Singer Ian Shaw performs a solo show fusing the words and music of Joni Mitchell and David Bowie, drawing on stories from the early seventies.
Ian Shaw brings When Bowie Met Joni to Ironworks Studios on Thursday 27 August, a solo show that puts Joni Mitchell and David Bowie on the same stage. It's not a tribute in the usual sense; Shaw fuses their words and music into a single set, drawing on stories from the early seventies and weaving in themes of love, hope and the darker truths of more recent times.
Shaw has a personal connection to both artists. He previously recorded Drawn To All Things, a Joni Mitchell album on Linn Records that earned critical praise, so he's not coming at this as a stranger to her songbook. The show sits somewhere between a concert and a storyteller's evening, with the songs running alongside the stories they're built from.
He's a singer who's spent a fair bit of time in both the music and the comedy worlds. The Telegraph called him a 'vocal chameleon', and Jazz Times in the US described him as a 'virtuoso' who balances stand-up and concert gigs. That crossover comes through here: the set isn't just a sequence of songs, but a performance that lets the stories breathe as much as the music does.
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It runs from 20:00 to 22:00 at Ironworks Studios, 30 Cheapside, BN1 4GD, and tickets are £22.34.
