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Glamdammit... Twig The Wonderkid and The Astronettes will put their arms around your head whilst spinning early-Seventies glam accompanied with video-projections.
MOBY has announced details of a brand new album and single, due for release in 2005. The album, 'Hotel', Moby's fifth studio album, is out on 14th March outside of North America and 22nd March in North America and will be preceded by a single released at the end of February.
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Friday, February 11th)
So, a year on from the initial read-through and much changed since then, Mark Wheeller's new play "(We Were) Ziggy's Band" has played its opening night, performed and tecchied brilliantly by members of Oaklands Youth Theatre. This is a play that Bowie fans, and others too, should try to see, either here in Southampton over the next two nights, or elsewhere in the future (the group hopes to take it to the Edinburgh Fringe, where it would surely go down a storm).)
Danny Sturrock, commanding in the role of the older Shakey, and resplendent in his glorious costume, leads us from stage to stage through the documentary that may have been Mark's younger (or other??) life. The closeness to fandom is all there. We find ourselves almost walking into Shapes record shop in Thornbury (I wonder if it's still there in these days of impersonal megastores??), and secretly agreeing with Shakey's observations on the minutiae of the label/title/actual sung lyrics of Peter Noone's "Oh You Pretty Thing(s)" (on RAK, of course!). And there are plenty of other 70s references to keep you on your glam-rock toes, including direct and indirect notes to the late Mick Ronson (check out Billy Porter's MR hair-a-like!).)
Mark's own enthusiasm is evident all through the play, whether identified in the fact, or hinted at in the fiction of the storyline. Mum and Dad Threwer, a very effective pair, are portrayed as the embarrassing parents that we've probably all claimed to have had at some stage, because they learn Spanish together at evening class, he is always harping on about his own youth, and she, well, she simply can't dance to save her life. In any case, the (thematic) aliens (or are they luminous earwigs?) scare the pants off them both, though we can suspect that, at the final curtain, they too are Ziggy converts.)
As mentioned two months ago, a brand new production "ZIGGY'S BAND" is all set to hit the Southampton stage this month.)
The DAVID BOWIE film 'Love You Till Tuesday' is finally released by Universal-Island on DVD (Region 0) next week on Monday 7th February.)
French comic artist THIERRY GUITARD who's artwork features every month in DAVID BOWIE's long time supporter music magazine Rock & Folk - has a solo exhibition taking place this month at the Art's Factory in Paris, France.)
The show is titled 'Rock 'n' Roll Circus' and will show among others two beautiful portraits of David Bowie and Iggy Pop.)
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