Seeing Kate Bush perform live is something I will most likely never experience considering the small number of live appearances she has made since her one and only tour in 1979. According to Wikipedia the setlist for the Tour of Life went as follows:
1. Moving
2. Saxophone Song
3. Room For The Life
4. Them Heavy People
5. The Man With The Child In His Eyes
6. Egypt
7. L'Amour Looks Something Like You
8. Violin
9. The Kick Inside
(intro John Carder Bush reading poem)
10. In The Warm Room
11. Fullhouse
12. Strange Phenomena
13. Hammer Horror
14. Kashka From Bagdad
(intro Kate leading chant)
15. Don't Push Your Foot On The Heartbrake
16. Wow
17. Coffee Homeground (long instrumental intro)
18. In Search Of Peter Pan
(intro John Carder Bush reading poem)
19. Symphony In Blue (intro Satie Gymnopedie 1)
20. Feel It (instrumental intro)
21. Kite (intro whistling and thunder)
22. James And The Cold Gun
23. Oh England, My Lionheart
(intro John Carder Bush reading poem)
24. Wuthering Heights
You can read about why she hasn't toured since here. The Tour of Life was limited to songs from her first three albums (mostly The Kick Inside and Lionheart, but "Egypt" must have been a real treat). Thirty years and five albums later it's exciting to imagine what songs she might perform live today. My ideal set list is described below. I like what Ryan did with his surprise guests from the Bowie post so I've incorporated some here. Also, it's not that I don't like Lionheart ... I just don't want to hear most of that album live (I probably would have gone to get a hot dog after "Hammer Horror" on the Tour of Life).
1. Hounds of Love (Alternative)
2. Love and Anger
3. The Big Sky
4. Lily
5. James and the Cold Gun
6. And So Is Love (w/ surprise guest: Eric Clapton)
7. Wuthering Heights
8. Houdini
9. Experiment IV
10. Running Up That Hill
11. Watching You Without Me
12. Pi
13. Lord of the Reedy River (w/ surprise guest: Tori Amos)
14. Moving
15. In the Warm Room
16. The Infant Kiss
17. Ne T'En Fui Pas
18. All the Love
19. Egypt
20. Nocturn
21. Aerial
22. Cloudbusting
Encore
23. Babooshka
24. Delius (Song of Summer)
25. Blow Away (For Bill)
26. This Woman's Work
Download 1 hour 45 minute mix in m4a format (with chapters)
Let me hear your Kate set list ideas!
