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“South Bank Horizon”

The nominations for the South Bank Sky Arts Awards 2014 have been announced.

David Bowie, Broadchurch , and Alan Partridge: Alpha Papa are amongst the nominees which is the only awards ceremony to celebrate the UK's achievements across all genres of the arts.

David Bowie’s The Next Day is nominated in the Pop Music category along with AM by Arctic Monkeys and Settle by Disclosure.

As usual, Melyvn Bragg will act as master of ceremonies at the event on Monday 27 January at the Dorchester Hotel in London and the award itself will be designed by the legendary pop artist

“And lo it was midnight”

Today marks the 40th anniversary of the broadcast of David Bowie’s The 1980 Floor Show, which was used as both a promotional tool for Pin Ups and to further break into the American market.

It would be Bowie’s last performance as the Ziggy Stardust persona with The Spiders From Mars, though drummer Woody Woodmansey was no longer a part of the band line up. 

The 1980 Floor Show was a lavish stage production filmed over three days at The Marquee Club in London’s Soho, in front of members of Bowie’s fan club, exclusively for the American NBC TV late night show, The

“Just remember duckies, Everybody gets got”

Launched today (Thursday 7th) is the Louis Vuitton ad featuring David Bowie and Arizona Muse that you've been reading about over the last few months.

The advert was directed by Romain Gavras and shot by David Sims in Venice during the summer. Here’s the official blurb.

Close your eyes and you are there.... The next chapter of Louis Vuitton's L'Invitation au Voyage has arrived: http://smarturl.it/VeniceLV

Join the mysterious guests of Louis Vuitton's masquerade ball with L'Invitation au Voyage - Venice, featuring David Bowie and Arizona Muse.