Kate Bush - Manchester Apollo, Manchester, Britain, 4-10-1979

I'm not a really big fan of Kate Bush's music, though I do like some of her stuff. However, I'm posting this because it seems like something that needs more attention.

Bush really only performed full concerts in 1978, 1979, and 2014. There's an official live album from her 1979 tour, called "Live at Hammersmith Odeon," which was released in 1994. However, it's only 53 minutes long. That's unfortunate, because her concerts that year were about two hours long. I haven't seen any excellent sounding bootlegs from this tour. However, I did find a great sounding video, taken from a concert in Manchester, Britain. I converted it to audio and broke it into mp3s. 

You can find an interesting article from NME Magazine about Bush's 1979 tour, with lots of photos, here:

The Big Picture - Inside Kate Bush's Groundbreaking 1979 Tour (nme.com)

In short, she considered performing typical concerts to be boring, and she wanted to do something artistically challenging and groundbreaking. So her concerts were big productions, with costume changes, dozens of supporting musicians, magicians, mimes, video projections, and dance routines. Bush ran around and danced so much that it was a wonder she was able to sing as well. If you listen closely to this recording, you might hear her a little breathless at times.

There was no banter between songs at all, because she felt that took the concert goer out of the immersive experience. But she did talk a little at the end of the concert.

This album is an hour and 54 minutes long.

01 Moving (Kate Bush)
02 Saxophone Song (Kate Bush)
03 Room for the Life (Kate Bush)
04 Them Heavy People (Kate Bush)
05 Man with the Child in His Eyes (Kate Bush)
06 Egypt (Kate Bush)
07 L'Amour Looks Something like You (Kate Bush)
08 Violin (Kate Bush)
09 Poem by John Carder Bush (Kate Bush)
10 The Kick Inside (Kate Bush)
11 In the Warm Room (Kate Bush)
12 Fullhouse (Kate Bush)
13 Strange Phenomena (Kate Bush)
14 Hammer Horror (Kate Bush)
15 Chant (Kate Bush)
16 Kashka from Baghdad (Kate Bush)
17 Don't Push Your Foot on the Heartbrake (Kate Bush)
18 Wow (Kate Bush)
19 Coffee Homeground (Kate Bush)
20 In Search of Peter Pan (Kate Bush)
21 Symphony in Blue (Kate Bush)
22 Feel It (Kate Bush)
23 Kite (Kate Bush)
24 James and the Cold Gun (Kate Bush)
25 Oh England My Lionheart (Kate Bush)
26 Wuthering Heights (Kate Bush)
27 talk (Kate Bush)

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The cover photo was taken of Bush at a concert in Amsterdam, Netherlands, on April 29, 1979. It doesn't look like a concert photo at first, but these concerts were elaborate productions, and this is indeed from a concert.