Track Details: Intro Music Violin Satie's Gymnopedie No. 1 (Played by the KT Bush Band) Symphony in Blue Them Heavy People A cappella introduction for Peter Gabriel (Peter the Angel Gabriel). Here Comes the Flood (Peter Gabriel solo) Ran Tan Waltz (known at this time as The Ran Tan) December Will Be Magic Again The Wedding List Another Day (written by Roy Harper) - Gabriel and Kate Egypt The Man With the Child in His Eyes Don't Push Your Foot on the Heart Brake

Kate Bush - with special guest Peter Gabriel
BBC TV Christmas Special broadcast on 28th December 1979
Recorded in October 1979 at the BBC Studios in Birmingham, England

This forty-five-minute television programme is the only longform televised performance Kate has given to date. It is by any standard a great success. Not one spoken word is heard--only song and dance. Kate's only guest (aside from the KT Bush Band and her usual dance partners) is Peter Gabriel.

Director: Roy Norton
Dancers: Gary Hurst, Stewart Avon-Arnold
Choreographer: Anthony van Laast

Techical Details:
Pre-broadcast master D3 tape > DV tape > iMac (via Sony DV cam) > DVD
Video: PAL MPEG-2 4:3 at 8000kbps
Audio: LPCM Stereo Professionally remastered (see notes below)

Credits:
Source: ? (wished to remain anonymous)
DVD authoring: Willem Beens
Audio restoration, mastering and cover design: TM Productions

Notes on the audio remastering by Tom Morgenstern:
First of all, I had to realise that the video soundtrack was actually a mono recording, so I dropped one channel for the further processing. Then I treated it with the Cedar Cambridge suite (mainly NR4 noise reduction and de-buzzing - there was a slight hum audible at low volumes). Then I borrowed the first three Kate Bush Studio CDs and compared it to the video soundtrack. I found out that the recordings were sometimes almost identical, obviously remixes, some other were completely re-recorded or had new vocal parts at least. For instance I wondered why there were no violins to hear during "Violin" - the studio version had it, why not the BBC version which was otherwise a remix of the CD version? - I couldn't imagine a reason until I saw the video... so I used the CDs only as the sound reference for the EQing stage. There were many small bumps and microphone pops here and there, mainly on the re-recorded vocal tracks. Obviously the Beeb engineers didn't care about it - I found it too annoying, so I removed it. At the last stage I added a sort of fake stereo effect, I had to use it carefully not to change the sound balance.

The Quality of this DVD release is absolutely superb, released by Epping Forest DVDs and is the best quality available. The footage is more complete than previous versions which the very beginning of the intro animation missing.