Tonight I am hosting an event at London’s Victoria & Albert Museum: an ‘in conversation’ with Boy George about the importance and influence of popular culture’s greatest manipulator of visual identity, David Bowie.
It hardly needs saying that the event coincides with the V&A’s current exhibition David Bowie Is, which is commanding near fever-pitch media interest.
Our mission is to provide an antidote to Bowie fatigue by looking at the ways in which his supreme control of visual media acted as an inspiration for George O’Dowd to achieve his own superstar status, with the assistance of music, archive footage and a selection of special images.
Like the exhibition, tonight’s event is sold out; here are some sneak peeks from the presentation, which will also include this interview with O’Dowd shot at The Foundry, the central London boutique he ran with designer Sue Clowes in 1982.
J.B. Taylor
November 28, 2013 at 1:31 amHi Paul! Do you know what the music is that is playing during the Foundry portion of the vid? It sounds so good!
Paul Gorman Author
November 28, 2013 at 2:33 pmHI JB – it sounds like a mix of White Boy, their first single with maybe Papa Weasel on it (who appeared on the dub of Do You Really Want To Hurt Me). But I’m no expert so will ask around. Anyone?
How’s the tan?
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