Moon Beats Stiff Competition To Win Hugo Award

Among the twilight and stars, Like a rocket to...

Congratulations to Duncan Jones and team MOON for yet another prestigious award.

The 2010 Hugo Awards have just taken place at the Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre in Australia, and MOON has won the Best Dramatic Presentation, Long Category.

This was some achievement considering the impressive list of fellow nominees that MOON had to beat: Avatar, District 9, Star Trek and Up.

Here's Duncan's reaction to the news via Twitter: "Holy shnikey! A Bafta and a Hugo in the same year! I really CAN only go down-hill from here!! ;?)"

Read more about the event and the design of the beautiful Hugo award itself over at Man Made Movies, where it has also been revealed that Source Code is due on March 11th next year.

Finally, if you didn't manage to get along to the screening of MOON at the NFT for the Q&A with Duncan on August 31st, (08.17.2010 NEWS: DUNCAN JONES INTERVIEW AND UPDATES ON MAN MADE MOVIES) you can view some pretty decent audience footage of the proceedings here.

If you're a fan of MOON it's really worth taking a look as there is some very interesting information revealed about what inspired the creative process and how those ambitions were realised by Duncan and his team.

Thanx to Unkle Rupert at Man Made Movies for the pointers to all of this stuff.

Happy 50th Birthday Blammo!

Your BowieNet News Editor in various disguises, yesterday

She?s a Total Blam Blam ?

Total Blam Blam clocks up fifty years on the planet today, and we wish him a very Happy Birthday! This also seems like a great opportunity to give praise and thanks for the decade or so he has been serving us as BowieNet?s News Editor.

His influence has been felt at all corners of everything Bowie related. As well as writing and editing the news page with humour, flair and attention to every detail, he has also had significant input into Bowie projects outside of BowieNet over the years, such as sleevenotes and even his own Bowie fanzine back in the early eighties.

His knowledge and love of David Bowie?s opus is widely acknowledged to be second to none, and this has informed his ability to handle anything BowieNet has thrown at him. A Bowie collector since the age of eleven, his archive is legendary and is often referenced for reissue projects and the like.

And then there are his Bowie photographs. Time after time we have been treated to stunningly beautiful, candid and revealing shots of David Bowie both at the height of his powers as an international rock god and also during quieter, more contemplative moments.

There have been one or two highlights along the way for Blam himself?

when I live my dream?

"One day lad, all this will be yours..." DB in the theatre next door to the Terminus Hotel in Wimbledon. 2002Picture by Total Blam Blam.

Perhaps most notable is his visit to a 2002 rehearsal which included a personal face to face chat with Bowie ?and I couldn't help thinking the whole time that I was looking at the most interesting and beautiful rock 'n roll face of all time?.

This was followed by a personal performance of The Bewlay Brothers and several other songs from that sensational Hammersmith setlist ?Apart from the obvious things, like the birth of my children, that is one of the most memorable moments of my life?.

Blam also got the chance to sing lead vocal on Suffragette City backed by Bowie?s own band and with Bowie himself playing the role of the audience! ?David danced in the stalls like a demented fan, just before he invaded the stage and hugged me in the most bizarre role reversal I have ever experienced... absolutely surreal!??

Read the full incredible story in this BowieNet News item - 09.17.2002 NEWS: BLAMMO REPORTS FROM BOWIE REHEARSALS.

And, like all of us, Blam was keen to have an appropriately serious and reverent photograph of himself with the great man:

"ooh David you are awful." "I know but you like me."

Music (Week picture) is sublime...

Front page of Oct 2002 Music Week and NME cuttings, with pictures by Total Blam Blam.

Many of Blam?s pictures of David have now been used in newspapers and magazines throughout the world, as well as in the artwork for many of Bowie?s CD and DVD releases, not to mention tour merchandise and posters.

Most recently he had a full page picture of David published in NME back in January, 01.27.2010 NEWS: NME IN SEARCH OF DAVID BOWIE PLUS DB A-Z PHOTO GALLERY and several in the A Reality Live double CD 01.25.2010 NEWS: A REALITY LIVE AND DERAM DELUXE RELEASED TODAY.

You can see his first successes in the image above and read the accompanying article here - 10.15.2002 NEWS: BOWIENETTERS MAKE GOOD (PART 236)

Here?s another one from The Independent in 2003:

The headmaster confiscates a Viz annual from the very naughty Mark Radcliffe and Marc 'Lard' Riley. Picture by Total Blam Blam.

Full story here - 02.02.2003 NEWS: BLAMMO PIC OF MARK, LARD AND DB IN THE INDEPENDENT

I could go on about all the fantastic times we?ve had at Bowie events over the years ? the 1999 Bowie Ball thrown by Leeza in New York, Darkness and Disgrace and the Ziggy phone box in London in 2000 - but I think the best place for that is probably the message boards (be fearful M!).

Please feel free to post your greetings, memories and also your favourite Blammo shots of Bowie in THIS message board thread.

I think I speak for us all when I say that BowieNet would have been a very different place without Blammo at the helm ? so have one for all of us tonight mate. Thanks so much for all the good times! I leave you with this shot from another famous Bowie photographer, but this time she had a different subject?

Paul Morley In The Ft On S2s And The Importance Of Bowie

Like a valuable loved one...

Paul Morley has written a lengthy piece regarding Station To Station for the LIFE & ARTS section of today's Financial Times in the UK. Here's a brief excerpt from it...

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Station To Station is a mesmerising album, one of Bowie?s best, which is saying something, as he made many, most of them during the 1970s, that were sold as entertainment but contained the moving detail and mysterious, transformative depth of art.

It may well be one of rock?s very greatest, as a comment both on where the smart, neurotic artist who made it was, psychologically, creatively and commercially, but also where rock music itself was, on its compelling journey from Sinatra, Presley and the Beatles to Prince, Jay-Z and Gaga, from the Velvet Underground, the Kinks and Kraftwerk to Madonna, Nirvana and Nine Inch Nails. It is one of those Bowie albums, like Hunky Dory (1971), or Ziggy Stardust (1972), or Low (1977), or Lodger (1979), that are at times my favourite of his, because they demonstrate with such elan what a sparkling, mischievous mind he had, and what ambition, and what a stupendous ego, and how dangerously charming he was.

His impact as a musician, as a brand, as a sign of the times, has been as great as Dylan and the Beatles, his influence as an otherworldly pop star actually greater, and if you just want one example of what he got up to as this erudite pop combination of shaman, singer, thinker and shameless self-promoter, then Station to Station is as good a place as any.

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You can read the full thing online here: The importance of David Bowie.

Emi's S2s Microsite Launches Next Week - Win Promo Shirt

Then I got the small (relatively speaking) red (and black and white) box...

Subscribers to EMI's David Bowie newsletter should have received the above S2S communication, without the bit ripped out of the middle of course. If you haven't, or you don't subscribe, you can view it online here.

From there you can check out links to the very clever Station To Station microsite and enter the competition to win limited promotional Station To Station T-shirts.

You've probably already stumbled upon an early version of the microsite which is being updated right now, with the full working version going live early next week.

The full version has some particularly cool features including one where you can select individual items from the content of the Deluxe box and view them in much closer detail...My crude animation above doesn't do this feature justice.

The microsite also features a Station To Station player and various other sections of interest, such as walk-through video, press release and production notes, etc.

Additionally there are links to the Bowie UFP and all the other Bowie-related social networking sites which are in the process of being updated with S2S content too.

Stay tuned for our own contest to win promotional Station To Station T-shirts and more shortly.

Manimal War Child Bowie Tribute Featured In Nme

Born in slumber less than peace...

On the 15th anniversary of War Child's HELP album, NME celebrates the story of the charity organisation and its musical output in this week's magazine, (4th September issue) concluding with an item on War Child's future plans.

There can't be anybody that hasn't read about the next War Child project, Manimal's tribute to David Bowie: We Were So Turned On. (05.11.2010 NEWS: BOWIE TRIBUTE ALBUM...ANOTHER COVER AND TITLE)

We've been plugging the album on these pages through various incarnations and it's great that Manimal decided to donate all the profits to War Child.

So far the album has been teased with the above four digital releases. Here's the schedule to date...

MAY 15th: Vivian Girls - John, I?m Only Dancing
JUNE 15th: Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros - Memory Of A Free Festival
JULY 15th: Corridor - Be My Wife
AUGUST 15th: Warpaint - Ashes To Ashes

All of the above are still available via iTunes, where you can pre-order We Were So Turned On too.

Warpaint's version of Ashes To Ashes was also released as a split 7" vinyl 45 with Sister Crayon's version of The Bewlay Brothers.

There won't be a single in September, due to the album release, but stay tuned for exclusive details of the next release in the series along with a contest to win the 45s and the We Were So Turned On double CD.

As far as I am aware the album will be available physically and digitally worldwide on September 6th, aside from Europe which won't get the CD release until October 11th.

I'll leave you with the final tracklisting, including the bonus download tracks...

Disc One:
01 Exitmusic - Space Oddity
02 Duran Duran - Boys Keep Swinging
03 Megapuss - Sound And Vision
04 Warpaint - Ashes To Ashes
05 Corridor - Be My Wife
06 Chairlift - Always Crashing In The Same Car
07 Vivian Girls - John, I?m Only Dancing
08 All Leather - Fame
09 We Are The World - I'm Afraid Of Americans
10 A Place To Bury Strangers - Suffragette City
11 Tearist - Repetition
12 Halloween Swim Team - Look Back In Anger
13 Afghan Raiders - Fashion
14 Polyamorous Affair - Theme From Cat People
15 Swahili Blonde - Red Money
16 Jessica 6 - I?m Deranged
17 Aska & Bobby Evans (Feat. Moon & Moon) - African Night Flight
18 Xu Xu Fang - China Girl

Disc Two:
01 VoicesVoices - ?Heroes?
02 Carla Bruni - Absolute Beginners
03 Papercranes - Blue Jean
04 Keren Ann - Life On Mars?
05 Lewis & Clarke - Changes
06 Zaza - It Ain't Easy
07 Genuflex - Soul Love
08 Sister Crayon - Bewlay Brothers
09 Marco Benevento - Art Decade
10 Mick Karn - Ashes To Ashes
11 Lights (NYC) - As The World Falls Down
12 Aquaserge - The Supermen
13 Caroline Weeks - Starman
14 Rainbow Arabia - Quicksand
15 Mechanical Bride - Sound And Vision
16 Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros - Memory Of A Free Festival

Bonus Tracks (Itunes Only)
01 Viv Albertine - Letter To Hermoine
02 Ariana Delawari - Ziggy Stardust
03 Gangi - Oh! You Pretty Things
04 Amanda Jo Williams - The Man Who Sold The World
05 LACO$TE - Within You
06 Universe - Heathen (The Rays)
07 Pizza! - Modern Love

Meeting Bowie Was Most Memorable Day Of Dj's Life

I like the beat of your drum...

Ahead of his appearance on the First Love TV programme on Sky Arts, DJ/drummer, Mark Radcliffe, has been given the 60 second interview treatment in METRO. Here's one of the questions and answers from the piece.

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In your autobiography, Thank You For The Days, you describe the most memorable days of your life. If you could relive one, which would you pick?

I would have to choose meeting David Bowie. I first heard his music when I was 14 and it encapsulated everything that was great about rock?n? roll. Bowie seemed so remote and glamorous he was like an alien from a far different planet. The world he occupied seemed entirely removed from the world of someone going to school doing their O-levels in Bolton. So to then meet him and know him ? and I can still e-mail him now and he?ll reply ? just seems so far away from how I ever saw my life panning out.

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You can read the full online version of the interview here.

S2s Is Uncut Album Of The Month Plus 4 Star Mojo Review

Every magazine on every shelf...

"The first of what will hopefully be an avalanche of great reviews for the upcoming Station To Station reissue has landed in the shape of a four-star, two-page feature in the October edition of Q magazine."

That's how we started our piece about the Q review a couple of days ago, (08.22.2010 NEWS: STATION TO STATION REISSUE GETS FOUR STARS IN Q MAGAZINE) and though we're not really expecting an avalanche, two more reviews in UK music monthlies have given the S2S reissue a jolly big thumbs up.

Not only has the package received a 5/5 rating in UNCUT, but the magazine has also made it ALBUM OF THE MONTH. Here's a couple of snippets from the review by Stephen Troussé.

The MOJO review is by long-term Bowie observer, David Buckley.

Buckley admits that he would award the straight album five stars for it's musical content alone, but he docked a star for this package as he feels the lack of visual content on the DVD was a missed opportunity.

Anyway, I'll leave you with his closing paragraph that does point out the general importance of Station To Station in the Bowie canon, and also acknowledges how good this version sounds...

Clark Using Bowie Tune For Mass Dance At Tate Modern

Sway through the crowd to an empty space...

According to an item in The Guardian by Andrew Dickson, Michael Clark's latest presentation has been worked out to the strains of David Bowie's It's No Game (Part 1). Here's an excerpt from the article...

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Although the mass participation piece has been choreographed and rehearsed to David Bowie's It's No Game (Part 1) ? the singer is a hero of Clark's, and provided the exultant climax to his most recent work, Come, Been and Gone ? Clark is considering altering it all at the last minute. "I've made things to completely different pieces of music to what I've shown them to, and obviously how that piece is interpreted is completely changed." He pauses. "But I did it with my own dancers and they were like, 'Woah, maybe you shouldn't try that.'"

The amateur dancers have got more than enough to worry about just getting the choreography down before Friday. "At least it's not like Glee, thank God," mutters Penny, only half-joking. "Maybe he'll throw that in at the last minute ? we'll all have to burst out singing David Bowie or something."

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Whether the Bowie tune makes it to the first of four free performances in the vast Turbine Hall at the Tate Modern on Friday, only Clark can know.

If you're one of the 78 non-professional volunteers participating in this new project, please do get in touch and let us know how it's going.

You can read more about the presentation and the performance times on the Tate Modern site and you can read the full Guardian piece here.

Legendary Stardust And The Cowboy In Nashville '72

We passed upon the stair...

BowieNetter Paul Woods sent me this great little piece from Carol Walsh in Massachusetts who wanted to give Paul some background to the above ticket, one of two he purchased from her.

The tickets were for a Bowie show at the Municipal Auditorium, Nashville, on November 20th, 1972, during Bowie's first American tour.

It may be worth remembering that there was apparently a pre-concert demonstration against Bowie because of Cherry Vanilla hyping Bowie as the new Elvis Presley!

Over to Carol...

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Oh yes, I was at the show and one of the stubs is probably mine. I went with my best friend and, along with a bunch of other folks, we drove from Memphis to Nashville (3 hours) in a van. She had kept these stubs the entire time in a scrap book and just gave them to me to sell for her. You?ll love this story.

The concert was at the Municipal Auditorium and we stayed at a hotel across from the aud. Bowie and The Spiders were also at the same hotel. As you know, this was before they were the global sensations they went on to be.

My friend and I spent time wandering around the hotel and heard a piano being softly played in one of the banquet rooms. Now remember this was the 70's and well, we were in an altered state. We followed the sound and came upon Mick Ronson tapping out a tune. We watched for a while and he noticed us. We talked for a while and he said we could stay. He asked what room we were in and told us that he was on the floor above and said come by after the show! Like that would happen today.

We wandered around the hotel some more until closer to the time of the show. My friends and I were in the lobby of the hotel. There was a staircase in the middle of the lobby. This hotel was where they shot the old TV show Hee Haw. Well, about the same time, Roy Clark (cowboy star of Hee Haw) camearound the corner and started up the stairs in full country outfit. Bowie is coming down the same stairs all "Bowied". About midpoint they meet. Bowie just glances and nods and Roy Clark stops and I swear his mouth fell to the floor and his eyes bugged out. We laughed so hard.

One of the people I was with had a super 8 movie camera and got it all on film. Have no idea where that film (or my friend) is today.

Of course the show was incredible. After the concert we all went back to the hotel. I, truthfully, did not go upstairs and party because I was partied out but some of my friends did. They said it was awesome. We were just in the right place at the right time.

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Thanx Paul and Carol.

In the above picture, I've attempted to illustrate what may have been if Bowie and Clark had actually spoken and Clark had persuaded Bowie to appear on Hee Haw.

As Paul suggested with today's headline, they could have done a duet and billed themselves as The Legendary Stardust and Cowboy...Yeah, OK. it was Paul's joke, not mine! ;-)

Btw, if the chap with the super 8 footage is reading this...please do get in touch!

Station To Station Reissue Gets Four Stars In Q Magazine

The re-return of The Thin White Duke...

The first of what will hopefully be an avalanche of great reviews for the upcoming Station To Station reissue has landed in the shape of a four-star, two-page feature in the October edition of Q magazine.

Here's the intro and the conclusion from the piece by Dorian Lynskey...

In their regular Q50 feature, wherein the Q folk recommend fifty of their favourite songs to download and listen to, Station To Station's title track is illustrated with the rather tasty picture below.

So that's a pretty good start.

Stay tuned for some exciting S2S related doo dahs ahead of the September 27th release.

Space Oddity Stems Used For Bbc School Season Trailer

Take your protein pills and put your helmet on...

If you're in the UK, you may have already caught this charming trailer which has been showing for the past few days on the BBC. The minute long short was made to promote the BBC's upcoming School Season.

The ad features some kids getting ready for school with the focus on one particular young lad putting on a space suit...the next moment his mother is saying goodbye to him as he floats off out his front door and into space.

I can't find the trailer online just yet, but you can get the gist of the rest of it from my screen grabs above.

There is no dialogue, but the film is accompanied by bits of David Bowie's Space Oddity to great effect...it seems whoever was commissioned to produce the ad has taken advantage of the Space Oddity stems downloads which purchasers could remix on their iKlax player, or other mixing device.

Anyway, the overall effect is quite lovely and let's just hope the young school starter's fate takes a different course to that of Major Tom's!

Bbc's Radio 4 Vince Taylor Doc Reviewed In Guardian

He took it all too far...

I didn't preview this one before it aired as I knew it would be available on listen again and there was the possibility it might have been a lot of old toffee.

In the event, BBC Radio 4's Ziggy Stardust Came from Isleworth was a good listen, though the influence of Vince Taylor on the shaping of David Bowie's doomed rock star creation was perhaps overstated.

Indeed, Bowie has fondly recalled, on more than one occasion, the intriguing story of his own personal encounters with an already damaged Taylor in London, (archive interview clips with Bowie were used in the documentary) and it's no secret that Taylor was one of several colours on the pallet that helped create Ziggy Stardust.

Anyway, Elisabeth Mahoney in today's Guardian pretty much echoes my sentiments, but you still have a few days to make up your own mind here if you didn't listen to the original broadcast.

Michael Putland Remembers Bowie The Decorator

The painting is all your own...

We've featured the work of photographer Michael Putland on these pages before, albeit more than five years ago. (03.21.05 REMINDER: LAST WEEK OF MICHAEL PUTLAND EXHIBITION)

I recently stumbled upon a site where Michael explains (via a short video snippet) how those early 1972 shots of David came about.

In a nutshell, Michael supplied pictures to various publications, but having done such a good job of capturing David's first ever Ziggy Stardust show on Saturday, January 29th, 1972, at Borough Assembly Hall, Aylesbury, he was contacted some time later with a new assignment.

Along with music journalist Rosalind Russell, Michael was despatched to Haddon Hall for an interview/feature on David for Disc magazine.

However, upon their arrival David apparently asked if he could just finish off a bit of decorating before they started. Seizing on the opportunity, the photographer knocked off a few shots of David with brush in hand up a stepladder...all while kitted out in the same outfit Ziggy had worn at the Aylesbury show some weeks earlier.

Obviously I feel the need to point out that Bowie was wearing his white boots for the photo shoot, not the red ones he wore for the gig.

Above is the feature that appeared in Disc in May 1972...it's a fascinating glimpse at where Bowie's head was at just before everything took off.

Beneath the feature I've inset two early colour posters...one of a shot from the Aylesbury show, the other from the Haddon Hall shoot.

Finally, in the bottom right hand corner is one of Michael's rarely seen Ziggy up a stepladder shots...of course, this was all handy training for getting David accustomed to heights, as he would be clambering over scaffolding as part of his Rainbow multi-media experience a few months later...not to mention that scene in the full length Blue Jean film.

You can view aforementioned video snippet of Michael over at ZooZoom and you can purchase some of his Bowie prints at Snap Galleries.

Duncan Jones Interview And Updates On Man Made Movies

You've watched your father plough the fields with a ram's horn...*

I'm sure the great majority of you followed our advice of many moons ago (pun intended) when we suggested that the best place to keep on top of all things Duncan Jones was over at the excellent Man Made Movies site.

However, in case you've not visited recently, you should check it out for details of three more screenings of MOON at the NFT in London from August 28th, with Duncan doing another Q&A at the venue on the 31st.

Those of you wondering why we've not heard anything more about Source Code since it was first announced should read the recent interview with Duncan while you're there.

It looks like Source Code will be released early in 2012, but my appetite was truly whetted back in April when Jake Gyllenhaal had this to say about working with Duncan on the film...

?Duncan is so awesome and he is an extraordinary director. Working with him has been that exactly and I think this movie that we are making is mind boggling. I?m telling you man, he is really quite something. His mind? he comes from quite a pedigree, just artistically, but on his own I believe he is the next generation. He is blowing my mind on a daily basis. To me, working with him, it?s surprising, his instinct, his sense of collaboration, but at the same time truly being an auteur?He?s the real deal man. Anyone who has seen MOON knows that...and this...you are really going to like it!?

Praise indeed.

* Chances are he hasn't actually...but you try and find a relevant lyric to this story that I haven't previously used!

Latest Bowie-related Iphone App Is Toilet

Brilliant Adventure...Not

I'm sure the iPhone users out there understand the need to get anything Bowie-related on to their phone...particularly stuff you can't get elsewhere, like iPhone specific applications.

I search regularly for such things, so imagine my excitement when I noticed an application back in May called Triff Of The Davids.

Despite my headline, it's not actually a WC based programme. No. What I mean is that the application itself is a load of old toilet, to use the vernacular.

Here's a grab of a typical screen...

If you laughed at that, you should be ashamed of yourself.

They've even used a pap shot...though at least this gives me the opportunity to inform you that David is wearing Aquascutum in this particular picture...something I meant to tell you at the time.

Back to the app...things this bad are usually free on the iPhone, but this isn't even worth the forty nine pence it will set you back...please take my word for it...it's not even worth the time to check out how bad it is.

With this 'news' item and the time I spent 'playing' the thing, that's an hour of my life I will never get back.

Finally, the catchline above reads: "Adventure games aren't just for nerds. They are for Bowie fans too." That may or may not be true, but it's got absolutely nothing to do with this!

Happy Tenth Birthday To Alexandria Jones

We wish you well, we wish you well...

Many happy returns of the day to Lexi who has reached double figures!

You?re probably much too sophisticated for Spongebob now, but you might still have a secret hankering for Lord Royal Highness?s biomass converting device, especially today and especially if it is still stuck at ?ice-cream only?.

In the UK, the current ?hot? tenth birthday party is a make-up party, so Mum's expertise might come in handy today as well.

Very best wishes for a wonderful day from all of us here at BowieNet. Members who want to send a personal message to Lexi can add tothis thread started by dez.

No Bowie Gaga Collaboration

Rumours and lies and stories they made up...Part 461

When this tall story first surfaced a few days ago it was denied as a hoax in an update to the same article and we thought that would be the end of it.

I guess some folk see what they want to see though and now the rumour that David Bowie has been working with Lady Gaga seems to have taken off.

The hoax was started by some bright spark or other with the above forgery. We've highlighted the supposed Bowie contributions.

However, in a nutshell, the suggestion that David Bowie is producing and participating in the production of Lady Gaga's next album is untrue and a hoax.

Why Hunky Dory Is On Gorillaz' Plastic Beach

These are your favourite things, When you're a (2D) boy...

Back in March (03.08.2010 NEWS: ALL IS HUNKY DORY ON GORILLAZ' PLASTIC BEACH) we highlighted the fact that the sleeve for David Bowie's Hunky Dory was among the mysterious items on display in 2D's rowing boat on the sleeve of the Gorillaz' latest opus, Plastic Beach.

I put out a request to see if anybody understood the relevance of the album among 2D's booty and I'm pleased to say that both Damon and Jamie responded...albeit via an interview with Serge Simonart in last month's (August issue) Record Collector magazine...

In fact Jamie, if you watch even closer you'll see that the inscription actually reads: "TO 2D LOVE DAVID X".

Thanx for clearing that one up boys...I guess Hunky Dory is the perfect desert island disc.

Anyway, next time don't be shy, feel free to contact us directly. ;-)

Official 2011 David Bowie Calendar Due End Of August

Any day now...

The official 2011 David Bowie calendar which we told you about in June, (06.07.2010 NEWS: EXCLUSIVE OFFICIAL 2011 DAVID BOWIE CALENDAR DETAILS) is still on schedule and is now due to be published on Monday, August 30th.

Stay tuned for a contest to win copies shortly...possibly signed by David Bowie!

Bowie Is Uk's Most Wanted Wedding Singer

There's a Sailor who sings...

Recent research undertaken by PRS for Music in the UK reveals that David Bowie is the male singer the public would most like to perform at their wedding.

The results of the survey, which polled 2,000 people across the UK, also reveals that Beyoncé and Take That come top as most popular female singer and most popular band respectively to perform at weddings.

Well, if anybody out there manages to persuade David Bowie to sing at their wedding, I do a very good line in Best Man speeches.

I'll leave you with the top ten of the most wanted male singer from the poll...

Most Wanted Male Singer

01 David Bowie
02 Robbie Williams
03 Lionel Ritchie
04 Barry White
05 Elton John
06 Tom Jones
07 Rod Stewart
08 Bryan Adams
09 Neil Diamond
10 Meat Loaf

Well I guess there's nothing wrong with setting your sights high.