Last night’s BUG Special on David Bowie, hosted by Adam Buxton, was
great fun. I’ve been a fan of Buxton since his mid-nineties show with Joe
Cornish on Channel 4. In fact, when you add up all of his output – The Adam
& Joe Show, Adam & Joe Go Tokyo, the Xfm and 6Music radio shows, Bug,
The Adam Buxton Podcast – it turns out that I’ve consistently been watching and
listening to Adam Buxton for around twenty years (!), which is slightly creepy.
Or is it? That’s the thing these days – with social media and whatnot the fine
line between fandom and stalker is increasingly blurred…
Anyway, this was the first time I’d been able to see Adam Buxton live.
Knowing both that Buxton was a huge Bowie fan and had recently lost his father,
I was perhaps a little concerned that the evening would be quite melancholic,
but this was quickly dispelled when, straight away, Buxton joked that he wasn’t
enjoying Bowie’s latest “phase”. What followed was two and a half hours of
Bowie videos, rare interviews and Buxton’s own brand of comedy genius (you know
the sort of stuff: Lego animations of David and Angie Bowie trying to decide
what his next alter-ego should be). There was even a “Stephen!” from one of the
two ladies sat next to me (and I make no apologies if you don’t get that
in-joke).
Sadly, my wife and I had to leave early due to the fact that Metrolink
are incapable of understanding that people might want to travel by tram on a
Sunday evening any later than 10.54pm, so we missed whatever happened after
10.35pm, but hopefully it wasn’t much.
For anyone attending the second show tonight – enjoy!
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