Month: July 1999

Here is a photo of Placebo, David Bowie, and Tony Visconti taken during the recording session of “Without You I’m Nothing” Thanks to our friends at Hut Records and Virgin Records.

Photo was taken by Frank W. Ockenfels III

In less than one month, record stores will be featuring the highly anticipated soundtrack to the MGM motion picture Stigmata (on Virgin Records / in stores August 24, 1999).

Here are a few pre-release shots from the forthcoming CD.

The new David Bowie album ‘hours…’ will be released in Japan with a special bonus track not included on the UK or US versions. The ‘hours…’ bonus track for Japan-only will be a piece of ‘faux-pyschodelic chantin’ drone’ called ‘We All Go Through’ according to Mr. Bowie.

www.sunspot.net has the first glimpses of the big news. UltraStar launches it’s 2nd ISP with the legendary “Baltimore Orioles.” You can check out further details at http://www.theorioles.com

Even Bowie (creator of BowieNet and co-founder of UltraStar) gets in on the news:

“We feel we can add the same excitement and sense of community to OriolesWorld which has brought so many music fans together at BowieNet. We couldn’t be more pleased to be associated with this first class franchise.” – db

Just wait for the next round of announcements coming soon 🙂

Thanks to everyone for sending in your designs for the new BowieNet T-shirt contest. Keep em coming and we will post all designs that were sent in soon. This is just a reminder: Submit your designs for an official BowieNet t-shirt.

Finally! We have posted up new images, videos, and journals from the infamous BowieNet Ball, held in New York City back in late May, 1999.

The Ball was the brainchild of several hardcore BowieNet chatters who wanted to meet “in the flesh.” The hostess of the Ball, Leezacan be seen here explaining how the ball came to be.

More videos will be posted in the coming weeks.

Where did the videos come from? If you remember back last month, ZDTV did a special 3 part series on Bowie. Part of the ZDTV piece was made up of member interviews taken at the Ball. Well, BowieNet got our hands on the out-takes, and we will be posting them in the coming weeks in this new BowieNet Ball archive area.

If you have any photos or journals you want to share, please feel free to send em in. We will post em up in this new section. Enjoy!

If you have The Movie Network in Canada, don’t forget to catch Bowie introducing the new series “The Hunger.”
Replacements”

Air times for Hunger: Replacements (EST)

Saturday Jul 24 11:30P (premiere)
Thursday Jul 29 1:00A
Thursday Jul 29 10:45P

Story Synopsis for Replacements:
A doctor attempts to uncover the evil that is turning the women in his town into zombies. Stellina Rusich. starringStellina Rusich. Rated: R

BowieNet is about to start producing some snazzy t-shirts to put in the BowieStore to celebrate our 1 year anniversary. We have some nice internal designs that we are working with…. but then it hit us – the talent pool is really our members and since you are all screaming for a new contest – here it is.

Submit your designs for an official BowieNet t-shirt. There are no rules or regulations (except you can’t rip off any copyrighted materials).

We will pick 5 finalists, post the winners design and then let our members pick the ultimate winner. Besides becoming famous – the finalists will receive both our new t-shirts and the one designed by the winner, a copy of the limited edition EP from Placebo – “Without You, I’m Nothing” – featuring a duet with David – signed by both Placebo and David, and our famous BowieNet mousepad. The grand prize winner will receive……something big!!!!!

So what are you waiting for??

Wired Magazine has recently posted a new poll entitled: “Readers Rave: People, Companies and Products that are Transforming our World.”

The poll has 11 categories including Best Entertainment Website, New Media Innovator, and Entertainment Innovator.

David has received 2 prestigious spots in the poll.

1. BowieNet has been nominated for Best Entertainment Website(Your favorite online obsession)

2. David Bowie has been nominated for Entertainment Innovator (Blowing our minds).

There are only 3 people nominated in 2 categories:
1. Steve Case
2. Steve Jobs
3. David Bowie

So, once again, it’s time for another online poll. Check it out at www.wired.com. The polling ends Aug. 10th, with an award ceramony on October 14th in San Francisco.

Last week, Bowie went into the studio with Reeves Gabrels and Mark Plati to wrap up the forthcoming “Hours…” album.

Here are a couple of fun video clips taken in the studio. No documentary work here, but we thought you might like to have a look into the studio during the making of the “Hours…”

We are talking about (of course) his Cycling Knees

The second clip shows Bowie giving a quick lesson to the boys in how to Keep Time