David Bowie is watching…..

The Choir With No Name South London get a free tour of the David Bowie exhibition ahead of their gig at the Victoria and Albert museum

The Choir With No Name South London took time out from their busy rehearsal for their coming gig at the Victoria and Albert Museum to enjoy a free tour of the ‘David Bowie is…’ exhibition.

Blimey!

Two years in the making,the V&A was given unprecedented access to David Bowie’s own archive of 12,000 objects to curate the first international retrospective of his extraordinary career.

Members and volunteers join Emma and Marie outside the V&A ready for the free tour of the David Bowie exhibition – before the latecomers arrived!

To coincide with the exhibition, the CWNN South London will be performing a free lunchtime gig at the V&A on Saturday, the 27th July at 1.00 – 1.45pm. If you want to come along, don’t worry if you have not got a ticket for the David Bowie exhibition, the gig is open to anyone and is in the Lydia & Manfred Gorvy Lecture Theatre near the main entrance. The rest of the museum is also free, so be sure to stay and explore the wonders of the V&A.

South London choir members explore the auditorium at the V&A ahead of their forthcoming gig.

Choir member Chris was one of the first to arrive at the rendezvous outside the museum in South Kensington. Talking to All together Now after the tour of ‘David Bowie is…’, Chris said: “I could have stayed in longer, it was good wandering about with those special radio headphones on listening to all the different sounds as I moved about. I stayed right to the end and left when they closed.”

Personal Radio headphones are given out as the Choir enter the exhibition

We asked Sam, the South London Choir Director, if the choir would be ready for the gig with so many new members and three new Bowie songs to learn: “We will be as ready as we are when the gig starts,” said Sam. We are doing longer rehearsals to make sure, and the new songs are coming along well.” And what are the new Bowie songs? “I don’t want to spoil the surprise,” says Sam, “but I am sure that the choir will create a musical odyssey in that stunning performance space, including all the members who are absolute beginners and looking forward to their first ever gig on stage. I am sure that the Choir With No Name will lift the roof off in that wonderful auditorium,” he says.”They perform like heroes.”

Oh – OK then… Have a sneak preview of the Choir With No Name rehearsing the first ever run through of a new Bowie song for Saturday’s gig: