It has been just over two years since some of us lucky enough saw what I still call ‘the most powerful and magical experience of my life’: Kate Bush’s Before The Dawn show spectacular at Hammersmith’s Eventim Apollo.

To promote the audio recording of Before The Dawn, Kate has today released the video for ‘And Dream Of Sheep’, which was issued as a single last Friday (18th Oct).

As a studio recording, ‘And Dream Of Sheep’ originally introduced The Ninth Wave – the second part of Kate’s critically acclaimed 1985 album Hounds of Love.

In the video we see Kate stranded in the ocean wearing a life jacket, before finally submerging under the water. The concept of this was to create a sense of realism, as the character in the song is lost at sea – a story that Kate herself announced as ‘terrifying’ in her excellent 60 minute BBC Radio 6 Music interview with Matt Everitt yesterday. The vocal was performed live while filming Kate lying in the huge water tank at London’s Pinewood Studios.  Kate was indeed suffering for her art as she spent so long in the water during the first day of filming that she discovered she had contracted mild hypothermia.

Kate’s upcoming live album Before The Dawn is the official, long-awaited recording of a breathtaking show which centred on two integral pieces – ‘The Ninth Wave’ and ‘A Sky Of Honey’ (from Kate’s 2005 album Aerial). This 22-date stint took place through August – October 2014.

Before The Dawn – The 3CD or 4 vinyl collection – is released this Friday (November 25).

Read my account of Before The Dawn here

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