Suspended in Gaffa

"Suspended in Gaffa" is a song recorded by Kate Bush. It was the third single release from her album The Dreaming. "Suspended in Gaffa" was released as a single in continental Europe and Australia, but not in the UK, where "There Goes a Tenner" was released instead.

The song lyrics are about seeing something one really wants (God in this case), then not being able to see or experience it ever again.^[1] The "gaffa" of the title and chorus refers to gaffer tape, the strong matte black tape used by technicians in the film and concert industries.^[2]

The B-side is the original mix of "Ne t'enfuis pas", only released on a handful of singles in late 1982. "Ne t'enfuis pas", which is misspelled on the original sleeve as "Ne T'en Fui Pas", means "Don't run away" in French. In some countries, the B-side was "Dreamtime" (which originally appeared as the B-side to "The Dreaming").

Music video

A music video was produced for the song, which features Bush performing an interpretive dance in what appears to be a barn. Video on YouTube

Covers

A cover of "Suspended in Gaffa" appears on Syracuse-based indie rock band Ra Ra Riot's debut album The Rhumb Line.

In popular culture

Rec.music.gaffa has been the name for the Kate Bush Usenet newsgroup since 16 August 1985,^[3] and is now resident at Google Groups and other Kate-Bush-related websites.^[4]

"Kate Boosh" by Brooklyn-based rapper Himanshu "Heems" Suri samples the two-line post-chorus vocal of this song and co-opts it as a chorus. The song appears on Suri's 2012 mixtape Nehru Jackets.

Charts

Chart (1983)	Peak position
France (SNEP)	33
Netherlands (MegaCharts)^[5]	50
Spain (AFYVE)	38

References

↑ Kate Bush In Her Own Words
↑ http://gaffa.org/garden/kate18.html
↑ http://www.faqs.org/faqs/alt.answers/music/kate-bush-faq/
↑ http://www.gaffa.org
↑ "dutchcharts.nl > Kate Bush – Suspended in Gaffa". Hung Medien. Retrieved 2016-03-29.

External links

Lyrics of this song at MetroLyrics

Kate Bush

Studio albums

Compilations

The Whole Story

Box sets	The Single File This Woman's Work: Anthology 1978–1990

Live albums

Live at the Hammersmith Odeon

Extended plays

Singles

"Wuthering Heights" "Moving" "Them Heavy People" "The Man with the Child in His Eyes" "Hammer Horror" "Wow" "Symphony in Blue" "Strange Phenomena" "Breathing" "Babooshka" "Army Dreamers" "December Will Be Magic Again" "Sat in Your Lap" "The Dreaming" "There Goes a Tenner" "Suspended in Gaffa" "Ne t'enfuis pas" "Night of the Swallow" "Running Up That Hill" "Cloudbusting" "Hounds of Love" "The Big Sky" "Don't Give Up" "Experiment IV" "The Sensual World" "This Woman's Work" "Love and Anger" "Rocket Man/Candle in the Wind" "Rubberband Girl" "Eat the Music" "Moments of Pleasure" "The Red Shoes" "The Man I Love" "And So Is Love" "King of the Mountain" "Deeper Understanding" "Wild Man"

Other songs	"Lyra"

Video albums

Concert tours

List of tribute albums

Category

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