Festival review: Dublin Bowie Festival, Sugar Club, Dublin

David Bowie did plenty that was beneath him, and, at the first event of the second Dublin Bowie Festival, that’s where we started, suffering through Bowie’s twee ’60s ditties and their worse videos. One wondered if, as the festival continuaed, someone would be found arguing that Outside deserved reconsideration.

At last, Enda Walsh took the Sugar Club stage, along with his interlocutor for the evening, Tony Clayton-Lea. Walsh, a self-confessed Smiths fanatic, came rather late to Bowie, and knew him personally and professionally as he was discovering a renewed focus, when a masterful, successful late period, that began with The Next Day, in 2013, was coming to a climax.