Yep, me too. Great news, as I'm laid up with some kind of evil stomach bug and could do with a boost. BTW, bit cheap of Eventim to not bother using recorded delivery.

Tickets, my tickets have arrived, and mighty impressive they are too. Very artistic, as is to be expected. Both are stamped with my name. So I'd better not forget my passport. Still working on getting healthy enough to go.

we got ours today as well very exciting, hope you are well soon

got mine this morning and been grinning all day. It seems more real now

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I'm sure most of you have already heard this but just thought I'd share anyway

Finally got mine today after a little panic.

Came home yesterday to find a card telling me to go and pick them up from the sorting office but when I went down there they couldn't find them. After 20 minutes of searching they gave up and told me to come back tomorrow.

Not much sleep last night.

I went down this morning and the bloke tells me they've found them but have sent them back out for delivery so I race home and then spent three hours sat in the kitchen (thank God for TMS) with the back door open so I didn't miss the postie.

They are now safely tucked away for the next four weeks.

I'm going to one of the September dates (so now is the time for me to start avoiding spoilers as best as possible) and my tickets were waiting for me yesterday after I'd been out for a few hours over lunch. The artwork is stunning (I can't imagine any other musician having such a beautifully designed concert ticket!) and it finally feels like these shows are really happening, that I'm going to see Kate! I've been a fan since Aerial so not as long as a lot of you, but she's become such an inspiration to me and I never thought I could so much as hope to see her peform in the flesh.

Excited isn't a strong enough word to describe how I feel about these concerts! This is a one in a life time dream come true for me. There is no artist other than prehaps David Bowie who I care about seeing live so much.

I'll be seeing Kate on 2nd September. My 27th birthday...

If 'Under The Ivy' appears in any form I will cry.

That's the same date I'm going.

Happy Birthday, in advance!

Quite impressed with them as well. Tickets usually have that paper/banknote feel to them, but these are glossy with a nice under water image.

They're really beautiful. I'm going to keep mine forever.

Me too. It's of the most beautiful and underrated songs of all time in my opinion.

I'm personally hoping the early rumour of songs from A Sky of Honey being performed are true. To hear the songs that made me a Kate fan sung live by her, like Somewhere in Between, Sunset, Nocturn, and Aerial would be incredible. I'd love it if some A Sea of Honey tracks like Mrs Bartolozzi, How to Be Invisible and Joanni made an appearance as well but I'm not holding my breath for that.

Thanks, I think I'm getting the better of the damn thing. So glad this didn't happen a couple of days before.

Mine were just waiting on the doormat, apparently. My girlfriend picked them up, as I didn't even look, being so out of it with illness at the time and just back from doc visit. Suspected food poisoning combined with accidental dehydration.

Very pleased when I did open the envelope though.

Oh yes, that would be wonderful. I'd love to hear Sunset, because I first heard that when 'treating myself' to one song a day from what was then a new album, when I was full time looking after my terminally ill dad. It's that line, "Every sleepy light has to say goodbye, to the day before it dies,"

I would also very much like to hear Nocturn, because for me it's easily in the top three songs KB has ever recorded, and would be perfect at an end of Summer night concert.'The silky milky water."

I'm expecting to hear The Ninth Wave, Running Up That Hill, Hounds of Love, This Woman's Work, and some of the reworked Director's Cut stuff, all of which will be fantastic. As outside chances, I hope we get The Man With The Child In His Eyes, Never Be Mine, and if the mighty powers are feeling benevolent, Eric Clapton shuffles on to play And So Is Love.

Ahhhhhhhh, yes.

I can't stop getting my ticket out and ogling the artwork. I love how much thought has gone into seemingly every aspect of this show. It feels like a gift for us.

Had a dream last night that I was late to the show and everything possible went wrong while I was getting ready to leave for London.

Aaah!

Right then, we're all getting excited now, my ticket has pride of place between my monitor and my mixing desk so as part of my countdown to the day I'm going to tell you all my story of me and Kate.

When I was little back in the mid-80s, Hounds of Love time, I hated Kate Bush. Proper, full-on, visceral, teeth-itching loathing. If I told someone in school that they liked Kate Bush I was essentially telling them that their mother sucked cocks in hell. I honestly can't think of another artist that I have despised as much as I hated Kate Bush back in those days...apart from Mumford and Sons obviously.

What I did like back in the those days however was Star Wars. Loved Star Wars, Han, Chewie...everything. I had all the toys, the bed sheets, a lightsaber...everything. So when Star Wars was on HTV on New Years Day 1987 I had to tape it. Unfortunately my video recorder at the time was rubbish, if you tried to scan forward or backwards it would just chew the tape up. This meant that every time I wanted to watch Star Wars - which was pretty much daily - I had to sit through all the adverts as well. There was the Shake 'n' Vac one, the "Hope it's chips, it's chips!!!" one, "How do Do It All Do It?", the 'Gotta Lotta Bottle' milk ad and one of those Marshall Cavendish things showing you how to hang lumpy wallpaper.

Also on there was and advert for 'The Whole Story' by Kate Bush. It had snippets of Wuthering Heights, Running Up That Hill, Babooshka and The Man With The Child in his Eyes. After a while it got to the stage that I just associated those few seconds of the songs with Star Wars.

I loved Star Wars.

Ten years later I was a drunken, waste-of-space in University. Late one night I was flicking through the rudimentary cable channels and I came across VH1 doing a Kate Bush night; they were playing Wow. I was instantly hooked. I threw a tape into the video and recorded the whole thing. The programme finished at 2am but I played it back constantly until 9am; Wuthering Heights, Running Up That Hill, Babooshka and The Man With The Child in his Eyes...also Sat in Your Lap.

At 9am I walked to HMV to get some Kate Bush stuff but I had a little dilemma, I was one of those hardcore, political anarcho-punks at the time and there was no way I could buy an EMI record from HMV so I shoplifted the VHS of 'The Whole Story' and the CD of 'The Kick Inside'. Within six weeks I owned Kate's entire back catalogue on both CD and vinyl and all purchased legitimately apart from those first two.

I've been full-on into music both before and since that incident but nothing anywhere near the intensity of those few weeks. Every night for the rest of my student life saw me fall asleep to Kate Bush albums on headphones (well, not EVERY night, but you know what I mean).

I just wish I could tell the 19-year-old me that I'm going to see Kate Bush in just 3 weeks time.

Proving that KB's muse has the power to soothe even the most savage breast, or in your case a thieving pillock. How sad your life would've been had you not discovered the joy of Kate, eh?

Kate has asked that no one film or take photos during the performance. No problem with that from me. I just hope everyone else respects the request.

has everyones tickets arrived? mine haven't yet ?

Might stand a better chance if they announce its being filmed for Dvd/Blu ray release.

I do hope Kate releases a DVD but I'm not holding my breath. Still, I do respect her for asking people not to take photos and film just because it's bad behaviour in terms of being distracting to those around you and rude in terms of not paying proper attention to the performer.

People seem totally incapabale of experiencing something special without some pathalogical need to document the event. I find that sad, personally.

Good on her.... I can worry a little less now about some twonk in front wafting an iPad or phone about.

Mine have but I'm show 3, they may be sending later shows out later.... If you see what I mean