Some were beautifully simple ones accompanied by just the piano - the second half started in such a way with This Woman's Work and Moments of Pleasure - then there are those need a much heavier backing such as James and the Cold Gun, Running up the Hill, Sat in your Lap and Hounds of Love (which has one of the best album covers of all time!) and sprinkled amongst them, the definitely more off-beat, left-field and sometimes frankly weird compositions like Breathing (a song about an unborn baby and a nuclear attack), tracks from the Ninth Wave (side 2 of the 1985 Hounds Of Love album) and, of course, the seminal Wuthering Heights - the latter being kept till the very end for the encore. The range of Kate's songs, especially when sung live and in succession, is a test for any vocalist.
With her 4-piece band (keyboards, bass and lead guitars and drums (and mandolin)) accompanying her, she really has a plethora of songs to choose from, some hits, some less well-known but all with that distinct feel of the expert songstress who wrote one of her biggest hits, The Man with the Child in his Eyes, when she had just entered her teenage years.Ĭoming on stage dressed entirely in black - with the addition of a hat for one song - and in bright red for the second half, Lisa-Marie had all the right moves to portray Kate's trademark way of performing: balletic, arms flailing, eyes looking around as if searching for something, voice high or deep as required by the song. It is no easy feat to pay tribute to one of the UK's most ground-breaking and iconic singer songwriters but that is what Lisa-Marie Walters aimed to do with her show Moments of Pleasure in homage to, of course, the wonderfully distinctive repertoire of Kate Bush. Choice Radio Worcester review of our Huntingdon Hall gig
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