Kate Bush - Strange Phenomena (Efteling)

Kate performs "Strange Phenomena" at Efteling in 1978.

Lyrics:

Soon it will be the phase of the moon
When people tune in.
Every girl knows about the punctual blues,
But who's to know the power behind our moves?

A day of coincidence with the radio,
And a word that won't go away.
We know what they're all going to say.
"G" arrives--"Funny, had a feeling he was on his way!"

We raise our hats to the strange phenomena.
Soul-birds of a feather flock together.
We raise our hats to the hand a-moulding us.
Sure 'nuff, he has the answer,
He has the answer
He has the answer, be-duh-be-duh-be-duh-be-duh...
"Om mani padme,
Om mani padme,
Om mani padme hum."*

You pick up a paper. You read a name.
You go out. It turns up again and again.
You bump into a friend you haven't seen for a long time,
Then into another you only thought about last night.

You hear your sister calling for you,
But you don't know where from.
You know there's something wrong,
But you don't want to believe in a premonition.

We raise our hats to the strange phenomena.
Soul-birds of a feather flock together.
We raise our hats to the hand a-moulding us.
Sure 'nuff, he has the answer,
He has the answer
He has the answer, be-duh-be-duh-be-duh-be-duh...
"Om mani padme,
Om mani padme,
Om mani padme hum."*

"Om mani padme hum.
Om mani padme hum.
Om mani padme hum.
Om mani padme hum..."

Category:

Music

Tags:

• kate
• bush
• strange
• phenomena
• efteling

[Adyacentes]

This is pure gold! Thank you on behalf of the people of this planet!

[Symphonyofflowers]

@Adyacentes You're welcome!

[rckljohnson]

I notice this one was uploaded very recently; thank you for bringing them back; the older versions were removed awhile ago

[Symphonyofflowers]

You're welcome! Yes, I noticed that the other Efteling videos were back but not this one so I decided to post it myself.

[xXxMysticalMoonxXx]

i love this video so much

i like all the things kate wears and the surroundings she chose in efteling

i have a question at about 0:32 is it kates hair becuase its so much shorter then any one parts of the video ?????

just wondered caus she looks really pretty with a bobcut =]

[Symphonyofflowers]

Yes, I noticed that too. I don't know why her hair looks shorter in that part of the video. Maybe you could ask Menro1? He knows more about the Efteling show than I do.

[MrWitchtrials]

Has there ever been a more prodigious female talent than Kate? My all-time fantasy other-half in the history of the world.

[llaslah]

Well, they're theatrical clothes, aren't they? I doubt she walks down the street dressed as Babooshka :) I think she'd look beautiful in a bin bag!

[Beekbee]

This is  pure art. She is a diva.

[legiteblogger]

Nothing can make me feel good as much as Kate does.

[legiteblogger]

If a film was made of 3 hours length of this woman playing scrabble I would watch it all weekend. So you can imagine how wonderful these videos are! She can reach inside you where your inner angel is and make it sing!

[Picnicl]

@rogerhoward555 That is such a perceptive comment. Kate Bush has done theatrical stuff but she isn't 'theatrical'. She's real. This stuff was pouring out of her like a force of nature and, despite being so very different from many other artists, she didn't make being 'different' a predictable attention seeking hook. So when the 80s came, she embraced the 'big drums and guitars' sound of the time on the first half of Hounds of Love because her hook was never about being quirky for quirky's sake.

[BluePhilDog]

Thanks so much for posting! Simply the best, ever.

[Sharmilka]

Some black leggins and a sweatshirt +a red leotard and I think about Captain Kirk...

God, I hate periods...

[rogerhoward555]

You could say at that time she was off her rocker.

you could say she had lost her marbles.

But the thing to realise now is that she really beleived in this madness in a real visual form.

That has nothing to do with madness.

IT'S just bloody unique in poular music visual expression.

Not even Tori amos really got to the madess of the lyric into a pure, real ;artistic visual form in music video.

[divine1111]

this makes me happy to be alive.