DAVID BOWIE PERFORMANCES 1959 - 1969

1958 august

? Isle Of White (Davie Jones And George Underwood perform at 18th Bromley Scouts Summer camp)


1962 june

songs performed by The Konrads: It's Only Make Believe / A Night At Daddy Gee's / A Picture Of You / Hey Baby / In The Mood / China Doll / The Young Ones / Sweet Little Sixteen / I Never Dreamed.

16 Bromley Technical School - The Konrads
? Bromley, Church Hall (rehearsals) - The Konrads
? Chiselhurst Caves, Kent - The Konrads


nov

17 Cudham, Village Hall - The Konrads


1963 may

? Orpington, Civic - The Konrads
18 Biggin Hill, Hillsiders Youth Club - Davie Jones and George Underwood performed.
25 Bromley Technical High School - The Kon-Rads (two shows)


july

? Bromley, The Bromel Club - Hooker Brothers.
? West Wickham, Ravensbourne College of Art - Hooker Brothers.


1964 april

songs performed by The King-Bees: Liza Jane / Got My Mojo Walking / Hoochie Coochie Man / Louie, Louie Go Home / Can I Get A Witness.

14 Jack of Clubs, London - The King-Bees played at a wedding reception.


may

15 London, The Marquee Club - Davie Jones and The King Bees
17 London, Cafe De Artistes - Davie Jones and The King Bees
21 London, Roundhouse - Davie Jones and The King Bees
? Bricklayer's Arms, London, Old Kent Road


aug

songs performed by The Manish Boys: Liza Jane / I Pity The Fool / Louie, Louie Go Home / Take My Tip / Last Night / I Ain't Got You / Duke Of Earl / Love Is Strange / Mary Ann / Watermelon Man / Hoochie Coochie Man / Don't Try To Stop Me / Little Egypt / Night Train / If You Don't Come Back / Big Boss Man / James Brown Medley / Stupidity / Can't Nobody Love You / Hello Stranger / You Can Sit Down / Believe My Soul / What'd I Say.

19 London, Eel-Pie Island - The Manish Boys
30 Ipswich - TMB


sep

2 London, Eel-Pie Island - TMB
9 Braintree - TMB
? Luton - TMB
? Chislehurst Caves - TMB

19 London, The Scene - TMB
21 Chatham, Invicta Ballroom - TMB
23 Medway County Youth Club - TMB
26 London, Acton Town Hall - TMB
29 Isleworth - TMB


oct

2 Borehamwood - TMB
7 Eel-Pie Island - TMB

9 London, Finchley - TMB
10 Newmarket - TMB
13 London, Putney - TMB
17 Leigh-On Solent, Tower Ballroom - TMB
25 Leigh-On Solent - TMB
31 Bromley - TMB


nov

6 London, Marquee - TMB
7 Bedford - TMB

8 London, Eel-Pie Island - TMB
13 Hastings, Witchdoctor - TMB
13 London, Putney - TMB
14 Maidstone, Agricultural Hall - TMB
20 Bromley, Justin Hall - TMB


dec

1 Wigan (2 shows) - TMB
2 Hull (2 shows) - TMB

3 Edinburgh, ABC (2 shows) - TMB
4 Stockton (2 shows) - TMB
5 Newcastle (2 shows) - TMB
6 Scarborough (2 shows) - TMB
13 Bedford - TMB


1965 feb

1 Maidstone, Star Ballroom - TMB


march

4 Bornemouth - TMB
10 Bromley, Bromel Club - TMB
20 Cromer, Olympia Ballrooms - TMB


april

songs performed by The Lower Third: You've Got A Habit Of Leaving / Baby Loves That Way / The London Boys / Can't Help Thinking About Me / Chim Chim Chree / Mars. The Bringer Of War / Born Of The Night.

? Soho, La Discotéque - (auditions for - Davie Jones and the Lower Third)


may

17 Littlestone, Grand Hotel - DJATLT
28 Bournemouth, Pavilion - DJATLT
30 Bournemouth, Pavilion - DJATLT


june

4 Bournemouth, Pavilion - DJATLT
5 Queensborough, Borough Hall - DJATLT
11 Brighton, Starlight Rooms - DJATLT
12 Manchester, King's Head - DJATLT
13 London, Roebuck Pub - (The Lower Third audition for Ralph Horton)
14 Leeds, White Bear - DJATLT
19 Edgbaston, Happy Towers Ballroom - DJATLT
23 Tadcaster, Fairlight Gardens - DJATLT
26 Bromley, Bromel Club - DJATLT
27 Bournemouth, Pavilion - DJATLT


july

2 Bournemouth, Pavilion - DJATLT
3 Isle Of Wight, Ventnor Winter Gardens - DJATLT
4 Bournemouth, Pavilion - DJATLT
9 Bournemouth, Pavilion - DJATLT
10 Isle Of Wight, Ventnor Winter Gardens - DJATLT
11 Bournemouth, Pavilion - DJATLT
16 Bournemouth, Pavilion - DJATLT
17 Isle Of Wight, Ventnor Winter Gardens - DJATLT
18 Bournemouth, Pavilion - DJATLT
23 Bournemouth, Pavilion - DJATLT
24 Isle Of Wight, Ventnor Winter Gardens - DJATLT
25 Bournemouth, Pavilion - DJATLT
30 Bournemouth, Pavilion - DJATLT

31 Isle Of Wight, Ventnor Winter Gardens - DJATLT


aug

1 Bournemouth, Pavilion - DJATLT
6 Bournemouth, Pavilion - DJATLT
7 Isle Of Wight, Ventnor Winter Gardens - DJATLT
8 Bournemouth, Pavilion - DJATLT
13 Bournemouth, Pavilion - DJATLT
14 Isle Of Wight, Ventnor Winter Gardens - DJATLT
15 Bournemouth, Pavilion - DJATLT
19 London, 100 Club - DJATLT
20 Bournemouth, Pavilion - DJATLT
21 Isle Of Wight, Ventnor Winter Gardens - DJATLT
22 Bournemouth, Pavilion - DJATLT
26 London, 100 Club - DJATLT
27 Bournemouth, Pavilion - DJATLT
28 Isle Of Wight, Ventnor Winter Gardens - DJATLT
29 Bournemouth, Pavilion - DJATLT


sep

4 London, Marquee - DJATLT
7 London, 100 Club - DJATLT
11 London, Marquee - DJATLT
14 London, 100 Club - DJATLT
18 London, Marquee - DJATLT
21 London, 100 Club - DJATLT
25 London, Marquee - DJATLT
28 London, 100 Club - DJATLT


oct

8 London, Marquee - DJATLT


nov

5 London, Marquee - DJATLT
19 London, Marquee - DJATLT


dec

10 London, Marquee - DJATLT
24 London, La Discotéque - DJATLT

31 Paris, Golf-Drouet - DJATLT - France


1966 jan

1 Paris, Montmartre Bus Palladium - DJATLT - France
2 Paris, Golf-Drouet - DJATLT - France
6 London, Victoria Tavern - DJATLT (launch party for 'Can't Help Thinking About Me'.
7 London, Marquee - DJATLT

12 Newmarket, Community Hall - DJATLT
15 Harrow, Alexander Tavern - DJATLT
17 Carlisle, Holly Bush - DJATLT
19 Birmingham, Cedar Club - DJATLT
28 Stevenage, Town Hall - DJATLT

29, Bromley, The Bromel Club - DJATLT


feb

3-5 London, The Marquee Club - DJATLT

songs performed by The Buzz: Can't Help Thinking About Me / Do Anything You Say / Good Morning Girl / I Dig Everything / I'm Not Losing Sleep / You'll Never Walk Alone / Breakout / Take It With Soul / Harlem Shuffle / It's So Easy / It's Getting Back / Join The Gang / The London Boys / One More Heartache / Dance, Dance, Dance / Land Of The Thousand Dances / See-Saw / Come See About Me / (Please) Stay / What Kind Of Fool Am I? / It Doesn't Matter Anymore / Shake / Jenny Takes A Ride / Hold On, I'm Coming.

10 Leicester, Mecca Ballroom - The Buzz
11 London, Marquee - The Buzz
26 Chelsmford, Corn Exchange - The Buzz
28 Eastbourne, Club Continental - The Buzz


march

5 Birmingham, Cranes Record Shop - The Buzz
? Crawley - The Buzz
? Bornemouth - The Buzz
12 Brighton, Club 101 - The Buzz
? Southampton - The Buzz
? Nottingham - The Buzz
? Peterborough - The Buzz
? Newmarket - The Buzz
25 Harrow, Alexander Tavern - The Buzz


april

2 Carlisle, Holly Bush - The Buzz
4 Dundee, College - The Buzz
6 Hawick - The Buzz
10 London, Marquee - The Buzz (first of the "Bowie Showboat" gigs sponsored by Radio London)
17 London, Marquee - The Buzz
24 London, Marquee - The Buzz


may

1 London, Marquee - The Buzz
8 London, Marquee - The Buzz
15 London, Marquee - The Buzz
22 London, Marquee - The Buzz

29, London, Marquee and Blackpool, South Pier - The Buzz supports Crispin St Peters, Dave Anthony's moods and Mark Leeman five


june

5 London, Marquee - The Buzz
12 London, Marquee - The Buzz
13 Ramsgate, Coronation Ballroom - The Buzz
14 Cambridge, Corn Exchange - The Buzz
17 Catford - The Buzz
18 Thetford - The Buzz
19 Brands Hatch - The Buzz
22 Bognor Regis, Shoreline Club - The Buzz
23 Lowestoft - The Buzz
24 Dunstable, California Ballroom - The Buzz John Hutchinson quits after this gig.
27 Great Yarmouth, Britannia Theatre - The Buzz


july

2 Warrington, White Lion Hotel - The Buzz Billy Grays first gig with the buzz
3 London, Marquee - The Buzz

15 Loughton, Youth Centre - The Buzz


aug

12 Leicester, Latin Quarter - The Buzz
13 Boston, The Boston Gliderdrome - The Buzz
21 London, Marquee - The Buzz The first of six shows for Radio London to be aired for 6 consecutive Sundays.
26 Ramsgate, Coronation Ballroom - The Buzz

27 Greenford, Starlite Ballroom - The Buzz
28 London, Marquee - The Buzz The first of the famous Bowie showboat gig's , the band will appear at the Marquee every sunday for the next eleven weeks. The set also includes several of David's own songs, the PYE single The London boys and other songs that later will appear on the first album.


sep

4 London, Marquee - The Buzz
11 London, Marquee - The Buzz
18 London, Marquee - The Buzz
23 London, Marquee - The Buzz
25 London, Marquee - The Buzz

Starts work recording new songs for Deram


oct

2 London, Marquee - The Buzz
9 London, Marquee - The Buzz
16 London, Marquee - The Buzz
23 London, Marquee - The Buzz
29 Bognor Regis, Shoreline Club - The Buzz
30 London, Marquee - The Buzz


nov

6 London, Marquee - The Buzz
13 London, Marquee - The David Bowie showboat final engagement.
19 Cromer, Olympia Ballrooms - Billy Gray plays his last gig with The Buzz

26 Gosport, Community Centre - The Buzz make their debut as a quartet
27 King's Lynn, Maid's Head - The Buzz


dec

2 Shrewsbury, Seven Club - The Buzz break up following this gig, although they continue to back David on record.


1967 jan

8 David celebrates his twentieth birthday.


feb

25 Recording finished on David's first LP


march

songs performed by The Riot Squad: Waiting For The Man / Dirty Old Man / It Can't Happen Here / Silly Boy Blue / Little Toy Soldier / Silver Treetop School For Boys.

13 Tottenham, The Swan (rehearsals with the Riot Squad)


april

13 London, The Tiles Club - David Bowie and The Riot Squad
14 London, The Marquee - Dek, Derek, John and David


nov

songs performed as a solo act 67-68: Love You Till Tuesday / When The Circus Left Town / The Laughing Gnome / When I'm Five / When I'm Sixty-Four / Yellow Submarine / All You Need Is Love / When I Live My Dream / Even A Fool Learns To Love.

19 London, Dorchester Hotel (solo date)


dec

songs performed by Turquoise/Feathers: When I'm Five / Lady Midnight / One Hundred Years From Today / Amsterdam / Next / Ching-a-Ling / Life Is A Circus / Space Oddity / Sell Me A Coat.

28 Oxford, Playhouse - David makes his debut in Lindsay Kemp's Pierrot In Turquoise.


1968 jan

3-5 Whitehaven, Rose Hill Theatre - Pierrot In Turquoise has a short run here.


march

5-16 London, Notting Hill Gate, The Mercury Theatre - Pierrot In Turquoise.
25 London, Intimate Theatre (rehearsal)
26-30
London, Palmers Green, Intimate Theatre - Pierrot In Turquoise.


may

19 Covent Garden, Middle Earth Club (solo mime date)


june

3 London, Royal Festival Hall - David supports Tyrannosaurus Rex (solo mime date)


aug

1 London, Marquee - (solo date)
? London, Astor Club - (audition for cabaret act)


sep

14 London, Round House - Pierrot In Turquoise.
15 London, Middle Earth Club - Turquoise, billed with The Flame.
16 London, Wigmore Hall - Turquoise, billed with The Strawbs


nov

17 London, Hampstead Country Club - Feathers


dec

? Birmingham, Arts Lab - Feathers (cancelled)
6 London, Drury Lane Arts Lab - Feathers

7 Brighton, Sussex University - Feathers
12 Birmingham, Arts Lab - Feathers (cancelled)
24 Falmouth, Magician's Workshop (solo date)
26 Falmouth, Magician's Workshop (solo date)


1969 jan

songs performed solo 69-70: When I Live My Dream / Space Oddity / Let Me Sleep Beside You / Amsterdam / God Knows I'm Good / Buzz The Fuzz / Karma Man / London Bye Ta Ta / An Occasional Dream / Janine / Wild Eyed Boy From Freecloud / Unwashed And Somewhat Slightly Dazed / Fill Your Heart / The Prettiest Star / Cygnet Committee / Threepenny Pierrot / Columbine / The Mirror / Don't Think Twice, It's Allright / She Belongs To Me.

David is awarded the Ivor Novello award from Songwriters' Guild of Great Britain for the most original song of the year 'Space Oddity'. The show was cabled out from The Talk of the Town to the US and also to Australia. He was mobbed on arrival that night.

David, Mick Ronson and Tony Visconti played at David Cousins' Arts Lab, Southhall in the 'White Lion' pub.

4 London, Roundhouse - Feathers, supports the Who and the Scaffold.


feb

11 Brighton, Sussex University - Feathers. David, accompanied on several songs by John Hutchinson.
15 Birmingham, Town Hall - David, whose set is predominately mime, starts a short tour supporting Tyrannosaurus Rex.
22 Manchester, Free Trade Hall - David plays support to T.Rex. The first show of a short concert tour.
23 Bristol, Colston Hall - They also play in Croydon during February.


march

1 Liverpool, Philharmonic Hall - Supported the T.Rex tour.
8 Brighton, Dome - Plays support
11 London, University of Surrey - Feathers
14 Guildford, Town Hall - Feathers
16 Lincoln, Assembly Rooms - Feathers


april

29 Ealing, College of Technology


may

Started his 'Arts Lab' with Mary Finnegan on Beckenham Street, Beckenham. A Sunday evening club.

The Beckenham Free Festival at Croydon Road. Played 1 1/2 hours. Over 5000 in attendance.

4 Beckenham, Three Tuns. Fifty people turn up to watch David's first Arts Lab.
6 Hampstead, Three Horseshoes. A lunchtime performance.
11 Beckenham, Three Tuns. David plays to an audience of 90.
18 Beckenham, Three Tuns. David's audience figures rise up to 120 - and never look back!
22 London, Wigmore Hall. David is supported by Arts Lab regular, Tim Hollier.
25 Beckenham, Three Tuns.


june

1 Beckenham, Three Tuns
15 London, Marquee


july

15 Hounslow, White Bear
18 Beckenham, Three Tuns
24 Valetta, Hilton Hotel (Maltese Song Festival)
? USS Saratoga (David gives impromptu performance for ship's crew while in Valetta.
31 Pistoia, Monsummano-Terme (Italian song contest
. David wins an award for the best produced record with 'When I Live My Dream')


aug

3 Beckenham , Three Tuns
16 Beckenham, Recreational Ground (The "Growth" free festival)
22 Wolverhampton, Catacombs club


sep

13 Bromley, Library Gardens


oct

Early October. Pantomime in Wolverhampton.

1 Downham, Folk Club
8 - 26, David supports Humble Pie.
8 Coventry, Coventry Theatre - A 20 minutes acoustic show.
9 Leeds, Town Hall - A 20 minutes acoustic show.
10 Birmingham, Town Hall - A 20 minutes acoustic show.
11 Brighton, Dome - A 20 minutes acoustic show.
13 Bristol, Colston Hall - A 20 minutes acoustic show.
17 Exeter, Tiffanys (not as support)
19 Birmingham, Rebeccas Club (not as support)
21 London, Queen Elisabeth Hall - A 20 min acoustic show.
23 Edinburgh, Usher Hall - A 20 min acoustic show.
24 Sunderland, Empire - A 20 min acoustic show.
25 Manchester, Odeon Theatre - A 20 min acoustic show.
26 Liverpool, Empire Theatre - A 20 min acoustic show.

Late October. Supported Herman's Hermits and The Troggs at Sunderland Empire.


nov

7 Opening date of 9-day tour of Scotland. David appears with Junior's Eyes - Tim Renwick (guitar), Mick Wayne (guitar), Honk (bass) and John Cambridge (drums).
7 Perth, Salution Hotel (First date of Scottish tour)
8 Kilmarnock, Grand Hall
9 Dunfirmlane Cinema Ballroom
10 Glasgow, Electric Garden
11 Stirling, Albert Hall (cancelled)
12 Aberdeen, Music Hall (cancelled)
13 Hamilton, Town Hall (cancelled)
14 Kirkclady, Adam Smith Hall (matinee) Edinburgh, Frisco's (evening)
15 Dundee, Caird Hall
18 Croydon, Arts Lab
19 Brighton, Dome
20 London, Royal Festival Hall, Purcell Room. 'An Evening with David Bowie' in The Purcell Room in the Royal Festival Hall. Promotion for Philips 7912 (David Bowie 1969) album. Openers - Junior's Eyes.
21 Devizes, Poperama
22 Gravesend, General Gordon (2 shows)
23 Gillingham, Aurora Hotel (2 shows)
30 London, Palladium - Presented to Princess Margaret at the 'The Save Rave 69' charity concert, alongside Dusty Springfield, Marmalade, The Mojos, Tiny Tim and The Settlers. David performs 'Space Oddity'.