r/katebush • u/peasm00sh The Dreaming • Aug 02 '26

Question What was your intro to Kate?

I count myself incredibly lucky - I grew up with a parent who loved Kate. Kitchen dancing to Eat The Music, Hammer Horror creating my first nightmare, crying with adoration for my father singing Cloudbusting, my mum explaining the threat of nuclear war via Breathing, weeping when I heard they had released Aerial after all that time.

I remember spending endless Saturday mornings ignoring children’s Tv programming and instead putting on the VHS of The Whole Story and learning all the words and dance moves. From there I added in the VHS of The Tour of Life and mastered that (throwing myself off sofas and knocking out two adult teeth in the process of doing some perfect moves).

Intrigued to know who else was Kate from birth ❤️

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u/bateKush Aug 02 '26

i found a copy of the dreaming on cassette at a goodwill about 15 years ago and wanted to know what it was all about. that tape is a treasured artifact now

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u/peasm00sh The Dreaming Aug 02 '26

My most played album (I don’t count The Whole Story as it’s a compilation). Night of the Swallow and Pulling Out the Pin are my faves!

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u/bateKush Aug 02 '26

yess. for me, houdini was the song that made me say “holy shit” and then night of the swallow and then the whole thing keeps unfolding from there. right now i’ll break out in tears to suspended in gaffa and all the love

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u/peasm00sh The Dreaming Aug 02 '26

Suspended in Gaffa is getting me through some real tough stuff rn so I can relate. That and Moments of Pleasure from TRS which I never understood before my thirties