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The Night Flier (song) Kate Bush performs Babooshka in Venice, Italy, in 1980. Kate went to Venice and performed Babooshka with Gary Hurst, in a song festival called “Gondola d’oro“, aired on Italian TV in September 1980. This clip comes from my private collection. The audio have been tidied up, cause the original one was really dreadful ! I hope you enjoy it! Here Kate’s description about Babooshka performance in Venice, from the Kate Bush Club Newsletter: “Babooshka, again, was to be performed abroad, this time in Venice. Venice is an extremely beautiful place, and if you ever get the chance to see it, please do, it really is magical. Water is the way of everything there--even lampposts are on water. I took lots of photos, and we’ve included one of a canal. The hotel that we were staying at was beautiful, with an incredible view of the ocean out of my window. For this TV show Gary [Hurst] and I had rehearsed a duet which we had made up the night before. Often this has strangely good results; maybe it is due to adrenalin. Gary had hired a suit from Moss Bros. the day before, and I’d pulled out an old dress which I used to wear when I was in the KT Bush Band and we performed in pubs. This TV show was live, and as the studio was only across the road (the other side of the hotel backed onto one of the few pieces of dry land in Venice), every performer dressed and made up at the hotel and walked to the TV studio fully equipped . Our turn came, and as we hit the street we saw silver-suited spacemen; red-, blue-, green-haired people; electric guitars; pantomime horses; one yellow submarine and two dancing bears spilling in and out of the TV centre. We squeezed past the various brightly coloured suits and smiles, did our bit and squeezed past them again on the way back to the hotel. In many ways it reminded me of Noah’s Ark: two of every kind in a place on the water. Just as we entered the hotel we met Peter Gabriel, plus band, who were also on the same show and were on their way out. We exchanged very English greetings on foreign land: “Break a leg, old chap!“; and Peter headed on his way to the bizarre circus. Meanwhile, we had heard that there was a TV room upstairs, so we rushed up to a mini-circus where all the artists that had already performed were sprayed around the floor, glued to the television, expressing kind words of comradeship in the relevant language to whomever was on the screen at that point in time; an unusual live, friendly feeling. Peter’s performance was powerful and stood out amongst all the others, and the viewing-room certainly seemed to agree.“ [I am just a fan making videos for personal pleasure, no monetary value is made from the video or the audio, and to promote the work of the artist(s). I have made it under what I believe to be “Fair Use constitutes Copyright Disclaimer - Under Section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for “fair use“ for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, and research. Fair use is a use permitted by copyright statute that might otherwise be infringing. Non-profit, educational or personal use tips the balance in favour of fair use.“]
