“Pushing thru the market square…”
Lots of things happening in Aylesbury in celebration of David Bowie and Ziggy Stardust.
Firstly, a big thank you to Michael Putland for giving us a couple of previously unpublished pictures, taken at that first Ziggy show at Friars Aylesbury on January 29th, 1972. View more of Michael’s superb Bowie pictures here: http://smarturl.it/PutlandBowie
The David Bowie Aylesbury Statue Kickstarter Campaign has now reached a quarter of its target with just over £25,000 raised so far. Go here to read all about that and to contribute: http://smarturl.it/BowieStatueCampaign
To coincide with the David Bowie Friars Aylesbury statue Kickstarter campaign passing the £25,000 mark it has been announced that HOLY HOLY featuring Tony Visconti, Woody Woodmansey and Heaven 17’s Glenn Gregory will play Friars Aylesbury on 3 April, 2017, performing The Rise And Fall Of Ziggy Stardust And The Spiders From Mars in its entirety. Tickets go on sale on Saturday.
Finally, there will be a special Bowie Event in Aylesbury Market Square this Saturday (November 12th), midday till 5:00pm.
Keep reading for the full press release.
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DAVID BOWIE AYLESBURY STATUE KICKSTARTER CAMPAIGN SOARS PAST £25,000
A BOWIE TRACK WILL BE PLAYED ON THE HOUR, EVERY HOUR, AT RANDOM FROM 8.00AM AND 9.00PM EVERY DAY FOR THE NEXT 100 YEARS ABOVE THE STATUE
HOLY HOLY to perform THE RISE AND FALL OF ZIGGY STARDUST AND THE SPIDERS FROM MARS At FRIARS AYLESBURY – AYLESBURY WATERSIDE THEATRE – MONDAY 3 APRIL 2017.
SPECIAL BOWIE EVENT AYLESBURY MARKET SQUARE THIS SATURDAY (12 NOV) NOON TO 5PM
To coincide with the David Bowie Friars Aylesbury statue Kickstarter campaign passing the £25,000 mark it has been announced that HOLY HOLY featuring Tony Visconti, Woody Woodmansey and Heaven 17’s Glenn Gregory will play Friars Aylesbury on 3 April next year performing The Rise And Fall Of Ziggy Stardust And The Spiders From Mars in full.
This will be the first time that original Spiders from Mars drummer Woody Woodmansey has played the Ziggy album in Aylesbury since the classic David Bowie Ziggy show he performed at on 15 July 1972.
The David Bowie Aylesbury Statue Kickstarter campaign has a goal of raising £100,000 by December 6th 2016 to create a stunning statue of David Bowie in Aylesbury’s Market Square. Bowie performed the world debuts of two of the most iconic albums of the twentieth century Hunky Dory and The Rise And Fall Of Ziggy Stardust And The Spiders From Mars at Friars Aylesbury in 1971/72.
There will be a special Bowie festival taking place under the arches in Aylesbury Market Square this Saturday Nov 12 from 12.00 Noon until 5.00pm playing only Bowie music and providing info about how people can back the Kickstarter Campaign.
Bowie formed the Spiders from Mars (Trevor Bolder, Woody Woodmansey and Mick Ronson) in the tiny Borough Assembly Hall Friars Aylesbury dressing room on September 25th 1971. Aylesbury’s Kris Needs and David Stopps were there when he said, “This was great tonight – let’s form a band and go out and do it properly”.
He also referenced Aylesbury Market Square in the first line of ‘Five Years’ from the Ziggy album “Pushing through the Market Square, so many mothers sighing”. The proposed statue will have state of the art audio enhancement. A Bowie track will be played on the hour, every hour, at random between the hours of 8.00am and 9.00pm every day for the next 100 years. The statue will feature Bowie as Ziggy Stardust but behind will be the other personas that David developed in his astonishing career.
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1980358464/david-bowie-statue-aylesbury-market-square-uk
HOLY HOLY’S Tony Visconti worked closely with Bowie throughout his career co-producing with Bowie no less than 13 classic Bowie albums, ‘David Bowie’ (1969), ‘The Man Who Sold The World’ (70), ‘David Live’ (74), ‘Young Americans’ (75), ‘Low’ (77), ‘Heroes’ (77), ‘Stage’ (78), ‘Lodger’ (79), ‘Scary Monsters (And Super Creeps) (80), ‘Heathen’ (2002), ‘Reality’ (2003), ‘The Next Day’ (2013) and Bowie’s final album ‘Blackstar’ in 2016.
In 2014 Woody and Tony formed Holy Holy, specifically to perform ‘The Man Who Sold The World’ album live. Tony not only produced this classic 1970 album but also played bass on the album with Woody on drums and the legendary late Mick Ronson on guitar.
The group undertook a short tour in the UK in September 2014 and a larger scale tour of the UK and Japan in the summer of 2015. In January 2016 they toured the east coast of the United States and followed this with a full tour of US and Canadian cities in Spring of 2016.
HOLY HOLY Tickets go on sale this Saturday 12 Nov at 10.00am from Waterside Box Office only (max of 4 per person). Or from 3.00pm on line from ATGtickets.com. http://atgtickets.com/