New David Bowie show to launch in April featuring never seen before material and personal notes from the star

A new David Bowie show will be launching at London’s Lightroom this April – It will showcase some of his landmark performances plus rarely seen and never-before-exhibited material dug out from the vaults

David Bowie: You’re Not Alone will offer a look at the icon in his purest form away from his characters Ziggy Stardust, Aladdin Sane, Halloween Jack, The Thin White Duke. It’s been put together by director Mark Grimmer who was given unprecedented access by the estate to craft a narrative that reveals Bowie’s creative mind through his own words.

When it launches on April 22 audiences will have the chance to feel they have travelled through time to experience Bowie in performance – up close and first-hand.

Each track in the show has been newly reconfigured to utilise Lightroom’s specialised spatial audio system by multiple Olivier and Tony award-winning sound designer Gareth Fry.

And viewers will see a whole new side to the late legend as the show combines rare performance footage, photography, drawings, lyrics, personal notes and audio recordings.

This will give a unique insight into Bowie’s perspective on the subjects most important to him, including: theatricality, spirituality, songwriting and the transformative power of creativity.

Mark Grimmer said: “It says something about our relationship with artistic heroes that we’re drawn to mystery, otherness, the alien… In Bowie’s case, this is our construct, not his. Throughout his career,

“Bowie repeatedly resisted being figured as anything but human.

“Rather than undermining his mystique, we designed a show to celebrate Bowie as a champion of human creativity – focusing on the message he expressed time and again: that art, in all its forms, is our best hope for understanding what it means to be alive.”

David Sabel, Executive Producer at Lightroom said: “Lightroom offers an incredible opportunity to step inside an artist’s imagination and creative universe – weaving film, photography, animation, text and music into a story that can only be experienced in this space. I cannot think of an artist more suited to this than David Bowie.

“To spend time in his world as it comes to life around you and to travel back and forth across the decades of astonishing performances, whether reliving them or experiencing them for the first time, is a total thrill. Working so closely with RZO and the David Bowie Archive has been a great privilege.”

Tickets for David Bowie: You’re Not Alone are on sale now priced from £25 for adults and £15 for students and concessions. Tickets will be available from 22 April until 28 June, with more tickets being released for summer soon.

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