Kate Bush returns to centre stage

Kate Bush made a sensational return to the concert stage on Tuesday night — 35 years after her last, and only, tour.

At 56, she was no longer able to hit the high notes of her teenage years and she cut back on the dancing, but she still had the trademark long dark hair, and she still knew how to put on a show.

Bush — whose late mother, Hannah Daly, came from Dungarvan, Co Waterford— was kicking off her Before The Dawn ‘tour’. This series of 22 shows takes place at the Hammersmith Apollo in west London, the venue where she retired from live performances, after six weeks on the road in 1979.