Kate Bush Live Shows 2014 *Spoiler* Thread

Based on what I've heard so far, this link has an excellent audience recording of the opening night performance:

http://bigozine2.com/roio/?p=1957

Given that I'm attending the show in a couple of weeks, I'm somewhat torn about listening to this, but I have no doubt that Kate's performance will be far more confident and stronger 21 shows in than it was here, and I know all the tracks extremely well, so I guess here I go...

 

Don't base your expectations on an audience recording. I can assure you from seeing King Crimson last weekend that there is no way it can accurately depict what you will experience in person with your own ears.

 

Yeah, having listened to King Crimson's Road to Red in its entirety, I know audience recordings can cut both ways. I saw Paul Weller live last week and the sound was so cranked up and distorted, I wish I could have just listened to the soundboard instead. That said, I know that nothing will compare to seeing this show live.

 

Wish I was going with you!

 

Yes, it did. Near the end of A Sky Of Honey.

 

We were sitting in the 6th row, thus not really exposed to the main line array (a JBL Versatec system, I think) but we had a nice set of speakers roughly 20 feet from us and the sound level was always comfortable. They started working in the theater 3 weeks before the first show, and I got the distinct impression that the system engineer(s) had a wonderfully luxurious amount of time to tune the system, wandering through the theater with a tablet computer.

 

Alright -
off to Liverpool tonight to do some Beatles haunts this weekend, visit friends and watch the Mighty Reds (who, of course, will be playing away at West Ham while I'm up their way! )
then
down to London for Yoko Ono on Monday night, the Snap Galleries exhibitions Tuesday afternoon and last but certainly not least, Kate Bush on Tuesday night.

I've done a decent job of staying away from most spoilers but it really wouldn't matter - it'd be an absolute treat regardless. Can't really believe it's finally happening after all this time though I'm one of the last on here to see the show!

Should also be a very interesting Thursday night/Friday morning coming up - history in the making perhaps.

Ta-ra, y'all!

 

Cool. Always nice to know I hadn't started hallucinating.

Both books are excellent, but I can heartily recommend the Guido Harari one. He's a wonderfully warm and sweet guy, and is responsible for some of the most amazing images of Kate ever. His stuff is on the lower floor of the gallery. Here's me and my wife and some friends posing in front of one of my favorites of Guido's work:



Oh, and make sure you look at the reflection of the sign in the window as you leave. You'll see something you probably have never seen before.

 

Nice picture! I preordered Guido's book as soon as your wife posted the information about the exhibit in the old thread. Will be picking up my copy when I swing by.

Will do!

 

Yes. That happens at the end of the Sky of Honey suite. I do actually remember that bit.

 

Proving (as if it needed proving) that all Hoffman forum threads eventually veer Beatles-ward, Paul was apparently in the audience this evening.

Here's a very young Kate covering a Beatles tune:

 

Has anyone on the Bush forums admitted to attending more than 2 of the shows?

 

I've heard of people going to as many as five shows.

 

When/where's that from?

 

Sound in S a Japanese TV show from back in June 1978. She also did She's Leaving Home.



It was part of a Japanese trip to appear at the Tokyo Song Festival. She also did a Seiko watch commercial.

Oh, and an utterly bizarre dance routine while two Japanese women sang Them Heavy People (miscredited on the screen as Rolling The Ball.) I will not link to it as there are some things that, once seen, can never been un-seen.

 

Almost all of her dance routines are uttely bizarre.

I love Kate but i also remember my girlfriend and I watching a VHS Whole Story tape of her videos in the late 80s. My girlfriend kept laughing at her dancing and we had to turn it off about half way through.

 

Went to Snap Gallery yesterday. Great stuff. Loved the Lionheart outtake. So much more detail than the album cover reveals. I also funnily enough took my pic infront of the same photograph as Chris did above.

 

I've been to 2 shows and have 1 more left. Had to make the most of it. May never happen again.

 

I'll be popping into Guy on Saturday to collect my books.

 

This is on my list of things "to do" on my first day in London on the 29th. I'd like to buy both books while there. 7 work days and counting...

 

But it has to be seen to be believed.

 

What I thought when I was watching her was how confident she was. If she had been suffering from stage fright, she shows no sign of it here. It's as if she was an old hand at it. Strange she left it so long to play live again.

 

Don't say I didn't warn you.

The Greek gods would send birds of prey to tear out the eyes of their believers to spare them from witnessing such things.

 

I see it. But, I still can't believe it!

 

I don't know where this "stage fright" myth came from. I've read hundreds of interviews with Kate, and that was never the issue.

As far as I can tell she worked herself into exhaustion on the Tour of Life due to her own perfectionism. She was not willing to do another show unless she could top that one. She has said that she intended to return to the stage several times, and moves had been made in that direction. At one point in the early 90s, Jam Productions in Chicago was contacted about renting the Chicago Theater. At another point, she was working with Jim Henson's Creature Shop on effects for a tour. She bought two additional Fairlights, at least one of which was in a road case on the cover of Keyboard magazine.

The other myth is that she is scared of flying. I'm pretty sure she's not fond of it, but my wife and I met her plane when she came to the US to promote Hounds of Love.

I think anyone who has been lucky enough to have seen a Before the Dawn concert will know just how fearless Kate is.