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Peter Ormerod @bowiegod.bsky.social · 5h

Ilkley - the moor and the town - looking mighty fine this morning. Huge thanks to @ilkleylitfest.bsky.social for inviting me to speak, looking after me so well and putting on a great event, and thanks to all who attended or watched online - the turnout was fantastic!

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Peter Ormerod @bowiegod.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Only just seen this: Bowie in 1993 'arguing that violence is justified in extreme circumstances' against racism/fascism and saying he'd 'retaliate physically with every last breath of my body' if his loved ones were targeted (pic from Bowie Fascination FB group)

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Peter Ormerod @bowiegod.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Fascinated by this moment in typography: the revolution of 1958 when Cambridge University Society of Arts went from serif to sans, and in a big way. Of all the things I've found while clearing my mum's old house, this is (perhaps weirdly) one of my favourites

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Peter Ormerod @bowiegod.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

Lovely to see my book in the Guardian's list of 70 Brilliant Books for the Summer! Thanks to those who compiled the list and those of you who've bought the book (and to @vendicepartners.bsky.social for letting me know about this) www.theguardian.com/books/ng-int...

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Peter Ormerod @bowiegod.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

Wondrous stuff from Branagh and co in The Tempest at the RSC www.warwickshireworld.com/news/the-tem...

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Peter Ormerod @bowiegod.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

Obviously the conversations around Bowie were astonishing - McCaslin was to Blackstar what Ronson was to Ziggy - but McCaslin's own work is fantastic too and deserves to be heard far and wide. Great to meet him and get my copy of his latest album signed. And he's v nice!

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Peter Ormerod @bowiegod.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

Most pleased to be appearing at this year's Also Festival! It takes place in July in a lovely corner of Warwickshire, and is packed with fascinating talks and great food and music and whatnot and is, well, Quite a Thing. I'm much happier about all this than the photo suggests

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Peter Ormerod @bowiegod.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

Coming up soon! The fine band Hunky Davy will be playing too. @BurndtOutWard and Alex Sharpe are excellent and I'm very happy to be involved. Tickets selling fast so don't miss out facebook.com/events/s/bow...

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Peter Ormerod @bowiegod.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

Gatiss + Placebo + Brecht + RSC worked very well I thought www.warwickshireworld.com/whats-on/art...

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Peter Ormerod @bowiegod.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

Slightly weird thing to include in this list - you might as well include Blackstar www.thetimes.com/culture/art/...

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Peter Ormerod @bowiegod.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

Funny detail in Guardian piece about Prince www.theguardian.com/music/2026/a...

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Peter Ormerod @bowiegod.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

Also, news just in, St Andrews is really nice

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Peter Ormerod @bowiegod.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

Enjoyable Facebook juxtaposition

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Peter Ormerod @bowiegod.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

Tomorrow night! Leamington Spa!

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Peter Ormerod @bowiegod.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

This may well be great but I'm a bit alarmed by this bit of the press release (Harty wasn't 'reduced' to anything - he was just being Harty, and Bowie didn't seem in control of very much at all)

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Peter Ormerod @bowiegod.bsky.social · 08/02/2026

There's something I find incredibly artistic about this somehow. It's like a moving painting. (No sound)

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Peter Ormerod @bowiegod.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

This sticker was used on the tour - it looks like that word is Isolar, spelt in a version of Bowie's own 'Isolaric Alphabeth' - and it doesn't half make me think of a similar design used 40 years later, again with its own alphabet(h)

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Peter Ormerod @bowiegod.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

Quite a nice thing to see in the Amazon charts. Feels a bit weird to be ahead of Paul McCartney and the Dalai Lama but there you go Thanks, everyone

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Peter Ormerod @bowiegod.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

When I was writing my book, all I really wanted was to see in my local Waterstones one day. And now - there it is, between Matthew McConaughey and Paul McCartney! There's been plenty else going in the book's first week out in the world. Here are some particularly lovely things:

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Peter Ormerod @bowiegod.bsky.social · 17/01/2026

She barely sold a painting in her life, but she could be brilliant. Here are a couple of my favourites (the one on the left is Trafalgar Square on the day of the 1981 Royal Wedding)

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Peter Ormerod @bowiegod.bsky.social · 17/01/2026

My mother, a simply extraordinary woman named Priscilla, died on Wednesday night. She had a rare and priceless gift of being able to see beauty in anything, while being ferociously discerning. A fierce wit, an enchanted disposition, wild, magical, deeply and unsentimentally loving

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Peter Ormerod @bowiegod.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

Pleased to see a piece about my book in la Repubblica. I've had a fondness for Italian newspapers since the early 1990s d.repubblica.it/culture/inte...

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Peter Ormerod @bowiegod.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

My book is published today in the USA! Blimey If any American readers are baffled by the book's references to Floella Benjamin, Paul Daniels and Zig & Zag, I apologise - just get in touch and I'll explain everything (And it's on the front page of @barnesandnoble.com's site!)

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Peter Ormerod @bowiegod.bsky.social · 23/12/2025

The Argentine master René Lavand is on this show too. Wondrous stuff

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Peter Ormerod @bowiegod.bsky.social · 23/12/2025

On BBC iPlayer at the moment is one of the most heartbreakingly brilliant things I've ever seen. I first watched it when I was eight and it's fair to say it stayed with me. An astonishing and unique piece of art

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Peter Ormerod @bowiegod.bsky.social · 09/11/2025

Found David Bowie's bookplate among his various notes etc and it's pretty fine

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Peter Ormerod @bowiegod.bsky.social · 25/10/2025

Nice of Anton to promote my book, much appreciated

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Peter Ormerod @bowiegod.bsky.social · 17/10/2025

Little thing I spotted in Bowie's notes. Seems like the Thin White Duke liked the Fat White Family

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Peter Ormerod @bowiegod.bsky.social · 17/10/2025

Today's the last day you can get 25% off by ordering it from Waterstones with the code OCTOBER25 www.waterstones.com/book/david-b...

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Peter Ormerod @bowiegod.bsky.social · 17/10/2025

'Monumental, compelling and profoundly original' Very grateful for this review of my book!

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Peter Ormerod @bowiegod.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

And now I have an actual copy of my actual book! Feels a bit like a dream. @bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social have done a stunning job

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Peter Ormerod @bowiegod.bsky.social · 14/10/2025

Along the way, we meet a cast of extraordinary characters, from Kierkegaard and Nietzsche to the theologian Paul Tillich and Dion Fortune, a woman who fought the Nazis with magic. There are new interviews and some lovely previously unseen snippets from his archive

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Peter Ormerod @bowiegod.bsky.social · 14/10/2025

Bowie called it the strand that ran through his remarkably varied career. Turns out he was right. It's there on all his great albums and in many of his best-known songs: Space Oddity, Starman, Golden Years, "Heroes", Let's Dance, Modern Love, right up to Blackstar and Lazarus

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Peter Ormerod @bowiegod.bsky.social · 14/10/2025

Pretty thrilled to announce that my book will be published on January 15! It's called David Bowie and the Search for Life, Death and God. It’s published by @bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social and tells the story of Bowie's spiritual explorations - and why they were fundamental to his work

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Peter Ormerod @bowiegod.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

We all know the Grammys are a farce but this would have been a hilarious letter to send to Bowie at any point in the past 50 years, let alone after he'd died

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Peter Ormerod @bowiegod.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

I was lucky enough today to be among the first people to use the Study Room at the V&A's David Bowie Centre. It's the place where you can examine paper records - his notes, handwritten lyrics, jotted-down ideas, those kinds of things. If you're interested in that stuff, you'll love it there

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Peter Ormerod @bowiegod.bsky.social · 13/09/2025

Obvious thing I missed on the Lynch/Potter overlap: woods and forests

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Peter Ormerod @bowiegod.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

One of the weird things Bowie does to you: you end up reading stuff you never otherwise would. He's been dead for ages and he's still doing it. I hadn't even heard of this book until last week

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Peter Ormerod @bowiegod.bsky.social · 02/09/2025

He was working on another musical in *2015*

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Peter Ormerod @bowiegod.bsky.social · 02/09/2025

David Bowie's unrealised major projects. The V&A archive is a wonder

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Peter Ormerod @bowiegod.bsky.social · 28/08/2025

It's apparently from 1981, a whole four years before this

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Peter Ormerod @bowiegod.bsky.social · 01/08/2025

If the Online Safety Act protected us from 'humor' like this, I'm pretty sure it'd have universal support

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Peter Ormerod @bowiegod.bsky.social · 29/07/2025

Ha, yes! And good to hear David Buckley given his dues, too - completely agree re Strange Fascination, and this battered old thing was my Little Red Book back in the day. It happens to fall open (and apart) on relevant pages!

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Peter Ormerod @bowiegod.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

Just had the first proofs of my book - and I can tell you that @bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social have done a beautiful job with the typesetting. I can also tell you the chapter titles

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Peter Ormerod @bowiegod.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

At least he's by a wall wearing black in a black-and-white photo with his name in a serif typeface to the right of his head. Reassuring

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Peter Ormerod @bowiegod.bsky.social · 04/07/2025

Bowie in 1976: I'm the embodiment of the icy darkness that lies at the heart of European civilization Also Bowie in 1976: here's a doodle of a swearing bear

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