Month: August 2014

 

“People stared at the make-up on his face”

 

Avantgarde of Berlin have been in touch with details of a new addition to the news page of the David Bowie exhibition at Martin-Gropius-Bau…and here are those details.

 

 

Be Ziggy Stardust!

 

Visitors to the David Bowie exhibition at Martin-Gropius-Bau can now look like Ziggy Stardust. As an official partner of the exhibition, Audi invites visitors to a specially designed photo project. Every person attending, receives a personal photo with the famous Ziggy Stardust lightning bolt.

 

Since the beginning of the exhibition Audi City Berlin at Kurfürstendamm 195, has been showing an installation of Bowie record covers on their power walls. For Wayne Griffiths, head of sales Germany at Audi AG, the exhibition David Bowie is a matter close to his heart: ”David Bowie wasn’t afraid of exceeding limits and he was ahead of the times. Not least because of his attitude, he perfectly fits into our brand with the four rings.”

 

 

The news page is a great diary of events since the launch of the David Bowie exhibition and you can view it here.

If you’re not in Berlin and are feeling a little left out, you still have a chance to get the Aladdin Sane flash on your phizog by acquiring the Bowiefy app.

Our picture shows how David Bowie may have looked had he created the iconic make-up a couple of years before the Aladdin Sane album of 1973, with apologies to both David Bowie himself and Duffy!

 

“I, I can remember, Standing, by the wall”

 

Well we’re into the final week of The Berlin run of the David Bowie exhibition at Martin-Gropius-Bau in Berlin. Online tickets have now all sold out, but if you’re in Berlin you may strike lucky on the day by going straight there.

Either way, it’s well worth trying to get a place on the popular daily Bowie Berlin Walk and/or the Hansa Studio Tour.

On the closing day of the exhibition, Sunday August 24, 2014, Hansa sound engineer, Eduard Meyer, will be present for the Hansa Studio Tour Special (in English) accompanied by expert tour guide, and all-round lovely bloke, Thilo Schmied.

If you don’t know much about Eduard Meyer, you can read a brief interview with him from last month over on exberliner.com.

We’ll leave you with the official blurb and links for the Hansa Studio Tour Special and the daily Bowie Berlin Walk…

 

 

HANSA STUDIO TOUR SPECIAL WITH EDUARD MEYER

 

On Sunday 24. August 2014 the extraordinary exhibition DAVID BOWIE at Martin-Gropius-Bau in Berlin will close the doors and travel to the United States. For this Closing Party a very special guest was invited – EDUARD MEYER – David Bowie’s and Iggy Pop’s former sound engineer from Hansa Studios. Edu helped Bowie & Iggy recording their albums THE IDIOT, LOW, LUST FOR LIFE and BAAL at the ‘studios by the wall’ between 1976 and 1979.

 

This Hansa Studio Tour Special of BERLIN MUSIC TOURS (in English) starts on Sunday 24. August 2014 at 13:00 CET in front of ‘Meistersaal’ entrance, Köthener Strasse 38, 10963 Berlin – just around the corner from Potsdamer Platz Center. The space in the studios is limited, please pre order the studio tour with Edu using BERLIN MUSIC TOURS Tickets (http://musictours-berlin.de/en/tickets) menu on the website or write an email straight to booking email: order@musictours-berlin.de

 

Info link: http://musictours-berlin.de/en/hansa-studio-tour

 

Also there is the popular daily Bowie Berlin Walk (http://musictours-berlin.de/en/bowie-berlin-walk) running at 14:30 CET in English parallel to exhibition DAVID BOWIE at Martin-Gropius-Bau in Kreuzberg district until 24. August 2014. Due to strong demand BERLIN MUSIC TOURS will continue doing the Bowie Berlin Walk also after the exhibition will be closed down. Check out the big multimedia Bowie Berlin Tour (http://musictours-berlin.de/en/bowie-tour) as well – here is the studio & bus tour combined.

 

“While you’re down there”

 

Adam Dean of bowiedownunder.com – The David Bowie Community of Australia and New Zealand, has been in touch with a few cool Bowie-related things including the following…

 

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SPACE ODDITY Aug 21 – 24

SYDNEY – MELBOURNE – CANBERRA

Chris Hadfield, the former commander of the International Space Station became the coolest astronaut in the world when he recorded David Bowie’s “Space Oddity” in zero gravity. Since returning to Earth, the Canadian astronaut has inspired audiences across Europe and North America with live talks on space, science and achieving your dreams.

 

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TMWFTE IN WELLINGTON Oct 6

WELLINGTON

Wellington Film Society presents The Man Who Fell to Earth starring David Bowie.

 

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THE BOWIE PROJECT Oct 8

MELBOURNE

Adam Rudegeair’s Bowie Project returns.

 

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Adam recommends the Adam Rudegeair event, saying: “his stuff is superb and is played by a jazz quintet – songs such as Black Tie White Noise, Thursdays Child, I’m Afraid of Americans, Aladdin Sane, Underground and many others.“

For more details regarding each of the above and much more, go here.

In the long run up to the David Bowie is stint at The Australian Centre for the Moving Image (acmi) from July 16 to November 1, 2015, BowieDownUnder.com will be the place to check out for local events and the like.

And though we are duty-bound to point out that it’s not an official site, it is nevertheless a very impressive one well worth keeping an eye on for all things ’down there’.

It’s also worth remembering, these guys are from the future and they’re already enjoying tomorrow!

 

 

“Got to keep searching and searching”

 

There will be a David Bowie themed Adler After Dark event this coming Thursday, August 21, and we’ve received an intriguing message from the folk at Adler Planetarium in Chicago regarding it.

 

“We’re @adlerskywatch on Twitter and Instagram. One activity we’re doing for this week’s Adler After Dark night is #PeekABowie; we’ve hidden little David Bowies around the museum and if you find one you snap a pic and post to Instagram or Twitter using #PeekABowie.”

 

Curiouser and Curiouser – There’s more info about Adler After Dark: Space Oddity here and a full schedule of events here.

 

“Slowly, it’s good and holy”

 

We recently told you about the upcoming release by Holy Holy of a limited edition 7” picture disc, We Are King / Holy Holy.

Issued by Maniac Squat Records on Monday 15th September 2014, the release will be a very limited edition of 999 numbered picture discs and a digital download.  

Numbers 101-999 will be available at the gigs for £15 each and via Amazon.

Numbers 1-100 are signed by the whole band on a special insert and will only be available at the September shows for £30 each.

All pressings come with a four-page numbered information booklet which includes a new exclusive essay on The Man Who Sold The World album and the song Holy Holy by the renowned Bowie historian/writer Nicholas Pegg (The Complete David Bowie).

 

Tony Visconti on bass and backing vocals, and Woody Woodmansey on drums, are joined by Woody’s stellar supergroup Holy Holy, on the single:

• Glenn Gregory (Heaven 17), vocals

• Steve Norman (Spandau Ballet), vocals, sax, guitar, keyboards, stylophone and percussion

• Erdal Kizilcay (David Bowie, Iggy Pop, Freddie Mercury), bass

• James Stevenson (Chelsea, Gen X, Gene Loves Jezebel, Scott Walker, The Alarm, The Cult), guitar

• Paul Cuddeford (Ian Hunter, Bob Geldof), guitar, mandolin, acoustic guitar, glockenspiel, viola and harmonica

• Rod Melvin (Ian Dury, Brian Eno), piano

• Lisa Ronson (A Secret History), backing vocals

• Maggi Ronson (Mick Ronson, Philip Rambow), backing vocals

• Hannah Berridge Ronson (Colin Lloyd Tucker), backing vocals

• Malcolm Doherty (Rumer), backing vocals

 

Keep reading for the press release.

 

PRESS RELEASE – Limited edition 7” picture disc, We Are King / Holy Holy.

 

Supergroup HOLY HOLY featuring Woody Woodmansey, Steve Norman, Glenn Gregory and Tony Visconti release a double A side single comprising the new song ‘We Are King’, written and sung by Steve Norman of Spandau Ballet with a cover of David Bowie’s ‘Holy Holy’ sung by Heaven 17’s Glenn Gregory.

 

Released by Maniac Squat Records on Monday 15th September 2014 on a picture disc limited edition of 999 and on digital download.  

 

Legendary Bowie bandmates, producer/bass player Tony Visconti and drummer Woody Woodmansey, are performing together for the first time since 1971 on this single and at four UK dates in September 2014. Fronting the band is Glenn Gregory of Heaven 17 and on saxophone, guitars and vocals is Spandau Ballet’s Steve Norman.

 

Steve Norman said: “It’s a great honour to be able to contribute ‘We Are King’ to this wonderful project. It’s a song which I wrote especially for it and with the übertalented Woody Woodmansey and all the Holy Holy band members in mind. Performing this song along with those amazing Bowie tunes makes me proud. These songs have impacted so much on my personal life as well as my musical career. Working with Tony Visconti and Glenn Gregory is the icing on the cake of this most exciting venture”.

 

Glenn Gregory said “It has been a little strange over the last few months, I was asked to perform live on stage with some of my absolute all time heroes singing some of the most influential Bowie songs ever, and then as if that wasn’t enough… I’m now singing on a record with those same gentlemen. I think I might just retire”.

 

The distinctive and robust guitar playing which contributed so much to the artistic success of The Man Who Sold The World was Mick Ronson, who sadly died in 1993. Mick’s daughter Lisa, his sister Maggi and niece Hannah sing on this record and are performing live with Tony and Woody in September. 

 

Tony Visconti said “It was such a pleasure to jam with Holy Holy’s drummer, Woody Woodmansey, my former Hype colleague on their new single We Are King.  It felt natural, a perfect fit. Glen Gregory’s vocals are wonderful on the Holy Holy cover song. I added some vocal tones to this song too. I’m very proud to be part of this recording and ever so excited playing the four TMWSTW shows in the UK this September, with this amazing band of musicians including the very talented and dedicated Steve Norman.”

 

Woody Woodmansey said “I am really excited about playing with Tony Visconti again after so many years; a great rhythm section is always kinda special. The TMWSTW gigs in September, with such a calibre of world class players, who really know their stuff, from Steve Norman, Glenn Gregory, James Stevenson, Paul Cuddeford, Erdal Kizilcay, and the Ronson girls is going to be a little bit of history, as this album has never been performed live, ever!”.

 

Tony Visconti on bass and backing vocals, and Woody Woodmansey on drums, are joined by Woody’s stellar supergroup Holy Holy, on the single:

 

• Glenn Gregory (Heaven 17), vocals

• Steve Norman (Spandau Ballet), vocals, sax, guitar, keyboards, stylophone and percussion

• Erdal Kizilcay (David Bowie, Iggy Pop, Freddie Mercury), bass

• James Stevenson (Chelsea, Gen X, Gene Loves Jezebel, Scott Walker, The Alarm, The Cult), guitar

• Paul Cuddeford (Ian Hunter, Bob Geldof), guitar, mandolin, acoustic guitar, glockenspiel, viola and harmonica

• Rod Melvin (Ian Dury, Brian Eno), piano

• Lisa Ronson (A Secret History), backing vocals

• Maggi Ronson (Mick Ronson, Philip Rambow), backing vocals

• Hannah Berridge Ronson (Colin Lloyd Tucker), backing vocals

• Malcolm Doherty (Rumer), backing vocals

 

Notes for Editors

• The vinyl single will include an new exclusive essay by the renowned Bowie historian/writer Nicholas Pegg on The Man Who Sold The World album and the song Holy Holy.

• Holy Holy formed in 2013 to play at Latitude Festival.

• The single was produced by Steve Norman and engineered by Paul Cuddeford, with additional recording by Tony Visconti in New York and by Erdal Kizilcay in Switzerland.

• Tony Visconti has produced more David Bowie albums than anyone else, including Space Oddity, The Man Who Sold The World, Young Americans, Low, Heroes, Lodger, Scary Monsters, Heathen, Reality and The Next Day, released in 2013, as well as mixing several others.

• Woody Woodmansey drummed on four of the most important David Bowie albums: The Man Who Sold The World, Hunky Dory, The Rise And Fall Of Ziggy Stardust And The Spiders From Mars and Aladdin Sane.

• We Are King / Holy Holy by Holy Holy is released on Maniac Squat Records, distributed by Code 7 via PHD, catalogue number: MSL2014V001

 

Social Media

Twitter: @holyholybowie              Facebook: www.facebook.com/holyholybowie

 

Live performances

September 2014 performances by Holy Holy with Woody Woodmansey, Steve Norman, Glenn Gregory and Tony Visconti:

 

London                The Garage                                       Wednesday 17th September                        SOLD OUT

Sheffield              O2 Academy2                                   Thursday 18th September                             £18.00 adv

Glasgow              O2 ABC                                              Saturday 20th September                             £20.00 adv

London                O2 Shepherd’s Bush Empire          Monday 22nd September                             £25.00 adv

 

Talk

Tony Visconti and Woody Woodmansey discuss the making of The Man Who Sold The World at the ICA, Tuesday 16th September:

https://www.ica.org.uk/whats-on/tony-visconti-and-woody-woodmansey-making-david-bowie%E2%80%99s-man-who-sold-world

 

“You shall own a Bowie shirt”

 

For those of you not subscribed to the newsletter, The Official David Bowie Store has announced the launch of an exclusive new Bowie t-shirt collection.

These shirts, inspired by the artwork of David Bowie’s 40th Anniversary picture disc collection and beginning with Diamond Dogs, will be available exclusively for pre-order in the Official David Bowie online store and will be limited to 300 pieces per design.

Printed on high-quality, premium t-shirts and utilising the iconic artwork of Parlophone’s picture disc reissue series as inspiration, these tees will be available on subsequent releases as part of pre-order bundles only.

For this one time only though, you can pick up the inaugural Diamond Dogs t-shirt as a standalone item. The store is also taking pre-orders for the next release in this series, Knock On Wood.

Pre-order the Knock On Wood bundle and the Diamond Dogs t-shirt here.

 

“It was a day in that blue month September”

 

At the end of last month we announced the commencement of ticket sales for the nationwide US theatrical release of the V&A’s David Bowie Is Happening Now documentary film.

Distributed by Omniverse Vision, the film is scheduled for exclusive screenings in movie theatres across the US on September 23, 2014.

We are pleased to be able to tell you that further locations and screenings have now been added and you can find your nearest participating cinema by visiting: www.davidbowie.com/davidbowieisfilm, view the trailer and book tickets while you’re there.

David Bowie Is Happening Now takes the audience on an extraordinary journey through the David Bowie Is exhibition with special guests including legendary Japanese fashion designer Kansai Yamamoto, Pulp front-man Jarvis Cocker, and other collaborators, to explore the stories behind some of the key objects that document Bowie’s artistic career. The exhibition curators, Victoria Broackes and Geoffrey Marsh, provide fascinating insight into the most memorable works in the exhibition, revealing the creativity and evolution of Bowie’s ideas.

The documentary was filmed a year ago this week (August 13, 2013) on the closing night of the V&A exhibition in London and directed by Hamish Hamilton, the BAFTA-winning Director of the Academy Awards and the Opening Ceremony of the London 2012 Olympic Games.

Below is the updated list of participating cinemas to date.

 

State	City/Town	Theater
Arizona	Phoenix	FilmBar	LINK
Arizona	Tuscon	Loft	LINK
California	Los Angeles	Arclight Hollywood	LINK
California	Los Angeles	Laemmle Noho7	LINK
California	Los Angeles	Laemmle Playhouse7	LINK
California	Los Angeles	Laemmle Royal	LINK
California	Los Angeles	Muvico Thousand Oaks	LINK
California	Los Angeles	Vintage Vista	LINK
California	Los Angeles	West Claremont5	LINK
California	Palm Springs	Camelot	LINK
California	Sacramento	Tower Theater	LINK
California	San Diego	Landmark Hillcrest	LINK
California	San Diego	Reading Carmel Mountain	LINK
California	San Diego	Reading Town Square	LINK
California	San Francisco	Landmark Embarcadero	LINK
California	San Francisco	Landmark Shattuck	LINK
California	Santa Barbara	Arlington	LINK
Colorado	Denver	Landmark Mayan 3	LINK
Colorado	Denver	Sie Denver Film Centre	LINK
Conneticut	Fairfield	Showcase Fairfield	LINK
Florida	Jacksonville	Sun-Ray Cinema	LINK
Florida	Miami	O Cinema	LINK
Florida	Miami	Tower	LINK
Georgia	Atlanta	Landmark Midtown	LINK
Hawaii	Honolulu	Consolidated Theater Ward	LINK
Illinois	Bloomington	Galaxy 14 Cine	LINK
Illinois	Chicago	Addison	LINK
Illinois	Chicago	Gurnee	LINK
Illinois	Chicago	Orland Park	LINK
Illinois	Chicago	Music Box	LINK
Illinois	Chicago	Muvico Rosemount	LINK
Illinois	St Louis	O’Fallon	LINK
Indiana	Indianapolis	Keystone Art	LINK
Iowa	Cedar Rapids	Galaxy 16  Cine	LINK
Kansas	Kansas City	Tivoli	LINK
Maryland	Baltimore	Harbor East	LINK
Massachusetts	Boston	Kendall Square	LINK
Massachussets	Boston	Showcase Chestnut Hill	LINK
Massachussets	Boston	Showcase Revere	LINK
Massachussets	Foxborough	Showcase Patriot Place	LINK
Michigan	Detroit	Landmark Main Art 3	LINK
Michigan	Grand Rapids	Urban Institute for Contemporary Arts	LINK
Minnesota	Minneapolis	Landmark Lagoon	LINK
Minnesota	Rochester	Galaxy 14	LINK
Misouri	Chesterfield	Galaxy 14	LINK
Misouri	St Louis	Ronnies 20	LINK
Misouri	St Louis	St Charles 18	LINK
Missouri	CapeGirardeau	Cape West 14	LINK
Missouri	Lake Ozark	Eagles Landing 8	LINK
Missouri	Springfield	Campbell 16 Cine	LINK
New Jersey	Edgewater	Showcase Edgewater	LINK
New York	Albany	Spectrum 8	LINK
New York	Buffalo	Amherst Theatre	LINK
New York	Farmingdale	Showcase Farmingdale	LINK
New York	Holtsville	Showcase Island 16	LINK
New York	Rochester	Little Theatre Film Society	LINK
New York	White Plains	Showcase City Center	LINK
New York, Manhattan	New York	Angelika New York	LINK
New York, Manhattan	New York	Paris	LINK
New York, Manhattan	New York	Village East	LINK
Ohio	Cleveland	Capitol	LINK
Ohio	Columbus	Gateway	LINK
Ohio	Springdale	Showcase Springdale	LINK
Oklahoma	Tulsa	Circle Cinema	LINK
Oregon	Portland	Hollywood 3	LINK
Pennsylvania	Philadelphia	ArtsQuest	LINK
Pennsylvania	Philadelphia	Landmark Ritz 5	LINK
Pennsylvania	Pittsburg	Southside Works	LINK
Rhode Island	Providence	Showcase Providence Place	LINK
Texas	Dallas	Angelika Dallas	LINK
Texas	Houston	Landmark River Oaks	LINK
Texas	Plano	Angelika Plano	LINK
Texas	San Antonio	Palladium 22	LINK
Texas	San Antonio	Santikos Bijou	LINK
Texas	San Antonio	Santikos Embassy	LINK
Texas	San Antonio	Santikos Palladium 19	LINK
Texas	San Antonio	Silverado IMAX	LINK
Virginia	Fairfax	Angelika Mosaic	LINK
Washington	Bellingham	Pickford	LINK
Washington	Seattle	SIFF	LINK
Washington	Washington	Landmark E-Street	LINK
Wisconsin	Milwaukee	Landmark Downer	LINK

 

 

“While colour lights up your face”

 

We’re sure you will all want to join us in wishing many happy returns of the day to Alexandria Zahra Jones…known to her friends and family as Lexi.

Continuing a theme we started last year, here is a hand-tinted photo of Lexi’s dad, also at the age of 14, in 1961.

Looking particularly dapper, the young Jones is pictured before he received his most famous trademark from his good friend George Underwood, but that’s a whole other story that didn’t happen until the following year.

Anyway, Happy Birthday Lexi, love ‘n stuff from everybody here and no doubt anybody else who thinks your father is a top banana.

 

“Freak out in a moonage daydream oh yeah!” 

 

Reuters has reported that the Awesome Mix compilation from the Guardians of the Galaxy soundtrack has topped the Billboard 200.

The 12-track release contains Bowie’s 1972 Ziggy Stardust classic, Moonage Daydream.

There is also a Guardians of the Galaxy 2CD Deluxe version of the album which contains the same 12 tracks from the film, but also includes the score from the movie.

 

Here’s an excerpt from PIYA SINHA-ROY’s Reuters report. 

 

The alien superheroes of Disney’s “Guardians of the Galaxy” not only stormed the movie box office, but the Marvel superheroes’ throwback 1970s-style soundtrack climbed to the top spot on the weekly U.S. Billboard chart on Wednesday.

“Awesome Mix Vol. 1,” which includes classic hits such as Blue Swede’s “Hooked on a Feeling,” The Jackson 5’s “I Want You Back,” and David Bowie’s “Moonage Daydream,” sold 109,000 copies in its second week, according to figures from Nielsen SoundScan.

It had entered the chart last week at No. 3 with first-week sales of 60,000.

The 12-track retro mix is featured heavily throughout the film as rogue hero Peter Quill’s own soundtrack as he battles evil intergalactic villains to save the galaxy. It is the second soundtrack this year to top the album chart, following the success of Walt Disney Co’s animated hit “Frozen.”

 

“Oh man, I need TV” 

 

With just a couple of days to go till the Memory of a Free Festival 2014 event in Beckenham on Saturday (http://smarturl.it/Beckenham2014FBevent), we have an updated list of all of the very desirable items kindly donated for the auction.

In case you haven’t heard yet, the very lovely Tony Visconti has not only donated the print he is holding in the picture here, but he has also offered himself up as host of an exclusive one-on-one lunch date at The Groucho Club in September!

Here follows Tony’s description of the Bowie print he is donating…

 

“Here is the print before I sign it. The photo was taken 14 September, 1998. We were recording vocals for Safe In This Sky Life and Mother. We needed to borrow the Shure “Elvis” mic and the owner agreed as long as we had a photo of David singing into it. To my surprise he said yes and struck a cool pose. He liked the photo, Photoshop was new and I tried to turn it into a work of art. He liked that too. Although 1998 isn’t that long ago this photo kind of catches the mood of the time — digital photography, Photoshop manipulation and a microphone I frequently used in the 1950s. I’m sure everyone reading this knows that David and El share the same birthday too.”

 

Below is the full auction list followed by Tony’s conditions for the lunch date.

 

Updated Memory of a Free Festival 2014 auction items

~ Signed by Bowie Love Is Lost white vinyl 12″ (2014 signature)

~ 2004 tour poster designed by Rex Ray, signed by both Bowie and Rex (2004 signature)

~ Limited edition 2002 Heathen CD in album packaging with a signed-by-Bowie promotional postcard (2002 signature)

~ Lunch with Tony Visconti at The Groucho Club in September (See conditions below)

~ Photo of Bowie taken by Tony Visconti and signed by Tony, as described in note from Tony, above

~ Signed by George Underwood Ziggy Stardust characters badge set

~ 1 Holy Holy ticket for sold out TMWSTW 17th Sep show

~ 2 Holy Holy tickets for 21st Dec, with backstage access

~ Duffy tour edition Aladdin Sane print (eyes open and closed)

~ Duffy framed Aladdin Sane triptych

~ Duffy/Bowie Five Sessions book by Kevin Cann and Chris Duffy

~ Framed 1969 photo of Bowie at free festival, signed by photographer David Bebbington

~ Bowie and Hutch book signed by author John ‘Hutch’ Hutchinson

~ Signed Reeves Gabrels & Bill Nelson CD

~ Signed Reeves Gabrels CD

~ Signed CD by Keith Christmas

~ Humble Queen CD signed by Bridget St John

~ Jolie Madame CD signed by Bridget St John

~ Rock ‘N’ Roll Suicide RSD pic disc

 

Conditions for lunch with Tony Visconti

1. Lunch will be Friday, 12 Sept, 1 PM at the Groucho Club.  If the winner can’t be available on Friday then Saturday is the contingent day, it’s the only other time I can do it.  It will be at another restaurant in that case as the Groucho doesn’t serve lunch on Saturday, but it will be somewhere nice in Soho.  I am paying for lunch.

2. I am having lunch with only the winner, not a couple, friends of the winner, etc.  It’s just a one on one lunch.

3. I am looking forward to a friendly conversation, but no sound or video recording of our lunch will be permitted.  I will have to be satisfied that no open or secret recording devices will be in the winner’s possession.

4. Our waitress or waiter can take a snap of us to commemorate the meeting, no other third party can take photos.

5. That’s it, very simple.  I’m looking forward to a great time.

 

Keep updated about this year’s festival via the Beckenham Bowie FB page and the Memory of a Free Festival 2014 event page.

 

See Mary Finnigan’s press release here on DavidBowie.com