Kate Bush: The return of the British outsider
Alejandro De Luna
“I am delighted to announce that we will be performing some live shows this coming August and September.
I hope you will be able to join us and I look forward to seeing you there.
We’ll keep you updated with further news on the web site.
Meanwhile, all details of concert dates and tickets are in the note below.
Very best wishes,” Kate
Britain´s art-rock soprano and outsider, Kate Bush, is back after 35 years of not been enrolled on touring. And she is back with a massive London residency of 15 shows at the Hammersmith Odeon; the legendary venue that in 1973, saw Ziggy Stardust´s assassination and the stage where Bush´s last full show took place in 1979.
Due to the isolation that kept her out of touring since 1979 and with very few public appearances in the last decades, it seems that Kate Bush fits into the “studio artist” category but their legendary shows and artistic potential on stage defines her as one of the most unique and original British female singers.
‘KATE BUSH´S BEST SONG?’
With 10 studio albums and writing lyrics full of literary references and surreal eccentricity since she was 13, Bush is one of the first musicians who took complete control over the output at an early stage and also one of the first artists (just anticipated by Bowie) who brought an eclectic experience to an audience after including theatrical factors and histrionics on stage that were far beyond music.
The songwriter. The multi- instrumentalist. The choreographer. The dancer. The producer. The performer. The thin line between art-pop, art-rock, baroque pop, classical music and the ambiguous definition of an eclectic performance. A truly unique artist.
THE DATES:
AUGUST
Tuesday, 26th August
Wednesday, 27th August
Friday, 29th August
Saturday, 30th August
SEPTEMBER
Tuesday, 2nd September
Wednesday, 3rd September
Friday, 5th September
Saturday, 6th September
Tuesday, 9th September
Wednesday, 10th September
Friday, 12th September
Saturday, 13th September
Tuesday, 16th September
Wednesday, 17th September
Friday, 19th September
Setlist last show: Hammersmith Odeon, London – May 14, 1979
- Moving
- The Saxophone Song
- Room for the Life
- Them Heavy People
- The Man with the Child in His Eyes
- Egypt
- L’amour Looks Something Like You
- Violin Intro: John Carder Bush reading poem
- In the Warm Room
- Strange Phenomena Hammer Horror
- Kashka from Baghdad Intro: Kate leading chant
- Don’t Push Your Foot on the Heartbrake
- Wow
- Coffee Homeground (with extended instrumental introduction)
- In Search of Peter Pan Intro: John Carder Bush reading poem
- Symphony in Blue (contains elements of “Gymnopédie 1” by Erik Satie)
- Feel It (with intstrumental introduction)
Encore:
Intro: John Carder Bush reading poem
