Kate Bush : Moving
On April 2, 1979 Kate Bush began her first concert tour, performing songs from The Kick Inside and Lionheart with a contraption audiences hadn't seen before : a wireless headset microphone. This new device gave Bush the opportunity to do her Lindsay Kemp inspired dance moves while she sang in 24 sold out shows that also used visual projections, a magician, even her brother reading poetry. A writer for Melody Maker proclaimed the Birmingham show "the most magnificent spectacle ever encountered in the world of rock".
Kate Bush, at 19, was involved in very part of the production design so why was it her only tour until 2014?
"I think it was just too hard," said the late Bob Mercer to the Guardian. He's the man who signed her to EMI in 1976. "I think she liked it but the equation didn't work. These are not conversations I recall ever having with her, but I went to a lot of the shows in Britain and in Europe and I could see at the end of the show that she was completely wiped out."
The Guardian's Graeme Thomson also suggests Bush is more of a creature of the studio, preferring to work without a seated audience judging her every move. Now known as The Tour of Life, it is well worth your time to see the performances captured in the video above.
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