Kate Bush announces first live shows since 1979 – 15 nights in London

Kate Bush announces first live shows since 1979 – 15 nights in London.

Kate Bush will play her first series of shows since 1979, taking place in the UK throughout August and September 2014.

Performing 15 shows at London’s Eventim Apollo Hammersmith, her Before The Dawn series begins on 26 August and continues into mid September.

Bush has famously only toured once previously; a six-week jaunt around Britain and mainland Europe. “By the end,” she subsequently recalled, “I felt a terrific need to retreat as a person, because I felt that my sexuality, which in a way I hadn’t really had a chance to explore myself, was being given to the world in a way which I found impersonal.” In an interview with Mojo magazine in 2011, the 55-year-old also explained that she had also endured extreme exhaustion as a result of the tour.  It was enormously enjoyable. But physically it was absolutely exhausting,” she said.

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26 August – London’s Eventim Apollo Hammersmith

27 August – London’s Eventim Apollo Hammersmith

29 August – London’s Eventim Apollo Hammersmith

30 August – London’s Eventim Apollo Hammersmith

2 September – London’s Eventim Apollo Hammersmith

3 September – London’s Eventim Apollo Hammersmith

5 September – London’s Eventim Apollo Hammersmith

6 September – London’s Eventim Apollo Hammersmith

9 September – London’s Eventim Apollo Hammersmith

10 September – London’s Eventim Apollo Hammersmith

12 September – London’s Eventim Apollo Hammersmith

13 September – London’s Eventim Apollo Hammersmith

16 September – London’s Eventim Apollo Hammersmith

17 September – London’s Eventim Apollo Hammersmith

19 September – London’s Eventim Apollo Hammersmith