The annual Dublin Bowie Festival returns for its fourth edition next month from Monday January 7th until Sunday January 13th and again, fans of the legendary singer are in for a treat with the week-long event set to celebrate 50 years of Space Oddity and the greatest Starman of our time.

Kicking off the festival on Monday 7th January is a real treat for Bowiephiles; a world premiere exclusive Festival performance of the Space Oddity album from start to finish (and other songs from the Bowie Universe) by the I Heart Bowie ensemble alongside the renowned Trinity Orchestra and some very special guest singers in the hallowed National Concert Hall.

The festival is also associating with MCD as they host the Irish performance of A Bowie Celebration in The Olympia Theatre, Wednesday 9th January. Comprising 5 key members of Bowie's band over his long career - Mark Plati, Carmine Rojas, Earl Slick, Dubliner Gerry Leonard and Bowie's longest serving sidekick, pianist Mike Garson - A Bowie Celebration bring an unforgettable and critically acclaimed evening of Bowie songs with world-class vocalists and an ever rotating mix of hits and deep cuts. Gerry was our first guest of honour at DBF 16 and his continual championing of the Festival and background help is always much appreciated.

The festival will also have The Lighthouse Cinema involved again and their Bowie related programme ticks all the boxes as Space lovers can enjoy seeing Bowie's cult sci-fi classic The Man Who Fell To Earth and the movie that inspired Bowie to introduce Major Tom to the universe, Stanley Kubrick's 2001 - A Space Odyssey. We're particularly pleased that they are also screening Moon, the superb debut feature film of one Duncan Jones, Bowie's son. For family fun it's hard to beat the 80s musical fantasy Labyrinth and its noon screening on Saturday 12th kicks off a family friendly day of activities in Smithfield Square that includes talks, workshops and experiments as we engage our inner scientist while gazing up at the stars from inside a Mobile Planetarium looking at The View from Major Tom's Tin Can.

Last year's festival featured in excess of 8,000 with Bowie fans travelling from as far as Australia, the U.S. and continental Europe and the UK to attend, along with thousands of Bowie lovers from all over Ireland. We are delighted to have the support of Dublin City Council and Visit Dublin for DBF 19 and are extremely grateful of the continued backing and expertise that they bring to the Festival.

Here's the full listing of events taking place...

7th January:
'Space Oddity and Other Songs from the Bowie Universe' at National Concert Hall, Dublin 2 - More details

8th January:
Signal: Bowie Gerry Leonard at The Science Gallery, Trinity College, Dublin 2 - More details
1.Outside performed by Art-Crime Inc. at The Grand Social, Dublin 1 - More details

9th January:
Dr. Niamh Shaw - Walking (Slowly) Towards Space, Science Gallery, Trinity College, Dublin 2 - More details
A Bowie Celebration (Garson, Slick, Leonard, Rojas) at The Olympia Theatre, Dublin - More details
Gifts to the Starman Art exhibition at Phoenix Park Visitors Centre, Dublin - More details
Bowie Photos, Paintings and Prints at St Stephens Green SC, Dublin - More details

10th January:
Bowie On Vinyl: Blackstar at The Big Romance, Parnell St, Dublin - More details
Miriam Aida at The Sugar Club, Dublin - More details
Moon at The Lighthouse Cinema, Dublin 7 - More details
Bowie 19: This Ain't Rock and Roll, This is Cabaret at The Grand Social, Dublin 1 - More details
Gifts to the Starman Art exhibition at Phoenix Park Visitors Centre, Dublin - More details
Bowie Photos, Paintings and Prints at St Stephens Green SC, Dublin - More details

11th January:
Heroes From Mars / The London Boys at The Grand Social, Dublin 1 - More details
The Man Who Fell To Earth at The Lighthouse Cinema, Dublin 7 - More details
Sidewalk Astronomy at Strange Road Car Park - More details
John Rowlands Presentation at N.C.A.D., Dublin - More details
Vedas' Under Pressure at The George, Dublin 2 - More details
Bring Me The Disco King at The Grand Social, Dublin 1 - More details
Gifts to the Starman Art exhibition at Phoenix Park Visitors Centre, Dublin - More details
Bowie Photos, Paintings and Prints at St Stephens Green SC, Dublin - More details

12th January:
The Bowie Brunch at La Cuchina, Dublin 2 - More details
Bowie Market at The Grand Social, Dublin 1 - More details
Labyrinth at The Lighthouse Cinema, Dublin 7 - More details
Man Of Words, Man Of Music - Nicholas Pegg at The Grand Social, Dublin 1 - More details
Bowie On Vinyl: Berlin Trilogy Low/"Heroes"/Lodger at The Big Romance, Dublin - More details
Star Gazing at Seafront car park, Clontarf Road, Dublin - More details
Rebel Rebel at The Academy, Dublin 1 - More details
Space Oddities: The Craic Pack at The Grand Social, Dublin 1 - More details
Be Sound (& Vision) Bowie at The Grand Social, Dublin 1 - More details
Space Masquerade Ball with The Salty Dog Allstars at The Grand Social, Dublin 1 - More details
Gifts to the Starman Art exhibition at Phoenix Park Visitors Centre, Dublin - More details
Bowie Photos, Paintings and Prints at St Stephens Green SC, Dublin - More details

13th January:
The Bowie Brunch at La Cuchina, Dublin 2 - More details
2001 - A Space Odyssey at The Lighthouse Cinema, Dublin 7 - More details
Starman Sunday at Phoenix Park Visitors Centre, Dublin - More details
Queen Bitch Quiz at The Grand Social, Dublin 1 - More details
IAS Astronomy Talks at Phoenix Park Visitors Centre, Dublin - More details
Physics Busking at Phoenix Park Visitors Centre, Dublin - More details
The Farthest at The Lighthouse Cinema, Dublin 7 - More details
Looking For The Starman - Star Gazing at Phoenix Park Visitors Centre, Dublin - More details
Gifts to the Starman Art exhibition at Phoenix Park Visitors Centre, Dublin - More details
Bowie Photos, Paintings and Prints at St Stephens Green SC, Dublin - More details
Memory Of A Free Festival at The Grand Social, Dublin 1 - More details

For more details and information please visit dublinbowiefestival.ie or check out the BW monthly planner for January 2019

The forty-eighth episode of THE A TO Z OF DAVID BOWIE podcast created by MARC RILEY, ROB HUGHES and sound assisted by HOWARD NOCK is now available online for your listening pleasure.

This episode covers the letter S and discusses Station To Station.

Available FREE via your preferred podcast download or streaming. I personally prefer acast.com for streaming - LISTEN HERE

There will also be 'extra' episodes featuring new and archive interviews with db associated people too!

For more information, updates and questions you can follow @zofdavidbowie on Twitter.

Also check out their YouTube channel A to Z of David Bowie and don't forget to subscribe for notifications.

For the podcast each letter is currently averaged at 2 episodes of 30 plus minutes and will be published at 3am on Tuesday's each week.

You can listen to ALL previous episodes HERE

The forty-seventh episode of THE A TO Z OF DAVID BOWIE podcast created by MARC RILEY, ROB HUGHES and sound assisted by HOWARD NOCK is now available online for your listening pleasure.

This episode covers the letter R and discusses Rodney Bingenheimer, Biff Rose and RCA.

Available FREE via your preferred podcast download or streaming. I personally prefer acast.com for streaming - LISTEN HERE

There will also be 'extra' episodes featuring new and archive interviews with db associated people too!

For more information, updates and questions you can follow @zofdavidbowie on Twitter.

Also check out their YouTube channel A to Z of David Bowie and don't forget to subscribe for notifications.

For the podcast each letter is currently averaged at 2 episodes of 30 plus minutes and will be published at 3am on Tuesday's each week.

You can listen to ALL previous episodes HERE

A much eagerly awaited memoir is to be published next month. Entitled: AT THE BIRTH OF BOWIE by PHIL LANCASTER this 320-page hardback book is published on 10th January.

Synopsis: It is 1965, and Swinging London is coming into its prime years. The streets are alive with mods and rockers, playboys and good-time girls, all revelling in the blossoming artistic, creative and cultural energies of the decade.

Amid the colour and chaos is a boy sporting drainpipe jeans, an immaculately tailored sports coat and a half-inch wide tie. A devoted fan of The Who, he looks the part in his pristine mod gear. As the lead singer of the Lower Third, his talent is shaping itself into something truly special.

His name is Davie Jones. In ten years, he will be unrecognisable as fresh-faced boy of 1965, and in just over fifty years, his death will be mourned by millions, his legacy the story of the greatest rock star of all time.

And through Bowie's transition from pop group member to solo performer, Phil Lancaster was by his side. As the drummer in Bowie's band, The Lower Third, Phil was there as the singer's musical stripes began to show, and was witness to his early recording techniques, his first experimental forays into drug-taking, and the band's discovery of his bisexuality in shocking circumstances.

In this riveting - and often very funny - memoir, Phil tells the story of life alongside the insecure yet blazingly talented boy who became Bowie, at a critical crossroad of time and place in music history. What follows is an intimate, personal and important perspective on the genesis of one of the most iconic musicians of the twentieth century - one that gets under the skin of the man himself, before the personas and alter-egos masked the fascinating figure beneath them.

At the Birth of Bowie is essential reading for anyone who knows what happened on Bowie's journey, but wants to understand how, and why, it ever began.

About the Author: Phil Lancaster is a professional drummer across multiple styles. Born in Walthamstow on Boxing Day, 1942 Phil was both drawn to show business from a young age and took up the drums to form groups with close school friends, cutting his teeth on the changing musical styles of the day including skiffle, jazz and early rock before finally turning fully professional at the age of 21. After returning from live engagements in Europe and in need of a new group Phil followed up a music paper advert and met a 19-year-old singer called David Jones (who had yet to change his name to Bowie) at the famous Gioconda cafe in Denmark Street, thus becoming a member of Davie Jones and The Lower Third - the band with whom David Jones would become David Bowie - all without a formal audition.

Kevin Cann is a Bowie expert who has worked as a designer and writer for the last 35 years. His publications include David Bowie A Chronology for Vermilion, and Kevin's definitive early years account of Bowie's life and career - Any Day Now, The London Years - 1947-1973 - which received wide recognition, and was also highly regarded by David himself. He also acted as consultant on David and Mick Rock's 2002 Genesis Publications book Moonage Daydream - The Life and Times of Ziggy Stardust. He also researched, co-designed and co-ordinated the reissue of David's back catalogue with EMI (17 albums), and has contributed chronologies and sleeve notes for numerous David Bowie 30th and 40th anniversary releases, including Ziggy Stardust, Diamond Dogs and Station To Station.

You can pre-order NOW and save 12% on the RRP.

The forty-sixth episode of THE A TO Z OF DAVID BOWIE podcast created by MARC RILEY, ROB HUGHES and sound assisted by HOWARD NOCK is now available online for your listening pleasure.

This episode covers the letter R and discusses the Rainbow Theatre and Russell Harty.

Available FREE via your preferred podcast download or streaming. I personally prefer acast.com for streaming - LISTEN HERE

There will also be 'extra' episodes featuring new and archive interviews with db associated people too!

For more information, updates and questions you can follow @zofdavidbowie on Twitter.

Also check out their YouTube channel A to Z of David Bowie and don't forget to subscribe for notifications.

For the podcast each letter is currently averaged at 2 episodes of 30 plus minutes and will be published at 3am on Tuesday's each week.

You can listen to ALL previous episodes HERE

On this day, 3 years ago, saw DAVID BOWIE and IMAN attending his Lazarus stage production at The New York Theatre Workshop in NYC, USA in 2015.

He took to the stage at the end of the performance for his final bow. This was to be his last official public appearance :(

Don't miss photographer DENIS O'REGAN on THE ONE SHOW tonight from 19:00.

Denis talks about his time photographing the incredible DAVID BOWIE and the stories behind some of his photos of the man himself.

There is a new unofficial website and subscription based DAVID BOWIE Fan Club site now live.

CHEAP THINGS is brought to you by Marc Riley, Rob Hughes, Howard Nock and Jason Read.

Cheap Things is an exclusive subscription Patreon.com club designed to sit alongside The A to Z of David Bowie podcast. You can subscribe for a mere $5 per month via Patreon.com/CheapThings.

There will be interviews with Bowie related artists, his colleagues and friends, there'll be Bowie related filmed pieces starring Rob and Marc, plus access to archive press appearances and reviews dating back to the 60s... and forays into Marc's own personal Bowie memorabilia collection.

And to keep you on your toes there'll be a regular filmed Bowie Quiz related to 'Cheap Things' companion piece - the 'A To Z Of David Bowie' podcast. Not to mention competitions and merchandise.

For more information and details please visit bowiecheapthings.com for the complete low-down on what's happening.

The forty-fifth episode of THE A TO Z OF DAVID BOWIE podcast created by MARC RILEY, ROB HUGHES and sound assisted by HOWARD NOCK is now available online for your listening pleasure.

This episode covers the letter R and discusses Roxy Music and Rick Wakeman.

Available FREE via your preferred podcast download or streaming. I personally prefer acast.com for streaming - LISTEN HERE

There will also be 'extra' episodes featuring new and archive interviews with db associated people too!

For more information, updates and questions you can follow @zofdavidbowie on Twitter.

Also check out their YouTube channel A to Z of David Bowie and don't forget to subscribe for notifications.

For the podcast each letter is currently averaged at 2 episodes of 30 plus minutes and will be published at 3am on Tuesday's each week.

You can listen to ALL previous episodes HERE

Early bird tickets are now on sale for the DAVID BOWIE CONVENTION 2019 which takes place on Friday 10th and Saturday 11th May 2019 at Queens Hall, Derby, England.

There are limited early bird tickets at £50 available now which also include a free T-shirt.

Eight amazing live acts and special guests!

Friday 10th: The Froot, David Live and Andy Yeo's Bowieoke.

Saturday 11th: Miss Bowie and The New Killer Stars, Luxury Stranger, Rebel Heroes, Jonathan Barnbrook, Charlie Brooks Bowie Quiz, Baz and Daz - Heroes Indie DJs, Secret Life, The London Boys and Jean Genie.

Venue: Queens Hall, 125 London Road, Derby DE1 2QQ, England.

For more details and ticket purchasing please visit the Facebook page or you can email Jimster Draper directly at

If you're really quick you can still grab a copy of the latest issue of DAVID BOWIE GLAMOUR fanzine number #4

Limited numbers are left which is available to purchase NOW!

Issue #4 contains 80 pages, lithograph printed and includes TWO high quality David Bowie prints.

Contributors to issue 4 include: Kevin Armstrong, Glenn Gregory, Des Henly, Marshall Jarman, Gerry Leonard, Sean Mayes, Steve Norman, Marc Riley, Carmine Rojas, George Underwood and Rick Wakeman.

For more details and information please visit davidbowieglamour.wordpress.com website.

The annual Dublin Bowie Festival returns for its fourth edition next month from Monday January 7th until Sunday January 13th and again, fans of the legendary singer are in for a treat with the week-long event set to celebrate 50 years of Space Oddity and the greatest Starman of our time.

Kicking off the festival on Monday 7th January is a real treat for Bowiephiles; a world premiere exclusive Festival performance of the Space Oddity album from start to finish (and other songs from the Bowie Universe) by the I Heart Bowie ensemble alongside the renowned Trinity Orchestra and some very special guest singers in the hallowed National Concert Hall.

The festival is also associating with MCD as they host the Irish performance of A Bowie Celebration in The Olympia Theatre, Wednesday 9th January. Comprising 5 key members of Bowie's band over his long career - Mark Plati, Carmine Rojas, Earl Slick, Dubliner Gerry Leonard and Bowie's longest serving sidekick, pianist Mike Garson - A Bowie Celebration bring an unforgettable and critically acclaimed evening of Bowie songs with world-class vocalists and an ever rotating mix of hits and deep cuts. Gerry was our first guest of honour at DBF 16 and his continual championing of the Festival and background help is always much appreciated.

The festival will also have The Lighthouse Cinema involved again and their Bowie related programme ticks all the boxes as Space lovers can enjoy seeing Bowie's cult sci-fi classic The Man Who Fell To Earth and the movie that inspired Bowie to introduce Major Tom to the universe, Stanley Kubrick's 2001 - A Space Odyssey. We're particularly pleased that they are also screening Moon, the superb debut feature film of one Duncan Jones, Bowie's son. For family fun it's hard to beat the 80s musical fantasy Labyrinth and its noon screening on Saturday 12th kicks off a family friendly day of activities in Smithfield Square that includes talks, workshops and experiments as we engage our inner scientist while gazing up at the stars from inside a Mobile Planetarium looking at The View from Major Tom's Tin Can.

Last year's festival featured in excess of 8,000 with Bowie fans travelling from as far as Australia, the U.S. and continental Europe and the UK to attend, along with thousands of Bowie lovers from all over Ireland. We are delighted to have the support of Dublin City Council and Visit Dublin for DBF 19 and are extremely grateful of the continued backing and expertise that they bring to the Festival.

More exciting events and ticket details will also be revealed at the launch. For further details check out dublinbowiefestival.ie

For more details and information on this story check out the hotpress.com website.

Released yesterday is BOWIE: GLASTONBURY 2000 with FOUR different formats available: [2CD] / [2CD plus 1DVD Box Set] and [3LP Vinyl] and digital releases.

"Not only the greatest Glastonbury headline performance but the best headline slot at any festival ever" NME.

All formats feature Life On Mars?, Changes, Let's Dance, Under Pressure, "Heroes", Fame, China Girl, Ashes To Ashes, Ziggy Stardust, Rebel Rebel, Station To Station, Golden Years, Absolute Beginners and many more.

2nd OCTOBER 2018 - LONDON: Parlophone Records in association with BBC Studios and Glastonbury Festivals Ltd. are proud to announce DAVID BOWIE 'GLASTONBURY 2000' on 2CD/DVD, 3LP, 2CD and standard and high resolution digital formats documenting Bowie's legendary Sunday night headline performance on 25th June at the most famous festival on earth.

The package includes the full 21 song greatest hits set and for the first time, a DVD of the entire show (only 37 minutes of which has ever been broadcast on TV) including the Glastonbury performance of "Heroes", a highlight of the record breaking 'David Bowie Is...' exhibition and the only track that has been previously released.

All formats feature David's diary, originally written for Time Out, which documents him preparing for the show in his own inimitable manner:

"As of 1990 I got through the rest of the 20th century without having to do a big hits show. Yes, yes, I know I did four or five hits on the later shows but I held out pretty well I thought... big, well known songs will litter the field at Glastonbury this year. Well, with a couple of quirks of course."

In addition to newly mastered audio and upgraded video DAVID BOWIE 'GLASTONBURY 2000' features new artwork from Jonathan Barnbrook (who worked with Bowie on the sleeves for Heathen, The Next Day and ★) and notes from the renowned author and Bowie fan Caitlin Moran who reviewed the show for The Times.

The package features photos of Bowie resplendently dressed in a 3/4 length one-of-a-kind Alexander McQueen frock coat, the pattern of which was made to echo the hat (the famous 'bipperty-bopperty hat' mentioned in the song Queen Bitch) and worn by David at his Glastonbury Fayre debut in 1971.

Glastonbury co-organiser Emily Eavis commented "I often get asked what the best set I've seen here at Glastonbury is, and Bowie's 2000 performance is always one which I think of first. It was spellbinding; he had an absolutely enormous crowd transfixed. I think Bowie had a very deep relationship with Worthy Farm and he told some wonderful stories about his first time at the Festival in 1971, when he stayed at the farmhouse and performed at 6am as the sun was rising. And he just played the perfect headline set. It really was a very special and emotional show."

Emily's father Michael, the founder of the festival who first met David at Glastonbury in 1971 said "He's one of the three greatest of all-time: Frank Sinatra, Elvis Presley and David Bowie."

DAVID BOWIE 'GLASTONBURY 2000' TRACKLISTING

2 x CD / DVD SET
CD 1
Introduction (Greensleeves)
Wild Is The Wind
China Girl
Changes
Stay
Life On Mars?
Absolute Beginners
Ashes To Ashes
Rebel Rebel
Little Wonder
Golden Years

CD 2
Fame
All The Young Dudes
The Man Who Sold The World
Station To Station
Starman
Hallo Spaceboy
Under Pressure
Ziggy Stardust
"Heroes"
Let's Dance
I'm Afraid Of Americans

DVD
Introduction (Greensleeves)
Wild Is The Wind
China Girl
Changes
Stay
Life On Mars?
Absolute Beginners
Ashes To Ashes
Rebel Rebel
Little Wonder
Golden Years
Fame
All The Young Dudes
The Man Who Sold The World
Station To Station
Starman
Hallo Spaceboy
Under Pressure
Ziggy Stardust
"Heroes"
Let's Dance
I'm Afraid Of Americans

3 x LP
Side 1
Introduction (Greensleeves)
Wild Is The Wind
China Girl
Changes

Side 2
Stay
Life On Mars?
Absolute Beginners

Side 3
Ashes To Ashes
Rebel Rebel
Little Wonder
Golden Years

Side 4
Fame
All The Young Dudes
The Man Who Sold The World
Station To Station

Side 5
Starman
Hallo Spaceboy
Under Pressure
Ziggy Stardust

Side 6
"Heroes"
Let's Dance
I'm Afraid Of Americans

2 CD set / standard and high resolution (48kHz/24bit) digital

CD 1
Introduction (Greensleeves)
Wild Is The Wind
China Girl
Changes
Stay
Life On Mars?
Absolute Beginners
Ashes To Ashes
Rebel Rebel
Little Wonder
Golden Years

CD 2
Fame
All The Young Dudes
The Man Who Sold The World
Station To Station
Starman
Hallo Spaceboy
Under Pressure
Ziggy Stardust
"Heroes"
Let's Dance
I'm Afraid Of Americans

DAVID BOWIE GLASTONBURY 2000 is released on Parlophone 30th November, 2018.

You can purchase [2CD] / [2CD plus 1DVD Box Set] and [3LP Vinyl] NOW!

(Ed. For those asking about the David Bowie - 'Glastonbury 2000' releases: 2CD/1DVD is a digi-pak, 2CD is also a digi-pak and the 3LP box set is a limited edition release. All are newly mastered and an upgraded video).

DAVID BOWIE WONDERWORLD REMINDERS New book AT THE BIRTH OF BOWIE by PHIL LANCASTER to be published on 10th January - you can pre-order NOW! BOWIE: GLASTONBURY 2000 released on 30th November - you can purchase [2CD] / [2CD plus 1DVD Box Set] and [3LP Vinyl] NOW! Hardback edition RICOCHET: DAVID BOWIE 1983 by DENIS O'REGAN published on 1st November - you can purchase NOW! Brand new SIX disc DVD box set THE KENNY EVERETT VIDEO SHOW available for the first time, this set contains all 4 series and 3 New Year specials, contains all DAVID BOWIE appearances - released on 19th November - you can purchase NOW! BREAKING GLASS (LIVE EP) 40th Anniversary 7 Inch Picture Single includes FOUR previously unreleased live tracks - released on 16th November - you can purchase NOW! The 2018 softback edition of DAVID BOWIE WORLD 7" RECORDS DISCOGRAPHY 1964 - 1981 book by MARSHALL JARMAN and RETO STÖCKLIN is NOW in stock and available to purchase via the marmot-publishing.com website.         Exclusive DAVID BOWIE lino-cut print that appears in MUTE movie directed by Duncan Jones is available to purchase here - don't hang around, these are ALL the remaining original left-over stock from 34 years ago, once they've gone, they've gone!                  [CLOSE BOX]