DBF 19 BROCHURE

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The annual Dublin Bowie Festival returns for its fourth edition 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 the 50th anniversary of Space Oddity and the greatest Starman of our time.

An unbelievable line-up of musicians, photographers, artists, writers, DJs, designers and even an astronaut or two, are set to take over Dublin City for the jam packed

festival and to commemorate this anniversary we’ve also joined forces with the Irish Space Community to celebrate all things cosmos with a sweet line up of family friendly events.

Kicking off the festival on Monday 7th of 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. It’s our biggest show to date so we are very excited about this one.

We are also delighted to be associating with MCD as they host the Irish performance of A Bowie Celebration in The Olympia Theatre, Wednesday 9th of January. Comprising 5 key members of Bowie’s band over his long career Mark Plati, Carmine Rojas, Earl Slick, Dubliner Gerry Leonard and Bowies 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.

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MON 07 SPACE ODDITY & OTHER SONGS FROM THE BOWIE UNIVERSE NATIONAL CONCERT HALL 7.30PM €18+ Dublin Bowie Festival is proud to present a World Premiere performance of David Bowie’s epic Space Oddity, an album which introduced the world to Major Tom and rock n roll’s fascination with outer space. Performed by the renowned I Heart Bowie band, The Trinity Orchestra and some very special guest vocalists, the concert will also see the performers venture Performed by I Heart Bowie, into the Bowie universe The Trinity Orchestra & for a selection of orchestrated songs, paying homage Very Special Guests. to the iconic Starman’s beautifully NATIONAL CONCERT HALL / 7.30PM / crafted back catalog.

SPACE ODDITY & OTHER SONGS FROM THE BOWIE UNIVERSE

€26/22/18 / TICKETS: NCH.IE

Dublin Bowie Festival is proud to present a World Premiere performance of David Bowie’s epic Space Oddity, an album which introduced the world to Major Tom and rock n rolls fascination with outer space. Performed by the renowned I Heart Bowie band, The Trinity Orchestra and some very special guest vocalists, the concert will also see the performers venture into the Bowie universe for a selection of orchestrated songs, paying homage to the iconic Starmans beautifully crafted back catalogue.

ALL AGES WELCOME

TUES 08 SIGNAL: GERRY LEONARD SCIENCE GALLERY 6PM €5 Signal is a monthly event curated

by TCD Music Researcher Martin Clancy that consists of discussions and interactive demonstrations focused on cutting-edge technology, creativity and music, featuring artists, educators and creative thinkers. Tonight we are delighted to be teaming up with Martin as he welcomes former Bowie guitarist / co-writer and musical director Gerry Leonard for what promises to be an insightful look at Gerry’s working relationship with Bowie over the years.

1. OUTSIDE - PERFORMED LIVE BY ART CRIME INC THE GRAND SOCIAL 8PM €10

Dublin Bowie Festival presents a World Premiere Live Performance of Bowie’s underrated classic 1.Outside performed live by Dublin collective Art-Crime Inc (fronted by Rebel Rebel vocalist Peter Quinn and featuring members of Dublin band Noise Control). Covering Bowie’s more obscure album tracks we are also delighted to have Pop Scar and his band open proceedings. A must for Bowie fans!.

WED 09 DR NIAMH SHAW WALKING (SLOWLY) TOWARDS SPACE SCIENCE GALLERY 6PM FREE We have teamed up with the Irish Space community for a number of events and tonight we welcome the dynamic Dr Niamh Shaw to our Festival program for a presentation which will see the acclaimed communicator sharing her journey, illuminating the relevance of space in our society, her progress, her struggles and challenges, the importance of sharing the story of space to the wider population, and explaining why she has devoted the remainder of her life to fulfilling a 40 year old dream.

WED 09-13 BOWIE PHOTOS, PAINTINGS & PRINTS ST STEPHENS GREEN CENTRE EXHIBITION SPACE 11AM-6PM FREE Perhaps the most famous photographer ever associated with Bowie, Brian Duffy had an eight-year working relationship with Bowie and shot five key sessions over this period providing the creative concept as well as the photographic image for three album covers, including the 1973 Aladdin Sane, 1979’s Lodger and 1980s Scary Monsters (And Super Creeps).

OLYMPIA THEATRE 7PM €45.55 +

Renowned Canadian, Rolling Stone photographer John Rowlands. John was tour photographer for Bowie from 1974-78 and has captured some of his most iconic images, most notably ‘The Archer’ which was featured on Times Square this Summer, advertising the V&A’s worldwide mega-successful Bowie Is expo.

Mike Garson, Earl Slick, Gerry Leonard, Carmine Rojas & Mark Plati: vital personnel on numerous Bowie records and tours over his amazing career and tonight they perform in the Dublin venue were Bowie performed 2 scintillating shows in 1997. Expect some very special guests from Dublin’s musical community onstage tonight for what is going to be an unforgettable evening of Bowie songs.

Sara Captain has recently emerged as one of the most succinct portrait artists in the UK and is in high demand amongst the Bowie event fraternity.

She recently was bestowed the honour of painting a Bowie mural on the walls of The Three Tuns venue in London, one of Bowie’s haunts before he became a star. She has since exhibited her stunning Bowie portraits all over the UK and in Paris.

A BOWIE CELEBRATION: THE DAVID BOWIE ALUMNI TOUR

THUR 10 MOON LIGHTHOUSE CINEMA 8.30PM ADULT €11.50, CONCESSION €9 The first movie to be shown in this years is the 2009 science fiction film Moon, directed by Bowie’s son Duncan Jones. The critically acclaimed movie, which centres around the personal crisis of man as he nears the end of a three-year solitary stint mining helium-3 on the far side of the moon, went on to win many awards and is fast becoming a sci-fi classic.

THIS AIN’T ROCK N ROLL, THIS IS CABARET THE GRAND SOCIAL 8PM €10

Cáca Milis Cabaret presentation will reflect not only the music, but related aspects of Bowie’s work and interests, such as dance, mime, Brechtian performance, burlesque and more. Hostess Helena Mulkerns, with Pianoman Josh Johnston on the ivories. Expect a stellar line up of much-loved artists such as The Late David Turpin; classical singer Caitriona O’Leary; Ireland’s Empress of Burlesque, Bella A GoGo; Bren McCarthy; eclectic Bowie project Secret Life; author and performance innovator Cursed Murphy; composer Simon Quigley and Dave McGinley.

ALL AGES WELCOME

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LOVING THE ALIEN MIRIAM AÏDA THE SUGAR CLUB 8.30PM €12.50 Dublin Bowie Festival and Ireland’s premier Jazz agency The Improvised Music Company join forces to present a special evening of the rockstars music performed live by Sweden’s best known jazz singer, Miriam Aïda.

The singer and her band bring a new perspective to Bowie’s music with their lovely mix of Samba, afroBrazilian rhythms, reggae and jazz as they showcase songs from her brilliant new album, Loving The Alien which also features superb versions of Lets Dance, Dollar Days, Space Oddity and lots more.

FRI 11 JOHN ROWLANDS PHOTOGRAPHY TALK NCAD 6PM €8 A special presentation and discussion of Rowlands’ work with Bowie. John’s most famous image - and one of Bowie’s most iconic moments ever captured on film - is The Archer, a photograph taken in Toronto 1976 during Bowie’s Station to Station/ Isolar Tour. Rowlands has worked extensively with Rolling Stone magazine for decades and has snapped all the greats including Elvis, The Beatles, Dylan and The Rolling Stones so be prepared for some amazing stories.

THE STARS ARE OUT TONIGHT - SIDEWALK ASTRONOMY STRAND ROAD CAR PARK, SOUTH OF SANDYMOUNT MARTELLO TOWER 7.30- 9.30PM FREE Gaze upon the wonders of the night sky as the Irish Astronomical Society set up their telescopes and search for the Bowie constellation in the vicinity of Mars: Sigma Librae, Spica, Alpha Virginis, Zeta Centauri, SAA 204 132, and the Beta Sigma Octantis Trianguli Australis. WEATHER PERMITTING.

HEROES FROM MARS THE LONDON BOYS

THE GRAND SOCIAL 8.30PM €15

BRING ME THE DISCO KING - ED SMITH THE GRAND SOCIAL 11.30PM-3AM FREE Today FM presenter/DJ and Bowie nut Ed Smith keeps the Bowie party going at full swing late into the night as he spins Bowie, Bowie and more Bowie all night long.

Double bill featuring two of our best Bowie tribute acts that cover all eras of the Bowie songbook. First up at 9.15pm are Festival favourites The London Boys - the only band on the planet who perform Bowie’s 60s catalogue - followed by the rockin’ Heroes From Mars who provide a dynamic journey through Bowie’s greatest songs from 1970 to 2016.

As an added bonus, the author of the Complete David Bowie, Nicholas Pegg will open proceedings at 9pm with a talk on Bowie’s beginnings in music.

A real treat for fans!.

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VEDAS’ UNDER PRESSURE

LABYRINTH

THE GEORGE 9PM FREE BEFORE 10PM, €8 AFTER

LIGHTHOUSE CINEMA 1PM ADULT €10, CONCESSION €7.50

Bowie fanatic and one of Ireland’s most fabulous drag queens Veda Beaux Reves hosts a Bowie spectacular of glitter and glam in The George. Veda eloquently possesses the poise, physique and uninhibited glamour of Ziggy in his prime and tonight’s show sees Vedas Coven team up again with the Dublin Vintage Factory for a Bowie/Mercury inspired Drag & Vintage Fashion Show.

The 1986 cult classic, starring Bowie as Jareth the Goblin King, is a great way to kick start Bowie Festival Sat!

2001 - A SPACE ODYSSEY

LIGHTHOUSE CINEMA 2.10PM ADULT €10, CONCESSION €7.50 The Stanley Kubrick masterpiece, which went on to become one of the American director’s best known and loved pieces of work, tells the story of the Black Monolith, the rise of A.I’s and humanity’s evolution.

When Bowie saw this movie he went home and started to write his first masterpiece; Space Oddity.

THE MAN WHO FELL TO EARTH LIGHTHOUSE CINEMA 10.45PM ADULT €11.50, CONCESSION €9 Late night showing of Nic Roeg’s cult sci-fi cult classic centers on an eerie performance by Bowie, as an alien from a drought-stricken planet who journeys to Earth in search of water.

ALL AGES WELCOME

BOWIE MARKET THE GRAND SOCIAL 12PM-5PM Merchandise, vinyl albums & 45’s, Bowie art and lots more.

MAN OF WORDS MAN OF MUSIC - NICHOLAS PEGG

THE CRAIC PACK SPACE ODDITIES

THE GRAND SOCIAL 5PM €6.25

THE GRAND SOCIAL 8PM €10

A noted authority on everything David Bowie, Pegg is the author of the Bowie ‘bible’ - The Complete David Bowie (described by Bowie’s long-time producer Tony Visconti as “the best Bowie reference book one could ever hope for”), is co-creator of the 2017 Bowie concept album ‘Decades’ and has a massive association over the years with the Doctor Who TV series - he even played a Dalek!. Pegg also contributes heavily to the brilliant ‘Bowie Album To Album’ Podcast series, is a regular speaker at Bowie events worldwide.

Through a fully improvised show inspired by Bowie’s use of oblique strategies, music and Space, The Craic Pack, with the help of the audience, will explore a life inspired by Bowie, a story never told before, and unlikely to be told again..

REBEL REBEL

THE ACADEMY 8PM €28 One of the best Bowie tribute bands on the planet, Rebel Rebel, will return to The Academy for what promises to be a very intimate gig of the rock legends biggest hits. Following on from previous sold out shows at Cork Opera House, INEC Killarney and Vicar St at last years Dublin Bowie Festival, we are delighted to have this superb band headlining our Saturday nights entertainment.

SAT 12 THE BOWIE ‘SPACE MASQUERADE’ BALL: FEATURING THE SALTY DOG ALLSTARS THE GRAND SOCIAL 11PM €10 The ever popular Bowie Ball returns for DBF’19 as we celebrate the 50th anniversary of Space Oddity with a Space themed Masquerade Ball.

The Salty Dog Allstars, to be the live entertainment again and we really couldn’t ask for a better band to play us late into the night. Fancy dress is not essential but there will be a spot prize for the best Bowie inspired costume so put on your space suit and dance the blues.

BE SOUND (& VISION) BOWIE THE GRAND SOCIAL 10PM FREE Join Be Sound DJ crew for a one off Bowie Festival special as they spin a crash course for the ravers with an eclectic mix of Bowie and all those artists he influenced.

ALL AGES WELCOME

SUN 13 STARMAN SUNDAY PHOENIX PARK VISITORS CENTRE 9.30AM-5.30PM ALL EVENTS FREE A free family fun day with art, talks, music, stargazing and cool science experiments to blow your mind.

GIFTS OF THE STARMAN ART EXPO

9TH JAN: 1-5.30PM 10-13TH JAN: 9.30AM-6PM (WED-SUN) Winning selections from a Starman primary /post primary children’s art competition hosted by Blackrock Castle Observatory and DBF.

IAS ASTRONOMY TALKS

12-4PM A series of family orientated talks from John Flannery of Irish Astronomical Society. He will talk for 15/20 mins about the nights sky and what to look out for. Talks begin at 12pm and run hourly until 4pm.

PHYSICS BUSKING

12-4PM Family based interactive experiments and demonstrations aimed at engaging the general public, to entertain and educate.

LOOKING FOR THE STARMAN STAR GAZING 3.30-6PM

Gaze into the evening sky to observe the moon, constellations and maybe catch a glimpse of a shooting star.

Weather permitting.

THE FARTHEST + Q&A

QUEEN BITCH QUIZ

LIGHTHOUSE CINEMA 12.30PM ADULT €10, CONCESSION €7.50

THE GRAND SOCIAL 4PM-6PM FREE

Emer Reynolds recently won an Emmy award for this documentary, The Farthest: Voyager in Space. This stunning Irish film tells the extraordinary story of one of humankind’s greatest achievements, Nasa’s Voyager space probes, and celebrates the magnificent machines, the men and women who built them and the vision that propelled them farther than anyone could have hoped. A Q&A hosted by Dr. Niamh Shaw will follow the screening.

The Queen Bitch Quiz returns for another edition and it don’t get any easier as the years roll on! Free to enter, so come and join us as we ask Is There Life On Mars?

MEMORY OF A FREE FESTIVAL THE GRAND SOCIAL 7PM FREE On August 16, 1969, a young folk/ rock musician named David Bowie took the stage at the Free Festival, held at Croydon Road Recreation Ground in Beckenham, England. He immortalized the event in his song “Memory of a Free Festival,” written soon afterward, which became the last song of the Space Oddity LP and was possibly the last song he recorded in the ’60s. We honour that song and the 50th anniversary of Space Oddity with a Festival closing, free admission concert presentation featuring contributions from Festival performers and a selection of special guests.

would like to kindly thank..

Gerry Leonard, Niamh Shaw, Laura Keogh, John Flannery & Irish Astronomical Society, Clair McSweeney @ BCO, Ann Dunne, Astronomy Ireland, Mary Kelleher, Paul Nugent & the Physics Busking Crew, John O’Sullivan, Col Chris Hadfield, Martin Clancy, Leslie McDonagh @ MCD, Amanda & the Science Gallery Crew, Greg Devitt, John Paul Dowling, Margaret & Leif @ Phoenix Park, OPW, Pete Murphy, Charlene Lydon, Richeal Fox (foxandmouse.ie), Keiron Black, Stefan Hellenius, Stephen Byrne, Mick Hanley and all at Dublin City FM, Dave & Peter at Micromedia, James Murphy, Ferdia Mooney, Dublin City Council and all the musicians, bookers, promoters, venues, gallery owners, journalists, radio DJs and, most of all, the Bowie fans who have made this Festival possible.

Special thanks goes to all the DBF committee members; John Brereton, Barbara Carrick, Alex Troy, Christine O’Growney, Tommy Crampton, Eugene Connolly, Billy Cahill & Emma McMenamy who dedicate their time and energy to celebrate their hero.

Design: foxandmouse.ie Main Illustration: Neil O’Driscoll Photography (opposite): Billy Cahill

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