Month: May 2000

Besides the new look and feel, we’ve added a host of new products and services.

What’s new?
BowieNet v.2 now includes the following:

• Web based email – FYI, you can also connect to this email account with a mail client if you are so inclined. See the help section for more details.
• Individual member profiles
• 10 MB of personal web space for all members.
• We’ve done complete overhauls on the News, Discourse and Help sections.
• My Account Section for updating your account information, uploading your personal web space, and even changing your password.
• A Comprehensive member’s database
• Multiple search engines
• The BowieNet Point system
• The “Official” David Bowie Message Boards
• The all new Karma rating system for all postings.
• The new ultra-slick sitemap.
• and Much More!!

  Sound good; just wait till you hear the sonification of the site.

  BowieNet v.2 comes complete with a hand crafted musical score utilizing the musical talents of Chris Haskett and audio technology from Beatnik.

  So what is Karma you ask?

  If you like a particular posting, press the [+] once. If you don’t like the post, press the [-] once. If you feel the absolute need, you can affect the Karma rating of each post by a total of 3 points in either direction, but 3 is the individual limit. As a community, there are no limits! What does this all really mean? It means now you can know what others think about individual items on the site in real time based on it?s Karma. It?s all about real time communication! It?s about time, huh!

  New auto posting capabilities throughout the site will allow instant gratification for sharing your words, sound and vision with the rest of the BowieNet community. We do have to pass it through the web team before postings in the gallery go up, but it will now be a 24 hour turn around time rather that a monthe (or longer – shame on you Tina).

  The Internet is all about communication, and v.2 now brings you new tools to enhance your BowieNet experience. Want to chat, present your viewpoint for public commentary, change your password, speak your mind on today’s news, ask David a question, let the community know what you think of your fellow members poetry – do it all with v.2

  And that’s just the beginning. In the next few months, we will be rolling out a completely new Bowie section with new features and functionality, instant messaging, the Bowie Music laboratory and more. As always, you can be instrumental in designing and developing the next 2 phases.

  Let us know what you want on our new message boards, and we will put the communities vision into virtual reality!

  Welcome to BowieNet v.2

The first-ever Online Music Awards aired on German MTV on the 27th of April in Cologne, Germany. Viewers could vote in 7 of 8 catagories the voting per e-Mail voting.

BowieNet was under the nominations for Best Artist/Best Band!

Go to German MTV for more info

thanks bianca

BowieNet V.2 is on the way! The lucky 20 Bowie Beta-Test Team are hard at work, checking out all that V.2 has to offer, and soon, all members will be allowed to see the new BowieNet experience! Thanks for your patience, and we look forward to hearing your thoughts and comments on the new site!

It could be you…

OK it’s 6:00pm (EST) hopefully, and it’s competition time again…this is your chance to win one of three signed copies of Mick Rock’s excellent pictorial record of Iggy and the Stooges, Raw Power. In fact this is almost the equivalent of four books, as A_Girl is away. So, all you have to do is mail me NOW @ MrTotalBlamBlam@AOL.com with the answer to the following question:

What is the first track on the Iggy and The Stooges album, Raw Power?

First three correct answers I receive secure a copy, so hurry, hurry, hurry and good luck to you!

Total Blam Blam – (European Correspondent)

It could be you…

OK it’s 6:00pm (EST) hopefully, and it’s competition time again…this is your chance to win one of three signed copies of Mick Rock’s excellent pictorial record of Iggy and the Stooges, Raw Power. In fact this is almost the equivalent of four books, as A_Girl is away. So, all you have to do is mail me NOW @ MrTotalBlamBlam@AOL.com with the answer to the following question:

What is the first track on the Iggy and The Stooges album, Raw Power?

First three correct answers I receive secure a copy, so hurry, hurry, hurry and good luck to you!

Total Blam Blam – (European Correspondent)

Had a lovely little chat with gorgeous Boy George outside the toilets at the ‘Raw Power’ Launch party last Tuesday. The Culture Club singer, who recently enjoyed some chart action with his cover of ‘Starman’, informed me that his next album is to be a collection of obscure cover versions, including a little-known song called ‘Letter To Hermione’. As we were at a function celebrating the work of a rather fine rock photographer, the self-confessed ‘Number One Fan of David Bowie’ thought I might benefit from a little technical help for the picture that I took of him which I have posted here…The advice he gave me?…”Shoot from above dear!”…Indeed.Total Blam Blam – (European Correspondent)

Don’t forget to be here at 6:00pm EST (11:00pm GMT) this coming Monday May 8th, when we will be giving away three signed copies of Mick Rock’s Raw Power book. For obvious reasons the question will have an Iggy slant to it, so get swotting now!

Total Blam Blam – (European Correspondent)

“David Bowie will headline the final night of the famed Glastonbury Music Festival, set for June 23-25 in Glastonbury, U.K, and also set to feature performances by Chemical Brothers, Travis, and Foo Fighters, among dozens of others. This year’s installment marks the 30th anniversary of the event, the first edition of which Bowie headlined in 1970.”

Go to Billboard Daily Music News

from Billboard.com

As mentioned here last week, Q magazine have published The 100 Greatest British Albums Of All Time…Initially described to me as a reader survey, it transpires that the list was actually compiled behind closed doors by writers at the magazine, which makes the final listing a little more understandable. Although this top 100 is not yet published online, I’m sure it will be some time in the near future, and for those that missed it last week, here are those Bowie placings again: #30. Scary Monsters – #25. Ziggy Stardust – #16. Hunky Dory – #14. Low

In the meantime I’m afraid you will have to content yourself with the printed edition, which apart from some groovy pictures of DB illustrating the placing of the four Bowie albums above, also reprints one of the unpublished Iggy ‘n’ Ziggy pix from Mick Rock’s Raw Power book…Speaking of which…we will be giving away three copies signed by Mr Rock in another BowieNet competition this coming Monday at 6:00pm EST (11:00pm GMT). As with the American Psycho competition, all you need to do is be here at that time, and the three fastest Iggy fans among you should walk away victorious! As long as A_Girl is away that is. };-)

Total Blam Blam – (European Correspondent)

A recent chart entry in the UK was the latest in the Top of the Pops series of compilations from the BBC, imaginatively titled Top of the Pops 2. The second CD of this double set commences with David Bowie’s ‘Starman‘…Nothing new to any self-respecting db fan you might say, but I had it on good authority (hallo Martyn) that this version was THE actual performance complete with live vocal from that BBC broadcast 28 years ago, the very broadcast in fact, that sent pubescent schoolgirls into spasms of sexual desire, and worse, pubescent schoolboys into shock the length and breadth of Britain as they began to doubt their own sexuality…apparently.

So the very next day I trotted of to my local CD emporium, with only the tiniest bit of doubt in my mind, seeing as my ‘source’ was normally so reliable. But alas on my return home I discovered the normal studio version that we all know and love, but already own at least 26 times. Still, all wasn’t lost as the CD also contains my theme tune: Shania Twain’s ‘Man! I Feel Like A Woman’…If you’re still not sure if that is reason enough to purchase the CD, go here for a full track listing.

Total Blam Blam – (European Correspondent)