Month: April 2006

Hey babe, let’s go out tonight…

Those of you in New York that can get along to Coliseum Books this evening may want to attend the Mick Rock event that we told you about last month. (03.12.2006 NEWS: TWO MICK ROCK PERSONAL APPEARANCES IN NEW YORK)

Here are the details again in case you missed the original news piece.

MEET PHOTOGRAPHER MICK ROCK – The man The London Times coined: ?The Music World?s Top Snapper?
DISCUSSION, SLIDESHOW, AND SIGNING FOR HIS LATEST BOOK: GLAM! AN EYEWITNESS ACCOUNT, WHICH INCLUDES:
? Dazzling photos of David Bowie, Iggy Pop, Syd Barrett, Queen, Debbie Harry, Andy Warhol, Mick Jagger, Lou Reed and more
? Introduction & text by Mick Rock
? Foreword by David Bowie
For more information please visit: www.mickrock.com
Glam! An Eyewitness Account published by Omnibus Press, Spring 2006

COLISEUM BOOKS
11 WEST 42ND ST.
BETWEEN 5TH AND 6TH AVENUES
(ACROSS FROM BRYANT PARK)
THURSDAY, APRIL 20TH, 6:30PM

Meanwhile, I’ve had a few e-mails from members who have spotted the official 2007 calendar for sale at a popular online UK store.

Well, back in February (02.07.06 NEWS: MICK ROCK UPDATE) we did promise to give you details as soon as we get them, which is why you’ve heard no more on these pages as of yet.

The above image is not the official calendar front as such, it’s just a mock-up that was created for trade fairs and, as nice as it is, the finished calendar will most likely feature a completely different image.

What we can tell you is that a special limited edition of the calendar is planned that will be offered to BowieNet members before it goes on sale to the general public. I should say that while it won’t be signed, it will definitely be more desirable than the general on-sale version.

Just to get a very rough idea of numbers, please e-mail me here if you are a BowieNet member and you think the limited edition is an item you would be interested in purchasing.

Don’t worry, you won’t be obliged to buy, we’re just trying to plan ahead.

I’m worth a million in prizes…

A mere year and a half since we posted the totals, (09.05.2004 NEWS: BOWIENET GIVE-AWAY LATEST TOTALS) I’ve finally got my arse into gear and listed the contents of the BowieNet vaults.

Those of you interested in this know what it’s all about and have been waiting far too long to learn how you may be rewarded for your labours.

For that I apologise, and by way of compensation I have doubled the points of everybody listed below.

BowieNet point totals in alphabetical order:

chas: 200
corrie: 100
kimberly: 245
LizSK2: 30
lruiz: 10
maarten: 30
mandn: 60
nemesis: 10
route66gal: 40
simone: 5
stardusters2003: 5
t3ddy: 5
vivian: 200
zig: 305
ZiggyStarGirl: 5

Also j_lope and ZiggyStarGirl both found a Mystery Prize token. That concept won’t really work how I had intended it to for the original contest now. However, I have awarded both of you 100 points each, automatically doubled to 200.

OK, so that’s the amount of points you found at the time, but now you can double them. For example, zig actually collected 305 points, (even though he only claimed 205!) so he now has 610 points to spend from the list below.

All you have to do now is claim your booty in an e-mail to me to the value of the points you now have. There should be enough of everything for everybody to get what they choose. But in the unlikely event that there isn’t, it will work on a first-come-first-served basis until stocks are exhausted.

You may claim only one of each item up to the value of your points. For example, if you have 600 points you could claim the withdrawn Hunky Dory and the set of six Simply Vinyl LPs with 60 points to spare, but you couldn’t claim two Hunky Dorys.

There’s no time limit on when you can claim by, indeed, the vault will be updated as we get new items so you’re quite welcome to wait for something else if nothing takes your fancy right now.

We’ll also be running a competition on the first of each month to win points that can be spent in the BowieNet vaults starting next month. We’ll be making a more permanent page for this purpose which will be updated with new arrivals as and when we get them.

Here’s the list as it stands with point values for each item…

CDs
Best Of Bowie – 39 track double CD (UK version) = 20 points
Best Of Bowie – 6 track European promo in slimline case – Tracks are: Space Oddity / Life On Mars? / The Jean Genie / “Heroes” / Under Pressure / Let’s Dance = 10 points
Bowie At The Beeb Sampler – 8 track promo in replica tape box (BEEBPRO 6872) – Tracks are: In The Heat Of The Morning / Let Me Sleep Beside You / Amsterdam / Kooks / Hang Onto Yourself / Changes / Oh! You Pretty Things / Lady Stardust = 20 points
Everyone Says ‘Hi’ – European 1 track promo radio edit in slimline case = 10 points
Heathen – CD in 12″ LP style gatefold packaging = 10 points
Heathen – 4 track promo CD in card slipcase – Tracks are: Slow Burn (edit) / Everyone Says ‘Hi’ (Album Version) / I Took A Trip On A Gemini Spaceship (Album Version) / Sunday (Moby remix) = 10 points
‘hours…’ – 10 track full album promo in card slipcase = 10 points
Never Get Old – 2 track promo CD in slimline case (SAMPCS 13495 1) – Tracks are: Never Get Old / Waterloo Sunset. = 15 points
New Killer Star – European 1 track promo in slimline case = 10 points
Pictures Of Lilly – Substitute The Songs Of The Who – 3 track Daily Telegraph promo in card slipcase – Tracks are: David Bowie – Pictures Of Lilly / Ocean Colour Scene – Anyway Anyhow Anywhere / Fastball – The Real Me = 5 points
Reality – 11 track full album promo in slimline case = 10 points
Rebel Never Gets Old – 4 track promo CD in jewel case (SAMPCM 14071 2) – Tracks are: Rebel Never Gets Old (Radio Mix )/ Rebel Never Gets Old (7th Heaven Edit) / Rebel Never Gets Old (7th Heaven Mix) / Days (Album Version) = 20 points
Seven – 4 track promo CD in card slipcase (SEVENDPRO1) – Tracks are: Seven (Marius de Vries Mix) / Seven (Remix by Beck) / Seven (live) / Seven (Demo) / I’m Afraid Of Americans (video) = 10 points
Slow Burn – European 1 track promo radio edit in slimline case = 10 points
Slow Burn – European 3 track single in card slipcase – Tracks are: Slow Burn / Wood Jackson / Shadow Man = 10 points
Slow Burn – European 5 track EP in slimline case – Tracks are: Slow Burn / Wood Jackson / Shadow Man / When The Boys Come Marching Home / You’ve Got A Habit Of Leaving = 10 points
Survive – 3 track promo CD in card slipcase (VSCDJ 1767) – Tracks are: Survive (Marius de Vries Mix)/Survive (Album Version) = 10 points
Thursday’s Child – 3 track promo CD in card slipcase (VSCDJ 1753) – Tracks are: Thursday’s Child (Radio Edit) / Thursday’s Child (Rock Mix) / Thursday’s Child (Album Version) = 10 points
Ziggy Stardust – 1 track Bowie At The Beeb promo only CD (BEEBREP 2) = 5 points

Vinyl
Hunky Dory – Ultra rare Simply Vinyl withdrawn album with rejected sleeve = 300 points
Set of 6 x 180gm sealed limited edition Simply Vinyl deleted LPs – From Space Oddity to Pin Ups = 240 points
Rebel Never Gets Old – 12″ picture disc = 20 points
Slow Burn – 7″ orange vinyl = 15 points
Survive – 7″ picture disc = 10 points
Ziggy Stardust The Motion Picture – Limited edition numbered red vinyl double LP = 30 points

Miscellaneous
David Bowie’s 2002 Meltdown programme signed by David Bowie and The Legendary Stardust Cowboy (2002) = 200 points
David Bowie’s 2002 Meltdown aftershow pass for night of Bowie show signed by David Bowie (2002) = 50 points
David Bowie’s 2002 Meltdown Access All Areas pass for night of Bowie show = 15 points
Heathen promotional postcard signed by David Bowie (2002) = 40 points
Reality bookmark + Reality DVD bookmark + Rebel Never Gets Old promotional badge = 5 points
Reality canvas – 14″ square reproduction of Reality cover = 60 points
Sound + Vision 2003 box set print – Ultra rare withdrawn 30″ x 20″ Kodak Professional Endura promotional print (Only 5 made…never used) = 200 points
The Month September ’03 – Interactive CD ROM with Bowie cover given away with The Sunday Times Culture magazine to promote Reality. Bowie feature includes 30 minutes viewing and reading time = 10 points
Ziggy Stardust 30th anniversary – Black 30″ x 20″ poster with great Ziggy image and text about CD release = 20 points
Ziggy Stardust 30th anniversary – French promo only, 24-page 6″ square glossy booklet = 20 points

Have fun choosing and send your claims to me here. Sorry again for the outrageous delay.

If sandyscandy is reading this, could you please get in touch to claim your signed piece of original David Bowie clothing.

The Times tomorrow will know what to do…

Tomorrow’s The Times newspaper in the UK has a front-page blurb and a full-page interview with Secret Machines, a large proportion of which is taken up with the subject of David Bowie.

There’s also a piece regarding the exclusive BowieNet/Secret Machines interview podcast that we first told you about a few weeks ago. (03.26.2006 NEWS: EXCLUSIVE BOWIENET DB/SECRET MACHINES INTERVIEW)

The ‘Newspaper Of The Year’ will be taking the DB/SM interview to an even larger audience with its regular weekly online podcast feature, which you can reach by clicking on the image above.

Here’s the blurb from The Times Online page…

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David Bowie with Secret Machines

This week’s podcast departs from our usual formula to feature David Bowie interviewing Secret Machines, the New York-based band Bowie has tipped for success in 2006.

Secret Machines discuss landing on their feet in New York City, the first generation of synthesizers, filling concert venues with noise and their excitement at being made single of the week in The Sun.

Bowie calls Secret Machines live “a great experience, one of the best live bands I’ve seen for a long, long time.” Listen in to hear the band talk about how their gruelling touring schedule has changed their lives, what it felt like covering The Beatles and also to hear exclusive tracks from their new album, Ten Silver Drops.

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The new Secret Machines interview inside the paper, above, has much Bowie content…here are a few excerpts…

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He loves the young Americans

Secret Machines are being tipped for the top by a new chum ? David Bowie. Martin Aston shares their joy

When Secret Machines were mixing their second album in West London last year, the trio grabbed at their record label Reprise?s suggestion to stay at the K. West hotel. Now, we?re not talking of Holland Park or even Kensington, but behind the monolith that is Shepherds Bush Shopping Centre. Aficionados of David Bowie cover art will, however, understand. For above Bowie?s head on the Ziggy Stardust sleeve, on the wall, is an illuminated sign ? K. West.

Alas, neither geography nor history was on their side. ?The sign?s gone now,? laments Brandon Curtis, the band?s diminutive vocalist and keyboardist, and his bandmates ? his bass-playing brother Ben and drummer Josh Garza ? look similarly crestfallen. ?And so has the phone booth. Anyway, the street wasn?t round here; it was off Regent Street. We went there to check it out.? (Blammo Note: They were looking for the wrong K WEST. See my original news story from 2002: 11.15.2002 SNIPPET: THE QUEST FOR K WEST)

David Bowie, it transpires, has in turn been checking out Secret Machines. One of his missives on www.davidbowie.com made no bones about it: ?The great news this week is that the Secret Machines have finished their new album and I hope to get a copy shortly. This may be my band for 2006. You read it here, Sunshine.?

The chummy relationship was cemented last week when Bowie?s website launched its first podcast ? a Secret Machines interview by the man himself. The band were gobsmacked; after all, they grew up in Dallas in the 1980s with copies of Bowie?s Greatest Hits before trawling backwards to discover albums such as the ?Berlin? trilogy ? Low, Heroes and Lodger.

?You?re in a band,? says Brandon, ?and this artist who?s had such an impact is taking the time to say he likes us enough to interview us; it?s such an honour.? He laughs. ?It also adds to our level of notoriety, like, ?These guys know David Bowie!? ? The band variously describe him as ?very sharp? and ?intimidating? ? as well he might be, given his influence on the group.

Ben: ?Bowie makes records that are about quality. He?s not like Led Zeppelin, caught up in the notion that they?re a blues band, or Floyd, thinking they are intellectual. Bowie isn?t caught up in trying to describe himself. We love how he never tells you what he?s thinking.?

The Bowie association can only help (his 2005 tip was the Arcade Fire, so he can be trusted), especially as they have discussed recording an album together, ?on the spot, no rehearsals even?.

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I think that last line may set the cat among the pigeons, but before you ask…I know nothing! You can read the complete Times Online interview with Secret Machines here.

My life’s amazing..

Those of you who keep an eye on the BowieNet calendar (diligently updated by Spaceface on a regular basis) may have watched the repeat showing of the quite brilliant Biography Channel Bowie presentation this evening.

If you didn’t, and you have never seen it, don’t panic as it’s being shown two more times on Thursday, at 11:00 and 14:00 UK time.

Here’s a brief synopsis of the documentary, which first aired on US TV back in October 2002.

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He rocketed to fame in 1969 with the release of “Space Oddity.” It marked the beginning of a genre-defying career that is still going strong.

David Bowie has released scores of chart-topping hits, starred in films and on Broadway, pioneered new ways of doing business as a performing artist, and gleefully defied conventions and provoked outrage with carefully-constructed personal re-inventions.

From his childhood in London to his extensive philanthropic efforts and place on the board of a fine arts magazine, BIOGRAPHY® peels back layers of incarnations, going beyond the Thin White Duke and Ziggy Stardust for an intimate portrait of the man himself.

Rare footage from the BBC archives shows the future superstar performing at the age of 17, while musicians like Moby and Trent Reznor reflect on his towering legacy. And a more intimate view is provided by his wife of ten years, Iman.

Here is the complete story of a rock and roll pioneer whose accomplishments go far beyond music.

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The biography was extra special in that it was made with David’s co-operation and included many previously unseen photographs and interviews with his oldest friends such as George Underwood, Geoff McCormack, Tony Visconti and Mick Rock.

The 100 minute film was made available commercially in the US on DVD and VHS. In the UK it was edited to 90 minutes and released as the above Sound & Vision DVD.

Well, just in case you won’t get to see Thursday’s airings either, we have copies of the UK version (Region 2 PAL) to give to ten lucky BowieNetters.

One simple question for this. According to the documentary, what was the first name of the girl that earned David a jolly good thump in the eye from his pal George Underwood?

The important point here is that I’m asking what her name was according to the documentary, not what you think you may know to be the truth.

You may be thinking: “If I haven’t seen the bloody thing and I’m trying to win a copy, how the hell am I supposed to know the answer to that?!” Well, there’s a clue in the image at the top of this news piece…and her name wasn’t Chanel!

When you think you’ve figured it out, send your answer to me here.

Usual rules apply: (Sorry, I have to mention this old flannel every time I run a contest.) Only one entry per BowieNet account, and please remember you must enter using your BowieNet e-mail or at least supply your BowieNet user name…it also speeds things up if you include your address in the event you end up an eventual winner.

The contest ends two weeks from now at midnight UK time on Sunday April 23rd, and we’ll announce the winners shortly thereafter…along with the name of that playground femme fatal, of course!

If this is the first time you have e-mailed me, you may get a message to verify your e-mail as I have utilised the BowieNet anti-spam filter, which is well worth utilising…and I know how you all like a good old utilise.

Johnny looks up at the stars…

Author Jake Arnott is currently working the publicity treadmill to plug his latest offering, Johnny Come Home, out now through Hodder & Stoughton Ltd (ISBN: 0340840358).

David Bowie has made no secret of his love for Jake’s writing and regular visitors to these pages may remember a quotation from DB that graced the cover of an earlier novel of Jake’s, truecrime, that we told you about back in June 2003. (06.09.2003 NEWS: DB CONTRIBUTES QUOTE FOR NEW ARNOTT BOOK)

As we mentioned back in that original news piece, the quotation from DB back then was: ‘Funny, fast, witty and brutal.’, and he also went on to say of Jake’s work: “Whenever he’s got a new book out I drop everything, knowing that the next couple of hours are going to be pure gangland bliss. Gawd bless ‘im.”

Johnny Come Home, lifts yet more from the latter quotation, and apart from that Bowie reference, one of the printings of The Long Firm has a jacket rather evocative of one of the more famous Bowie album sleeves of the seventies. (See below)

A closer inspection of Johnny Come Home‘s cover reveals an Aladdin Sane type flash tattoo and the nods to Bowie continue inside. Here’s the synopsis:

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This is a gripping tale of emotional and political ferment in 70s London from the author of the bestselling ‘Long Firm’ trilogy. London, 1972, and a charismatic anarchist called O’Connell dies of an overdose, leaving his artist boyfriend, Pearson, and fellow activist Nina in shock.

It also leaves a spare room in their squat, so Pearson moves in Sweet Thing, a streetwise yet vulnerable young rent boy he initially picks up but then tries to help. Pearson isn’t the only one who’s interested though – glam rock star Johnny Chrome is on the brink of a breakdown and is convinced that Sweet Thing is the only one who can bring him back.

As Sweet Thing gets drawn further into Johnny Chrome’s dangerous orbit, Pearson and Nina discover that O’Connell was not all he seemed.

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Meanwhile, Jake has mentioned Bowie in a few recent interviews, including The Observer, Scotland on Sunday and an interview on the BBC’s 6 Music on Monday morning.

The author also chose to play All The Young Dudes and Lady Stardust during the 6 Music interview with Pete Mitchell (standing in for Phill Jupitus) which you can still listen to online via the 6 Music player. Click on Monday (right hand side of the page) and fast forward about two hours and thirty four minutes in. Jake is on after T Rex‘s Children Of The Revolution.

Jake doesn’t know if DB has read Johnny Come Home or not, and he is such a big Bowie fan that he has admitted to being quite nervous about what David will make of his latest effort. I’m sure he’ll let you know, Jake.

They don’t look much (oh), They sure Chili Chili (oh)…

Judging by the e-mails I’ve received, a fair few of you have already seen the latest video from those crazy Californian kidz, the Red Hot Chili Peppers.

For those of you that haven’t, it’s been made to promote their latest single release, Dani California, and in it, the band dress as a bunch of their favourite icons from the world of rock.

The band’s bassist, Michael Balzary, (who apparently goes by the name of Flea, on account of being able to actually jump twenty times his own height!) is pictured above. Bet you can’t guess who he’s meant to be? No, it’s not Daniel Ash!

Anyway, you can view the whole film by clicking on the image above and have a titter at the crazy antics of the Red Hot Chili Peppers right now.

All you’ve got to do is win…

As mentioned by Spaceface in the BowieNet calendar yonks ago, BBC4 is showing DA Pennebaker‘s Ziggy Stardust And The Spiders From Mars (21:00) and Alan Yentob‘s Cracked Actor documentary (22:30) as part of their 1973 week.

I’m sure the sharpest among you have already spotted that Pennebaker’s famous film was indeed made in 1973 (July 3rd) but Cracked Actor wasn’t made until the following year, and in fact wasn’t broadcast until January 1975. (See original press advert above)

In what seems a feeble attempt to make Cracked Actor seem more 1973, the BBC4 home page has used the live shot below from the Cracked Actor documentary illustrating Ziggy Stardust And The Spiders From Mars!

Anyway, who cares. Most everybody has the excellent Ziggy Motion Picture DVD anyway, and this is a chance to get a digital copy of the Cracked Actor documentary on disc if you don’t already have it. Remember, UK copyright law supposedly states that you must erase any TV recording after viewing, or after about two weeks. Yeah, of course, we all know that, and I’m sure you all do it anyway.

For those that Yentob’s film has so far evaded, you can get a taste of the programme by taking a look at our 30th anniversary news piece from last year (01.26.2005 SNIPPET: BBC’s CRACKED ACTOR IS THIRTY TODAY) and by looking at a couple of pages of screen grabs on the excellent BOWIEGOLDENYEARS and The Young American websites.

Tissues for my eyes!

All you’ve got to do is win…

We first mentioned news of the annual Voyeur fan meeting back in February. (02.04.2006 NEWS: HEADS UP FOR VOYEUR’S APRIL FAN MEETING)

Here’s the updated info in case you missed it:

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This year’s Voyeur fan(club)meeting will take place on April 23rd 2006.

The meeting will be held in the The Amsterdam Akhnaton Club.

The Akhnaton Club can be found at the Nieuwezijds Kolk 25, only a 5 minutes walk from the Amsterdam Central train station.

Next to EchoBowie (the best Bowiecoverband in the world) BowieNet?s own TVQueenBitch and TonyDay will fly in to be the day’s DJs. It goes without saying TVQueenBitch will be fully dressed up for the occasion. (Blam note: I wouldn’t mind betting Tony Day won’t look ordinary either!)

There will also be an exclusive Reality photo-exhibition with photographs made by Antoine Loogman and of course there will be lots of national and international merchants.

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You may have noticed the exciting addition of Tony Day to the DJ roster…I’m sure his and TVQueenBitch’s sets will be worth the trip alone.

Something those peoploids at The Voyeur didn’t mention in the blurb they sent, was the raffle type thing they have on the day.

Well, I’m sure they won’t forget to mention it from now on as David Bowie has very kindly contributed one of the Serious Moonlight DVD promotional prints we’ve been giving away here on BowieNet. For those of you that can’t make it out in the scan above it reads: “For a winner!! Bo 2006”. What a nice bloke he is.

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Those of you that subscribe to The Voyeur fan magazine can expect the April issue through your letterbox any moment now. Those of you that don’t may want to check out exactly what your missing, below…

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The April 2006 issue of ‘The Voyeur’ is out now!

In this issue of “The Voyeur”:

~ Watch out for “The Voyeur”
~ Welcome to “The Voyeur”
~ Behind the cover (Jacques Brel’s connection to David Bowie)
~ Outrageous (The third and final part of the Playboy interview by Cameron Crow)
~ Voyeur Fan (club) meeting advert
~ Four page full colour David Bowie centrefold
~ Rumours and Lies and Stories they made up (news items)
~ 1983 (Serious Moonlight in Holland)
~ We could be Heroes (a flashback to 1977)
~ Minotaurs Myths and Legends (about David’s Minotaur fascination)

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More details about the new edition and information regarding all of the above can be found on the homepage at http://go.to/bowiefanclub.

Secret Machines sometimes listening aloud…

As promised last week (03.25.2006 NEWS: EXCLUSIVE BOWIENET DB/SECRET MACHINES INTERVIEW) and to celebrate the release of the latest Secret Machines album, Ten Silver Drops, on April 24th/25th, non-members can now listen to David’s exclusive BowieNet interview with the band via our podcast page.

The interview is now available as a downloadable mp3 or as a podcast. Click on the image above and all will become apparent.

BowieNetter members can still listen to the whole thing with longer snippets by logging in to aforementioned news item posted last Sunday the 25th.

Meanwhile there’s still time to catch the band in the UK before they return home to the US for more dates…here are the three remaining UK dates:

Tuesday April 04 ~ Nottingham ~ The Rescue Rooms
Wednesday April 05 ~ Wolverhampton ~ Wulfrun Hall
Thursday April 06 ~ London ~ Shepherds Bush Empire

Check out the Secret Machines official site for forthcoming dates and all things Secret Machiney.

I Pity The Fool…

Considering today’s date, I suppose you’re all expecting some far-fetched story or other…I’m still getting enquiries for Mesmer! But no, not today.

Is there anybody reading these pages not expecting an April Fools’ Day joke? Well if there is, then I’m afraid they’re too easy a target and that’s not sporting.

However, you’re not getting off that lightly. In the spirit of April 1st at least, I put my thinking cap on and considered how I could still get you to question the validity of something I present as fact.

Well, the image above has obviously already told you just what I thought of. I’m sure you’re all familiar with the popular TV show which I believe has been shown in various formats around the world.

For those not familiar, the premise is simple. Three obscure words are presented with their meanings and a panel has to decide which of the definitions of the three words has the one true meaning, the other two being bluffs. Except I’m doing it with contests not words.

Below I’ve described the prizes for three seperate contests, you don’t have to do anything apart from work out which you think is for real and which are bluffs. The twist being you’re only allowed to enter the ONE contest you think is for real. Good luck!

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Remember the above tour poster, which I think first came to light during the UK leg of the Reality Tour in autumn 2003? A striking image (even if I do say so myself) which found its way onto different bits of merchandise and was used for tour passes, etc.

Well, one of the things that was produced as a cute little gift to the promoters in different territories was a promotional jigsaw puzzle! These 39cm x 28cm 130-piece jigsaws came in a numbered picture box.

There were only ten of these beauties made, and apparently only five were actually sent out. You’ve guessed who has the other five. It’s likely that you’ve never even heard about this item. I’ve never seen it on eBay, but would you sell it if you had one? I think not.

We have numbers 5, 6, 7, 8, and 9 and if you think this isn’t a bluff, then enter this contest here.

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If you thought the jigsaw above was a true collectable, seasoned Ziggy collectors will know just how rare the above sheet of George Underwood Ziggy character stickers is. Not to be confused with the Ziggy transfers from the same time, this set actually included three more characters.

Clockwise from top left, the stickers were: Gilly, Starman, Aligator, Weird, Newsman, Lectric Eye, Lady Stardust and, of course, Ziggy himself right there in the centre.

George has very generously given us five sheets to give away, which means we now have more than him…but not for long. Obviously the sheets we have don’t have the George Underwood watermark across them, as above, but I have to make it clear that to enter this particular contest, you must promise not to reproduce the stickers in any way…that includes scanning them in and posting them online. We don’t want some unscrupulous bootlegger making inferior copies and flogging them on eBay.

Was that convincing enough to make you believe this is the one true contest? If so, please enter here.

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Can you believe it? We have yet another five signed-by-David Bowie highly collectable 2006 Serious Moonlight DVD promotional prints of which we’ve already given twenty away of. (03.13.2006 NEWS: SM DVD OUT NOW…POSTER WINNERS AND DVD COMP & 03.15.2006 NEWS: FIVE MORE SIGNED SM POSTER WINNERS! & 03.19.06 NEWS: YET ANOTHER FIVE SIGNED SM POSTER WINNERS!!!)

But, can it be true? You know they definitely exist, but would we hang onto yet another five? Whatever, if you think this is the most likely to be true, then try your luck here.

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Usual rules apply: Only one entry per BowieNet account, and you may only enter one of the above three contests. Please don’t bother contacting me for extra clues, as you won’t get them.

Also, please remember you must enter using your BowieNet e-mail or at least supply your BowieNet user name…it also speeds things up if you include your address in the event you end up an eventual winner.

The contest ends two weeks from now at midnight UK time on Saturday April 15th to give you a little time to ponder the above options. We’ll announce the five winners the following weekend, along with the truth of course!

If this is the first time you have e-mailed me, you may get a message to verify your e-mail as I have utilised the BowieNet anti-spam filter, which works a treat.