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Before the Dawn is a set of concerts performed by British singer 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〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Vote now for Q Best Act In The World Today presented by Buster + Punch – Q Awards 2014 – Q MagazineQ Magazine )〕 and Best Live Act but did not win either award.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Vote for Q Best Live Act presented by The Cavern Club – Q Awards 2014 – Q MagazineQ Magazine )〕 She did win the Editor's Award at the Evening Standard Theatre Awards for taking musical performance to new heights. == Overview== ''Before the Dawn'' is 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. The performance is centred on a band featuring the following musicians: *Kate Bush – vocals (plus occasional piano/keyboards) *David Rhodes – guitar *Friðrik Karlsson – guitar, bouzouki, charango *John Giblin – bass guitar, double bass *Jon Carin – keyboards, guitar, vocals, programming *Kevin McAlea – keyboards, accordion, uilleann pipes *Omar Hakim – drums *Mino Cinélu – percussion and the following actors: *Albert McIntosh – chorus, Son, Painter *Jo Servi – chorus, Witchfinder *Bob Harms – chorus, Dad *Sandra Marvin – chorus *Jacqui DuBois – chorus *Ben Thompson – Lord of the Waves, Tesoro *Stuart Angell – Lord of the Waves, Painter's Apprentice *Christian Jenner – Blackbird Spirit *Sean Myatt, Richard Booth, Emily Cooper, Lane Paul Stewart, Charlotte Williams – Supporting Actors Bush's son, Albert McIntosh, who performs in the show as a backing vocalist and actor, is also credited as creative advisor.〔 Keyboard player Kevin McAlea is notable for also having played on Bush's previous tour "The Tour of Life" in 1979. Parts of the show tell stories based on two Bush song-suites – "The Ninth Wave" from ''Hounds of Love'' and "A Sky of Honey" from ''Aerial''. During "The Ninth Wave", Bush's character is lost at sea after her ship, the ''Celtic Deep'', sinks. She fades in and out of consciousness, sometimes underwater and sometimes above, hoping to be rescued with only a flickering red light to make her seen in the darkness. She has an almost out-of-body experience, observing herself as though under ice, seeing her family without her, and imagining entering earth's atmosphere until she is found; survival has given her a new appreciation of love and life. Then, in "A Sky of Honey", Bush portrays a bird-like woman observing the actions of a 19th-century painter and a wooden puppet. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Before the Dawn (Kate Bush concert series)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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