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“Under the moonlight, this serious moonlight.” Major Jack Celliers
(played by David Bowie) enjoys some brief respite from the torture of
an unforgiving sun, shortly before…ooops, nearly gave the ending away!
You must see the movie the sand in my eyes…
BowieNetter, Withnail, informs me that he is responsible for the booking of ‘Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence’ at the forthcoming 10th annual Hamptons International Film Festival. The film is due to be screened this Friday the 18th at 10:30pm. Withnail explains further:
As you may know, I am a programmer for the 10th annual Hamptons International Film Festival, in charge of the Films of Conflict & Resolution section. I chose to program an archival film out of competition, and it is, of course, Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence. So, here are the details:
The Hamptons International Film Festival will be screening Nagisa Oshima’s 1983 film Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence on Friday, October 18th at 10:30pm at the Sag Harbor Theater in Sag Harbor, NY as part of the Films of Conflict & Resolution section.
The description (written by yours truly) along with a nifty piccy of Sailor in a WWII British paratrooper’s hat (NOT taken by yours truly) and a link to buy tix can be found here. All information on purchasing other tickets and passes (including a special $50 Conflict & Resolution pass) can be found here. For any Bowienetters that want to come out for the screening, there is travel info here:
Sag Harbor is about 5 miles from East Hampton, where the bulk of the festival screenings are being held. Anyone who needs further info can email me at my BowieNet account. I will be VERY busy throughout the fest, but I will do my best to answer all questions. – Withnail
So there you have it, keep scrolling for more BowieNetters wot dun good…
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The solid book we wrote can not be found today… (though it will be available soon)
BowieNetter and contributor to these very pages, Spaceface, sees the fruit of her labours published shortly, in the shape of a new book called: ‘Rock at the Sharp End: a Promoter’s Tale’. Spaceface has spent the last five years helping to edit the book which was written by Geoff Doherty. You can pre-order the book at Amazon, which is where I nicked this synopsis from:
He promoted them all – The Who, Eric Clapton, Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, David Bowie, Yes, Free, Rod Stewart, Jethro Tull, Deep Purple, The Nice and scores more. Sometimes they were on the way up, sometimes they were already big, sometimes they didn’t show at all. Acts that didn’t usually play in the north-east played for Geoff Doherty. This is his story, spiced with sex, drugs and violence. A miner’s son, his upbringing was marked by hardship and countless street fights, but at the Bay Hotel in Sunderland, he brought self-belief and steely determination to getting the big stars to play on his patch. Docherty progressed from being doorman and bouncer to self-appointed promoter with a style all of his own and became arguably the biggest rock concert promoter in the north-east of England.
We’ll bring you more closer to the book’s publication, including, hopefully, some of the Bowie stuff that didn’t make the final edit. One more dungooder to go…
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David Bowie with the Coral at Later With Jools Holland. Pic by Total Blam Blam.
Snapping pictures of scrawny limbs and toothy grins… (And that’s just The Coral!)
The picture above appears in Britain’s most popular music weekly, NME, here in the UK this week for a news feature about flavour-of-the-moment, The Coral.
NME printed the picture as part of an apology for an earlier piece the magazine published, in which it was suggested the Scouse youngsters had snubbed Mr Bowie during a photo opportunity, and were generally rude to him during the taping of the Tenth Anniversary Edition of Later With Jools Holland.
In fact nothing could be further from the truth, the band made their way backstage after the taping in search of a Bowie autograph, which they received, along with a twenty minute chat with DB. Thankfully, BowieNetter, Total Blam Blam (hold on…that’s me!) was there to record the event for posterity and to witness both parties getting along famously.
Here’s the gracious NME correction printed in the current edition:
NME has discovered a picture of the meeting between The Coral and David Bowie at a recording of the tenth anniversary edition of BBC2 show Later With Jools Holland. In the October 5th issue of NME, we mistakenly reported that the band declined to be photographed with Bowie for the show. But – as the picture shows – Bowie and The Coral are now great mates.
NME have also “mistakenly reported” that Later will air on the 21st and 25th of October, but it in fact the show kicks of the new series on BBC2 this Friday the 18th at 11:35pm. Last done good to follow, same BowieNetter though I’m afraid!
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Front page of last week’s Music Week and this week’s NME cutting, with pictures by Total Blam Blam.
Music (Week picture) is sublime…
Britain’s most popular trade music weekly, Music Week, last week had a large live shot of DB from Hammersmith gracing their front page. The picture was used to illustrate a review of the show, and very nice it is too, even if I say so myself.
Of course, you lot have already seen it, and judging by the lovely e-mails I received, a few of you liked it too. The Music Week shot was my first non-internet published picture, and I have to say I’m feeling a tiny bit proud of myself right now!
Thanx as always to DB for giving me the opportunity, and being the sort of subject that makes it easy to get a good result.
