Kate Bush tickets offered for £1,500 after selling out

Tickets for Kate Bush’s live comeback are being offered for sale to desperate fans for four-figure sums after they sold out.

Some tickets, which were priced from £49 (€59), are for sale online for £1,500 after all 22 shows sold out in minutes

The star — returning to the stage for the first time in 35 years — said: “I’m completely overwhelmed by the response to the shows.”

Her PR company told fans on Twitter: “Tickets for all 22 @KateBushMusic dates sold out in less than 15 minutes.”

The London gigs mark the singer’s return to the stage after her one and only tour and to the same venue, the Hammersmith Apollo — where she effectively retired from live performances after just six weeks on the road in 1979.

She was just 20 when she completed The Tour Of Life with three dates at the then Hammersmith Odeon, after topping the charts with ‘Wuthering Heights’ the previous year.

Over the years, theories about her absence from the stage have included her perfectionism, a fear of flying, and the death of the tour’s lighting director Bill Duffield, during a show.

But in a rare interview with Mojo magazine in 2011, she explained that her years of absence from the circuit were simply down to the sheer exertion of the ordeal. Her shows relied heavily on dance and mime.

“It was enormously enjoyable. But physically it was absolutely exhausting,” she said.