want to sound like that. Initial moment, wuthering heights. It could well have been. Wuthering Heights, Babooshka, MWTCIHE. I didn't seek out pop music. I used to listen to a little tranny. I listened to african folk music. Any link folk? Steeleye Span was dead big. Steeleye Span were funky and danceable, Kate Bush made you think a bit more. Link in the sense of storytelling – she told stories all the time. You must watch penguin parade because it's about christianity. It was almost like we knew kate bush, because we knew carol, she was the girl all the boys wanted to go out with – and did. Lol. Anything different? The weird move in wuthering heights – almost ugly. Pictures of Baba Yaga, the witch who lives in a house on chicken legs, the darkness and reaching out branches like hands – atmospheric and creepy. Babooshka is very like a verdi opera, he falls in love with her all over again. Kind of like what happens in opera, it's like WOW! It's you. When you take the mask off. We had no access to her as a person, classical background, didn't connect with her. I was above disco. By then I had been listening to Yes and Genesis and prog rock, Tangerine Dream. Druggy stuff. I didn't take interest in teen magazines, the appeal was in the music. First thing I bought was tubular bells. There's this thought – femininity, masculine ideal of femininity. Absolutely. Small and frail and needed protected, how disgusting. Her videos, very sensual, unattainable. Running up that hill, floaty dresses. Pan's Gossip – BRILLIANT CHOREOGRAPHY. In a funny way it was anti-feminist, but she was doing something very unfemale in the production and her voice and dichotomy with the way she presented herself. She's a very clever woman. Musically very intriguing, catches you with hooks you didn't know were being sung to you. Strange double message she was giving out, my friends are feminist and anti-men. KATE BUSH THE MUSICAL!! Reaction? Possibly FANTASTIC WHEN CAN I SEE IT? Other OH GOD LEAVE HER ALONE. YEAH THAT'S YOU GCSE FUCKER. Go to Edingburgh. I don't have her stuff but it's in my head.


PHOEBE MUM

Hello. Alright? Busy? I'm reading. What? A jew and an ex-boxer. Interview? We won't get much. Northern voice is Hannah. QUESTION 1> When did you hear bush? I heard on the australian version of totp with wuthering heights. Thoughts? I didn't particularly like it. It was wooo woooo wooooo. She was very pretty, fluttery but a bit mad. I was interested that she was doing a song about Wuthering Heights. Pop music in the 1970s was rubbish. I was listening to Queen. Can't remember. Album 'living in the 70s'. Australian perspective? Generic view. I didn't know anyone who was particularly keen on kate bush, never came up in conversation. Wuthering Heights is my only real memory, really different. Much more like the videos we get now. Bryan Ferry! Why do you think Kate Bush seems to be popular now? I think a lot of it has to do with music of any era, the rubbish stuff simply doesn't survive, the real quality does. I think she was real quality. She takes longer and longer to produce each album. Sense that she takes time to get it right. Not churning it out for the money. Experimental, resonates with the Dartington lot. Cutting edge, not mainstream. Female icons? Blondie. I used to listen to them. Reccuring themes, lady di? feminist/antifeminist. Feminism was at its height in the 70s – I dunno! Who did you look up to? I married your dad ridiculously young, I was learning to live in the UK, finding a job etc. I hated Maggie Thatcher. Split Enz. 6 months in a leaky boat. Phoebe's gone australian. What pop culture reached you? Not a lot. I did get a job at bbc radio merseyside. Radio used to call me on to do different pieces. Liverpool pop culture. Debbie used to wear far too much make-up and wear far too short skirts. Male femininity? Kate Bush embodies a masculine view of femininity. Very pretty. Extreme sexuality says pheobe. Very risque. Not very risque, early kind of sexuality. It was impossible to be a girly girl and be very strong. Feminists thought lipstick was *** Tell us about the 80s – people are obsessed with sloan rangers. Sloan Ranger handbook. You weren't a sloan ranger. Lady Di was sloan ranger alpha. Girls who wanted to be sloan rangers but never were sloan rangers. Dad was a wannabee sloan ranger.


KATE BUSH LOVELY.

OH TO BE IN LOVE. PHEOBE IS ON PIANO. ALONE. DRAMATIC. HEADS FROM THE PIANO AT THE CHORUS.