“We have a nice life”

As you’ve no doubt seen or heard, Tilda Swinton was a speaker (along with Sir Paul Ruddock) at a dinner in celebration of David Bowie is at the V&A on Tuesday evening.

The V&A has now posted her speech online, and rather good it is too.

“He’s in the best-selling show”

On Sunday the Observer newspaper in the UK reported the excitement surrounding the launch of the David Bowie is Exhibition at the V&A this coming Saturday thusly: “Bowie mania as V&A exhibition smashes records”.

The item went on to declare that the exhibition is breaking all previous records at the museum adding that “More than 42,000 advance tickets for the in-depth retrospective have been sold, more than double the advance sales of previous exhibitions.”

All this in the week that The Next Day became the nation’s favourite long player when it hit the #1

The Official Charts Company in the UK has just announced that David Bowie‘s The Next Day has entered the album chart straight in at Number One.  

The Next Day is Bowie’s first number 1 album since 1993’s Black Tie White Noise and it’s also the fastest selling album of 2013 so far.

Bowie outsells the second highest new entry of the week, Bon Jovi’s What About Now, by more than two copies to one.

Congratulations to David Bowie for his ninth number 1 album in the UK and thanks once more to all of you that bought The Next Day and put David Bowie back where he belongs.

“Fashion! Turn to the left, Fashion! Turn to the right”

There‘s a great piece in tomorrow‘s (Saturday) Independent Magazine written by Iain R Webb, who is, as you‘re no doubt aware, an award winning writer and Professor of Fashion at Royal College of Art and Central Saint Martins.

Iain talks about Bowie’s massive influence on his outlook as a 14-year-old boy living in a West Country village, and, moreover, on the world of fashion design which continues to this day. Here’s the introduction from tomorrow’s eight-page feature:

I remember my first sighting of David Bowie singing “Starman” on