Seu Jorge to bring orchestral David Bowie tribute to London for first time ever

Seu Jorge will bring his orchestral David Bowie tribute to London for the first time next year.

The Brazilian musician, who has his performed his big-band renditions of Bowie songs across Europe and the US, will visit the Eventim Apollo in Hammersmith on February 8.

Tickets for the show, The Life Aquatic, go on sale at 9am on Friday September 28. They will be available for purchase here.

Jorge will be joined by the boundary-pushing Heritage Orchestra, conducted by Jules Buckley, for the London show.

It won’t be the first time he has performed Bowie classics in London — in 2017, he played an acoustic tribute to the late musician at the Royal Albert Hall, backed by his guitar and nothing else.

This 2019 date will have a special poignancy, though, taking place on the same Hammersmith stage that Bowie appeared as Ziggy Stardust for the final time, in 1973.

Bowie himself was a fan of Jorge's covers, once commenting: "Had Seu Jorge not recorded my songs in Portuguese, I would never have heard this new level of beauty which he has imbued them with."