The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust
David Bowie’s defiant fifth album is reimagined in incandescent fashion by David McAlmont, Brian Molko, Camille O’Sullivan, Peaches and Nadine Shah.
Fiona Brice arranges and orchestrates Bowie’s The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars with a stellar line-up of guest vocalists.
Released in 1972, The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars is Bowie’s seminal glam rock concept album. It follows Ziggy Stardust, an androgynous, bisexual, extraterrestrial rock star sent to Earth as a messiah before an impending apocalypse.
The show features some of the album’s greatest songs, performed in spectacular fashion, by a line-up including: remarkable art-pop vocalist, David McAlmont; the lead singer and guitarist of Placebo, Brian Molko; singer and master of musical reinterpretation, Camille O’Sullivan; the fearless musician, producer, director and performance artist, Peaches; and Mercury Prize-nominated songwriter and musician, Nadine Shah.
Joining the line-up of guest vocalists are singer-songwriter and experimental electronic musician Patrick Wolf, and composer, live performer and alt-soul singer-songwriter Tawiah. Sauti choir are backing vocalists for the event.
Fiona Brice is a British solo artist, classically trained composer, arranger and multi-instrumentalist (violin, viola, piano and voice).
Beth Greenacre is the visual director of this event. Greenacre is a curator, advisor and consultant with over 20 years of experience collecting artworks for private and corporate collectors, commercial and non-for-profit organisations. Greenacre worked with David Bowie as curator of his art collection for more than 16 years.
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Dates & times
11 Jul 2026, 7.30pm
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1 hour and 45 minutes (approx)
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