David Bowie Centre @ the V&A East Storehouse

✨ Post-Trip Reflections: The Bowie Centre, London — A Week Among the Stars✨

Opening September 12th at London’s brand-new David Bowie Centre (V&A East Storehouse), this place is nothing short of sacred ground. And now that I’ve actually been there… I’m still floating somewhere between tears and stardust.

Our little Bowie crew — first united at the 2022 Bowie Convention — reunited once more for an unforgettable October 23–28 trip that was equal parts friendship, emotion, and pure cosmic wonder. We’d been counting down for months, talking about it daily, dreaming of what it would be like to be inside the archives. And somehow, the real thing exceeded every expectation.

To be in the same room with Bowie’s costumes — to hold them in your hands — is surreal beyond measure. When they brought out the Blackstar suit he wore in the video, I could barely breathe. The weight of it, the stitching, the energy still humming through the fabric… it was like touching a fragment of his creative spirit.

And that was just one of several extraordinary moments. We also had private archive appointments, and what we thought might take an hour stretched into nearly three — three hours of paging through handwritten lyrics, studio notes, and personal materials from Station to Station, Lodger, Heathen, and Blackstar. So many unseen scraps of brilliance: doodles, revisions, fragments of ideas that became songs we know by heart. At one point, I found myself holding the actual Blackstar lyric book from the video — that stark black book with its haunting presence. I had tears in my eyes.

It was more than a museum visit — it was communion. To touch, read, and feel these artifacts up close gave me a new appreciation for Bowie’s process, his humor, and his relentless experimentation. The experience felt deeply intimate, like being invited into the workshop of a genius.

Of course, it wasn’t all solemn reverence — we had our share of laughter and joy, too. Dinners with our international Bowie family, drinks at a Bowie-themed bar, and a night of dancing that could’ve been straight out of 1984. Every moment was threaded with music, memory, and that indescribable spark that brings us all together time and again.

And now? I already know I have to go back. There are still more archives to explore, more costumes to see, and more pieces of Bowie’s world to hold in my hands. Because once you’ve had even a glimpse behind the curtain… you just want to dive deeper.

Here we come again, V&A — let all the children boogie. ⚡️