Barney returns to write for us about Kate Bush’s hotly-anticipated return to the stage.
Back in 1979, the gloriously eccentric Kate Bush rounded off her European tour, The Tour of Life at what was then known as the Hammersmith Odeon. 35 years later, she reversed the polar axes of the musical world by returning to the venue, now sporting the catchy corporate-sponsored name Eventim Apollo, which has most recently been put to use as a home for comedians to ask the crowd where they are from and make strange noises, from what I have gathered by watching Live at the Apollo.
Ms Bush initially announced a 15 date residency at the venue in late August/September, and offered up the tickets first to those that had proved their true fanaticism by entering their email address to receive the sparse updates from Kate’s website. Within thirty minutes of going on sale, they had sold out, prompting the lady to announce a further seven shows, taking the total up to twenty two, which will now run into October.
The general sale was two days later, and within fifteen minutes (some reports say seven…), those tickets had sold out. All except for the hospitality packages which cost £400 for a top-price ticket and an overly luxurious hamper dinner at the church opposite the theatre. This stupidly expensive hamper boasts such delights as Salmon Something-or-Other and Cornucopia of Crap, and doesn’t seem overly priced. Not at all…
This writer was fortunate enough to have received a pre-sale code from the mailing list, so was able to bag two not-quite-back-row seats in the circle for a meagre £65 each!
Since the announcement was made, there has been some speculation as to what the show will consist of, but there is one certainty, which only came to light after the PC Brigade took umbrage over the promotional image for the concert series.
The photograph showed the lovely Kate floating in a dark sea, wearing an inflatable life-vest and looking up into the camera. Amidst the cries of ‘Too soon!’, ‘How insensitive!’ and ‘Won’t somebody please think of the children?’ (apparently the image made light of the missing Malaysian aircraft…), Kate Bush wrote via her website that part of the show would be focussed around The Ninth Wave, a conceptual suite that made up side B of her Hounds of Love album of 1985. The piece concerns the thoughts of a woman stranded at sea and doing her best not to drown whilst she replays her past and considers her future. Or something like that.
One thing that is certain is that Ms Bush will not need to consider her future too strongly after she stuffs her mattress with the profits from what is arguably one of the most anticipated concert series of the year!
And you lovely readers can be sure that a review of the August 30th show will be appearing shortly after, provided that our glorious songstress doesn’t get cold feet and cancel…
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