Sydney Festival Is Doing a David Bowie Tribute

Tributes, YouTube clips, interviews, songs, quotes, articles, feelings and memories all started flowing yesterday when the world heard of the unexpected death of the legendary David Bowie. Mourning the 69-year-old friend to Major Tom, the cumulative howl of loss from the on-and-offline community hasn't stopped since. It’s a testament to Bowie’s influence that our fickle collective consciousness is so saturated with grief that we can talk about nothing else.

But it can feel very impotent and hollow to sit alone in Starman sadness, so if you want to do something, go somewhere, be with people, share grief and celebrate life, Sydney Festival have you covered. There’s a David Bowie tribute happening tomorrow night at the Sydney Festival Village in Hyde Park from 6.15pm. Wear the accoutrements of The Thin White Duke, don your best Aladdin Sane facepaint, wear whatever you feel and get down to the DJ lineup that pays tribute to Bowie's life in music.

The event is free and an impromptu part of Sydney Festival running from January 7-26. This will no doubt be the first of many emotional David Bowie tributes and celebratory parties worldwide, make sure you pour one out for Bowie if you're at one.

Vale, Starman, waiting' in the sky.