Nick Smart
@quietseclusion.bsky.social
📚 Author: David Bowie: The Collector.
📖 Joint editor: David Bowie Glamour.
🏛 Joint curator and founder: BowieCon '22 and '23.
🌎 www.nicksmart.net
📖 Joint editor: David Bowie Glamour.
🏛 Joint curator and founder: BowieCon '22 and '23.
🌎 www.nicksmart.net
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Nick Smart
@quietseclusion.bsky.social
· Sep 11
David Bowie Centre Press Preview
YouTube video by Nick Smart
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Still buzzing from yesterday’s press preview of the David Bowie Centre at V&A East Storehouse. Here’s my video tour of this dream come true for Bowie fans! www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZBDY...
Great to see David Bowie: The Collector among the brilliant @mcnidderandgrace.bsky.social titles at Louder Than Words this weekend. Thanks to Andy, Caroline and the M&G team for flying the flag for music writing! 🎶📚
@lthanwordsfest.bsky.social
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November 15, 2025 at 1:50 PM
Great to see David Bowie: The Collector among the brilliant @mcnidderandgrace.bsky.social titles at Louder Than Words this weekend. Thanks to Andy, Caroline and the M&G team for flying the flag for music writing! 🎶📚
@lthanwordsfest.bsky.social
@lthanwordsfest.bsky.social
Meeting Woody Woodmansey at a book signing in Bath nine years ago was the moment I realised our Bowie fanzine was really going to happen. I told him Andy and I were starting one, and he said to get in touch if we needed anything. He has been amazing ever since.
Cheers, Woody! 🥁✨
Cheers, Woody! 🥁✨
November 13, 2025 at 1:38 PM
Meeting Woody Woodmansey at a book signing in Bath nine years ago was the moment I realised our Bowie fanzine was really going to happen. I told him Andy and I were starting one, and he said to get in touch if we needed anything. He has been amazing ever since.
Cheers, Woody! 🥁✨
Cheers, Woody! 🥁✨
Help me, Bowie friends!
I want to view handwritten Hunky Dory lyrics (DBA/2/1/3/1) when I visit the Bowie Centre next week.
Do I have to order them up in the same way as if I was ordering a costume?
I'm having a nightmare getting my head around it!
-Nick
I want to view handwritten Hunky Dory lyrics (DBA/2/1/3/1) when I visit the Bowie Centre next week.
Do I have to order them up in the same way as if I was ordering a costume?
I'm having a nightmare getting my head around it!
-Nick
November 7, 2025 at 1:11 PM
Help me, Bowie friends!
I want to view handwritten Hunky Dory lyrics (DBA/2/1/3/1) when I visit the Bowie Centre next week.
Do I have to order them up in the same way as if I was ordering a costume?
I'm having a nightmare getting my head around it!
-Nick
I want to view handwritten Hunky Dory lyrics (DBA/2/1/3/1) when I visit the Bowie Centre next week.
Do I have to order them up in the same way as if I was ordering a costume?
I'm having a nightmare getting my head around it!
-Nick
I'm very sad to hear that our friend Des Henly has passed away. Just weeks ago he called me, full of life. With his band Fumble, he toured the US with Bowie on the Ziggy Stardust tour and kindly shared Sean Mayes’s tour diary with us for issue 4. A lovely man. we’ll miss him.
– Nick
– Nick
October 29, 2025 at 4:04 PM
I'm very sad to hear that our friend Des Henly has passed away. Just weeks ago he called me, full of life. With his band Fumble, he toured the US with Bowie on the Ziggy Stardust tour and kindly shared Sean Mayes’s tour diary with us for issue 4. A lovely man. we’ll miss him.
– Nick
– Nick
Remembering Sylvia Plath on what would have been her 93rd birthday. Her powerful poetry and prose continue to inspire. #SylviaPlath #Poetry #LiteraryLegacy
October 27, 2025 at 6:44 PM
Remembering Sylvia Plath on what would have been her 93rd birthday. Her powerful poetry and prose continue to inspire. #SylviaPlath #Poetry #LiteraryLegacy
The Creative Personas display at the V&A is wonderful.
They couldn't include everything, of course. Which personas would you like to see displayed in the future?
They couldn't include everything, of course. Which personas would you like to see displayed in the future?
October 26, 2025 at 10:07 AM
The Creative Personas display at the V&A is wonderful.
They couldn't include everything, of course. Which personas would you like to see displayed in the future?
They couldn't include everything, of course. Which personas would you like to see displayed in the future?
Reposted by Nick Smart
Couldn’t find it at Waterstones in London the other day, but look what just landed on my doormat in the Netherlands.
Looking forward to read it!
@quietseclusion.bsky.social
Looking forward to read it!
@quietseclusion.bsky.social
October 23, 2025 at 12:43 PM
Couldn’t find it at Waterstones in London the other day, but look what just landed on my doormat in the Netherlands.
Looking forward to read it!
@quietseclusion.bsky.social
Looking forward to read it!
@quietseclusion.bsky.social
Wishing a very happy birthday to Zachary Alford. Thank you for your interview and all your support.
October 22, 2025 at 6:10 PM
Wishing a very happy birthday to Zachary Alford. Thank you for your interview and all your support.
Looks like they opened it a little early. Thus 2882 Bowie fans got in before me!
October 22, 2025 at 9:14 AM
Looks like they opened it a little early. Thus 2882 Bowie fans got in before me!
Reposted by Nick Smart
💥 OUT NOW! As Carlos Alomar reunites with George Murray for the DAM Trilogy tour this Fall, we meet to talk Bowie, soul, the pocket, the groove and just how Carlos, Dennis and George fuelled Bowie's musical evolutions between '75 - '80. Dig in and dig! 💥
podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/d...
podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/d...
October 20, 2025 at 3:18 PM
💥 OUT NOW! As Carlos Alomar reunites with George Murray for the DAM Trilogy tour this Fall, we meet to talk Bowie, soul, the pocket, the groove and just how Carlos, Dennis and George fuelled Bowie's musical evolutions between '75 - '80. Dig in and dig! 💥
podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/d...
podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/d...
It's the 52nd anniversary of the release of Pin Ups
My copy is Japanese. Not sure where I got it. I think it may have been a Christmas gift in 1981
Photographer Justin de Villeneuve kindly agreed to my request to write a piece for issue 9
Not everyone feels the same way, but I adore this album.
My copy is Japanese. Not sure where I got it. I think it may have been a Christmas gift in 1981
Photographer Justin de Villeneuve kindly agreed to my request to write a piece for issue 9
Not everyone feels the same way, but I adore this album.
October 19, 2025 at 9:43 PM
It's the 52nd anniversary of the release of Pin Ups
My copy is Japanese. Not sure where I got it. I think it may have been a Christmas gift in 1981
Photographer Justin de Villeneuve kindly agreed to my request to write a piece for issue 9
Not everyone feels the same way, but I adore this album.
My copy is Japanese. Not sure where I got it. I think it may have been a Christmas gift in 1981
Photographer Justin de Villeneuve kindly agreed to my request to write a piece for issue 9
Not everyone feels the same way, but I adore this album.
Wishing a very happy birthday to Mark Plati
Aside from all the amazing music, I am grateful to Mark for:
Agreeing to my request for an interview for the fanzine
Agreeing to my request to appear at our Bowie convention in New York
Agreeing to write some lovely praise for my book.
Thank you Mark!
Aside from all the amazing music, I am grateful to Mark for:
Agreeing to my request for an interview for the fanzine
Agreeing to my request to appear at our Bowie convention in New York
Agreeing to write some lovely praise for my book.
Thank you Mark!
October 19, 2025 at 2:42 PM
Wishing a very happy birthday to Mark Plati
Aside from all the amazing music, I am grateful to Mark for:
Agreeing to my request for an interview for the fanzine
Agreeing to my request to appear at our Bowie convention in New York
Agreeing to write some lovely praise for my book.
Thank you Mark!
Aside from all the amazing music, I am grateful to Mark for:
Agreeing to my request for an interview for the fanzine
Agreeing to my request to appear at our Bowie convention in New York
Agreeing to write some lovely praise for my book.
Thank you Mark!
So, what's on your David Bowie playlist today?
October 12, 2025 at 9:33 AM
So, what's on your David Bowie playlist today?
If Ziggy Stardust and Hunky Dory were one album, which twelve tracks would make the cut?
October 7, 2025 at 10:25 PM
If Ziggy Stardust and Hunky Dory were one album, which twelve tracks would make the cut?
Kansai Yamamoto’s asymmetric bodysuit, crafted for Bowie in 1973, became iconic in the Ziggy/Aladdin era. Inspired by Kabuki theatre and the yin–yang of opposites, it captured duality: masculine/feminine, human/alien, chaos/control. ⚡ #DavidBowie
October 6, 2025 at 10:03 PM
Kansai Yamamoto’s asymmetric bodysuit, crafted for Bowie in 1973, became iconic in the Ziggy/Aladdin era. Inspired by Kabuki theatre and the yin–yang of opposites, it captured duality: masculine/feminine, human/alien, chaos/control. ⚡ #DavidBowie
🎉 Happy Birthday to the brilliant Tim Palmer — producer of the two Tin Machine albums that re-energised Bowie’s career! 🎸
Tim also joined us at the New York Bowie convention we curated.
We’re sharing photos from his six-page interview in issue 6 of David Bowie Glamour.
#DavidBowie #TimPalmer
Tim also joined us at the New York Bowie convention we curated.
We’re sharing photos from his six-page interview in issue 6 of David Bowie Glamour.
#DavidBowie #TimPalmer
October 4, 2025 at 9:08 AM
🎉 Happy Birthday to the brilliant Tim Palmer — producer of the two Tin Machine albums that re-energised Bowie’s career! 🎸
Tim also joined us at the New York Bowie convention we curated.
We’re sharing photos from his six-page interview in issue 6 of David Bowie Glamour.
#DavidBowie #TimPalmer
Tim also joined us at the New York Bowie convention we curated.
We’re sharing photos from his six-page interview in issue 6 of David Bowie Glamour.
#DavidBowie #TimPalmer
Out now! Text in French. Amazing photos! Recommended.
David #Bowie Hors Cadre, is now on sale worldwide.
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www.di-arezzo.co.uk/music/500224...
150 exclusive pictures and stories by award winning #Photographer Philippe #Auliac
Deluxe hard cover 33,93£
Introduction by Carlos #Alomar
@davidbowiereal.bsky.social
@harpercollins.bsky.social
amzn.eu/d/dcMMDVG
www.di-arezzo.co.uk/music/500224...
150 exclusive pictures and stories by award winning #Photographer Philippe #Auliac
Deluxe hard cover 33,93£
Introduction by Carlos #Alomar
@davidbowiereal.bsky.social
@harpercollins.bsky.social
October 4, 2025 at 7:05 AM
Out now! Text in French. Amazing photos! Recommended.
Wishing a happy birthday to Louise Lecavalier.
October 3, 2025 at 8:31 AM
Wishing a happy birthday to Louise Lecavalier.
At the David Bowie Centre I came across something truly remarkable: an original drawing by Bowie of his final character.
Is the character called the Blind Prophet or Button Eyes?
Bowie himself settled the question once and for all.
Check out the picture. 👀
#DavidBowie #Blackstar
Is the character called the Blind Prophet or Button Eyes?
Bowie himself settled the question once and for all.
Check out the picture. 👀
#DavidBowie #Blackstar
October 2, 2025 at 11:41 AM
At the David Bowie Centre I came across something truly remarkable: an original drawing by Bowie of his final character.
Is the character called the Blind Prophet or Button Eyes?
Bowie himself settled the question once and for all.
Check out the picture. 👀
#DavidBowie #Blackstar
Is the character called the Blind Prophet or Button Eyes?
Bowie himself settled the question once and for all.
Check out the picture. 👀
#DavidBowie #Blackstar
Happy birthday to Earl Slick. A great supporter of the fanzine. Here's the title page of the major interview he kindly did for issue seven - and a photo of him holding issue 6! Thanks, Slicky!
October 1, 2025 at 8:52 PM
Happy birthday to Earl Slick. A great supporter of the fanzine. Here's the title page of the major interview he kindly did for issue seven - and a photo of him holding issue 6! Thanks, Slicky!
His greatest live album IMHO. Released today in 1978.
September 29, 2025 at 10:07 PM
His greatest live album IMHO. Released today in 1978.
On this day in Bowie history (29 Sept 1990):
Bowie closed his Sound+Vision Tour at River Plate Stadium, Buenos Aires, promising to retire his greatest hits. He ended with Rock ’n’ Roll Suicide; a fitting farewell before a new ’90s era.
(Here’s my ticket from earlier in the tour)
Bowie closed his Sound+Vision Tour at River Plate Stadium, Buenos Aires, promising to retire his greatest hits. He ended with Rock ’n’ Roll Suicide; a fitting farewell before a new ’90s era.
(Here’s my ticket from earlier in the tour)
September 29, 2025 at 8:03 PM
On this day in Bowie history (29 Sept 1990):
Bowie closed his Sound+Vision Tour at River Plate Stadium, Buenos Aires, promising to retire his greatest hits. He ended with Rock ’n’ Roll Suicide; a fitting farewell before a new ’90s era.
(Here’s my ticket from earlier in the tour)
Bowie closed his Sound+Vision Tour at River Plate Stadium, Buenos Aires, promising to retire his greatest hits. He ended with Rock ’n’ Roll Suicide; a fitting farewell before a new ’90s era.
(Here’s my ticket from earlier in the tour)
“By the time I got to New York…”
On Sept 28, 1972, Bowie made his NYC debut at Carnegie Hall. Ziggy, the Spiders, and a star-studded crowd—Warhol, Capote, Radziwill, Rundgren—watched Bowie deliver a set of Ziggy and Hunky Dory classics. A night that marked the start of his U.S. breakthrough.
On Sept 28, 1972, Bowie made his NYC debut at Carnegie Hall. Ziggy, the Spiders, and a star-studded crowd—Warhol, Capote, Radziwill, Rundgren—watched Bowie deliver a set of Ziggy and Hunky Dory classics. A night that marked the start of his U.S. breakthrough.
September 28, 2025 at 7:45 AM
“By the time I got to New York…”
On Sept 28, 1972, Bowie made his NYC debut at Carnegie Hall. Ziggy, the Spiders, and a star-studded crowd—Warhol, Capote, Radziwill, Rundgren—watched Bowie deliver a set of Ziggy and Hunky Dory classics. A night that marked the start of his U.S. breakthrough.
On Sept 28, 1972, Bowie made his NYC debut at Carnegie Hall. Ziggy, the Spiders, and a star-studded crowd—Warhol, Capote, Radziwill, Rundgren—watched Bowie deliver a set of Ziggy and Hunky Dory classics. A night that marked the start of his U.S. breakthrough.
Spotted at the new V&A East Storehouse: Brian Eno’s Oblique Strategies cards. Bowie & Eno drew on these during the Berlin years; cryptic prompts that could shift an entire song. A humble deck of cards behind Low and “Heroes”.
September 27, 2025 at 10:04 PM
Spotted at the new V&A East Storehouse: Brian Eno’s Oblique Strategies cards. Bowie & Eno drew on these during the Berlin years; cryptic prompts that could shift an entire song. A humble deck of cards behind Low and “Heroes”.