MEDIA RELEASE: Superfans of David Bowie will be able to celebrate their hero’s life at the now infamous Bowie Ball, a Bowie Swap Shop and hear from leading names from the icon’s professional and personal life at the third David Bowie World Fan Convention which returns to Liverpool, UK between Fri 26 – Sun 28 July 2024.
The theme, The Year Of The Diamond Dogs, will guide an expansive range of fan-thrilling events including talks, VIP meet-and-greets, film screenings, exhibitions and performances with the first guests confirming their attendance.
Tickets for the David Bowie World Fan Convention 2024 are on sale via the website at www.bowieconvention.com
Having taken over New York City for this year’s edition, the ambitious third gathering of the global Bowie family has already announced that two members of Bowie’s DAM Trio backing band, elusive bassist George Murray and guitarist, and long-standing friend and artistic collaborator, Carlos Alomar will travel from the US to offer eye-witness accounts of another intensely, creatively fertile, 1970’s period of the musician’s career. For the second of the three illustrious BowieCon instalments to take place in the UK, the last surviving Spiders From Mars member, Woody Woodmansey has also confirmed that he will return to Liverpool to meet fans.
Amongst the eye-witnesses to some of the most pivotal moments in Bowie’s forever changing career, three of those that lived in the centre of the storm will also be present. Backing singer and close friend, Ava Cherry, who was in his inner circle as Bowie made the style-change from Diamond Dog to Fame-era, zoot-suited soul-popper, will travel to Liverpool alongside Suzi Ronson, wife of the late and legendary Spiders… guitarist, Mick Ronson, as well as being Bowie’s Ziggy-era hairdresser and stylist. Dana Gillespie, one time backing singer, yet also releasing a solo album produced by Bowie and Ronson in the early 1970s, will offer more fly-on-the-wall testimonies from both the folky, developmental years of Bowie’s life but also his sudden rise to early fame.
Having enjoyed the company of household Bowie-linked names such as producer, Tony Visconti, bassist and singer, Gail Ann Dorsey and Young Americans singer, Robin Clark over the past two years, the Convention will also once again open the world-famous Bowie Ball to all fans as the centre-piece event for ticket holders. As spectacular an event of fancy dress one-upmanship as the music world has seen since the time of Ziggy Stardust himself, the audacious display of Bowie-centred glitz and glamour will feature DJs playing rarities, hits and in-betweens plus performers and live bands. A special ‘encore’ at the Bowie Ball will see Carlos Alomar himself reprise an on-stage cameo, performing Fame as witnessed in New York this year.
Daytime events include exhibitions by artists and photographers, with Denis O’Regan, official photographer on the Serious Moonlight and Glass Spider tours the first to confirm his attendance. David Buckley, author of 1999’s biography, Strange Fascination, and Leah Kardos, author of Blackstar Theory: The Last Works of David Bowie, are the first authors to commit to attending and will be amongst an anticipated line-up of biographers and critics to join themed conversation panels and Q&As.
David Bowie World Fan Convention 2024
The Year Of The Diamond Dogs
Various Venues – Liverpool, UK
Fri 26 – Sun 28 July 2024
Tickets On at www.bowieconvention.com
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