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Kate's B-Sides, Cover Songs, Film Scores, Demos, Remixes, Jingles, etc.

N 1996 I FIRST MADE my compilation of 24 of Kate's slightly less well known works, that is, those not included on any of the [so far] 8 main albums. This now includes the 'long' versions of Be Kind To My Mistakes and December Will Be Magic Again. These include songs that she made for at least three other commercial compilations, also featuring other artists; film and television scores and, of course, many B-sides to her own singles that didn't make it onto albums.

B-Sides and Extras KB tracks that do not appear on any of the conventional (8) albums.

Lyrics To (most) Songs

See Also: the lyrics of everything at: http://www.norbry.net/kate-bush/ (Bryan Dongray), plus downloadable MIDI and MP3 files at: http://www.norbry.net/kate-bush/mp3/.


Selected Cathy Demos

Very early piano recordings Kate made at home in 1974 aged 14–15, as first demos for EMI. These are not complete; those I omitted are only of already familiar published songs, whereas these ones didn't make it onto any records or albums and so are therefore relatively unknown. Note also tracks 18 onward are not part of this original set.

How these came into circulation is interesting in itself. The way I understand it the sequence of events was as follows:
• Kate makes recordings at home with piano accompaniment and has them delivered through a family friend to executives at EMI UK.
• After she's famous (presumably), someone at EMI leaves to live and work in the US taking the demo tapes, or copies, with him.
• Some time later these are transmitted in their entirety by a local FM station based at Phoenix, Arizona, hence the 'Cathy' or 'home' demos are also known as the 'Phoenix' set.
• One or more Kate fans tape the broadcast. Copies of these circulate for a while and then:
• Somebody with access to record pressing equipment makes a limited quantity of EP record sets (EP = 'extra play' 7 inch 331/3 r.p.m. vynil) of the demos, requiring a total of five such records to accommodate the complete number of tracks in each set. Needless to say these records are few and extremely coveted.
• Eventually with the advent of multi-media PCs, etc. these find their way onto CDs. Ideally a CD should have been made from a record set. The copy I have is a cassette from the US which was made directly from one of these CDs. The quality is still quite rough as may be imagined; there is evidence of some editing to reduce noise, so that for example what sounds like a crackling fire in the background while Kate was making the recordings, while a romantic idea, is not accurate as this represents the filtered residue of what are actually record clicks (scratches) on the EPs.

Unpublished Songs



Lyrics To Above Songs

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