Aladdinsane, The Sound & Vision of Bowie, widely acclaimed as the best Bowie

tribute in the UK will be playing The Factory venue, Worthing on Fri 12th Nov

2021.

They band have played theatres, festivals and venues throughout the UK for the

past 12 years, with Paul Henderson performing as David Bowie, with audiences

commenting how eerily close his voice, moves and mannerisms are to that as

Bowie.

Paul Henderson was born in Sunderland but spent most of his childhood growing

up in Peterborough when he discovered Bowie, which led to buying and playing

everything and watching everything available countless times. Paul started in

music playing in local bands in the late 80’s and then embarking on his own

material during the mid 90’s to 2002.

Being a life long fan of Bowie, Paul got to see him on tour numerous occasions

and very briefly met him in 1997 during his Earthling tour.

Paul first caught national attention when he appeared on Stars In Their Eyes in

1993, the first series hosted by Mathew Kelly, where he performed Space Oddity,

dressed as Bowie’s legendary Ziggy Stardust. From there he performed at

conventions around the country as Bowie.

After 1995 Paul embarked on playing his own material and spent the late 90’s

recording his own songs. Around 2002 a friend asked Paul “why don’t you put a

Bowie tribute together”. Paul replied saying “I would enjoy it too much and

everything else I am planning will end up on the back burner”, and so it did as the

start of Aladdinsane was in the midst.

Aladdinsane was the classic album that David released in 1973, which was the

first album Bowie album Paul got as a child from his parents, hence why he

chose the name for the band.

Paul then embarked on finding the musicians required to cover a vast range of

David Bowie’s single and classic album tracks. The line up of the band changed

during the 2000s and now with Steve Beeston on keyboards, Carl Stones on

guitar, Franco Caprio on bass, Rick Cook on drums and Paul as Bowie with 12

string acoustic, make up the sound of Aladdinsane the band it is today.

Having played at some wonderful theatres and travelled to places like Bahrain,

Qatar and Berlin where Paul played an acoustic set at Hansa studios where

Bowie recorded Heroes, he said it’s like an ongoing rollercoaster.

With so many songs to choose from you can hear many hits like – Space Oddity.

Changes, Ashes to Ashes, Heroes, Lets Dance, Drive In Saturday, Jean Genie,

Life On Mars, Fame, Starman and Diamond Dogs to list but a few, including

some classic album tracks from Bowie’s vast repertoire.

Paul changes outfits during each show which can stem from any of Bowie’s tours

from 1976 to 2003.

The songs are mixed in no chronological order so that the audiences are left

wondering what’s next after each song giving the show a more exciting feel