Kate Bush’s Hounds Of Love, The Old Market, Upper Market Street, Hove, Saturday, June 13, and Sunday, June 14

HER number one debut single Wuthering Heights got Kate Bush on everyone’s radar in 1978.

But it was 1985 album Hounds Of Love which is likely to remain the singer-songwriter’s finest achievement.

Penned over the space of three years in her home studio –already several years after her only live tour in 1979 - it was an album which was never designed to be performed in concert.

So when Lisa Abbott’s husband Jim Williams suggested she recreate Bush’s album live, the frontwoman of Rose Divine And The D’Villes told him it was a ridiculous idea.

“I was doing a gig with a couple of members of my band and I did a couple of Kate Bush songs,” says Abbott. “My husband who was there behind me said if he hadn’t known better he would have said it was Kate singing – even though I wasn’t trying to do an impression.”

She texted Brighton Beach Boy Steve Wrigley the suggestion – adding she thought it would be far too hard.

“He got back to me and said ‘no problem’,” says Abbott. “And here we are.”

Drawing on members of Abbott’s band, fellow Brighton Beach Boys and Stomp’s Lost And Found Orchestra the ten-piece line-up’s CVs including working with Oasis, James, The Oysterband and The Divine Comedy among many others.

And Abbott says after a couple of rehearsals the music is already sounding brilliant.

“The important thing is it’s more of a homage to Kate,” she says. “We are trying to make it as close to the sound of the album as we possibly can in a live setting.

“We can only go so far for the die-hard Kate Bush fans – of which I am one. I’m not going to be out front being the central focus in a regular band format – I want to be to the side as one of the musicians, so people can immerse themselves in the beautiful music.”

Hounds Of Love is home to some of Bush’s biggest hits, including the title track, Running Up That Hill (A Deal With God) and Cloudbusting.

But arguably the biggest challenge on the album is the second side.

The Ninth Wave is a concept piece about a woman’s last moments as she drowns, which Bush recreated in full as an audio-visual experience as part of her residency at the Hammersmith Apollo last year.

This is going to be the biggest challenge of the night as the piece moves between piano-led ballad to a cacophony of synthesised and captured voices to an Irish jig.

“We have got a string quartet and some fabulous singers,” says Abbott. “Glen Richardson from the Brighton Beach Boys will be doing the Irish narration and we are running a computer to emulate some of the sounds like the seagulls and jet noises.

“It has been an amazing experience to rehearse – and that’s why we wanted to do two nights. The plan is, if it goes well, to tour it.”

With the album only being 40 minutes long the show will also feature chronological performances of early Bush classics from her preceding four albums to put Hounds Of Love in context.

“For me those first five albums are the ones I adore,” says Abbott. “They are so beautiful although I collect the recent stuff too.

“I was always a Kate Bush fan from afar, but Hounds Of Love was the album that caught my interest completely.”

Starts 8pm, tickets £16/£14. Call 01273 201801.