Kate Bush

I thought I saw Paddy Bush, was he one block back from the stage at the front row of the middle block?

yes - bald with big white beard!

yay!

http://www.theguardian.com/music/2014/aug/26/kate-bush-before-the-dawn-eventim-apollo-review

The satirical website the Daily Mash claimed that, at the gig's conclusion, Bush would "lead the audience out of the venue, along the fairy-tale Hammersmith Flyover and finally to a mountain where they would be sealed inside, listening to Hounds of Love for all eternity".

SIGN ME UP

ok yet another setlist is posted.....sounds like this one is credible.

WoW, with two clips:
http://pitchfork.com/news/56476-kate-bush-performs-among-angels-at-first-show-in-35-years-video/

wow wow wow wow wow wow
unbelievable

you can tell that was filmed by a fan by the way they ignored the request not to film

^

My friend actually got a ticket for tonight at face value from the Eventim website earlier today - so keep trying people!!!

incredibly, there was one for sale just now. but it was gone by the time i got to checkout.

The actual setlist is way way better than the (quite low-key) fake setlist. Going next week, just ridiculously excited now.

Given it's like 90% culled from her best two albums it's virtually perfect, actually. I'm assuming that, given how choreographed the show reportedly is, it won't change much over the course of the tour.

Saw one of those clips, I think it would drive me insane if after all this time and all the effort to get tickets I was sat near a scrum of people all clapping along rhythmically and singing along at full-voice. If I were Kate Bush, I would decree no cameras, no standing, no singing along and clapping only at the end. Then I would kick everyone out and play to an empty hall, but project the performance on the surface of a flowing river.

otm

I agree, but it was the last song of the show, so if it only happened then I'm kind of ok with it.

I daresay both the clapping and singing along would have been less intrusive than it sounds on a shitty iPhone video.

yes - it was only the last song and the PA totally overpowered any annoyance. the crowd were 99.9999% impeccable and friendly and great.

so who was in the band aside from David Rhodes?

Superb write-up by Simon Price for The Quietus: http://thequietus.com/articles/16098-kate-bush-live-review

man this is killing me :/

but it's just completely out of reach/possibility moneywise to even think of going to one of these

I'm holding onto a sliver of hope that she comes stateside but it seems to be a pipe dream

People I recognised in the band.

Omar Hakim (who was a bit 1988 with his overplaying at times)
John Giblin
Jon Carin
Maynard James Keenan

some other dudes

Omar Hakim – Drums
Mino Cinélu – Percussion
David Rhodes – Guitar
Friðrik Karlsson – Guitar
John Giblin – Bass
Jon Carin – Keyboards
Kevin McAlea – Keyboards
Jacqui Dubois – Backing vocals
Sandra Marvin – Backing vocals

Adrian Noble – Artistic/Theatre Director
Naná Vasconcelos – Musical Director
Basil Twist – Scenographer Chris Vaughan – Director (Workshop)
Derek Arnold – Puppeteer (Workshop)

Any idea who the performers/dancers were?

most of them were the backing vocalists / bertie etc in different costumes. a small group playing a lot of different roles basically

"Maynard James Keenan" was this a joke ?

what's the setlist for tonight then?

It's really inconceivable that the setlist will vary much if at all over the 22 nights, since it's apparently so set to staging, but who knows.

Saw a report there was an extra thirty minutes tonight!

Jeebus. Does she have another side-long suite she hasn't played yet?

she just played extra slow

the small 6 song section at the front and the two last songs are the only places variations could happen

seems like a blackout on today's show..

setlist fm has the set listed as being the same as last night, for whatever that's worth.

I wonder if they'll release the rumored expanded Whole Story anthology now. Quite curious what the tracklisting would be.

not interested, but they might do some digital compilation now.

really hoping there's going to be a dvd of this, if not a livecast toward the end of the run. They did it for fucking monty python's turgid retirement, why not this?

This is the free newspaper that litters every morning bus and train in London and other metropolitan cities in the UK... The headline is entirely unsupported by the text. What a hopeless rag.

http://metro.co.uk/2014/08/27/kate-bush-comeback-hit-starved-fans-are-demanding-refunds-4848306/

aren't Mint Royale some dweebs off Britain's Got Talent?

hey, don't fault her

Mint Royale had a hit single with Lauren Laverne a few years back (nice, NickB). It was a joke tweet ("Watchdog" being the consumer affairs TV show on BBC1). It's now a half-page splash in a national (free) newspaper about "angry fans demanding a refund".

Me, I'm just consoling myself that I'm not missing anything off The Dreaming.

Jon Carin – Keyboards

good for him! he went to my high school on lawn guyland. he was in this band with another high school dude before hitting the big time backing pink floyd & the who & everybody:

http://stylecouncillor.files.wordpress.com/2009/07/stranger.jpg

John Giblin – Bass

^ has played on three UK no. 1 singles by three different artists iirc, none of whom were kate bush

you can't hurry love, belfast child, lady in red fyi

now there's a poll for you

like "lady in red" needs to sweep another poll

Arthouse opportunity missed by not having Gabriel/Bush do a "Lady in Red" cover duet.

There are still 20 shows.

Funnily enough, the last time I went to the Hammersmith Apollo, Peter Gabriel DID turn up and do a guest spot. It was with The Magnetic Fields in...2002?

Oh wait, that was the Lyric Theatre.

Still, same postcode. PG probably has a little bungalow round there.

i'd like to imagine him sneaking in the back of the venue and on to the stage whilst whispering the lyrics to Intruder to himself