Month: June 1999

Internet Tonight is giving away tons of cool Bowie gear to a few lucky Bowie brains who can answer two questions about the BowieNet Cyber Song Contest.

Winners will be chosen at random, and the contest runs two weeks. Recipients will be announced on Internet Tonight June 30. Here are the prizes:

A one-year subscription to BowieNet.
5 second prizes: personalized, autographed CDs
5 third-prizes: personalized, autographed BowieNet mousepads.

To be chosen for the drawing, you must send the corect answers to ZDTV.

1.What is the name of the Cyber Song Contest Winner?
2. What is the title of the winning Cyber Song?

Email your entries to Music Online. And good luck.

All entries for the drawing, with both questions answered correctly, mustbe in by midnight PST on Wednesday June 30th.

The drawing will take place “live” on Internet Tonight on Thursday July1st.Thanks to everyone who has entered so far.Good luck and may the best lad or lassie win!!

17 titles from David’s back catalog will be released in September byVirgin Records in North America and EMI Records throughout the rest ofthe world.

Each album has been digitally re-mastered at the world famous Abbey RoadStudios.

The packaging for each CD will include booklets up to 16 pages. Theyfeaturethe original album artwork, a selection of photos and with the exceptionofPin Ups, the full lyrics. While the original integrity of the artworkremains intact, the back inlays and spines of the CD’s have beendesigned toachieve a continuity across all 17 albums.

The re-releases include the following titles:

Sept 6:
Space Oddity
The Man Who Sold The World
Hunky Dory
The Rise And Fall Of Ziggy Stardust & The Spiders From Mars
Aladdin Sane
Pin Ups
Diamond Dogs
Young Americans

Sept 20:
Station To Station
Low
Heroes
Lodger
Scary Monsters
Let’s Dance
Tonight
Never Let Me Down
Tin Machine

The albums were digitally transferred from, wherever possible, theoriginalanalogue masters at 24 bits resolution. They were processed using SonicSolutions NoNoise technology and mastered to 16 bit for CD using PrismSNSNoise Shaping.

These new edition re-issues will be a fitting way to take David’s corecatalogue into the 21st Century and are a must for all Bowie fans!

There is even a cool multimedia presentation about BowieNet on each CD!

Keep watching this space for further updates!

Here are a few more photos from the Cyber Song Event. (photos by Frank Micelotta)

NOTE: we have received several request to make the images BIGGER, go we have increased the size on these!

Every once in a while, BowieNet asks it’s members to send in stories, news,pictures and general Bowie tidbits that you see out there in the big world,so that we can add them to the site. But except for a few die hard fans(you know who you are, and thank you) the incoming news and scoops stillseem to need a boost.

So it’s as simple as this: BowieNet will have a contest from now until theend of the year to see who can provide the BEST SCOOP (as it relates to David Bowie). If you win, and we get “THE” killer story of the year postedon the site because of your detective/reporter skills, you will get a simpleyet rare prize: a personal phone call from our boss (yes, David Bowie).

David will ring you up and personally thank you for contributing the yearsBEST news tip. So, what are you waiting for? Send your stories toinfo@davidbowie.com. Who knows, you might just get a special phone callfrom Bowie.

Yes, he actually did arrive on a bike, and we all had a lot of fun! Special thanks to everyone, especially Mark Plati for the chat yesterday. Check out the chat transcript here.

Mark also agreed to visit us again after the release for Bowie’s new album.

Here is a little item sent in from Julia:

Hi! I don’t know if David already knows this, but his name makes an interesting anagram:

“Via web I’d do”

or just the opposite:

“I’d avoid web”

Just quite funny, isn’t it?from a fan in FinlandJulia.

Want more from the band Rustic Overtones? Here is another website for you to look at: www.girlgerms.com.

If you want to read about the Bowie/Visconti connection to this band, be sure to have a look at this special section, and be sure to listen to the 2 encoded tracks.

You can also check them out on this website: www.rusticovertones.com

Sire Records will release the soundtrack to New Line Cinema’s upcoming film “Drop Dead Gorgeous,” an ensemble comedy starring Kirstie Alley, Ellen Barkin, Kirsten Dunst, and Denise Richards. The album will go to retail on July 13, and the motion picture hits theaters on July 23.The band Everything contribute their remake of David Bowie’s “Young Americans,” and Primitive Radio Gods perform “Devil’s Triangle” from their forthcoming Sire Records album “Mellotron On.” An unwholesome portrait of Americana, “Drop Dead Gorgeous” follows a small town’s obsession with its teenage beauty contest in a mock-documentary style.

Hut/Virgin Records are releasing ‘Without You I’m Nothing’ as an EP from Placebo (featuring David Bowie) on July 26th. It’s a limited edition release.

Don’t forget to e-mail your pre-chat questions to us BEFORE the Mark Plati chat goes live (Thats TONIGHT, June 24th 8:00 p.m. EST). Send all your questions to info@davidbowie.com.

Please log into the #ChatGuest room for this chat event. See you there.