James Briggs

From Ibiza to the Norfolk Broads is published today! Thank you to everyone who helped make this happen and the biggest thank you of all to David Robert Jones - aka David Bowie. You made some mighty fine records and you made my childhood dream come true.

From Ibiza to the Norfolk Broads is published today! Thank you to everyone who helped make this happen and the biggest thank you of all to David Robert Jones - aka David Bowie. You made some mighty fine records and you made my childhood dream come true.

Thursday 16th October! Chatting Bowie and bikes with award-winning travel writer Daniel Stables at the iconic Battersea Power Station (and how we both ended up namechecking Mr Blobby in our books..). Do join!

Tickets: www.batterseabookshop.com/event-from-i...

Will give it a whirl. Nice one

Delighted to be sharing the pages of this week's @cyclingweekly.com with the disgustingly better looking Geraint Thomas as I write about what I learnt cycling
@davidbowiereal.bsky.social's lyric 'From Ibiza to the Norfolk Broads.

Thanks to @dbfreelance.co.uk

Had fun writing it! Cheers David. Hope the blasted sniffles are drying out.

Had fun editing this: @jamesbriggs11.bsky.social making the case for cycling a song lyric, citing his 'midlife-crisis-fuelled' ride from Ibiza to the Norfolk Broads... via Moscow, naturally

In the current issue of @cyclingweekly.com

No worries, thanks for getting back to me!

On Wednesday, a great friend, Lee, wrote to Lauren Laverne to tell her about the Bowie tome. Couldn't have been more surprised and overjoyed when she read it out on 6music. Love you mate. So glad you came along for the ride. And thanks to Lauren Laverne for her dulcet delivery. Ou est le Bowie!

Morning Ned, don't suppose you saw the email I dropped you about the above?

An eloquent, insightful and heartfelt reflection on 13 years as the Observe book critic. And the mostly lovely of ways to find out your book won't be reviewed in the Observer.

Bowie holds a narrow lead, but who will be Christmas number one? Bananarama and Brother Beyond waiting in the wings to mount a serious challenge.

Straight out of the blocks. Great news for all involved!

Thank you ever so much to the lovely @markradcliffe.bsky.social for offering some kind words about my Bowie escapade.

Thanks to Deskbound Traveller for a lovely write-up on my David Bowie book in his latest dispatches from the desk.

deskboundtraveller.com/following-bo...

Not nearly enough bike reviews include useful summaries like: "sturdy enough to withstand the weight of my blossoming moobs" 😂 @jamesbriggs11.bsky.social

A criteria all steel frame bikes should be measured against.

YouTube video by Nacho Video David Bowie | Live on Musikladen Extra | Complete Show | Bremen | 29 May 1978 | 2025 Restoration

New Nacho: the complete & wonderfully restored Musikladen performance, a highlight of the 1978 tour: youtu.be/L9EVdLeBkSI?...

Devastating for him (and us). Could really do with another experienced string puller.

Thanks for everything, Sonny. We love you.

New ink. COYS

Yes, Lionesses! 🦁🦁🦁

Come for the interesting article, stay for the 'box-titted intergalactic Goebbel' insult.

Does anyone know where to find a @needlemythology.bsky.social Whipping Boy Heartworms record (that isn't on discogs or eBay)?

It really is. Where did you get your signed copy?!

YouTube video by Blondie - Topic Bermuda Triangle Blues (Remastered)

Happy 80th Debbie Harry

www.youtube.com/watch?v=CLgD...

Thrilled and terrified to say my journey following a David Bowie song lyric ‘From Ibiza to the Norfolk Broads’ will be published by Icon Books this October.

With Life on Mars? released as a single 52 years ago today, it's a lovely clammy day for a cover reveal.

#DavidBowie #LifeOnMars

Sorry about that, Ned. Station to Station's 'from Kether to Malkhuth' still available...

Thank you to @juderogers.bsky.social @nivenj1.bsky.social @nedboulting.bsky.social and others to come for their time and kind words

Thrilled and terrified to say my journey following a David Bowie song lyric ‘From Ibiza to the Norfolk Broads’ will be published by Icon Books this October.

With Life on Mars? released as a single 52 years ago today, it's a lovely clammy day for a cover reveal.

#DavidBowie #LifeOnMars