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Born as Lara Sophie Katy Crokaert in Etterbeek, Belgium on 9 January 1970, Lara Fabian is the only child of a Flemish father and a Sicilian mother. During…
The Fairlight CMI (short for Computer Musical Instrument) is a digital synthesizer, sampler and digital audio workstation introduced in 1979 by the founders of Fairlight, Peter Vogel and…
Born as Andrew Fairweather Low in Ystrad Mynach, Wales on 2 August 1948. He founded the pop group Amen Corner in the late 1960’s. The band split in…
Unofficial 3CD package, released by Scorpio in 2016. It features one live show (recorded at the Apollo Theatre, Manchester (UK), 10 April 1979) and a disc of demos…
Monica Richards, a native of Washington, D.C., is a musician/artist/poet/scholar. She met William Faith in 1992 when her band, Strange Boutique, opened for Shadow Project in Norfolk, VA….
Born as Lawrence Roger Fast in Livingston, New Jersey on 10 December 1951, Larry Fast attended Lafayette College in Pennsylvania, where he obtained a degree in History. There…
Song written by Kate Bush. Three voice and piano tracks were recorded on one day for Kate’s debut album The Kick Inside, of which only ‘Feel It’ made…
Unofficial album release featuring the content of the original (official) Live at Hammersmith Odeon release. It was released in 1991 by Living Legend Records, an Italian label specializing…
Eric William Fenby OBE was born in Scarborough, North Yorkshire (UK) on 22 April 1906. As a youth took lessons in the piano, organ and cello. At the…
Electric piano invented by Harold Rhodes, which became particularly popular during the 1970’s. Like a piano, it generates sound using keys and hammers, but instead of strings, the…
On March 6, 1987, the ferry Herald of Free Enterprise, leaving Zeebrugge port in Belgium, overturned, killing nearly 200 people. Among the passengers were many British people, using…
Song written by Kate Bush. Recorded as a demo, presumably in 1976. The song has never been released officially, but it did end up on various bootlegs. The…
Book written by Michael Byrne and Marius Herbert, featuring an illustrated journey through five decades of the music of Kate Bush. The book sets out to visually and…
Swedish folk duo consisting of sisters Klara (vocals, guitar) and Johanna (vocals, keyboards, autoharp, bass guitar) Söderberg. Johanna was born on 31 October 1990 and Klara on 8…
Record label run by Kate Bush since 2011. For a long time, it was unknown why exactly Kate chose this name, but in February 2023 this explanation was…
Band from Madison, Wisconsin (USA), consisting of J. Juchemich (drums, vocals), A. Lambrect (bass, keyboards, vocals), M. Wojtasiak (guitar, bass, vocals) and T. Wood (guitar, keyboards, vocals). The…
Song written by Kate Bush with text from James Joyce’s ‘Ulysses’, used by kind permission of the Trustrees of James Joyce Estate. Originally released on Kate’s 2011 album…
Song written by Zaine Griff. Released on Zaine Griff’s second album ‘Figures’ (1982). The lyrics explicitly refer to the theatre play ‘Flowers’, written by Jean Genet and is…
Dance production by Lindsay Kemp, beased on the book ‘Our Lady Of The Flowers’ by Jean Genet (1943). Due to its sexual content the book was sold as…
Foam Amulet is Nick Shapland, who makes ‘eerie, self-confessional music’. In 2010, he released the track ‘Haunted Horse’. In 2014, Foam Amulet contributed a cover version of Bertie…
Song written by Kate Bush. Originally released on her sixth studio album ‘The Sensual World’ in 1989. The song features the voice of Dr. Bush, Kate’s father. Cover…
Fonky Family are a French hip hop group from Marseille. They are composed of four rappers, Le Rat Luciano, Menzo, Don Choa and Sat, the producer Pone, DJ…
Born in Brownsville, Brooklyn, New York (USA) on 30 January 1975, John Forté studied classical violin, then graduated from Phillips Exeter Academy in New Hampshire in 1993. He…
Rock band from Leeds (UK), formed in 2000 by Simon Wainwright (vocals, guitar, piano), Rich Huxley (vocals, guitar), Ed Waring (keyboards), Jason Miller (bass) and Ash (drums). In…
Born as Andrew Fraggs Bennett in Merseyside, England on 7 April 1986, Andi Fraggs released his first solo single, the double A-side ‘Addiction’/’November’, in 2010. A year later,…
Canadian singer/songwriter from Calgary, AB who has been writing, recording and performing for 20 years. She released her debut album ‘Me Myself & I’ in 1995. The follow-up,…
Born in Holyhead, Wales on 11 October 1957, Dawn Roma French is a British actress, writer and comedian. She was educated at the independent St Dunstan’s Abbey School,…
Television chat show with a revolving guest host. It ran on BBC2 from 28 September 1979 to 2 April 1982. There were 64 editions over six series, broadcast…
Born in Birmingham (UK), the daughter of Clair Llewelyn Friedman (née Sims), a concert pianist, and Leonard Friedman, a violinist for the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, on 19 March…
Song written by Kate Bush. Recorded as a demo, presumably in 1976. The song has never been released officially, but it did end up on various bootlegs. The…
Frozen Inertia was founded in 1998 by Timothy Graves and Brad Palmer. Their first album, ‘The First Of The Fifth’ was released in 2004. It was a collection…
Fruitopia was a pet project of Coke’s former marketing chief, Sergio Zyman. It was a fruit-flavoured drink introduced by the Coca-Cola Company in 1994 and targeted at teens…
Stephen John Fry was born in Hampstead, London (UK) on 24 August 1957. At 17, after leaving Norfolk College of Arts and Technology, Fry absconded with a credit…
The fujare originated in central Slovakia as a large sophisticated folk shepherd’s overtone fipple flute of unique design. It is technically a contrabass in the tabor pipe class….
Song written by Kate Bush in 1978. One of three new songs – along with Coffee Homeground and Symphony In Blue – written for the album Lionheart. The…
Band formed by Barry Hyde (vocals and guitar), David “Jaff” Craig (bass), Peter Brewis (drums), and Ross Millard (vocals and guitar) at City of Sunderland College. They first…