The music video for the song adapts the " storyline " , and chronicles the destruction of a secret military installation by a creature made of sound . The science fiction film-in-miniature includes appearances from Dawn French , Hugh Laurie , Richard Vernon , Peter Vaughan and Del Palmer . Bush appears on screen as an orderly officer serving tea , as the sound creature and at the end entering a van . The video was banned from '' Top of The Pops '' because it was considered " too violent " for a pre-watershed slot . In the UK , the music video was shown at some cinemas as an accompaniment to the main feature . The music video was nominated for the Best Concept Music Video at the 1988 Grammy Awards
1988 Grammy Awards
30th Annual Grammy Awards
Experiment IV