HOLY HOLY have announced their 2026 Tour - The Final Tour - 'A Celebration of Bowie'.

More gigs have now been announced at the following venues:

SEPTEMBER
3rd: Glasgow O2 Academy
4th: Leeds O2 Academy
5th: Liverpool O2 Academy
8th: Oxford O2 Academy
9th: Southampton 1865
10th: London O2 Shepherd's Bush Empire
11th: Bristol O2 Academy
12th: Manchester O2 Ritz
16th: Birmingham XOY
17th: Newcastle-upon-Tyne O2 City Hall
19th: Hull Connexin Live
23rd: Netherlands, Haarlem, PHIL
27th: Ireland, Dublin The Academy
28th: Ireland, Dublin The Academy
29th: Belfast The Limelight 1

More details and tickets available via the Ticketmaster.co.uk website.

Published today is the next in the series of the BOWIE ODYSSEY books by author SIMON GODDARD.

Synopsis: Book by book, year by year, the ultimate literary trip through Bowie's greatest decade.

1976, and in England the heat is rising. Immigration protests, racist murders, the rise of the National Front and the return of David Bowie, now The Thin White Duke, crowing to the papers how Britain "could benefit from a fascist leader".

But with his incorrigible best buddy Iggy Pop in tow, as he gravitates towards the divided city of Berlin, his wake-up call is coming - and with it a brave new musical direction that will cement Bowie's place as the most innovative artist of the decade.

The seventh volume of Simon Goddard's critically acclaimed Bowie Odyssey series is a stark and brutal black-and-white tale of art, anger, discord and salvation.

Review: "They are probably my favourite Bowie books of all and the only ones that make me regularly laugh out loud." - Marc Riley.

About the Author: Simon Goddard has been writing about music for nearly 30 years, both as a journalist and as the author of over a dozen books published across three continents. His Bowie Odyssey series has twice made the Sunday Times Books Of The Year (2020, 2024) while his other titles have made best-of-year lists in Mojo, Q, Uncut and Pitchfork's Top 60 Music Books Of All-Time. Simon is based in North London.

Both the Bowie Odyssey 76 - Special Edition Hardcover and the Paperback version are available to purchase now with an 11% discount.

• Memories of David's mother MARGARET MARY JONES (née Burns) who sadly passed away on this day 25 years ago in 2001, (born 2nd October 1913)...

• On this day, 1 year ago LEXI JONES released her debut album Xandri...

• On this day, 5 years ago, DAVID BOWIE At The Kit Kat Klub (Live New York 99) was released on 2LP and 1CD in 2021...

• On this day, 22 years ago, DAVID BOWIE performed at the Corel Centre WordPerfect Theatre in Kanata, Ottawa, Canada during his A Reality Tour in 2004...

• On this day, 36 years ago, DAVID BOWIE performed the first of two shows at Bercy in Paris, France during his Sound+Vision Tour in 1990...

• On this day, 49 years ago, DAVID BOWIE performed at the Selland Arena in Fresno, California, USA during his 1978 World Tour...

• On this day, 59 years ago, THE RIOT SQUAD performed at Kettering Athletic Working Mens Club, in Kettering, Northamptonshire, England in 1967...

• On this day, 60 years ago, DAVID BOWIE & THE BUZZ performed at Holly Bush, Carlisle, England in 1966...

• On this day, 63 years ago, THE KONRADS performed at the Community Centre, in Swanley, Kent, England in 1963...

DAVID BOWIE: YOU'RE NOT ALONE opens later this month on 22nd April at Lightroom, Kings Cross in London.

Be transported into the many worlds of David Bowie. Through iconic performances, rarely-seen interviews and never-before-exhibited material, discover the creative mind, spirit and soul of one of the world's greatest, most visionary artists. Featuring Bowie himself as its sole voice, You're Not Alone is both a multimedia spectacle and an intimate and revealing self-portrait.

Whether you're reliving the magic or discovering it for the very first time: this is your ticket to the landmark Bowie performances that changed culture forever.

Tickets on sale now for 22nd April - 28th June 2026, with more dates to be announced.

Venue: Lightroom, 12 Lewis Cubitt Square, London, United Kingdom, N1C 4DY.

For more details and information, please visit: lightroom.uk website.

For those of you who use FACEBOOK - check out the private DAVID BOWIE WONDERWORLD Group.

Feel free to join in with the other 105,500 plus members, add yourself and invite your Bowie fan friends. You never know what might get posted, or who you might meet...

PETER AND THE WOLF narrated by DAVID BOWIE is to be re-released in a limited edition yellow 180g vinyl LP later this month on 24th April by Music On Vinyl.

David Bowie Narrates Prokofiev's Peter And The Wolf (1978) is a classical music album containing David Bowie's narration of Sergei Prokofiev's 1936 composition Peter And The Wolf. The music is performed by the Philadelphia Orchestra conducted by Eugene Ormandy. The album reached number 136 on the US Pop Albums chart.

Side One contains the narration by David Bowie of public domain material originally written by Prokofiev. The second side of this LP features Eugene Ormandy conducting Benjamin Britten's Young Person's Guide To The Orchestra with the Philadelphia Orchestra. Ormandy and the aforementioned musicians from Philly also back up Bowie on side one.

Critics lauded the album, saying Bowie 'found his most charming guise since Hunky Dory.' He tells the well-known fable with his usual eloquence and style, and gives instructions at the beginning for kids to understand how the music corresponds to characters in the story. The accompaniment from the Philadelphia Orchestra is first rate.

The Music On Vinyl re-release includes detailed liner notes on the project by Mary Campbell, specifically geared to "introduce children to the sounds of the individual instruments in the symphony orchestra." Both Prokofiev and Britten wrote their respective pieces with this aim in mind.

David Bowie Narrates Prokofiev's Peter And The Wolf is available as a limited edition of 2,000 individually numbered copies on yellow coloured vinyl. The record comes in a deluxe sleeve finished with linen laminate and includes an insert with liner notes.

Disc: 1
Peter and the Wolf, Op. 65 (A Musical Tale for Children)

Disc: 2
Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra, Op. 34

You can pre-order NOW!

Calls for Papers

LATE BOWIE: LEGACY, MORTALITY AND THE ARCHIVAL IMPULSE

Kingston University, London

David Bowie's late period represents one of the most compelling and enigmatic 'eras' in a career marked by sustained processes of artistic reinvention and strategic self reconstruction. This period saw a profound re engagement with questions of identity and mortality. If Bowie's performance at Glastonbury in 2000 saw him strategically re-enter the public consciousness with renewed relevance (evidenced by a range of new biographical and critical assessments), after his death 10 years ago in 2016 he has acquired an intensified critical resonance, becoming the subject of renewed scholarly and public fascination. In his final years Bowie created a body of work that not only revisited and reconfigured earlier personas but also presented a carefully managed meditation on legacy, authorship, and the aesthetics of mortality through the apparent self-curation of his own death. This creative statement manifested across three major works: the album The Next Day (2013), the off-Broadway musical Lazarus (2015), and the album ★ (Blackstar) (2016). These are deliberately self-referential projects in which Bowie re-engages with and interrogates his own past, reasserting the only persona that remained consistent across his career: 'David Bowie'.

This conference, which takes place in the Visconti Studio at Kingston University, invites proposals which offer a range of critical and creative responses to Bowie's late-period work: his musical outputs; self-curation of persona and image, collaborations, media presence, death and posthumous reshaping of legacy in contemporary culture. The conference welcomes not only academic papers (from across all disciplines) but the work of creative practitioners whose work engages with Bowie's late-period work, especially this final period.

The Visconti Studio provides facilities for presenting musical performance, sound-based research, and audiovisual practice outputs, making it an ideal venue for practice-led contributions. The conference also welcomes proposals which engage with the newly opened David Bowie Centre at the V&A East Storehouse in London. While the conference prioritises the latter part of Bowie's career, we also invite proposals which illuminate connections between these final works and earlier periods of Bowie's career, particularly where they reveal the retrospective strategies, self-referential practices, and archival impulses.

Suggested topics for proposal might include (but are not limited to):

• Musical analysis and sonic signification.
• 2013-2016 outputs as unified artistic gesture: self-referentiality, intertextuality and archival practices across the three final works.
• The Bowie/Visconti late-period collaboration and production aesthetics.
• Jazz, improvisation and the Donny McCaslin band.
• Music video as narrative and visual assemblage.
• Jonathan Barnbrook's design work and visual identity.
• Lyrical themes: mortality, transience, morality, alienation, spirituality.
• Decoding/reading/responding to cryptic symbolism.
• Bowie biographies and critical examinations.
• Bowie's death and responses to it.
• The performance of lateness and "late style" (including late vocal style).
• "Living archives": late stars and cultural memory.
• Fan responses, mourning practices, and memorial culture.
• The Bowie Archive and the curation of the Bowie Legacy.
• The Man Who Fell to Earth (1963/1976) and its afterlives.
• Bowie's reading and his top 100 books.
• Bowieland (Peter Carpenter) - Bowie and psychogeography.
• From 'Liza Jane' to Blackstar: considering the whole career/catalogue 'journey'.

Please send all proposals to the conference coordinators: Dr Leah Kardos () and Dr Matt Melia () by March 15th, 2026.

Conference Details:
• Date: 11-12 September 2026.
• Format: [In-person].
• Venue: Visconti Studio, Kingston University, Kingston Hill Campus, KT2 7LB.

Proposal Format:
• Abstracts of 250-300 words.
• Include name, affiliation, contact email.
• Indicate if proposing practice-led presentation requiring audio/visual facilities.

Timeline:
• Proposal deadline: 15 March 2026.
• Notification: 4 May 2026.

• DAVID BOWIE: MUSIC LOVER: The Inside Story of David Bowie's Record Collection by GEOFF MacCORMACK and JÉRÔME SOLIGNY, hardcover, 224-pages - to be published on 15th September - more details

• HOLY HOLY 2026 Tour - The Final Tour - 'A Celebration of Bowie' gigs in September - tickets on sale now more details

• HEROES: DAVID BOWIE AND BERLIN by TOBIAS RÜTHER, paperback, 184-pages - to be published on 1st July - more details

• BOWIE FRANCE CONVENTION 2026 takes place on 14th June at La Java, 105 rue du Faubourg du Temple, 75010 Paris, France from 15h00-20h30 - more details

• DAVID BOWIE: FOREVER AND EVER: An Illustrated Biography by CLAUDIO FABRETTI, hardcover, 208-pages - to be published on 28th May - more details

• BOWIE TAKES AMERICA: The Making of a Rock Icon by MICK WALL, hardcover, 304-pages - to be published on 21st May - more details

• Event: BOWIE.FEST.COV at Priory Visitor Centre, 6 Priory Row, Coventry CV1 5EX, England on 16th May from 7pm until 11.30pm - more details

• DAVID BOWIE: FROM BERLIN WITH MODERN LOVE by LIAM COLNER, paperback, 144-pages - to be published on 15th May - more details

• Event: DAVID BOWIE, LINDSAY KEMP AND THE BIRTH OF ZIGGY STARDUST talk with NICHOLAS PEGG at Cranleigh Arts, 1 High Street, Cranleigh GU6 8AS, England on 15th May at 7.30pm - more details

• PETER & THE WOLF narrated by DAVID BOWIE, limited edition, yellow vinyl, 180g LP, to be released on 24th April reissued by Music On Vinyl - more details

• DAVID BOWIE: YOU'RE NOT ALONE opens on 22nd April at Lightroom, 12 Lewis Cubitt Square, Kings Cross, London - more details

• RECORD STORE DAY 2026 two DAVID BOWIE releases: Hallo Spaceboy (30th Anniversary Edition), 12" neon pink EP and Excerpts From Outside Half-Speed Remastered 1LP clear vinyl - RSD takes place on 18th April - more details

• Exhibition: BOWIE MIO FRATELLO di David Lawrence, features photographs by Philippe Auliac, Denis O'Regan and more at Spazio Musa, Via della Consolata, 11, 10122 Torino, Italy. Opening 17th April until 12th July, open 11.00-18.00, closed Mondays - more details

• Photo Exhibition: BOWIE BY SUKITA in Sweden, Gothenburg, at the former Konsthallen, Gotaplatsen 7 from 11th April until 30th August - more details

• CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY exhibition 'Cosmic Voyager - A Tribute to David Bowie' opened 3rd April until 30th August in the Nathan and Fannye Shafran Planetarium, shows daily at 4pm (except Mondays) - more details

BOWIE ODYSSEY 76 (SPECIAL EDITION) by SIMON GODDARD, hardcover, 200-pages - published on 9th April - more details

• BOWIE ODYSSEY 76 by SIMON GODDARD, paperback, 200-pages - published on 9th April - more details

DAVID BOWIE: LEGACY: THE ILLUSTRATED BIOGRAPHY by CAROLYN McHUGH, hardcover, 160-pages - published on 6th April - more details

Swiss only release from MONTREUX YEARS is DAVID BOWIE - LIVE IN MONTREUX 2002 on premium double heavyweight sparkle vinyl with unique artwork by David Bowie, featuring 16-tracks, only 1,500 numbered copies, exclusively in Switzerland. Pre-sale: 11th March / Official Release: 20th March. Available at MJF online and in-store Shop or at select stores: Vinyl Station (Zurich), Bongo Joe (Geneva), DCM Music (Aigle) and Ablette Records (Fribourg)

All numbered copies SOLD OUT! Handful of unnumbered copies remaining. DAVID BOWIE - THE YEAR OF THE SCAVENGER luxury collector's book from MAYAK PUBLISHING covering the 1974 period - available to purchase now - to claim your exclusive £10 discount use WONDER10 at checkout, 710-pages - mayakpublishing.co.uk

Exclusive DAVID BOWIE lino-cut print available to PURCHASE - don't hang around, these are ALL the remaining original left-over stock from 42 years ago, once they've gone, they've gone!