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Peter Ormerod

@bowiegod.bsky.social

Author of David Bowie and the Search for Life, Death and God, published by Bloomsbury. Also entertainments editor for Iconic Media Group. Also a bit too keen on porridge, toast, Swindon, Noel Edmonds etc

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Peter Ormerod@bowiegod.bsky.social · last wk.

I was lucky enough to see him as Claudius at the RSC in 2008. It was a great cast but he acted everyone else off the stage, mostly just by standing there. I've still never seen presence like it.

Nicholas Pegg@nicholaspegg.bsky.social · last wk.

Raising a glass to the mighty Patrick Stewart. So many great performances that it’s ridiculous to pick just one, but my god he was magnificent as Sejanus in I Claudius, that towering classic of television’s golden age. We shall not look upon his like again.

Nicholas Pegg@nicholaspegg.bsky.social · 2w ago

Exciting news. I’m lucky enough to have seen a preview screening, and I can tell you that the concert is sensational. Bowie and the band are on blistering form. Brett Morgen and his team have done a magnificent job: sound and vision painstakingly restored and remastered. It’s going to be amazing.

‘Lost’ 1978 David Bowie tour film to play arenas in 2027, remastered by Moonage Daydream director Brett Morgen

David Hemmings’ never-released concert film from Bowie’s 1978 world tour will be presented in a multimedia show that aims to ‘create the illusion’ that he is present on stage

theguardian.com

Peter Ormerod@bowiegod.bsky.social · 2w ago

If you buy only two new Bowie books this year, then make sure Alex's is one of them (I have some ideas for the other one but I'll leave it with you) And it would be lovely to see you in Stratford next week - you never know, there may well be a punch-up about the Lord's Prayer

Pete Selby@peteselby.bsky.social · 2w ago

I am incredibly proud of this book. A genuinely fascinating read. And it’s out now in paperback I will be talking to Alex and @bowiegod.bsky.social about the many lives of David Bowie at the Stratford Literary Festival next week Come join us: www.stratfordliteraryfestival.co.uk/events/peter...

Peter Ormerod@bowiegod.bsky.social · 3w ago

Back from a wonderful time at Wells Festival of Literature. Wonderful audience, wonderful questions, wonderful conversations. Chris Salmon is an expert interlocutor; we bonded over shared love of Brannigans Beef & Mustard crisps. And this is how the cathedral looked as the sun began to set

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Peter Ormerod@bowiegod.bsky.social · 3w ago

Superb book, this. Suede were the first band I properly fell in love with, and the fact they're still going at all is pretty amazing. But they're redefining what it means to be a band of their vintage in the 2020s, and @rodgeglass.bsky.social captures this so well. See 'em live if you can

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Peter Ormerod@bowiegod.bsky.social · last mo.

Only just seen this: Bowie in 1993 'arguing that violence is justified in extreme circumstances' against racism/fascism and saying he'd 'retaliate physically with every last breath of my body' if his loved ones were targeted (pic from Bowie Fascination FB group)

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Peter Ormerod@bowiegod.bsky.social · last mo.

I’m delighted to say I’ll be appearing at a few literary festivals this month. It would be lovely to see you if you can make it along to one or more of them - details coming up

Peter Ormerod@bowiegod.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Fascinated by this moment in typography: the revolution of 1958 when Cambridge University Society of Arts went from serif to sans, and in a big way. Of all the things I've found while clearing my mum's old house, this is (perhaps weirdly) one of my favourites

Peter Ormerod@bowiegod.bsky.social · 5mo ago

'I do not feel very confident that I can make anything satisfactory of Middlemarch. I have need to remember that other things which have been accomplished by me, were begun under the same cloud.' George Eliot, 1869