Kate Bush - The Wedding List (1979 Xmas Special)

[am231e]

This song was recorded in my mind since my early childhood, and I spent years trying to know who was the singer and what was the song !! All what I know was the music and that there was a bride and dead groom, with no lyrics, no song title, and no singer name! Even playing it on a keyboard didn't make anyone knows what was it! I'm SO THANKFUL to finally find it today! It was in my head for more than 30 years, searching for it was so difficult! So beautiful! Thank you! Mercy! You have no idea :)

[shannonb082905]

How is this Christmas? Love her but this is not a Christmas song. It is from the Comic Strip Presents Les Dogs.

[Symphonyofflowers]

@shannonb082905 Well, I never said it was a Christmas song either. And this has absolutely nothing to do with "Les Dogs" or The Comic Strip. The video is taken from a TV show from 1979. The show was officially just called "Kate", but it's usually called the "Christmas show" or "Christmas special" since it was broadcast on December 28, 1979.

[scottgeshen]

anybody notice the difference in the "string" parts, among other changes?

[visog]

Who's on bass?

[Symphonyofflowers]

@visog It's Del Palmer on bass.

[deltic1964]

She was my Idol What a Singer and another class act song long live kate

[madsketcher]

LOL, Kate's herky jerky zombie dance at 1:27

[egglady]

@madsketcher - I love it! Kinda reminded me of the Goddess Bunny! LOL

[madsketcher]

@egglady Oh God, you're right.



[ICEandWATERLILIES]

Oh kate. XD <3

[yeskah2k10]

I love this song and Kate very much.

[xXSunnyKimXx]

I always imagine it to be different, when I imagine it like a video... I imagine the bride singing this, looking at the list of people they invited. I imagine her threatening each person at gunpoint until the truth comes out. I then imagine her going to shoot them, and then killing herself after. I imagine the coroners finding the fetus, and being distraught. Then I imagine the wife and Rudi in heaven, with the child. That's just how I see it in my mind. But this version was okay, I guess...

[mylenenfin]

Kill Bill anyone?

[Elyzater]

She was only 20 in this, so young.

[TrippingOverGod]

Delicious tits.

[supermaxim109]

"And I feel good in my revenge..." !

[glaydner]

3:02 I'd love to have my belly poked by Kate's gun...

[Muffimaffi]

Amazing video, thanks for posting!!!

[Sharmilka]

OMG, I want her shoes. ALL OF THEM!

[ChrissieBana]

Best song from Never for Ever. Wuthering Heights is the best one, then the Wedding List and then... Fuck I love them all!!!!!

[chocgirl052]

@ChrissieBana Um, Wuthering Heights isn't on Never for Ever...

[ChrissieBana]

@chocgirl052 I mean best of all Kate's songs, not just that album.

[laleldon]

I love the melodramatic acting, reminds me of old silent films. you can tell she was having a lot of fun. I LOVE YOU KATE!

[toadie48]

The priests reaction at 1:06 loooooooooool

[Neueregel]

Kate = best actress ever, best female singer ever, best music artist... " I 'll put her on the Best List'

[DarioMusic83]

I wish Kate Bush was god, and I lived in a world she created.

[cofpaddy]

She is totally insane in the best possible way. [2]

[MrRevenant1978]

awesome.

[originalveghead]

Oh it's her brother? I could have sworn it was Timothy Claypole out of Rentaghost.

Excellent video though.

[kevfullo]

@originalveghead , timmy claypole!

[HommaHieno]

She's my favorite actress too.

[frankdialogue]

Quite a song...Very good album too :'Never For Ever'.

[JosefvonField]

THANK YOU!!!!!!!!!

[goodtimetone]

nice boobies eh?

[Autoum]

OMG, at the end it sounds like she´s screamin POOOOOONNNNNNYYYYY XD

[keithdeweese]

@Autoum RUUUUUUUUDDDDDDDYYYYYYY!

[TheAleksandrah]

That's right. I dont know about the film You talking about, but for sure tarantino used this song to Bill Kill.

[CactusDream]

Addictive to watch... I can't stop watching it...

[jordanprincessai]

OMFG I love priest Paddy's expression whenever the guy gets shot.  HILARIOUS!

[Ron502008]

Nothing says "Christmas Special" like a song about murder.

[video2vid]

Wonderful song!

[StereoTypeA]

this is some crazy shyt. i've never listened to her before, i am watching this because big boi from outkast said this was his all time favorite song. i still don't know how i feel about it lol...

[amira2sirius]

K.B is the greatest EVER!!!

[TONYOPSUFO]

Super postings thank you.

[001rising]

Terrible, terrible, terrible Kate !!

[nancyyh]

Kate Bush is Gods masterpiece

[Muribelle]

Haha, its been a year since I last commented on this video. It was when I'd just discovered Kate's work. Now I own all of her albums and I've tried to watch every single performance and video of hers. Her work is still awe-inspiring to me.

Thanks Kate! And thanks to the uploader of this video since us younger people werent around to see this amazing stuff at the time.

[robibm2003]

This was amazing.

[ricardito]

what a song! what an interpretation!

[Winonasalibi]

It's Paddy.

[soilstories]

ashes to ashes to AH AH ashes!

[bacholerno2]

Kate is a genius with her composition... music, lyrics and the way she moves in time to her music, not to mention a wonderful and eccentric actress. What a heroine! <3

[maven1818]

amazing force of nature.........

[JackStarkey57]

The most adorable and inteligent Lady from Pop Music I love her 2 Much 2 !!!!

JackStarkey --> Brazil.

[janaherde]

This woman is incredible, love her.

[13newlife]

Another master piece from this extremely talented lady

[CelticSa]

much better than kill bill wonderful kate

[koolaidnhemlock]

she looks demonic in the last minute... crazy! haha

[proposals]

She is totally insane in the best possible way.

[visog]

@proposals +1!

[Defn28]

Oh my god, it's Paddy!

[Guusjj15]

@ Defn28 Hahaha It is Paddy! Kate is crazy but great and beautiful!

[sid1662]

Oh my god brilliantly OTT!

[DebbyTessy]

Great!

I Can't Stop listening to this song!

[josie421]

Is that Paddy at the table?

[fantomole]

yep its paddy-hes been shot by his sister many times:-)

[fantomole]

see james and the cold gun live!

[arosegrowingold]

After watching this 5 times, I managed to stop looking at her and noticed Al Murphy and Brian Bath having a great time in the background - that's pretty rockin' for a mime!

[integration1000]

You managed to stop looking at her?I never managed to!

[arosegrowingold]

As I said - 5 times! lol...

I've started noticing all sorts of interesting things in her videos and performances now I've got a KT shaped piece of paper to cover her up with!

[integration1000]

What are these interesting things?

[arosegrowingold]

Ooh, all sorts of stuff.

The Uffington White Horse in Cloudbusting, the changing colours in the background in TMWTCIHE, the changing seasons in Sensual World, the lightbulb in Them Heavy People, Peter Vaughan in Experiment IV, a candle next to Smurf's guitar in Rocket Man...all such lovely deft little touches that make watching her videos even more fun.

[integration1000]

Is it possible that you are more fan of Kate Bush than I am?

[trossachs2003]

In Cloudbusting, the rainmaker machine was designed by the guy who designed the Alien monster and sets...Geiger?

I just found out about the candle in the chair in Rocket Man and Alan Murphy (I was reading up on the references in Moments of Pleasure). And I've been rediscovering his guitar work. I remember trying to follow his guitar solo from Violin when I was a teen with no talent. What a brilliant guitarist and such a shame he died so young.

[arosegrowingold]

H.R. Giger - apparently when it arrived on set, Kate was upset as she thought it looked rubbish!

There are a number of rumours as to where it resides now...

[trossachs2003]

A small piece of paper but perfectly formed!

[arosegrowingold]

Sadly she moves like mercury, so a circle in the only thing that covers her completely!

[trossachs2003]

haha y'know I was looking at the band trying to see if they WERE the proper band but I couldn't make out their faces. I noticed the guitarists are jigging along to a jolly old tune. Which guitarist is which?

[arosegrowingold]

I'm pretty sure Al Murphy (smurf) is on the left and the Brian Bath on the left

Del Palmer is the bassist on the other side of the drum kit

[daviddoyle1978]

Wow. So beautiful. We don't get television like this nowadays. BBC used to have a paternalistic attitude with regard to their programming. They showed us what we should see. Now they are flirting with the sewer.

[curare333]

Been on a Kate Bush kick for about three hours now.. I love her and think this is about the most freaky thing. I laughed through most of it. To have put this song and the production together 30 years ago is amazing, and I am sure very controversial

[zarzar17]

she looks kinda freakish when she starts singing: Wedding list, wedding list..

freaky song, but good song!

[viking1au]

The live version of this is a lot better, with her infamous "wardrobe malfunction". Midge Ure later (at an award night for Kate) made the comment she had tried to get her tits out for Prince Charles.

[tqued25]

This may just be the best vid on utube.Just over 15 thousand hits is an outrage!!

[HadleyStreet]

I love this song but can someone tell me what its about??

[Symphonyofflowers]

The song is about a man who gets shot right after his wedding. The bride (Kate) gets angry and wants revenge, so she search for the killer, find him and shoot him. After she has killed him she commits suicide and when they examine her body they find out she was pregnant. So four people get killed in the song, the groom, the killer, the bride and her unborn child.

The song is inspired by the film "The Bride Wore Black" by Francois Truffaut from 1967.

[zack11993]

Quentin Tarantino sure missed a trick when he made Kill Bill; this song is obviosly perfect as they were both inspired by the same thing! Actually, this song is too great to be featured in that movie.

[Vieweracc99]

@Symphonyofflowers - and there are the nuances that only Kate can give to the song, as well. The quasi-sexual overtones of the bride finally coming for her groom, the inversion of the wedding vows in the invocation of the funeral rites (ashes to ashes)....she's so intensely talented.

[BaalZobel]

Very true, but I feel there may be other reasons for watching this.

[writerblaster]

@Symphonyofflowers The film by Francois Truffaut is basically an adaptation of the American 'noir' novel "The Bride Wore Black" by Cornell Woolrich (or William Irish) where the 'widow' kills five people instead of one. The French original title of the film is "La Mariée était en Noir."

[amira2sirius]

@HadleyStreet

The meaning of the song is so obvious !!!! Especially with the fantastic video going with it!!!

[tadge72]

@HadleyStreet its based on a francis trufaut? movie called 'and the bride wore black'

[mrsskagtrendy]

@HadleyStreet Are you serious? Does Kate need to make this more of a documentary than it already is for you to understand the rather 'easy to follow' storyline!?! Haha

[gbooster]

By far the greastest x-mas show ever made LOL

[fantomole]

2.16 bang bang outch! i love it!

[onidom]

Kill Bill was inspired by an old Japanese movie, Lady Snowblood. And Meiko Kaji, the leading actress there is also the singer of the song "Urami bushi", used in Kill Bill :)

[dansimsss]

You know, my greatest regret in is career is that she never plays in a musical movie. Its evident that she was a natural for that.....

[ThaWastelandDOTcom]

shouldn't that be her regret?

[Winonasalibi]

I hope Michael Jackson left something for Kate in his will....because he sure as HELL stole enough moves from her!

[Aueneye]

You know that Jackson went to a Bowie gig and saw him do a move that would later be called the.......'Moonwalk'. Seriously.

[badwolf1234]

@Winonasalibi  which moves?

[IAmPlaysWithSquirrel]

@Winonasalibi Uh... which moves did he EVER steal from her? Please enlighten me on that one, cause I'd love to hear it.

[Sharmilka]

@Winonasalibi i think they were similar spirits :) I luv them both.

[Sharmilka]

@Winonasalibi i think they were similar spirits :) I luv them both.

I discovered this WONDERFUL song just today! After a very bad day- end of the school term, car crash and lost mobile...yay.

[fantomole]

femme fatale:-)

[pegleyjr]

Funny, cool, lovely.

[RoboticLiam]

1:06

The priest, is he her brother, Paddy?

[Symphonyofflowers]

Yes, he is. And he is also playing the killer.

[dsim200000]

@RoboticLiam i thought he was her brother John Carder Bush..

[loooooooo65432]

@dsim200000 John Carder and Paddy are her brothers.

[dsim200000]

@loooooooo65432 I know. But are they still alive? What do they do now?

[Symphonyofflowers]

@dsim200000 Yes, of course both of them are still alive and well. John is a writer and Paddy is a musician.

[CynthiaJFinnegan]

@RoboticLiam Nope, that's John. Paddy's the killer.

[Symphonyofflowers]

@CynthiaJFinnegan No, as I said Paddy is playing both the priest and the killer. He had to wear the priest costume outside the "killer" costume because he didn't have time to change.

[Daffmaan]

Wow, haven't been so into kate earlier but this really got me hooked, goosebumps!

Thanks for uploading, this was great!

[solredoc]

one of the best songs from never forever

[arosegrowingold]

Her finest hour (on screen)

Kate, you sexy, unbridled, English genius. You're as mad as a box of frogs.

1:25 'she said...'

3:15 (she's shot her older brother here!)

4:20 - what the hell is she doing?

Can we have a Kate Bush museum - preferably housed in a former women's lunatic asylum....

[ghede13]

She looks absolutely lovely in a corset.

[DebbyTessy]

At 3:55 until the end she screaming and then rudi takes her of the ground, I like that part the most :D

And when she said 'The butt of my gun' it sounds a little weird(Or it's just me:P).

[Broeddenhert]

One of her best performances!!

She's deadlier than Uma in Kill Bill

[klistarf]

I am quite obsessed by this song, and especially by this performance! Just incredible! Kate is wonderful! Simple as... (:o)

[wigginsdesign]

I also simply obsessed with KATE. Everything she does and performs is simply magic and full of perfection. How can someone be so incredible, talented, beautiful, sensual and sexy at once. Her husband is my absolute hero!

[madnickb]

kick inside and lion heart are my faves oh my this is almost 30 years ago ,still love you kate ,form watching you on totps

just brilliant

[Imonlyfooling]

I'm obsessed with the way she sings from 0.17 to 0.21, it sounds great lol

[Imonlyfooling]

It's also the bass working with her voice, it just sounds amazing.

[Concertinatokiss]

lol Kate so rocks! you get um girl

[cathkin33]

she'd be the ultimate girlfriend .......incredibly beautiful yet fun and full of interesting ideas!

[dressyouup07]

a TRUE performer. i LOVE this clip. shes so fucking awesome

[zack11993]

Is that Kate's brother Paddy as the 'mystery man' and the priest?

[Symphonyofflowers]

Yes, it is.

[Muribelle]

This is AMAZING!!!!!!! Cant believe I just discovered Kate Bush!!!! This sounds soo good when its turned up really loud!

Sorry, major excitement!!!

[boggerblogger]

Just discovering Kate Bush? You have a huge amount of absolutely AMAZING finds ahead of you. Enjoy every minute.

[michaelleacy]

This song just screams 1980 to me - I love it. My favourite Kate Bush album!

[uforikboi]

OMFG this is amazing. I never knew this exsisted. THANK YOU THANK YOU for posting this. Thank you for the lyrics at the end of the song. I have been trying to figure them out for 17 years!!!!!

[faddy24]

Nah, it's jus you! Ha ha

[richardcalifone]

no really! I mean at around 1:28

[richardcalifone]

is it just me or are her nipples censored out?

[rewindbttn]

what cd is this on of her's . I can't seem to find it.

[Symphonyofflowers]

It's on the album "Never for Ever" from 1980,

[rewindbttn]

Cool. Thanks. I found it. I don't how I missed that!

Thanks again.

[Symphonyofflowers]

You're welcome.

[DeepAquaNeptune]

"And when it's all over you'll roll over

The butt of my gun:

One in your belly, and one for Rudi.

You got what you gave by the heel of my bootie.

Bang-bang--Out! like an old cherootie,

And I'm coming for you!"

I love her 'violence' in this song. Even though Kate Bush sound like she is a blood-thirsty criminal, she makes the song funny with her acting and her killing ideas. Any female artist nowadays that make songs like this? No. I wish there was more singers like Kate Bush today.

[faddy24]

Ooops...irritating male dancers were in another kate bush vid. My apologies. This song is so overlooked. It's one of her very best. N her breasts r heavenly. This should have been the vid 2 the song.

[faddy24]

What an imagination that gal has. Love it. One of her best songs. She looks lovely here but the 2dancers r a bit annoying. But, hey, i'm just nit picking now ha ha

[beatacatthegreat]

She's amazing in this one! I love her! What a talent, in every way... And such a great song. Thank you for posting this video.

[Symphonyofflowers]

You're welcome!

[bowiefan87]

1:28-1:41 is why I love life.

[Haydz01]

haha yeah same here! u see her nipples faintly too!

[Typhoon10000]

Didn't know this existed, thanks for posting!

[Ulfhdnar]

Love her stage presence. Completely bonkers yet brilliant.

Many thanks for sharing.

[zack11993]

This is great, haven't seen this! Thank you!

[Dreaming32]

Excellent i like the live version with Phil Collins on drums but this is class anything with Kate i,ll settle with!

[shum65]

Great song,and fantastic video my friend!!

Another one that I haven't seen before,

Thanks for posting Symphonyofflowers!!*****!!

[Symphonyofflowers]

You're welcome!