Reaching wuthering heights
A still from Kate Bush’s Wuthering Heights music video.
There is only one Kate Bush – but there could be 179 look-alikes dancing like her at Hamilton Gardens on Sunday. (August 16)
Ten “flash mob” events – where people meet at a certain place and time to perform a coordinated dance or action – have been staged under The Most Wuthering Heights Day Ever banner across the country this year.
The 11th was rained off in Hamilton last weekend – so organisers are having another go. As of this week 46 people had confirmed they would attend and 133 had registered interest online.
A teenage Kate Bush released Wuthering Heights as her debut single in 1978. It topped the UK singles chart for four weeks and spent five weeks at number one in New Zealand. The song which made Bush a star remains a favourite – it returned to the UK download charts as recently as March this year.
More than three decades after the song was first released, a mass-dance event in 2013, The Ultimate Kate Bush Experience, sparked what has become the annual The Most Wuthering Heights Day Ever craze. Crowds in red dresses seek to recreate the Wuthering Heights video and her dancing.
Ahead of Sunday’s free event dance tutorials will help those who don’t know the moves.
