Ed Blaney’s Bowie Odyssey Puts the Music First at The Cluny

Ed Blaney Bowie Odyssey Newcastle comes to The Cluny on Friday 18 September 2026, opening a new chapter for a performer already familiar to Bowie audiences. Doors open at 7.30pm for the 18+ show, with the project returning after a break from the long-running Ultimate Bowie format.

The important distinction is what Blaney is choosing not to do this time. Rather than rebuilding David Bowie through costumes, wigs and visual imitation, the new show is centred on the songs and the musicians playing them. That change gives the project a clearer musical purpose than a straightforward lookalike tribute.

Ed Blaney Bowie Odyssey Newcastle begins a new chapter

Ed Blaney’s Bowie Odyssey arrives after a two-year hiatus following the end of Ultimate Bowie, with the new project deliberately dropping the costumes and wigs to put Bowie’s music at the centre. That shift should allow the set to move across different periods of the catalogue without having to recreate every visual era alongside it.

Blaney is bringing a full band to The Cluny, so the show can lean into the scale of the songs rather than reducing them to an acoustic retrospective. Bowie’s catalogue moved repeatedly between glam rock, soul, art rock, electronics and stadium-sized pop, and a music-first approach gives the group room to follow those changes rather than forcing everything into one tribute template.

The Cluny is also a useful room for this version of the show. It is large enough for the band to give the bigger songs some weight, but still close enough for quieter arrangements and less obvious catalogue choices to land without disappearing inside a theatre-sized production.

For anyone who saw Ultimate Bowie previously, the interest is in hearing what changes when the visual impersonation is deliberately removed. For listeners coming fresh to the project, it is a chance to hear a broad Bowie set performed by musicians who have already spent years working with the material but are now presenting it differently.

Ed Blaney’s Bowie Odyssey plays The Cluny on Friday 18 September 2026. Doors open at 7.30pm and the event is 18+.

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