No need to go through a step-by-step deconstruction of this, as it's pretty much all of a piece, but do watch out for:
00:00 : Razzamatazz's helpful overhead display for non-Cockney viewers: 'KATE BUSH THERE GOES A TENNER £10')
00:00 - 00:20 : Kate's tribute to Michael Palin's tentative, Ministry-rejected silly walk.
00:35 - 00:40 : Leather trousers, T-shirt, prancing about - why, it's Sally James in Four Bucketeers mode! (According to one comment here, La James presented this very episode. The news that evening contained a grim bulletin on a nationwide spate of teenage spontaneous combustion.)
00:55 : 'Audience joined in with the 'waiting' mime rather nicely, I thought.' 'I think they were just confused, Alistair.'
01:20 : Pull-focus on MG horn, Mr Director!
01:52 : Missed opportunity - A. Pirrie or similar fails to hove into shot dressed as Edward G Robinson.
02:30 : 'Have you ever wondered what would happen if they made a Rita Tushingham Muppet? I think it might look something... like this!'
02:50 : A ukulele mime - lovely.
03:05 : Admit it, you've secretly been spending this entire song thinking, 'I wonder if they're going to..?' Well, they do! They do!
And for comparison, here's the official video version, which isn't that amazing, apart from the Great Big Pendulum:
See, surely the video for this song should have Kate herself playing the three (or is it four?) gang mambers she does accents for in the song, with loads of wobbly split screen. Or have I misunderstood things?
1 comment:
No sooner requested than done!
It's just as I remember it. Truly bonkers. Much like an early Erasure appearance, or at least Andy Bell with someone else. He was all over the place too.
If you can find that, then I take my hat off to you.
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