Rain-soaked fans recreate Wuthering Heights dance in Folkestone

A sea of people in red dresses and wigs danced through the rain for an annual tribute to Kate Bush at a Kent harbour.

The dance in Folkstone took place at midday as as a series of events were held across the UK to recreate the iconic music video for the 1978 hit Wuthering Heights.

Toby Cotton, one of the organisers of the Most Wuthering Heights Day Ever, previously told BBC Radio Kent it was “something that everybody really enjoys.”

One dance took place at midday and a second will begin at 16:00 BST on The Harbour Arm.

The Folkestone event, now in its fifth year, is part of a global phenomenon inspired by a world record attempt from Brighton-based dance troupe Shambush! in 2013.

A spokesperson from the Folkestone version, which began in 2018, has described it as “Glastonbury meets flash mob, meets cult classic fandom”.

“When it came back after Covid, people really got involved and I think it was just the experience of doing something with a huge group of people – everybody enjoying the same moment together – that was really powerful,” Mr Cotton said.

Organisers of the Folkestone event have made an instructional dance video and were encouraging participants to learn it in advance.

The song from Bush, who grew up in Kent, was based on the novel of the same name by Emily Brontë, first published in 1847 under her pen name Ellis Bell.