00:00It's been a long time coming, but after 35 years, Kate Bush has returned to the stage.
00:06She did so at the Hammersmith Apollo, the scene of her last live performance in 1979.
00:12And after such a long wait, fans were understandably giddy to see her in action, flocking to London
00:17from all corners of the globe.
00:19My name is Chris and I flew all the way from Boston, all the way from Boston to come to
00:23see Kate Bush.
00:24I've been a fan of hers for ages and I just said heck with it.
00:27I threw it on the Visa card and that's what I did.
00:29We've come from Ireland.
00:31We flew in from Cork at 6 o'clock this morning.
00:33So yeah, about two hours sleep, but we're very excited.
00:36This is monumental, 35 years away and it's great to be here for the first night back.
00:40It's taken 35 years for her to perform again and I never was going to miss it.
00:44I've been following her career since 1978 and always wished that I could have seen her alive
00:50and now it's finally happening.
00:52It's great.
00:57Bush toured in her 20s but stopped at an early age, saying it had become exhausting.
01:02The 55-year-old did say she wanted to return to live shows before she became too ancient
01:07to carry it off.
01:08And her performance didn't disappoint, with each song apparently greeted by a standing
01:13ovation.
01:14So what makes Kate so great?
01:16She is the most unique, enigmatic artist I've ever met in my life and I've never seen anything
01:20quite like her before, completely immersive, you know, you enter into her world like never
01:26before.
01:26So to me, it's worth it.
01:28She's just one of the times, Kate Bush, you know, and there's never been anybody to come
01:34up to her standard for me, really.
01:36Kate just takes us to a different place and when we listen to her music, we do feel like
01:41we're being transported somewhere else and we just really feel free.
01:45Bush's Before the Dawn show was the first of 22 concerts taking place at the Hammersmith
01:50Apollo, giving fans of the Wuthering Heights singer as much chance as possible to catch
01:55her spellbinding performances once more.
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