Introduced by Kofi Annan, Sec. General of the United Nations, this press conference will be seen around the world.
More details to follow, meanwhile here are some exclusive to B.Net PICTURES
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Here is an advertisement from the September 10th issue of Entertainment Weekly for the upcoming 1999 MTV Video Music Awards. Several performers have dressed up as famous opera characters to emphasize that this years award show is taking place at the Lincoln Center Opera House.
Bowie appears as Mephistopheles from the opera "Faust."
BowieNet is in the running for 'Best Artist Web Site' by MTVVideo Music Awards tomorrow night. Here is the list of Best Artist Web Site Nominations:
Jennifer Lopez
Massive Attack
Red Hot Chili Peppers
David Bowie
Sheryl Crow
Smashing Pumpkins
Limp Bizkit
You can watch the Award Show tomorrow, 9.9.99 at 8 p.m. (EST), hosted by ChrisRock, live from the Metropolitan Opera House in New York City.
Check out the full details at the MTV website.
"Because of the Gisborne Festival fold-up, plans for a small Winter tour have been abandoned. Our friend, Chris Haskett, was ear-marked only for the cancelled tour.There will be NO promo-tour, there never was one planned.I have undertaken to do only a handful of radio and TV appearances.
PAGE HAMILTON, ex-Helmet founder member, will stand in on lead guitar for Reeves Gabrels on these shows. Reeves will finish off two projects that have impending deadlines in Oct." - db
MTV viewers in the UK and Ireland can request the video by:
emailing Selectuk@mtvne.com
Faxing 0171 499 4451
PH: 09009 11100 (UK)
PH: 1550 122405 (Ireland)
Thanks to Dara for the information
The EMI Catalog release in the US date has changed from September 20th to September 28th.
The article touches on writing rock and roll for mature audiences and Bowie's songwriting process.
There is an excerpt:
"Actually, I think for the first time for a long time I'd actually taken the trouble to write the songs before we went into the studio," says Bowie. "So I spent a lot of time virtually crafting them in a very reactionary, old fashioned traditional way; just wrote proper songs, applied myself to them and the lyric, and kept them extremely simple.
I didn't want them to become decorative in any manner. So when I went into the studio, I had positive ideas of how the songs were to sound which really is quite unusual, especially for the 90s. It's the last thing I've done really in the 90s. Just about everything has been done in the studio in more of an experimental fashion much like the middle to late 70s. I guess the last time I wrote songs per se was really the early 80s."
Here is the full article.
The 19episodes David hosts will air weekly beginning September 13th on theShowtime satellite channel Showtime Beyond.
Hi all:
I managed to get tickets (very very difficult I might add.) and do a roundtrip of about 7000 miles. Could you please mention Ireland as one of thecountries fans traveled from. I hope my boss doesn't see the show as I wassuppose to be ill from work and not smiling and singing along in NY.
ThanksBowienet your great..........
Chris Gaffney
Other performers include Red Hot Chili Peppers, Britney Spears, Our Lady Peace, The Tea Party, The Moffatts and Len.
Bowie will be performing 'The Pretty Things Are Going To Hell' from his upcoming "Hours?" album.
If you remember back one year ago to the 1998 MuchMusic Video Awards, Bowie was presented with the "Eye Popper Award". Click here to view David's acceptance speech from last years show.
If you attended the taping, please send your journals in soon.
Here is the full image used for the cover.
Don't forget, the top 5 winning t-shirts designers will get an autographed copy (that's signed by Placebo AND Bowie) of the limited edition EP from Placebo and David Bowie- "Without You, I'm Nothing" - for our BowieNet tshirt contest prizes.
So come on, Let's vote!
What's Really Happening - the contest, the recording , the webcast and best of all the track making it onto 'hours'(not to mention making Alex Grant a household name)....
liveandwell.com - the making of an Internet CD production project by the members, for the members....
VH-1 Storytellers Contest - a once-in-a-lifetime event....
Fame Remix - your were the producer at the controls....
great guest chats:
David Bowie
The UltraStar team
David Bowie and Reeves Gabrels
Sandra Bernhard
Gail Ann Dorsey
Mick Rock, Tony Visconti and David Bowie
Iman and David Bowie
Ronan Keating and David Bowie
Mike Garson
Eddie Izzard
Boy George and David Bowie
Joey Arias
Ronnie Spector and Joey Ramone
Placebo
Melissa Auf der Maur of Hole
Roger O'Donnell of the Cure
Mark Plati
Floria Sigismondi
Things - the first interactive screens saver by an music artist....
Building 'Hours' - members heard and saw the songs and artwork before the rest of the world....
360 Degree Lucent Cam - Lucent's hi-level 360 degree camera - launched on BowieNet, first during our private scavenger hunt, then used - for the world to see - during the recording of "What's Really Happening"....
Member's Rule! - and you did! Tons of great artwork, poems, stories, photos, fansites, and more. And heck - ya even went out and built your own BowieNet Members Database....
and not to mention a stack of awards - ZDTV Site of the Year
-Finalist for Site of the Year - Yahoo Internet Life, Finalist for Site of the Year - SXSW
-1999 MTV nominee for Internet Site of the Year
-BowieNet - Finalist for Best Entertainment Website by Wired Magazine.
So now you ask - "since the honeymoon is over, what's next?" Keep an eye out for some ultra-cool announcements as we ramp up for year number 2!
So break out the bubbly, soda pop, party hats, and fireworks - we can all celebrate together. Who knows? Virtual Bowie could be next ;)
Here is a nice birthday note sent in by one of our charter members, Tybalt. Thanks to all for the first year!
27 years ago today, September 1st, 1972 - 'John, I'm Only Dancing'/'Hang Onto Yourself' single released by RCA.
Enjoy this exclusive first look and listen from the forthcoming David Bowie album "Hours..."
50 winners were selected at random. They came from Argentina, Sweden, Canada, Denmark, The Netherlands, US, UK, Brazil, France, and Germany for this special opportunity to see David perform in front of an intimate crowd of 250.
This section of BowieNet is where we will now hear their stories. We have asked all participants of the Storytellers show to write in and share their personal journals with us. So here you go, and thanks for the journals!
If you attended the taping, please send your journals in soon.
Special thanks to Kevin Mazur for the photos.
AUGUST 16th-31st, 1999 HIGHLIGHTS
8/31/99 BUILDING HOURS
8/31/99 VH-1 JOURNALS
8/26/99 BOWIE AND THE BOMBERS: 3rd ULTRASTAR ISP
8/25/99 BUILDING HOURS
8/25/99 FLORIA SIGISMONDI CHAT
8/23/99 BOWIE TO PLAY NETAID CONCERT LAUNCHES
8/20/99 101 T-SHIRT DESIGNS
8/19/99 HIGH 5 REVIEW
8/18/99 VIRGIN MUSIC GROUP SIGNS DAVID BOWIE TO WORLDWIDE RECORDING AGREEMENT
"Dear John. When you worked with me on the T-Rex tour, and I was doing a mime piece based on the invasion of Tibet by the Chinese... you were somewhat non-plussed that the audience didn't like the piece where the back row of the audience lifted their hands up with Chairman Mao's little red book, and there was a whole feud going on between me and the audience.
You decided that the problem was that I was doing mime. You didn't like mime. And until I came here to America, I never realized that you were right. Nobody in the world likes mime.Thanks for the advice about the songs. I'm glad I stayed with the songwriting. And a very happy birthday."
Viewers of the special were then treated to a rare version of David's 1972 appearence on The Old Grey Whistle Test. The clip was Oh! You Pretty Things.