Kate Bush at Hammersmith Odeon--sweeeeeeeeeet!

I've been on a Kate Bush kick lately, what with her comeback, Aerial. Just bought Kate Bush Live at Hammersmith Odeon. Believe it or not, she's only toured once, in 1979. Sad, because she put on an amazing show. The production values are very 1970s, of course, and Kate is a young, sprightly 21-year-old, not the eccentric, complex, mature model of femininity she became in the mid-eighties. So there's a lot of Kate cavorting with mimes and dancers, performing material mostly from her first two albums. There are lots of costume changes: Kate in a trenchcoat and fedora for "Them Heavy People"; Kate in leather for "Don't Push Your Foot on the Heartbrake"; Kate in a cowgirl catsuit for "James and the Cold Gun."

Final song is "Wuthering Heights," her breakthrough hit. As the credits roll and she sings the final chorus, she collects an armful of roses from the audience and then, during the guitar solo, jumps up and down wildly, waving at her audience. Sigh. Makes you wish she'd perform live more often...but hey! This is Kate Bush, who gives her all to everything she does! Perhaps she wanted to devote more attention to recording. Who knows?

I just hope that after this, she'll go back to the usual 3-4 years between albums.

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