DAVID BOWIE - 'ASHES TO ASHES' CLOWN SUIT STORY
As I write it's January 8th, 2021 which would have been David Bowie's 74th birthday. I was supposed to be doing the BUG David Bowie Special (a live show featuring Bowie related videos and bits of nonsense) at the BFI Southbank in London, but Lockdown 3 put paid to that hair-brained scheme.
So I thought I'd mark the date by posting one of the specially commissioned videos from the show featuring animation from the brilliant
Brothers McLeod, who previously animated the
Bowie Warszawa skit I did and the video of my then 5 year old daughter talking about
Princess Leia's slave dress.
This time the animation (which features very strong language!) is based on my telling of an anecdote that did the rounds after Bowie died in 2016. It was posted on the Facebook page of British director
Michael Dignum, who worked as an assistant on the video for Bowie's
Miracle Goodnight in 1993 and got talking to David one day on set.
BOWIE CLOWN SUIT ANIMATION ON YOUTUBEBOWIE SPOTIFY PLAYLISTA few people have asked if I would post a Spotify playlist containing some of my favourite less obvious Bowie tracks. These aren't exactly deep cuts, but there's some slightly more off-beat things in here for those of you less familiar with Bowie but curious to explore.
DR BUCKLES’ BOWIE SELECTION
And if that’s not quite enough Zavid, you can hear me waffling with Arsalan Mohammad about Scary Monsters and other Bowie related things on the ALBUMTOALBUM podcast:
Pt 1 and
Pt 2.
NEW PODCAST EPISODES FOR 2021
Though I had intended to start posting new episodes of the podcast at the end of March, circumstances have encouraged me to get started sooner and I'm now aiming for the end of this month. I have a few conversations already in the can but I'm hoping to start recording some new ones the next few weeks.
Until then, myself and Rosie gift you a remote hug.
Dr A Buckles