Month: May 2000

Rolling Stone’s poll of the moment is to choose your ‘ideal rock and roll parents’ from one of these choices:

Chrissie Hynde/Ray Davies
Madonna/Guy Ritchie
Liam Gallagher/Patsy Kensit
Lauren Hill/Rohan Marley
David Bowie/Iman
Pamela/Tommy Lee

David and Iman are in the lead with 23%, but Pamela/Tommy Lee are just one vote down, so go VOTE!!

thanks bianca and spaceface

Yesterday Channel 4 in the UK bookended their day with programmes celebrating the look of David Bowie. Big Breakfast kicked off early with a flip through new book BowieStyle. Wayne Hemmingway, the man-with-his-finger-on-the-irregular-pulse-of-fashion was the in-house expert who took us on that journey.

Jo Whiley ended the evening with a general chat about Bowie’s influence on her guests, who were Moby, Lene Nystrom of Aqua and Armend Van Helden. If you missed either of the shows click on the appropriate link above to view some screen shots and read some of the dialogue.

Paul Kinder realises his dream and time travels back to interview Ziggy…or does he? Click on Jo Whiley for more.

Total Blam Blam – (European Correspondent)

Adobe Web Center, a site by Adobe Systems Inc. (the company that makes the popular graphics program Photoshop), has a new feature on BowieNet! The article includes a quotation from BowieNet’s own Squeakie! Rock on! Here is a clip from this exclusive feature:

“Bowie is one of very few entrepreneurs willing to put money on the idea that the boundless creative energy pouring into new media will give rise to new arts. This makes it so successful in the eyes of its creator that Bowie recently relaunched the site’s next incarnation, BowieNet v2.”

Go to Adobe Web Center

‘Seven’ wanders around the world…(OK OK, very poor pun, I know…so sue me!)

The formats for the next David Bowie single ‘Seven’ have been confirmed, including mixes by Beck and Marius de Vries. For a full run down of the formats and their track-listings, click on the image of the three UK CD singles above. For our non-UK members we will shortly be running a competition to win this handsome trio of CDs. UK members can simply walk into their local CD emporium on July 17th and walk out with as many sets of the CDs as they want in exchange for some money*.

Total Blam Blam – (European Correspondent)

A favourite German band from Hannover “Fury in the Slaughterhouse” covered on their forthcoming album”Homeinside” David’s song “All the Young Dudes“. The release-party for the album was on 28th of May. More information about “Fury in the Slaughterhouse” can be found here:

Go to Fury in the Slaughterhouse online

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King Crimson, including Adrian Belew and Robert Fripp started their European tour yesterday in Copenhagen. Comprised mostly of songs from their upcoming album, the 1 1/2 hour show ended with a cover version of ‘Heroes‘, complete with Fripp’s trademark guitar licks as he laid them down on Bowie’s ‘Heroes‘ album over 22 years ago.

from teenagewildlife

Ziggy Stardust greeted AOL users yesterday, as the AOL splash screen shows. Ziggy’s face made a feature appearance on the biggest ISP in the world yesterday as promotion for the Rock Style exhibit currently showing at the Cleveland Rock ‘N Roll Hall of Fame.

from teenagewildlife

Just a reminder to UK members that the BBC Music Live event concludes this glorious Bank Holiday Monday. (A traditional UK holiday here in the UK in lieu of Whit Sunday, a day commemorating the day of Pentecost…it says here.) At 10pm (GMT) this evening Radio 2 will be supplying a Karaoke version of Lou Reed’s ‘Perfect Day’ so that we can all sing along and pretend to be David Bowie on the bits that he sang on the beautiful BBC version.

Don’t forget you can also donate that old Mellotron you have in your loft, (or any other abandoned instrument that is still in good working order) to INSTRUMENT AMNESTY up until close of play this evening. Go here for more: www.bbc.co.uk/musiclive.

Total Blam Blam – (European Correspondent)

from the QuickTime News:

This just in: Mark your calendars for June 23-25, 2000, when we’llbring you Great Britain’s 30th Glastonbury Festival, streaming liveand presented exclusively in QuickTime.

The oldest and largest outdoor performing arts festival in GreatBritain, Glastonbury is held on 700 acres in the ancient Vale ofAvalon–land where some say King Arthur is buried. This year’sfestival–the first ever to be webcast–will feature manyillustrious artists, including David Bowie, Moby, Nine Inch Nails,Groove Armada, Morcheeba, and many more.

Stay tuned. We’ll bring you more details about this important eventin the next issue of QuickTime News. In the meantime, visit theGlastonbury website for a detailed preview of what’s to come.

Go to GlastonburyFestivals.co.uk

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Wondering what David Bowie’s been doing for fun lately? Well, on Monday (May 15) night he was palling around with Page Hamilton, the ex-Helmet leader who’s been playing guitar with Bowie on and off for awhile now. The two took in the Wire, pan sonic, DJ Otefsu (the DJ moniker for Jim Thirwell of Foetus) show at Irving Plaza in New York. Bowie actually sat right next to Thirwell’s DJ rig in the balcony.

Go to All Star News at CDNow

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