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11/6/98 NEWS: "EVERYBODY LOVES SUNSHINE" At the British section of the recent Tokyo Film Festival which took place 10/24, 10/31 and 11/8 "Everybody Loves Sunshine" starring Goldie was shown for the first time. Andrew Goth the film's director, writer and lead actor was mobbed by tiny girls! David had no less than 3 films in this festival: in addition to "Everybody Loves Sunshine", Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence and The man Who Fell to Earth. The rest of the films shown were relatively new releases like Wings of the Dove, Trainspotting etc

Fashion 98

Check out the version of 'Fashion' that was done by Glamma Kid called 'Fashion '98'. England's Music Week magazine gave it 5 stars in their review of it stating "Using David Bowie's 1980 'Fashion' rhythm, this Ronnie Wilson/Dennis Charles production could better the original track's top five placing after almost 18 years..." Out November 9th on WEA.

David Bowie To Play On Tribute Cd??

Friends of the late INXS singer Michael Hutchence have reportedly been invited to participate on a tribute CD in remembrance of the late singer. Rumored participants include David Bowie, Elton John, Simon LeBon and Bono. So the Question is, will David Bowie be playing on the tribute CD? When asked for comment, Bowie had this to say:

"I have never been approached to do a tribute style concert for Michael H. This must have started as a press rumor, I suppose. As I never knew him it seems unlikely that I would be asked"--db

Bowie Mixing It With The Masters

An art exhibition at The Gallery New York in Brugg, Switzerland has a painting, the 10 ft "The Death of Mama Wati" by David Bowie and collaborator, South African art-star, Beezy Bailey, shoulder to shoulder with Masters Joseph Beuys, Keith Haring and Martin Disler. The Bowie/Bailey piece has already featured in several news stories in the Swiss Press and seems to be drawing the most comment of any of the exhibits. On show though December 15th. Click the image above to view a larger version of the painting.

New Bowieart Splash Screen

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In a recent poll taken from "Q" Magazine - one of the leading music monthly's in the UK, users responded to the question:"Who invented Glam Rock?"
Glitter : 5%
Ferry : 2%
Bolan : 38%
Bowie : 55%

In a related poll, Q voters also answer the question:"Who has had the most influence on rock?"
Lydon : 22%
Lennon : 10%
Presley : 20%
Bowie : 48%

What do you think?

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From Wednesday, October 18th to January 9th, 1999, RUPERT GOLDSWORTHY GALLERY will feature a group of exhibitions on the theme of David Bowie, organized by Rupert Goldsworthy and Lithgow Osborne.

David Bowie is for many a figure whose stature as a musical innovator and stylist is enormous. Bowie has had a huge influence on succeeding generations of artists. This exhibition focuses specifically on Bowie's influences on visual artists, and specifically on the years between 1971 and 1977 where he redefined the possibilities of what a pop musician could encompass, with cultural and musical piracy, flamboyant visual gender play and life that moved from South London to New York, Los Angeles, exile in Berlin and "retirement" to Switzerland. This exhibition was conceived with the idea of bringing together work made about David Bowie, ranging from fan homages to "work inspired by" to work that focuses specifically on Bowies different "looks" and themes over his career. The exhibition concentrates on the inspirations and reference artists of this era draw from Bowie's work.

Included in the exhibition are works by Ned Ambler, Alex Bag, Tad Beck, Nayland Blake, Christopher Brooks, Mathew Cusick, Steve Evens, Erik Hansen, Robert Hawkins, Frank Holiday, Breezy Jones, Jane Kaplowitz, Elizabeth Kley, Christian Marclay, David Muller, Tony Oursler, Rob Pruitt, Guy Richards-Smit, Helen Sadler, Mary Weatherford and others.

From David Bowie Messageboards

We read somewhere that David Bowie recorded some tracks around '75 with none other than Her Excellency The High Priestess of Soul Nina Simone

"Never happened, though we did meet and became friends in the mid seventies. I got to sing with her, just for fun, in the early eighties when she came to Switzerland to live for a brief while. She is an extraordinary and devastatingly talented musician and composer."--db

Special Anouncement News: David Bowie To Be Program Director Of Channel 13 On Rolling Stone Radio First International Radio Network

"As DJ for the BowieNet station on Rolling Stone Radio, my first playlist will include favorite songs from the last five decades," said Bowie. "I'm hoping music fans all over the world tune in and join me." -db

Read the Press Release for details.

New Bowieart Splash Screen

Be on the look-out for the new Bowie Art splash page at www.bowieart.com. Designed by David himself, exclusively for Bowieart! The newly designed splash screen will be revealed later this week.

Song Writing Contest

Ready for your collaboration with db? Well then, click here to get started. "What's Really Happening" is happening now! The Roots/Thurston Moore exhibition ended on 1st of November and has been an overwhelming success. David's work d&b has sold to an important UK collector.

David Bowie To Be Program Director Of Channel 13 On Rolling Stone Radio-- First International Radio Network

BOWIE will be making his presence felt in yet another very big way on the Internet via "Rolling Stone Radio," the first international radio network, created by JAMtv/Rolling Stone Network and Real Networks on November 2. "BowieNet radio" can be found on Channel 13 on this new Internet service which features 12 music channels playing everything from classical, to jazz, to country, to alternative and beyond, broadcast 24 hours a day around the world. On Channel 13, BOWIE will create the playlist, acting as program director. "As DJ for the BowieNet radio station on Rolling Stone Radio, my first playlist will include favorite songs from the last five decades," says BOWIE. "I'm hoping music fans all over the world tune in and join me."

Also on November 2, as previously announced, BOWIE is hosting a song writing contest, whereby contestants compete to become co-writer on one of his new songs, titled "What's Really Happening." BOWIE has written the music and chorus for the song and participants are asked to submit three verses. BOWIE will pick the winner (from a list of finalists chosen by the public), and the song "What's Really Happening" will be in rotation on a number of the other Rolling Stone Radio channels.

What's Really Happening With David Bowie

SONGWRITING CONTEST, IN WHICH WINNER CO-WRITES NEW SONG WITH DAVID AND BOWIENET MEMBERS TO CREATE COVER ART, PACKAGING GRAPHICS AND LINER NOTES FOR FIRST VIRTUAL CD

OCTOBER 30, 1998 -- DAVID BOWIE has announced that he is hosting a songwriting contest, whereby contestants compete to become co-writer on one of his new songs, titled "What's Really Happening." BOWIE has written the music and chorus for the song and participants are asked to submit three verses. BOWIE will pick the winner (from a list of finalists chosen by the public), who will not only receive co-writer credit, but a $15,000 publishing contract compliments of international music publisher Bug Music, a trip to New York to be present when the song is recorded and a three-year subscription to Rolling Stone, along with gift certificates from Cdnow (www.cdnow.com) and BarnesandNoble.com (www.barnesandnoble.com). The grand prize winner will also receive a free one-year subscription to BowieNet, the music industry's newest Internet Service Provider. Contest voters are eligible to win daily prizes awarded for their participation. The contest, which begins November 2 and is open to anyone world wide with access to an internet connection, can be found on www.davidbowie.com. Click on button for "cybersong contest," where you will be able to hear the song and submit your verses.

As for the big news for BowieNet subscribers, BOWIE has announced that with the help of BowieNet members, he will create the first online virtual CD to be titled liveandwell.com. Starting now, members of BowieNet will be given three songs recorded live during BOWIE's 1997 "EARTHLING TOUR" and asked to create the cover art and a 48-page insert. Every month, two additional tracks will be posted in order to create two pages per track for the insert. Members are encouraged to post their reviews of particular shows, submit ticket stubs, photos, as well as any anecdotes from their adventures during the tour. To help with the process, BowieNet will make pictures, set lists and other clip-art available. Submissions will also be accepted via post office box for members with oversized materials or those without scanners. Plans for the finished product's future accessibility to the general public are probably in the hands of BowieNet members. BowieNet--which Ziff Davis, publisher of PC magazine, calls "The coolest ISP on the planet"--is located on the world wide web at www.davidbowie.com. Launched September 1, the network had over 5,200,000 hits in its first two weeks. Full ISP service is available for $19.95 per month or fans can stay with their existing ISP and become a VIP member for only $5.95 per month.

STAY TUNED FOR ADDITIONAL BOWIE NEWS TO BE ANNOUNCED NEXT WEEK.

"i Love New York" Exhibition

Here is the invitation to the Museum Ludwig "I Love New York" Exhibition that David has been writing about in his journal. Click the image above to view a larger version of the entire invitation.

Behind Rebel Rebel

One of the highlights of Friday's VH-1 Fashion Awards Show (airing tonight on VH-1) was the screening of David Bowie's classic video "The Jean Genie" directed by Mick Rock. The video was used as a backdrop to the Lenny Kravitz/Iggy Pop performance of "Rebel Rebel".

Bowie Mini Featured At British Moter Show

10/27/98 NEWS: BOWIE MINI FEATURED AT BRITISH MOTER SHOW Paul Smith, Kate Moss and David Bowie are featured designers at the MINI exhibit at this weeks 1998 British International Motor Show. Read David?s 8.31.98 journal entry for additional details.

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Bowie Tv

Tonight at 1:00 a.m.-2:00 a.m.(EST) VH-1 will air VH-1 Most Fashionable Performances. Highlights include David Bowie's appearance at the 1996 VH-1 Fashion Awards Show. This show will also be aired on Saturday, October 24th 11:00 a.m. - noon (EST)

Other upcoming David Bowie TV appearances include VH-1 Legends, to be aired on Thursday, October 29th, Noon - 1:00 p.m. (EST) (subject to change)

Review Of Thurston Moore Exhibition (the Independent - The Friday Review - 16 October 1998

Considering Rock's uneasy relationship with visual art down the years; it's to the benefit of this show that the music used as the spur to the various exhibits- guitar noise by Sonic Youth's Thurston Moore - is about as far from mainstream rock as it gets.

Packaged in vacuum- cleaner bags, these pieces were sent out as cassettes to a variety of artists and musicialns, whose responses comprise the exhibition and its accompanying CD. At their most basic, some of the pieces simply illustrate the difficulty many visual artists experience dealing with a form as amorphous and intangible as music. Perhaps each of those who just sent back the vacuum- cleaner bag, painted over or otherwise treated, thought their item a tartly miminalist comment on the proceedings; but together, they speak more loudly of artistic impotence. Only the more inspired - Bruce Gilbert's Untitled featuring a DAT tape cocooned in the bags padding like a gift from Joseph Bueys; and Tim Head's Deep Froxen/Defrosted, in which the package was frozen until its return - have the resonance beyond the purely rhetorical.

Those exhibits which make scatalogical musical jokes - Keith Ball's chamber-pot of plaster ears; Alexie Politov & Lilya Orlova's out-sized model of the cassette as toilet paper dispenser - are wounded by their punch-line status. The music's shit - so what? More impressive is Martin Fletcher's Sound Master, an oddly troubling sculpture of personal-stereo headphones rendered in gigantic Claes Oldenburg scale. There's an indefinable magic too, to Phil Holmes's Parellel Dustbin, a galvanized dustbin with a pool of mercury in the bottom, set atop an amplifier so that the sounds send patterns rippling through the mercury.

Meanwhile, David Bowie attempts to fulfil the exercise with measured equation of wit and style, with an image of joke chattering dentures topped with deeley-bopper eyes. Echoing Jasper Johns's The Critic Smiles and Richard Hamilton's The Critic Laughs, it's called d&b, and if it's intended as a self-portrait, it carries seriousness and ironic self-deprecation in an equalibrial balance that few others here can equal.

ANDY GILL

Thurston Moore Exhibition

Thurston Moore Exhibition
Chisenhale Gallery
64 Chisenhale Road
London E3 5QZ
England
15 October - November 1, 1998

In October 1997, independent music label Lo Recordings received a tape containing 30 different one-minute guitar pieces by Thurston Moore of the band Sonic Youth. Lo Recordings teamed up with Commercial Too, an independent art venture borne out of Commercial Gallery, copied the 30 guitar pieces onto individual one-minute tapes and sent them out to a wide cross section of artsts and musicians enclosed in a custom designed vacuum cleaner bag. The exhibition and accompany music CD, CD ROM and catalogue are the results of that request. The artists and musicians have all made new works, some incorporating the guitar sample into their work, some taking it as the inspiration to make an entirely new piece. David Bowie has contibuted a piece entitled d&b 1998, mixed media construction, signed and dated on the base, 4 inches high. There is also a digital print from email message, also entitled d&b 1998, 8x10 inches, that appears in the catalogue and the CD. Other artists participating in this exhibition are Bruce Gilbert, Gavin Turk, Gilbert & George, Martin Fletcher and Tim Head.