![]() Growing up in Scotland, he couldn’t really avoid him as a child. “I’ve listened to Bowie longer than any other singer, we’re talking 40 years now, so I’m very intimate with his catalog,” Connelly admits. ![]() “We had a Gary Numan tribute for one night only back in 1995 at the Double Door,” he jokes, but the idea of a Bowie act was something the two super fans had long kicked around, a seemingly natural fit for Connelly whose soulful croon on various solo albums had often been compared to the glam-rock icon. “It’s just so weird how it all came together,” recalls Connelly of the band’s fortuitous formation, one of the only remaining ways to see Bowie’s music performed live since he gave up touring in the early 2000s.Ĭonnelly and Walker had done the covers thing before. When the group debuted in January 2013 for a benefit show at Metro, it was the very same week Bowie released his first new single in 10 years, on his 66th birthday. Yet timing has always been on the side of the nine-member tribute band, started by local talents Chris Connelly (Ministry, Revolting Cocks) and Matt Walker (Smashing Pumpkins, Morrissey), with veterans from bands like The Chamber Strings and Dovetail Joint.
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