My mate Gary is very much the aficionado of the life and times of David Bowie. There is very little about the man he does not know. Me, I’m into the music mainly, not so fussed by the makeup and the fashion machinations, although it is interesting culturally speaking. Still, always happy to tag along for a show. Last night was the final night of the latest tour of Holy Holy, at Cambridge Corn Exchange, sold out, I reckon.
Holy Holy is the band Spiders from Mars era Bowie drummer Woody Woodmansey put together as both tribute and musical vehicle. The lineup comprised Bowie’s old producer and bassist Tony Visconti, Heaven 17’s Glen Gregory on lead vocals, Visconti’s daughter Jessica Lee Morgan on 12-string guitar, tenor sax and vocals, James Stevenson and Paul Cudderford on lead guitars doing their best to really be the six-string embodiment of the late Mick Ronson on those fretboards, and Heaven 17’s Berenice Scott on keyboards and backing vocals.
We bumped into Woody before the show having a ciggie before the gig. Gary has met him and Visconti a couple of other times and I had the opportunity to discuss the merits of various 12-string guitars with Jessica in the pub after the Hull Spiders from Mars homecoming gig I mentioned on Sciencebase in March 2017.
Anyway, we were centre and seven rows back in the stalls for this final night of the current Holy Holy tour (which Woody signed off as “the last time this band would play together (in these clothes)”, nodding to Bowie’s own “sacking” of the Spiders from Mars at the Hammersmith Odeon back in the summer of 1973.
There are a few more phone photos from the concert in the “Events” section of the Imaging Storm Gallery.
