Bowie V Elvis In Glasgow Tonight

Put on your brothel creepers and dance the blues…

If you’re within spitting distance of Glasgow this evening, you may want to join in today’s birthday celebrations with the folks at MONO. Here’s a bit from the organisers…

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Again! Its Bowie and Elvis’s birthday, January 8th 2010. As ever the event will take place in Mono, Kings Street, Glasgow.

We will be playing records, CDs and tapes and maybe even singing!! Elvis would have been 75!! and Mr Bowie is 63. So come down and check it out.

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Anyway, don’t take our word for it, The Guardian considered the event important enough to list…and this is how they did it.

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Bowie Vs Elvis, Glasgow

With the stress of Christmas and the new year only just receding, nobody will blame you for overlooking another important date. Next Friday is only David Bowie’s ? and Elvis Presley’s ? birthday! To celebrate what would have been the King’s 75th and what’s amazingly the Thin White Duke’s 63rd, the folks at Mono will lay on a party night with music by the pair of popsters’ being played back to back. Maybe something along the lines of Hound Dog, then Diamond Dogs, then Old Shep, then Young Americans? Almost incredibly, it’s Shirley Bassey’s birthday too, so expect a few big tunes from Cardiff’s grande dame peppering the set.

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So perhaps you can expect a few DB B-sides and perhaps some of The King’s Bs too…sorry, that was laboured and unfunny, but I’m keeping it nevertheless.