“Heaven 17 loves ya”
Due to very healthy ticket sales for their first crack at David Bowie’s 1970 opus, The Man Who Sold The World, we’re happy to exclusively announce a second Holy Holy performance of the album.
The extra gig will take place at the O2 Academy Sheffield, hometown of singer Glenn Gregory of Heaven 17, who is tasked with lead vocal at the shows.
It will be a proud homecoming for Gregory on Thursday 18th September. He first saw Bowie live at the University in Sheffield on February 18th 1972, only the fifth gig of the first Ziggy Stardust tour.
He had this to say about that and the upcoming shows in December…
“I think I was fourteen years old when I first saw David Bowie. It was at the University in Sheffield (my hometown) I had to make a fake student union card to get in. I’m still amazed by that gig to this day!
And now here I am about to play a very special gig in my hometown where I will share a stage with some of those amazing Bowie musicians. It really is going to be a very special night.”
Benny Marshall will join his old ‘Ronno’ band mates, Woody Woodmansey and Tony Visconti, to play harmonica on The Jean Genie at both the dates.
Tickets go on sale at noon on Monday, May 26th, for the September 18 Sheffield show.
A few tickets remain for the first gig at the Garage in Highbury, London, on Wednesday 17 September.