David Bowie's Meltdown Festival certainly contains some oblique treats, but this must be the most oblique of all. Anyone for
Harry Hill once impersonated Bowiephile Morrissey on Celebrity Stars In Their Eyes, but apart from that the artistic/creative crossover is tenuous, to say the least - though maybe Hill's scattershot surrealism owes something to the erstwhile Thin White Duke's old habit of creating lurics by scribbling words on scraps of paper and tossing them in the air.
Bowie has yet to comment on his passion for Stouffer the Cat, while Hill's people have suggested that old odd eyes may have caught the high-collared clown when he appeared on David Letterman's TV show. Never mind the motives behind the booking, just settle back and enjoy a gig by British comedy's hyperactive hero.
There is, of course, an illustrious tradition behind rock-comedy crossovers. Ian Dury was once supported by Max Wall and Norman Lovett of Red Dwarf once opened for The Clash. But those fans hoping to see Bowie joining in with the badger parade may be asking a little too much.
