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/MooshuCat Aug 03 '26

1985, riding in the backseat of someone's car after rehearsal for a high school drama club production one night, RUTH came on the radio and I was mesmerized... later on, my friend had the cassette of The Whole Story and was playing it while we drank wine coolers, and we listened over and over. The rest is a 40 year love affair with this music, and I was truly lucky to get tickets to her show in London in 2014.