Month: September 1999

Enitiled Raging Bull, Steven Blus wrote up this review:

Beautiful, David Bowie hours…(Virgin Records) – From out of nowhere, this album is his best damn effort in 20 years. Back to the future indeed.

Here is the scheduled line-up:

GREATEST HITS OF DAVID BOWIE:
1300 & 1800
David Bowie Day kicks off with thirty minutes of his biggest hits to date.

**PREMIERE:
VH1 TO ONE: DAVID BOWIE
1330, 1830 & 0100
With new material flying out of record store, David Bowie talks exclusively to VH1 about his career to date and his hopes for the future, in this brand new interview.

**PREMIERE:
STORYTELLERS – DAVID BOWIE
1600 & 2200
In July, David Bowie was voted the biggest music star of the century by readers of The Sun. In the same month, he was voted the sixth Greatest Star of the Century by Q magazine and its readers. From the age of eight, the young boy then named David Jones had been insisting that he would one day be the greatest rock star in England.

With hits including Ashes To Ashes, Space Oddity, Let’s Dance and Heroes many would argue he has achieved his goal.

In this exclusive edition of Storytellers David Bowie performs tracks from throughout his prolific career, and talks candidly to an intimate studio audience about the inspirations that shaped his songwriting. As well as tracks from his latest album, the session features vintage classics including China Girl, Life On Mars and Rebel Rebel. Repeated tonight at 2200.

DAVID BOWIE – LIVE AT THE BEATCLUB
1900
A vintage live performance from the 1970s by the ever-changing Bowie

**FILM: ZIGGY STARDUST
2300
Bowie performs as his androgynous alter-ego in this rare concert film dubbed “the movie of the concert of the album that changed your life” by Rolling Stone. Classic tracks include Space Oddity, Changes and Suffragette City. (1973)

Here is a list of the other “Hours…” Webring participants:

Lycos
Eden
VH1
BowieNet
Freeserve
Yalplay
Capital
Rollingstone
Virgin America/The Raft (TBC)
Ginger

BowieNet is pleased to host the track “If I’m Dreaming my Life”.

Click the 40kbps link if you have a fast internet connection (56kbps modem or faster), otherwise use the 16kbps version. Use the back and next links to visit the other websites in the ring and listen to the other album tracks.

A Veritable BowieFest on a Stick!
Treking all the way to London for NETAID?
Want to make it a weekend long party?The BowieFest starts here!!!!!!

We are proud to announce the BowieNet UK Bashon Friday 8th October.

The Place: Edward’s pub, Hammersmith (Upstairs function room)
The Time: 8.00 for 8:30pm.

Set in a private room with own bar just a stone’s throw from the Hammersmith Odeon (now Apollo), of farewell Ziggy concert fame, it is the ideal location for a Bowie party and to meet BowieNetters from across the world!!!! What a way to set the tone the night before setting off to see the man himself at NetAid!!

Details: We are expecting a great crowd for the party, we can accommodate up to 200 people. There will be a minimal charge of £3 per person to cover costs of room hire and the DJ, any surplus funds will be donated to the NetAid charity. Bring your Bowie CD’s with you to add to the Bowie atmosphere! Plus special BNet goodies to be had in a grand giveaway!

We will be operating a strict door policy for the event, so please mail us using the link below, and tell us that you are coming – giving your real name and net/chat name and the number in your party. To be sure of getting in mail us straight away bnetukbash@mailcity.com

Travel: Edward’s is on the corner of King Street and Beadon Road in Hammersmith.By Tube: District Line to Hammersmith turn right out of the station and it’s across the road. Picadilly Line to Hammersmith: pub is opposite the station.

We look forward to seeing you there! So go on reply today!!!!!This BNet event has been brought to you by: Electric Blue (Steph) and Spaceface (Karen).

Here is a brief excerpt that we thought you’d enjoy.

Bowie even brought a digital camera along to the interview so he could take pictures of the photographers — to put up on the first artist-created Internet service provider, BowieNet — while they took pictures of him.

Damien Hirsts and Chris Ofili, two of Bowie’s favorite artists are both at the center of the controversy. If you remember back to Bowie’s journal from October 29th, 1998, Bowie predicted that Chris Ofili would win the prestigious Turner Prize, which Ofili did indeed win.

Ofili is a Roman Catholic whose portrait of the Virgin Mary was at the heart of the Mayors complaints. The Mayor, who actually had never seen the exhibit, only the show’s catalogue, declared SENSATION as “sick stuff.”

“You don’t have a right to government subsidy for desecrating somebody else’s religion,” he said. “And therefore we will do everything that we can to remove funding for the Brooklyn Museum until the director comes to his senses and realizes that if you are a government-subsidized enterprise, then you can’t do things that desecrate the most personal and deeply held views of people in society. I mean, this is an outrageous thing to do.”

Here, Ofili defends his work:

“As an altar boy, I was confused by the idea of a holy Virgin Mary giving birth to a young boy,” he said. “Now when I go to the National Gallery and see paintings of the Virgin Mary, I see how sexually charged they are. Mine is simply a hip-hop version.”

The city gives the museum nearly $7 million a year in operating expenses — nearly one-third of its $23 million budget.

Keep an eye on BowieNet for further SENSATION developments.

Read the entire article from the New York Times.

Here is an excerpt:
Perhaps the most interesting aspect of the game, and the one gaining the most press thus far, is not the game’s graphics, scope, martial arts elements, or risqué content. It is the music, and the star behind it–the Thin White Duke himself, David Bowie, who contributes voice acting and his likeness to portray the enigmatic music star, Boz. Apparently Bowie, who has his own ISP (BowieNet) was thrilled at the prospect.

Campbell went on to say: “[We were] surprised and hugely pleased when talk drifted from licensing old songs to writing an entirely original ‘gametrack’ for the whole game, taking in everything from cheesy elevator music to brand-new songs about the world itself.”

Get the entire story at www.gamecenter.com

As always, you can check out the special Omikron section here on BowieNet.

If you call the Conan show right now, (212) 664-3056/3057 and ask for tickets (up to 4 per person) they STILL have ticket’s available.

According to the folks at NBC, if you show up at NBC on the 49th Street side of the building the day of a scheduled show at or before 9:00 a.m., you can get in line for STAND BY tickets, meaning that if someone with a reserved ticket does NOT show up, you could potentially get in.

Call the (212) 664-3056/3057 for more details. If you do make it down to the NBC ticket line please remember: one ticket per customer, and NO GUARANTEES here, but there is a shot!

Bowie fans can choose to purchase the album in either format; if you choose the Windows Media Player format, the album download includes a special edition David Bowie Player.

As reported last week, the download is only available through participating retailers whose sites are based in the US, Canada and now Australia.

Here is a list of retail sites offering the Bowie Download. We’ve included a little comparative shopping price guide as well. Why different prices you ask? Well, it’s up to the individual retailer to set the price points, just as in traditional retail sales.

Here is the line-up:

Eiffel 65 – Blue (Da Ba Dee)
Vengaboys – We’re Going To Ibiza
Sting – Brand New Day
Everything But The Girl – Five Fathoms
Paul Johnson – Get Get Down
Wyclef Jean & Bono – New Day
David Bowie – Thursday’s Child
Tom Jones & The Cardigans – Burning Down The House

Top Of The Pops will air this Friday, September 24, 7:30 p.m.