The band that backed David Bowie at his legendary Glastonbury 2000 set are reuniting later this year – see all the details below.
The show is often hailed as one of the greatest in Worthy Farm history and in 2018, it was released in full for the first time as a concert film and album.
Now, it has been announced that the band – made up of guitarist Earl Slick, keyboardist Mike Garson, bassist Gail Ann Dorsey, multi-instrumentalist Mark Plati and drummer Sterling Campbell – will be playing together once again to mark the 10th anniversary of Bowie’s death.
The unique performances will take place at Cameron House on the banks of Loch Lomond in Scotland on November 7 and 8 as part of a two-day event titled ‘Bowie: Live on the Loch’, in aid of Save The Children – donate here.
The band will be joined by special guest performers during the show and tickets are available here.
Other events during the weekend will include a black-tie gala dinner with food from Michelin-starred chef Graeme Cheevers, and a guitar auction hosted by Earl Slick offering a collection of signed, collector-grade instruments from guitarists including Peter Frampton and Guns N’ Roses’ Duff McKagan.
Speaking about the event and its Save The Children tie-in, Slick has said: “David had a lot of motivation to help out. It wasn’t a big bragging thing – it was just done. That’s what I loved about it. He did it under the radar. We all live in increasingly uncertain and turbulent times around the world. More kids need more help. So it’s time to do it and I cannot think of anything that David would rather lend his support to.”
Reviewing the 2018 concert film of the Glastonbury 2000 set, NME wrote: “It’s strange seeing Bowie appearing so playful and humble here, and the camerawork does well to capture the waves of love between stage and crowd. The communal sway during ‘All The Young Dudes’ will make you yearn to be back on Worthy Farm, and this film does well to make you feel like you are. ‘Not only the greatest Glastonbury headline performance,’ NME once wrote of this show, ‘but the best headline slot at any festival ever’. It must surely be up there in the top five best encores too: ‘Ziggy Stardust’, “Heroes”, ‘Let’s Dance’, and the brutal but genius left-turn finale of the prophetic ‘I’m Afraid Of Americans’.”
“In sitting his newer material alongside the unretired classics with a performance so consummate and a band so accomplished, Bowie reset the dialogue to focus on his vitality, paving the way for his latter work on ‘Heathen’, ‘Reality, ‘The Next Day’ and his perfect curtain call, ‘Blackstar’. He reclaimed his legend, and gave Glastonbury a night for all time.”
In February, Bowie’s daughter Lexi Jones praised her parents after opening up about begin “forcibly removed” from the family home in the days leading up to his death.
Lulu, meanwhile, has spoken about her sexual relationship with Bowie, comparing his thighs to those of Naomi Campbell.
