{"id":24779,"date":"2014-03-21T14:23:05","date_gmt":"2014-03-21T19:23:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=24779"},"modified":"2014-08-27T08:29:33","modified_gmt":"2014-08-27T13:29:33","slug":"kate-bush-announces-series-of-concerts-in-london","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2014\/03\/21\/kate-bush-announces-series-of-concerts-in-london\/","title":{"rendered":"Kate Bush announces series of concerts in London"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Daily Mail<\/em><\/a> describes it as a residency at the Hammersmith Apollo in London:<\/p>\n

Kate Bush is to return to the stage in London — 35 years after she retired from touring after just six weeks on the road.<\/p>\n

She will play a 15-date residency at the Hammersmith Apollo which was the venue for a celebrated concert film she made in 1979.<\/p>\n

The 55-year-old made a surprise announcement about the shows — to be called Before The Dawn — on Friday morning, with the first taking place on August 26.<\/p>\n

Bush talked about a desire to return to playing live in an interview three years ago, saying she would love to play again before she became ‘too ancient’.<\/p>\n

She was just 20 when she completed The Tour Of Life after topping the charts with Wuthering Heights the previous year.<\/p>\n

Over the years, theories about her absence from the stage have included her perfectionism, a fear of flying and the death of one of the tour crew, lighting director Bill Duffield, during a show.<\/p>\n

But in a rare interview with Mojo<\/em> magazine in 2011 to mark her comeback, she explained that her years of silence on the touring circuit were simply down to the sheer exertion of the ordeal.<\/p>\n

‘It was enormously enjoyable. But physically it was absolutely exhausting,’ she said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n