Come And Buy My Toys...oops, I mean 'Heathen'!
As Sailor mentioned on the
Rescheduled Roseland On Sale Next Week
Bowie keeps head down in anticipation of inevitable brickbats from the MBs!
Detail taken from yet another wonderful creation by Markus Klinko & Indrani.
Ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-change!
Due to unforeseen scheduling conflicts, we are very sorry to have to announce that the BowieNet members show at the Roseland Ballroom in New York has been moved on one day from Monday June 10th to Tuesday June 11th.
The decision has not been taken lightly, and we do understand this rescheduling may be inconvenient for some of you that have already made arrangements, but unfortunately there really was no other way. Sorry.
The good news is that tickets will be made available for BowieNet Members to purchase online next Friday, May 10th. At the moment we will be limiting tickets to two per member to ensure that every member can bring along a companion if they so choose. More details to follow in the next few days.
Slow Burn Now Available For Streaming
look inside...
the new 'HEATHEN' box on the BowieNet homepage, and you'll find a link to stream the full length 'radio edit' of 'Slow Burn'. This is the first of many tracks from 'HEATHEN' to be made exclusively available to BowieNet Members.
More tracks will be inserted in to the 'HEATHEN' feature box playlist as we get them. Check this space to keep on top of the latest 'HEATHEN' tracks available on-demand.
Click here to be taken back to the BowieNet homepage, and one step closer to hearing 'Slow Burn'
Bowienet Area: 2 Presale - Moments Away
One wrong word and you're out of sync...
We did post this last night, but here it is again for obvious reasons. Here's all the stuff you need for that first BowieNet Area: 2 pre-sale that commences this morning (Friday May 3rd) from 10:00am (EST), and continues through to 6:00pm.
Please note that pre-sale times are respective of each venue's time zone...although this first round of pre-sales are all EST anyway. Here are those dates and venues again, with revised ticket allocations:
Holmdel, NJ - PNC Bank Arts Center - Wednesday, July 31st - Pre-sale ticket limit is 6 tickets per household
Boston, MA - Tweeter Center - Saturday, Aug 3rd - Pre-sale ticket limit 12 tickets per household
Toronto*, CAN - Molson Amphitheatre - Monday, August 5th - Pre-sale ticket limit is 4 tickets per household
(*The Toronto BowieNet pre-sale is going up at the same time as the public on-sale. But remember we have allocated tickets with choice seating just for BowieNet members.)
Detroit, MI - DTE Energy Music Theatre - Tuesday, Aug 6th - Pre-sale ticket limit is 12 per household
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The Times...a Reader Replies
Yes, I've read the morning papers...
David Bowie has responded to an article that appeared in The Times last week, in which Stuart Maconie criticised him for the selections he has made for the Meltdown line-up. Today the popular UK broadsheet publishes David's response, complete with a blurb on the front page and pictures of David, Mercury Rev and Asian Dub Foundation. You can read David's reply in full by clicking on the image above.
Get Em Now!!!
This just in, David Bowie, along with an impressive line-up including Sheryl Crow, Counting Crows, Wyclef Jean, and others, have been scheduled to play live at the upcoming MTV Tribeca Film Festival concert on Friday May 10th.
Sounds nice right, well it gets better. BowieNet has gotten our hands on FREE TICKETS just for you! That's right; we will be giving away dozens of free tickets for BowieNet members. If you are going to be in the New York area on May 10th, then enter our random drawing for tickets right here.
The lucky winners will be notified via email on May 7th, and will be given instructions on how to get tickets in hand. Each winner will receive 2 free tickets to the event.
The 3 hour show will feature performances by David Bowie, Counting Crows, Wyclef Jean, David Bowie & Sheryl Crow and Stand Up from Robin Williams and Jimmy Fallon.
| Event:  | MTV Rock & Comedy Concert |
| Show Name: | MTV Presents Inside The Tribeca Film Festival |
| Date: | Friday, May 10th |
| Doors: | 5:30 p.m. |
| Time: | 7pm - 10pm |
| Location: |
Battery Park City / State Street & South Street |
Parts of this concert will be used as in conjunction with a documentary to be aired on May 24th @ 8pm EST/PST on MTV. This event will happen rain or shine.
Bowienet Area: 2 Presale - Get Ready
Waiting For The Man...or all dressed up with somewhere to go.
David Bowie - Detail from a picture by Markus Klinko & Indrani.
One wrong word and you're out of sync...
OK, as promised on Tuesday, here's the stuff you need on that first BowieNet Area: 2 pre-sale that commences tomorrow morning (Friday May 3rd) from 10:00am, and continues through to 6:00pm.
Please note that pre-sale times are respective of each venue's time zone...although this first round of pre-sales are all EST anyway. Here are those dates and venues again, with revised ticket allocations:
Holmdel, NJ - PNC Bank Arts Center - Wednesday, July 31st - Pre-sale ticket limit is 6 tickets per household
Boston, MA - Tweeter Center - Saturday, Aug 3rd - Pre-sale ticket limit 12 tickets per household
Toronto*, CAN - Molson Amphitheatre - Monday, August 5th - Pre-sale ticket limit is 4 tickets per household
(*The Toronto BowieNet pre-sale is going up at the same time as the public on-sale. But remember we have allocated tickets with choice seating just for BowieNet members.)
Detroit, MI - DTE Energy Music Theatre - Tuesday, Aug 6th - Pre-sale ticket limit is 12 per household
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Manchester On Sale This Saturday
"Where's that bloody Neil Hannon got to David?." - "Oh, I wouldn't
worry Brett, we still have another nine years until Manchester!"
Divine (Comedy) in both, our lives...
Tickets for David Bowie's performance on the first day of the four day 'Move' festival in Manchester go on sale this Saturday morning (4th May) at 9:00am local time. There has been a slight adjustment to the support acts,
This will be David's first show in Manchester in almost five years, he last appeared in the city on the Earthling tour back in July 1997. As we already told you, the show takes place on Wednesday July 10th at the
Online via:
Bowiephiles
The year of the scavenger...
Diamond Dogs : Yahoo : 05/01/02
Kylie Minogue is currently one of the hottest tickets touring the UK. For disappointed fans unable to buy tickets, her Manchester Arena show is to be webcast this Saturday at 3.30PM EDT. Yahoo ran a story on Wednesday which included some details of her set. "Visuals for the show have been inspired by the worlds of "Dr Who," "Star Trek," Bowie's "Diamond Dogs," "A Clockwork Orange" and the New York underground dance scene of the 1980s." The Guardian, in a review of the show at Cardiff Arena, were complimentary overall, although slightly dubious of the evidence of this inspiration, saying: "the centrepiece of Bowie's 1974 shows.... was an enormous hydraulic blood-spurting penis - presumably an influence too far for Minogue's designers."
Making Pop History : LA Times : 04/25/02
The LA Times Pop music critic, Robert Hilburn has the following to say, in an article about the recent Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival. "Pop music thrives on the discovery of exciting and original new artists--stepping into a club or arena and being so swept away by the artist's imagination and charisma that you feel a page in pop history is being turned. My own list of memorable first encounters includes David Bowie at the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium ... " (bonster)
Thin Nude Becks : GQ : Out now
An almost-nude David Beckham had posed for a ground-breaking photoshoot in the current 'World Cup' issue of GQ, the UK magazine for men. Dylan Jones, editor and well known BowiePhile, is all excited. He has this to say, in an interview with 'This Is London' (The fashion)... "is really cutting edge ... he looks like David Bowie as the Thin White Duke".
'Win' : Sky Sports : Current
'Win' is the backing track for a new 'Sky Sports' football trailer. David sings "All you've got to do is win" over slow-motion football action, as captions offer advice on how to achieve success in the league. (SusanS)
:))
Moby: "bowie Is Untouchable"
"Without David Bowie, popular music as we know it pretty much wouldn't exist."
So says Moby..."I'm right behind you on that one!" David may have replied.
I'll never touch you...
Obviously this won't be the first time Moby will have seen a Bowie show, the following recollection places his first ever David Bowie concert as either the 1987 Glass Spider Tour or the 1990 Sound + Vision tour: "I remember the first time I saw David Bowie it was in Giants Stadium [in East Rutherford, New Jersey] in front of 80,000 people."
Whether it was that show or somewhere else along the line that first did it for Moby, he makes it clear in an interview published on
"David Bowie is my favorite musician of the 20th century, I mean, he's an amazing live performer, and I can't think of a single musician from the 20th century who made as many remarkable albums as he did. Also, he influenced everybody. Without David Bowie, popular music as we know it pretty much wouldn't exist."
In an interview with Moby in this month's
While we're on the subject of Q...
This Month's Db Pic In Q
I heard telephones, opera house, favourite melodies. I saw boys, toys, irons and T.V.'s*
This month's David Bowie picture in
"Just listen to the lyrics of Five Years: 'A soldier with a broken arm, fixed his stare to the wheels of a Cadillac / A cop knelt and kissed the feet of a priest / And a queer threw up at the sight of that.' He was the first person to use that word "queer" - I'd been called that all my life at school - and suddenly this pop star said it. So it was, 'Fuckin' hell, he's talking to me directly!'"
George also says of the back sleeve of 'Transformer': "And the photo on the back - no one was ever sure if it was Lou Reed in both pictures - one of a drag queen and one of Lou Reed looking really sexy."
Hate to destroy your 30-year-old illusion George, but neither of them are Lou Reed...and while I'm in the mood I'll destroy the biggest of the illusions about that rear cover...it's a banana! Ask Mick Rock if you don't believe me.
*Yes, I know I've left out the word electric, but those of you that understand Cockney rhyming slang will understand why! };-)
Reveal my secrets, More than enough for me to share...
Elsewhere in Q, Bryan Ferry is this month's subject of 'Cash For Questions'. BowieNetter Wendy Smedley managed to get a Bowie-related question published...and here it is, along with Bryan's answer:
You've always been a bit sniffy about David Bowie, haven't you? Even though he was one of the most vociferous early champions of Roxy Music. He asked you to appear in his Blue Jean video and later to re-record If There Is Something with Tin Machine and you turned him down flat. Why?
"When did he ask me to appear in the Blue Jean video? Liar! And he did do If There Is Something with Tin Machine. Oh...did he want me to sing on it? No, I wouldn't want to do that particularly. But you're right, he has always been incredibly complimentary. And I never say much about other artists because it can so often get misconstrued. So I tend to try and say nothing and maybe that comes over as being a bit stuck-up. He's done some great things that I think are very, very good indeed."
Twelve Dates For Area: 2 Announced
"I'll go on after you today Moby, I fancy a bit of a nap before my set."
Actually this is a detail from a picture taken by Damian Loeb of DB
and Moby relaxing and listening to a few tunes round Damian's pad.
I'm (obviously not that) Afraid Of Americans...
For those of you that haven't been looking at the MBs, we're pleased to announce the dates for the Area: 2, Moby and David Bowie co-headline tour of Canada and the USA that we mentioned earlier in the month. (04/10/02 NEWS: BOWIE CONFIRMED FOR AREA: TWO) The pair will be joined on the dates by Busta Rhymes, Carl Cox and Digweed. We will be posting more details about ticket availability later today, suffice to say, there will be pre-sale information available ahead of the on sale dates.
Sorry to sound vague, but we must be sure all the finer details are in place before we post any information, which is most likely why the dates aren't even up on
JULY 28th - Washington, DC - Nissan Pavillion
JULY 30th - Philadelphia, PA - Tweeter Center
JULY 31st - Holmdel, New Jersey - PNC Bank Center
AUGUST 2nd - Wataugh, New York - Jones Beach
AUGUST 3rd - Boston, MA - Tweeter Center
AUGUST 5th - Toronto, Canada - Molson Ampitheater
AUGUST 6th - Detroit, Michigan - DTE Energy Music Center
AUGUST 8th - Chicago, Illinois - Tweeter Center
AUGUST 10th - Denver, Colorado - Pepsi Arena-City of Lights
AUGUST 13th - Los Angeles, LA - Verizon Ampitheater
AUGUST 14th - San Francisco, CA - Shoreline Ampitheater
AUGUST 16th - Seattle, WA - The Gorge
Bowienet Area: 2 Presale Details
"OK, protein pills, check, laptop, check, camera, check, helmet, check."
DB readies himself for Area: 2 - Detail from another pic by Damian Loeb.
You asked for the latest...
OK kidz, here follows that Area: 2 ticket information we promised you in the story we posted earlier today. BowieNet will have a ticket allocation for all of the dates on the tour, and this is how it'll work.
Many of you have noticed that MTV2, as the official sponsor of this event, will be first to offer a pre-sale on their site starting tomorrow morning. There is no reason why you shouldn't get your tickets via the MTV2 route if you feel so compelled. There will, in fact, be other pre-sale opportunities, including Front of the Line, for example, but if you're unsuccessful via these routes, please understand that this FRIDAY May 3rd is the first of three BOWIENET pre-sale days.
Tickets for the twelve shows that make up the tour will be made available to BowieNetters over each of the three BowieNet pre-sale days, and this Friday's pre-sale will concern itself with the following four shows. The pre-sale will last from 10:00am to 6:00pm for the local time of each of the venues. Please note the amount of tickets available per person:
JULY 31st - Holmdel, New Jersey - PNC Bank Center - 6 tickets per household
AUGUST 3rd - Boston, MA - Tweeter Center - 12 tickets per household
AUGUST 5th - Toronto, Canada - Molson Ampitheater - 12 tickets per household
AUGUST 6th - Detroit, Michigan - DTE Energy Music Center - 12 tickets per household
Tickets for these four dates will be available to BowieNetters in this Friday's BowieNet pre-sale only, and BowieNet access to these four shows will only last for that day. On Friday BowieNet will provide a link to Ticketmaster along with a password to access BowieNet pre-sells for these four shows only.
The tickets allocated specifically to BowieNet members are of equal quality (seating position) and quantity to the other pre-sale offers. Although other offers may get to go first, there is no disadvantage to BowieNet members. In fact, this is where you BowieNet Members have a distinct advantage, because you will not be competing with the general public for our allocation. These are first come, first serve, so let's see if you can break the Ticketmaster system on Friday morning at 10:00am sharp. };-)
Apart from the pre-sales that are being offered elsewhere, these shows will be available to BowieNet Members online BEFORE they are made available to the public. Since we are offering these tickets before they are on sale to the general public, our allocation is large enough for us to know that we will NOT sell out of tickets. We will be making several differently priced ticket types available at Ticketmaster, so everyone should be able to get what they are looking for.
The eight remaining shows will be made available via BowieNet pre-sales on Tuesday, May 7th and Wednesday, May 8th. However, it should be noted that the MTV2 pre-sale that starts tomorrow is for all twelve of the shows and runs Wednesday and Thursday through to midnight, you can double-check the MTV2 information at their site by going
Tickets will be subject to convenience and processing charges. Ticketmaster Canada will be a different website, but we will provide that link on Friday.
The Scumfrog V David Bowie Out Today
Believing the strangest things, loving the alien...
You can view the video by clicking on the image above, and you can purchase the CD or 12" in any decent record store, or indeed, online at all your favourite online ordering type places. Here are the format tracklistings:
Enhanced CD
1 - LOVING THE ALIEN (RADIO EDIT) - The Scumfrog vs Bowie 12" Vinyl
1 - LOVING THE ALIEN (FULL VERSION)
2 - LOVING THE ALIEN (FULL VERSION) - The Scumfrog vs Bowie
3 - 8 DAYS, 7 HOURS - The Scumfrog
4 - Video of Loving The Alien
2 - 8 DAYS, 7 HOURS
Tour Calendar Updated
Don't forget your date with me...
With the news of tour dates coming thick and fast, like...no, I'll leave that...you may find it useful to keep an eye on the BowieNet Tour Calendar. You can get to it by finding TOUR CALENDAR in the floaty about thing above, then chase it around a bit and give it a click when it sits still. You should find the TOUR CALENDAR is always up to date, and that is why it features yesterday's Manchester announcement. Good eh?
Starman Released 30 Years Ago Today!
Half-page 'Starman' ad in Melody Maker, still plugging 'Hunky Dory', April 29th, 1972.
He'd like to come and meet us...
Anybody who visits these pages on a regular basis will know how I witter on about the importance of the release of 'Starman' (01/02/01 NEWS: SECOND TOTP APPEARANCE IN THREE DAYS FOR STARMAN? - 10/06/01 NEWS: WILL STARMAN BE A WINNER FOR GEORGE? - 01/08/02 NEWS: HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU... - 04/02/02 SNIPPET: LIFE-CHANGING STUFF ON BBC 2 TONIGHT - 03/29/02 SNIPPET: BOWIEPHILES - 04/14/02 NEWS: STARMAN RELEASED THIRTY YEARS AGO TODAY...NOT!) ...Well, rather than bore you yet again with my own feelings about the record, I thought I'd leave it to the 'professionals this time.
The single was released on April 28th 1972, (backed with the as yet unissued 'Suffragette City') in a variety of different picture sleeves around the world, most of which were variations of the shot in the advert above from the brilliant Brian Ward session. You will have noticed that the reissued sleeve of the 1972 RCA release of 'The Man Who Sold The World' (black and white high-kick shot) was taken from this same session. Obviously it was Brian who was also responsible for the 'Ziggy Stardust' album cover shots, of which more later.
Anyway, on to our professionals. I've taken a couple of reviews from the better known music weeklies of the time in which 'Starman' was single of the week. First up is a review from the now defunct Melody Maker, (complete with Chris Welch's mistakes, not mine!) which had carried adverts for 'Starman' two weeks in a row.
The second review is taken from New Musical Express, which would have sold well that week as it had taken the unusual step of including a free Rolling Stones preview flexi-disc of 'Exile On Main Street'. The review was accompanied by yet another shot from the Brian Ward session and the wonderful headline, BI-GUY DAVID BOWIE SCORES ...Oh, doesn't it just take you back!?
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Melody Maker - April 29th, 1972
NEW POP SINGLES BY CHRIS WELCH
DAVID BOWIE: "Starman" (RCA)
"There's a star man, waiting in the sky," says David in that strange voice filled with premonitions of doom. "He'd like to come and meet us, but he's afraid he'd blow our minds."
Fascinating lyrics as usual and a space truckin' tune that should appeal to all at Mission Control and points west. David is taking longer than most to become a super star, but he should catch up with Rod and Marc soon. There was a lot of talent wandering loose in the mid-sixties. Who's left from those days that hasn't made it yet? George Catsmeat - of course!
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New Musical Express - April 29th, 1972
SINGLES - REVIEWER: DANNY HOLLOWAY
BI-GUY DAVID BOWIE SCORES
DAVID BOWIE: "Starman" (RCA)
David proves he's not just a pretty face on this cosmic 45. This is quite an elevating and energetic song with some super "teenage" lyrics. It takes a few listens to do it to ya, but "Starman" is obviously single of the week. The B side, "Suffragette City", is one of the many highlights of David's monumental live performances.
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Bowie To Play Manchester In July
The weather's grim...
We have enormous pleasure in announcing that David Bowie is now confirmed as the headline act for the first day of the four day 'Move' festival in the grim northern town* of Manchester in the UK. Described as "an Urban Music Event", the headliners on the other three days are Green Day, Paul Weller and New Order.
"So what!" I hear you collectively screech, "When is David Bowie playing?!" Well, David will perform on Wednesday July 10th at the Lancashire County Cricket Club ground at Old Trafford, and support will come from Suede, Morcheeba and Elbow. Now that's what I call a bloody good line-up!
We will post ticket details shortly, so keep watching this space. Lancashire C.C.C., is situated at Warwick Road, Manchester, Lancashire, M16 0PX.
*I do apologise for the stereotypical description of Manchester, which isn't actually all that bad. In fact it has been described by Radio 1 DJ, Lard, as the "cultural hub of Britain". Mind you, this is from a man (and I use the term loosely) who describes the UK's capital city, London, as a village! It should also be remembered that BowieNetters Rednik and Stephen 'Baby' King live together in an air raid shelter in the heart of Manchester, but that's possibly a fact they won't thank me for passing on to you!
Bowie To Play Nbc's Today Summer Concert
David Bowie (right) skating with friends at the Rockefeller Center.
They fall on Today, They beat on the outside...
Those of you hoping we would be a little more specific when we originally announced June 9th as the week of Roseland, may now be pleased we weren't. With the news that David is to perform on June 14th as part of NBC's Today TV Show 7th Annual Summer Concert Series, you may want to stay in New York a little longer than just the night of the BowieNet show at the Roseland on June 10th.
Our man plans to perform at least three songs on the show, including a track from 'Heathen' and an old favourite among them. He's also looking forward to seeing some friendly faces down the front...so get there early. We'll give you more information nearer the day.
These televised shows are free, and they normally take place outside at the Rockefeller Center, close to the famous skating rink. That gives you something to do while you're waiting for David. Now all we've got to do is find something to do between the 10th and the 14th. };-)
Jonathan Ross Plans Right Knees Up For Meltdown
Not going to get many chances to use this, so here it is in all
of its stylish glory...The Turkish issue of the Yassassin single!
Johnny looks up at the stars...Part two
Since the announcement of the Meltdown line-up, the UK press have this week been running stories with headlines along the lines of 'PRESENTER ROSS TO DJ FOR HERO BOWIE'. Regular readers of BowieNet news will already be familiar with the lanky DJ's appreciation of David Bowie's music, (03/23/02 SNIPPET: JR, DB AND JR) and how he plays a Bowie tune pretty well every week on his Saturday morning Radio 2 show here in the UK.
Last week Jonathan played 'Little Wonder', and today he chose the rarely-heard-on-the-radio 'Yassassin'! This was preceded by some talk of how he was approaching his spot at Meltdown on the 29th of June. He explained his intention to make it a bit of a 25th wedding anniversary type atmosphere, with tunes such as the 'Birdy Song', plastic bananas and prizes for best dancer...or something along those lines.
Before playing this week's selection Jonathan exclaimed that the track was from the "underrated album Lodger", (Hear! Hear!) and went on to say 'Yassassin' was "a track I've never heard on the radio, let's see if I can correct that terrible sin."
Before we leave 'Britain's Worst Dressed Man', I must mention a show back in the first week of April on which hypnotist Paul McKenna was the guest. Jonathan suggested that through the power of somnambulism they should "start a cult whose members dress flamboyantly, and hang out at weekends listening to Bowie". To which McKenna replied "I thought you already had."
On the same show Mr Ross played 'The Bewlay Brothers', on vinyl, and bemoaned the demise of the large format artwork of full size album sleeves. He explained that, as opposed to the illegible text on CD sleeves, he could now actually read the back cover of 'Hunky Dory' and realised that 'Life On Mars?' was inspired by Frankie... Howerd!
PS - If you missed that John Lydon interview on
Meltdown Tickts Sold Out
And I'm gone gone gone...
The BowieNet allocation of tickets for David Bowie's appearance at the Meltdown Festival on June 29th has now sold out. Rumours of tickets already selling on
Hopefully this is some consolation to those that had trouble getting tickets via BowieNet but were eventually successful.