Rossdale said of the new album and landmark, “I’m really grateful that I get the chance to make music after all of this time. The privilege is not lost on me. I’m still in the octagon, and I think that’s healthy because I’m good at fighting.”

The Grammy nominated outfit have selected tracks from all of their nine studio albums including smash hits “Everything Zen,” “Machinehead” and “Glycerine” from Sixteen Stone. Bush will also be heading out on a North American headlining tour  to celebrate their 31 years as a band, beginning in November.

Forming in London in 1992, Bush became one of the most popular bands of the 90s, both in the UK and globally, with their breakaway hit Sixteen Stone. Spawning five lead singles, two of which, “Glycerine” and “Comedown,” remain the band’s most popular and successful tracks, the album cemented the band as one of the decade’s most successful acts. Sixteen Stone would go on to be certified Platinum and garner almost universal critical acclaim.

Long considered, arguably, a more popular band on the other side of the Atlantic, their follow up to Sixteen Stone, 1996’s Razorblade Suitcase topped the charts in the US and performed very well across European markets, although the album received less critical attention due to what many cited as a negative change sonically to what made their debut so successful.

Due to a decline in album sales and dwindling support from their label, Bush decided to call it quits in 2002 after ten years making music with members moving on to solo or alternate projects. Rossdale found some success with his band Institute and even, briefly, waded into the waters of acting.

Bush reunited in 2010 and have released five more studio records including 2022’s The Art Of Survival which received mostly positive reviews, with many believing it to be the best of their reunited years.

Corgan and Reznor are the latest acts set to play the Bowie birthday-show; among the long line-up are big names including actor Gary Oldman as well as musicians such as Gavin Rossdale, Macy Gray, Judith Hill, Perry Farrell and many more. The musicians will each give their own rendition of one or more of the songs off Bowie’s extensive discography and it is expected they will bring unique and genre-spanning covers to the live-show.

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The event will take place near the 5th anniversary of Bowie’s death and will follow the new-release of the album Metrobolist which is set to be released next month. This year, previously unreleased live-show recordings and re-cut songs, such as The Man Who Sold The World, have been given to fans and even last month saw a limited edition of the 1975 album Young Americans. 

Bowie has had great success from posthumous releases including winning multiple Grammys, selling over 5 million records in just the 2 years following his death and being named Rolling Stone’s ‘Greatest Rock Star Ever’. This upcoming live-stream concert will pay tribute to fallen star with collaborations and arrangements of his music spanning all the decades of his career.

Producers of the live-stream event include Kerry Brown, Stacey Sher and Bowie’s long-time producer Tony Visconti, and they are calling it ‘A Bowie Celebration: Just for one day!’. Past band-members and old collaborators are banning together in an alumni fashion to play as one in honour of Bowie.

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This all-star band will include players such as the main band-members from his last touring act and other musicians including Carlos Alomar, Zack Alford, Alan Childs, Kevin Armstrong, Emm Gryner, Omar Hakim, Robin Clark, Clare Hirst, Tim Lefebvre, Erdal Kızılçay, Martha Mooke, Mark Plati, Holly Palmer, Charlie Sexton and Carmine Rojas.

Spanning the end of 2020 and into 2021 a collection of 6 live and unreleased albums from the years 1995 to 1999 will be available in a limited CD and vinyl form. This collection will be called Brilliant Live Adventures and will follow the release of the upcoming album Metrobolist.

Tickets for the Bowie livestream birthday celebration concert are available here and the early-bird pricing is at 20USD (15 GBP). All shows from the ‘Bowie Celebration Tour’ that was set to go off next year have been cancelled due to safety concerns surrounding the Covid-19 pandemic.