It's called the "Hour of Power", which does make us think of preachers on television.
But alas, this hour carries a different kind of power - the power of music.
Mind you, David Bowie did once say that "Searching for music is like searching for God". And he did sing "there's a starman in the sky".
Ziggy Stardust himself is the star of the Hour of Power in question. It's all part of Newcastle Art Gallery's exhibition, WE CAN BE HEROES: a backstage pass.
To complement the visual nature of the exhibition, the gallery will run an Hour of Power each Friday, Saturday and Sunday from 4pm to 5pm until the exhibition ends on February 14. This involves playing a curated Spotify playlist throughout the exhibition space.
The first song on the playlist is, of course, Bowie's iconic song Heroes, which has been described as "pop's definitive statement of the potential triumph of the human spirit over adversity".
Heroes the song - along with the album of the same name - was recorded in 1977. That same year Bowie collaborated with Iggy Pop to record his Lust for Life album. No surprise then that the fourth song on the gallery's Spotify list is Lust for Life.
What better place than an art gallery to dance around, singing "I got a lust for life" over and over, imitating Iggy like a real wild child. Perhaps you'd prefer Bowie's Starman, which is number 22 on the gallery's list [Ground Control to Major Tom...] Or Silverchair's Tomorrow at number 23 [It's 12 o'clock and it's a wonderful day...]
Lucky Silverchair
Speaking of Silverchair, we published an old photo on Wednesday of band members Daniel Johns and Ben Gillies in an under-12 cricket team.
As we researched that story, we came across a Rolling Stone article from 1996.
Asked about their rise to fame, Gillies told the magazine: "We were lucky bastards".
"If we hadn't won that contest, we probably would have been a garage band for the rest of our lives. I don't know how we would have gotten a record deal." [The contest, called Pick Me, was run by an SBS TV show called Nomad]
That comment about luck drew our attention because we'd written on Tuesday about Daniel Kahneman, who won the Nobel Prize for economics in 2002. His favourite equations are: Success = talent + luck. And great success = a little more talent + a lot of luck. His research shows luck plays a much bigger role in life than we think. Silverchair's success puts more proof in the pudding. Hang on, that doesn't sound right. The proof of the pudding is in the eating, right? All we can be sure of is that Christmas is coming and, when it arrives, we will eat some pudding.
'Hostile Architecture'
The Station at Newcastle posted a picture on Facebook, showing new seating in the area's piazza had been damaged.
"We discovered that some skateboarders have filled gaps in the piazza's brand new seating to make a better grinding surface. It's being repaired, but we hate seeing spaces meant for everyone ruined by a select few!" the post said.
Dan Bowles had a different take. His response: "Skateboarders prevent other crime through their presence and are responsible for very little criminality themselves - they just want to skate. Rather than engaging in hostile architecture, why didn't you install steel edging so that skateboarders had a better, more resilient space for their activity to occur when people aren't using the Station space for markets etc?"
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