Before the Dawn (Kate Bush concert series)
| Residency show by Kate Bush | |
The exterior of the venue during the residency
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| Location | London, England |
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| Venue | Eventim Apollo Hammersmith |
| Start date | 26 August 2014 |
| End date | 1 October 2014 |
| Legs | 1 |
| No. of shows | 22 |
| Kate Bush concert chronology | |
Before the Dawn was a set of concerts performed by British singer-songwriter and musician Kate Bush in 2014 at the Hammersmith Apollo in London. The residency consisted of 22 dates, and was her first series of live shows since her first tour in 1979, which had finished with three performances at the same venue. The show was filmed on 16–17 September 2014, although no video release has been announced.
On Friday 21 March 2014, Bush announced via her website her plans to perform live. A further seven dates were added to the original fifteen due to the high demand following the pre-sale ticket allocation, which went on sale Wednesday 26 March to fans who had signed up to her website. Tickets went on sale to the general public at 09:30 on Friday 28 March and were sold out within 15 minutes; some reports say 14, some 10, some as little as 7 minutes.
Kate Bush was subsequently nominated for two Q Awards in 2014: Best Act in the World Today and Best Live Act but did not win either award. She did win the Editor's Award at the Evening Standard Theatre Awards for taking musical performance to new heights.
On 29 September 2016 it was announced that a live recording of the show would be released in physical CD/vinyl and digital formats on 25 November 2016.
Before the Dawn was presented as a multi-media performance involving standard rock music performance, dancers, puppets, shadows, maskwork, conceptual staging, 3D animation and an illusionist. Bush spent three days in a flotation tank for filmed scenes that were played during the performance and featured dialogue written by novelist David Mitchell. Also involved with the production were Adrian Noble, former artistic director and chief executive of the Royal Shakespeare Company, lighting designer Mark Henderson and Italian Shadows Theatre company Controluce Teatro d'Ombre. The illusionist was Paul Kieve, the puppeteer Basil Twist, the movement director Sian Williams and the designer Dick Bird. The video and projection design was by Jon Driscoll.
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