Wuthering Heights

The Kate Bush frenzy was quite an experience. Three of us, all on different laptops, shouting out updates: “it’s loading, it’s loading!”, “bugger, the site’s frozen”, “the 17 th has gone – which others could we do?”, “hold, on – I can see available ones - yes, yes, I think I...YES.” That final sentence is a shortened version of my screeching as I managed to secure tickets for my parents and me. We were immensely fortunate. Twitter (that general arbiter of public consensus) was divided between celebrations and lamentations. It was quite incredible to see the explosion surrounding that first announcement. Suddenly everyone was a...