Cloud Nine
Del Palmer first took up the bass guitar after borrowing the princely sum of £20 [$20} from his mother in 1967 to buy himself a Hofner Artist. One of the southeast Londoner’s very first bands, Tame, morphed into the KT Bush Band after Bush’s brother Paddy suggested that the group could offer his talented younger sister some vital live experience. On such fleeting moments does the course of history turn…
Palmer had already met Kate Bush back in 1976, when she was aged a mere 18. By 1977, the precocious, gifted teenager had decided to try her hand as a musician on the London pub circuit where, alongside Palmer, she performed early versions of the songs ‘James And The Cold Gun’ and ‘Them Heavy People’. The pair soon developed a relationship as a couple, which lasted until the early 1990s.
“KATE WOULD STILL BE WORKING ON SONGS LIKE ‘WUTHERING HEIGHTS’ AT TWO O’CLOCK IN THE MORNING”
EMI denied the KT Bush Band an opportunity to record on Bush’s debut LP in 1978, but Palmer cemented his, and when performing with her on the Tour of Life in 1979. By 1985 he was working as a sound engineer on her sonic masterpiece , and continued in that role, alongside a gradually decreasing role on bass, until (2011), Bush’s most recent studio album.
