Month: February 2004

Happy at the sound of your voice…

Following on from the success of her Oxford and London shows here in the UK last year, Emm Gryner has another solo show here in the capital on Tuesday, February 24th, at The Enterprise in Camden.

Emm also has a warm-up date the night before at The Spice Of Life in Soho, where she will perform four songs and be the featured artist at this singer/songwriter night.

Here are the details for each show:

LONDON Monday February 23rd – The Spice Of Life
37-39 Romilly St, London, W1D 5AN Tel: (020) 7437 7013

LONDON Tuesday February 24th – The Enterprise
2 Haverstock Hill, Camden, London, NW3 2BL Tel: (020) 7485 2659

The Enterprise is close to Chalk Farm station, and David Caggiari of the band Apartment will be opening… see you there kidz! Click on the lovely image above to get to Emm’s official site.

Climbs across his bike and he’s away…

You may remember a piece we ran back in 2002, when David signed a couple of guitars for the B.A.D.D. (Bikers Against Drunk Drivers) campaign. (10/26/02 NEWS: BOWIE DONATES TWO TAKAMINES TO B.A.D.D.) David has again graciously lent his name to the campaign this year, with the signing of two more guitars and a couple of motorbikes. The guitars are up on eBay right now.

Here are a few words from Danny Perkins, (who organised the signing session with David again this year) taken from the eBay description:

The Real Deal Folks!! David Bowie has been supporting B.A.D.D. Bikers Against Drunk Drivers for over 18 years and has signed two donated Takamine 12-string acoustics. David also personalized them with lyrics to Ziggy Stardust and Rock ‘N’ Roll Suicide.This auction is for one of the two guitars. The winner will have the choice of the two.The other guitar will be given away along with a 2004 Boss Hoss or Harley Heritage Softail that David Bowie also signed for our 2004-5 fundraising promotion.

The guitars are signed as follows : ” Ziggy played guitar” Bowie 2004 and the other “Time takes a cigarette” Bowie 2004.

This is your chance to own a piece of Rock and Roll History from Rock’s Original Aladdin Sane!!

Thanx Danny, and good luck again for this year’s auction. Those of you interested in bidding on one of the guitars can reach the eBay page by clicking on any of the above images.

FANtastic Voyage…

Lots of fan-organised fun happenings down-under for David’s Oz shows. BowieNetter vicious has sent in the following useful communication:

Hi Blammo, as the great days of Aussie shows draw near (one drought we’ve managed to conquer, yay!) I thought it time to let you know that we have some fantastic stuff happening for local fans around the country.

In Melbourne we have organised a big nightclub after party for the Friday 27th concert, and a similar event has been booked for Brisbane by BNut David Newman, who is usually known as Diamond Dave. There are meetup events for each show but these two are the main ‘public’ ones.

Everyone is welcome, particularly to the Club UK night which has not only been organised in the main by several Bowienetters (Maeko.QinZa, SoulLove Cass, myself, Dr Adam) but has a gorgeous flyer designed by the very wonderful Harry Williams. (See above)

The full details are:

Club UK proudly presents “Fantastic Voyage: a six hour niteflight through deepest, darkest, uncharted Bowie”

Club UK is at 169 Exhibition street Melbourne.
10pm til late, Friday 27th February.
$5 entry or show your Reality concert stub for free entry before 11.30pm

All of the info for people wanting to come along to fan meetups in Wellington or Australia can be found at the Bowiedownunder site.

Diamond Dave’s Brisbane after party is to be held at the Troubador Bar in Fortitude Valley, and details can also be found here.

Anyhow, enough from me, except to say that we’re all getting *very* excited in Oz about the concerts coming up! Cheers & thanks ~Vic

Thanx for that Vic, I’ve a feeling these are going to be wild nights… you people sure know how to party!

As Vic says, you can find details of all of the events by clicking on the beautifully-designed flyer above to take you to the bowie downunder web site. Apart from being able to view much larger versions of both sides of the flyer, the site keeps on top of all Bowie-related Oz news, including details of two Spooky Ghost shows in Sydney on Feb 19th and Melbourne on Feb 24th.

You’d let me know when the time was now…

Tickets for David’s show at Prospera Place (formerly Skyreach Place) in Kelowna, BC, Canada on April 11 go on sale via a BowieNet pre-sale at 1:00pm(EST) …that’s a little over an hour and a half.

Click on the image above or go to the A Reality Tour tickets page to get tickets at aforementioned time.

Writing comedy prose for radio shows…

Top Of The Pops 2 takes on a new tone all this week, with guest presenters Vic Reeves and Bob Mortimer joining Steve Wright to choose their favourites from the TOTP archives.

Viewers in the UK should tune in to BBC 2, in any of its various regional guises, at 6.45PM this Wednesday night, the 11th February and check out what Vic and Bob have to say about Space Oddity.

:))

Diamond Dogs rule, OK…

The classic David Bowie album, Diamond Dogs, is to be afforded the treatment given to the recent re-issues of Ziggy Stardust and Aladdin Sane with a 30th Anniversary double disc edition.

The package will come as a miniature reproduction of the original sleeve, housed in a slipcase with a booklet of rare pictures and related information, including a bonus disc of currently unavailable and hard-to-find tracks.

Diamond Dogs (30th Anniversary Edition) is scheduled for May, but we don’t have a definite date just yet. Below is the tracklisting for both discs:

David Bowie – Diamond Dogs (30th Anniversary Edition)

Bow-wow, woof woof, bow-wow, wow, indeed.

Well, The Joint was rocking…

David Bowie returned to The Wiltern for the final US show of the current leg of his A Reality Tour last night. By all accounts, the show ended with a bang, with David on top form and giving one of the more spirited performances of this Vegas/LA string of dates. Thanks to BowieNetter iPod, (aka James Christie) for the above shot.

The star-studded aftershow witnessed visits from many celebrity Bowie fans, such as Gary Oldman and Edward Norton, (above) Dermot Mulroney, John Stamos, Mary Stuart Masterson and, below, co-star of The Linguini Incident, Rosanna Arquette.

You can view more of Kevin Mazur‘s great shots over at wireimage.com. While you’re there, check out some more aftershow shots from previous shows, of David with Francis Ford Coppola, Sofia Coppola, Frank Black of the recently reformed Pixies, (can’t wait to see them at a few of David’s shows) Perry Ferrell of Jane’s Addiction, Ian Astbury of The Doors of the 21st Century and The Cult, Martin Gore of Depeche Mode, Evan Rachel Wood, Scarlett Johansson, The Lord of the Rings Trilogy stars Elijah Wood and Dominic Monaghan, Naomi Watts, Charlize Theron, Heath Ledger, Trent Reznor and David Spade! Phew…

Anyway, here’s the 28-song set list that those present last night enjoyed:

Los Angeles February 7th 2004

01 Rebel Rebel
02 Pablo Picasso
03 New Killer Star
04 Fantastic Voyage
05 I’ve Been Waiting For You
06 Reality
07 Looking For Water
08 Fame
09 Cactus
10 Battle For Britain (The Letter)
11 China Girl
12 A New Career In A New Town
13 The Loneliest Guy
14 The Man Who Sold The World
15 Slip Away
16 Under Pressure
17 Life On Mars?
18 Be My Wife
19 Days
20 Hang On To Yourself
21 Ashes To Ashes
22 I’m Afraid Of Americans
23 “Heroes”

(Encore)
24 Blue Jean
25 White Light, White Heat
26 Five Years
27 Suffragette City
28 Ziggy Stardust

David now has a short break until the tour continues in Wellington, New Zealand on the 14th of February.

Well, The Joint was rocking…

David Bowie and his band returned to The Joint in Las Vegas last night, for what sounds like a good fun night. BowieNetter NancyH was present, (as ever) and she posted a few cracking shots on the MBs, along with a few words about her evening:

Last night could not, could not have been any better in any way. Except maybe, if the band went on forever… SUCH a great vibe in the air, crowd on their feet cheering the entire night, band up to hijinx, David was a firecracker, full of chit-chat and banter and jokes and smiling all night.

Lots of crowd-pleasures in the set list, but everyone sang along to just about everything. Notice no slow numbers in there. He kept the crowd on their feet the entire night with one rocker after the next, there was no downtime. As with first Vegas, played straight through the setlist with no exit off stage for encores. 24 songs, 2 hours, it was GREAT.

That was it for me, and I’m glad, because although the LA shows kept getting impossibly better and better, there would be no topping my experience last night.

Wow, who’d have thought that after the first show. Anyway, here’s the 24-song set list:

Las Vegas February 6th 2004

01 New Killer Star
02 Looking For Water
03 I’ve Been Waiting For You
04 Let’s Dance
05 Fame
06 Cactus
07 All The Young Dudes
08 Pablo Picasso
09 Under Pressure
10 Life On Mars?
11 The Man Who Sold The World
12 Rebel Rebel
13 Fashion
14 China Girl
15 Days
16 Changes
17 Sound And Vision
18 Ashes To Ashes
19 White Light, White Heat
20 I’m Afraid Of Americans
21 “Heroes”
22 Five Years
23 Suffragette City
24 Ziggy Stardust

Here’s a bit more from Nancy:

Very interesting and fun stage antics going on last night. Just as Ziggy ended, Gail goes off to the side and is handed a big bouquet of red roses. She runs them over to David and the entire band drops their instruments and runs over to David and cheers and does a big group hug thing, everyone in the band is doubled over in laughter.

Meanwhile, all the road crew and instrument techs rush onto the stage and take the band’s place on the instruments. It was total chaotic hilarity!

Thanx for that Nancy, sounds like it was a bit of a different atmosphere to last week’s show at The Joint! (01.31.2004 NEWS: LAS VEGAS PIX, SET LIST AND REVIEWS) BowieNetters can view the whole of Nancy’s entry, including more pictures, by clicking on either of the above images.

Waiting so long, I’ve been waiting so long…

OK folx, a thousand grovelling apologies for the inactivity here on the BowieNet news pages over the last week. A comedy of errors prevented me from getting my stuff uploaded during my recent US jaunt. Funny though, didn’t seem like a comedy at the time!

I know that sounds a bit pathetic, but not being a tech head by any stretch of the imagination, didn’t much help matters either. But, please believe me, I tried.

Many apologies to David, who has been as patient as you all seem to have been… and thanks to everybody for bearing with me on this.

Anyway, over the next couple of days I’ll be getting on top of the current news and going back and filling in the gaps with tons of shots I’ve taken of David while I was in the States. We also have another round of competitions coming up, including the return of the BowieNet Vaults and the very popular photo-competitions we ran a couple of years back.

And so, on to the business in hand. A Reality Tour reached Phoenix’s Dodge Theatre last night, and here’s the 24-song set list followed by snippets from a couple of the online reviews that have appeared so far, with links to the full pieces:

Phoenix February 5th 2004

01 Rebel Rebel
02 New Killer Star
03 Looking For Water
04 Fame
05 Cactus
06 All The Young Dudes
07 Reality
08 China Girl
09 A New Career In A New Town
10 The Loneliest Guy
11 The Man Who Sold The World
12 Hallo Spaceboy
13 Sunday
14 Under Pressure
15 Life On Mars?
16 Be My Wife
17 Days
18 Ashes To Ashes
19 I’m Afraid Of Americans
20 “Heroes”

(Encore)
21 Hang On To Yourself
22 Five Years
23 Suffragette City
24 Ziggy Stardust

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The Arizona Republic – Bowie turns back time in Phoenix show by Larry Rodgers

Review and pictures removed at publishers request. You can still reach both by clicking on the link above.

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East Valley Tribune – David Bowie gives Dodge a dose of ?Reality? by Thomas Bond

British rock legend David Bowie was like a well-dressed bride in concert, offering a sold out Dodge Theatre crowd something old (lots of classic hits), something new (several songs from his new album, ?Reality?), something borrowed (a Pixies cover) and something blue (weepy ballad ?The Loneliest Guy?).

Taking the stage in a ragged swashbuckling outfit a la Johnny Depp in ?Pirates of the Caribbean,? Bowie had the audience on its feet from the get-go with ?Rebel Rebel.? Thin as a rail and sporting a typically stylish coif, the singer doesn’t look a day over 40 even though he’s 57-years-old. Maybe he looks so young because he’s nearly always been ahead of the times and a great part his appeal over a 30+ year career is that he rarely repeats himself.

?It’s always something different,? said Petra Blair, of Chandler who is the same age as Bowie. ?He never does the same old thing.?

While his commercial fortunes have waxed and waned repeatedly over the decades, Bowie’s appeal is timeless and the proof lied in the multi-generational makeup of his fans at the show. Being remarkably attractive doesn’t hurt either.

?He’s a sex god,? said Nicole Lindbergh, 25, of Gilbert. ?I’ve wanted that man since I was eight years old!?

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The tour returns to The Joint at the Hard Rock in Las Vegas tonight.