Month: November 1998

11/14/98 UPDATE: CHAT WITH DAVID AND REEVES

Yesterday from 3:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m. EST, David Bowie and Reeves Gabrels delighted fans with a marathon 2 hour chat. Answering over 200 questions, Reeves and David discussed everything from working together to future BowieNet plans. Those of you who weren’t able to attend can read the transcript from yesterday’s chat session here!

Friday November 13th at 3:00PM EST / 8:00 PM GMT – live chat with David Bowie and Reeves Gabrels.

Need help with your chat client? Check out the BowieNet help page for Microsoft Chat 2.5.

he results are in on Dar Williams ROCK THE VOTE contest. David Bowie’s Starman is the winner. Dar will go into the studio and record the cover shortly.

Here are the songs, artists, and scores.

Let’s Get Lost – Chet Baker (2%)
At Last – Etta James (5%)
Party Girl – Elvis Costello (15%)
Starman – David Bowie (41%)
Perfect Day – Lou Reed (8%)
Is That Love – Squeeze (5%)
Somebody Loved Me – The Smiths (15%)
The Pill – Loretta Lynn (4%)

Friday November 13th at 3:00PM EST / 8:00 PM GMT – live chat with David Bowie and Reeves Gabrels. See ya there…

The new Sony Playstation NHL game features the David Bowie track Heroes as the intro to the game.

Check out this week’s ‘People’ Magazine “The Sexiest Man Alive 1998” issue. In a section called “Ages of Man – Clearly These Stars Have Time On Their Side”, People has named David Bowie as one of “the men that gets better with time” along with others like Brad Pitt, Mel Gibson, Richard Gere, George Clooney and Sean Connery.

Another great review on Glamma Kid’s ‘Fashion ’98’ that we mentioned last week. This time from London’s The Mirror A List Supplement – SINGLE OF THE WEEK: The Mobo Best Reggae Act – and Hackney’s finest – delivers a cheeky re-working of Bowie’s anti-catwalk anthem with swaggering panache and some spot-on toasting…It’s big and it’s loud and you’ve heard it before – but not like this…

Reward—name your price….We’ve been hacked!! Or how else can we explain that 8 people who entered the Cyber Song Contest received 595,937 votes and the rest of the 1000’s of entrants combined don’t even come close to that number. Ummm….who could have done such a dastardly deed? What possessed someone to endanger the submissions of law abiding web citizens who have spent countless hours in the creative corners of their minds composing lyrical gems?

As stated by David in today’s journal “No, ballet-box stuffing, ya’ hear? It won’t really help you anyway as I will be choosing the winner myself.” -db

Now what should we do if we catch our little techo menace? Not to worry, the contest is still “What’s Really Happening”.

Let the Voting Begin! The Voting Process is now open for the Cyber Song Contest. You now have a chance to vote on the submitted lyrics of other potential Bowie colaborators. Daily prizes will be drawn at random for voters. Click here to get started.

The soundtrack to Sony Playstation’s racing game “Gran Turismo (The Real Driving Simulation)” features the David Bowie track “Scary Monsters”. Gran Turismo will be in stores on November 17. Other featured artists include Garbage, the Dandy Warhols, Supergrass, Blur and Ash.