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And Lo! it was midnight…
I?m sure you have all received e-mails or read on the MBs information regarding the end of the BowieNet ISP service and e-mail upgrade details by now. But, if you haven?t yet read this info, click on the relevant shortcuts below now.
Don?t forget that existing members who wish to continue to access their email account for the duration of their membership need to update their account information before midnight EDT tonight, which is about five hours away.
A life-size holographic Bowie at Martin’s exhibition at Peterborough Museum & Art Gallery last year.
Time is waiting in the wings…
I’m sure you all remember holographer
You probably also remember the competition we ran after Martin very generously donated some large Bowie holograms, pictured below, that we got DB to sign. (09.12.2005 NEWS: SIGNED ‘hours…’ HOLOGRAM CONTEST WINNERS)
Well, whatever you do recall, I’m sure some of you southerners in the UK will be pleased to learn that the exhibition will now be held a little closer to London when it opens in Bracknell next week.
Here’s the stuff from the PR:
TIME, SPACE, MOVEMENT? and more
A group of contemporary art exhibitions that simply have to be seen to be believed.
20 May ? 7 July 2006 at The Bracknell Gallery, open: Wed-Sat, 7pm-9.30pm; Sat & Sun, 1-5pm
Exhibitions include:
A holographic city extending 10 metres into the room, with a large scale David Bowie video projection and floating head.
A mysterious ephemeral sculpture entering South Hill Park?s historic Tall Hall.
A world of music in one room.
Children?s artwork from the heart of the Arab-Israeli conflict.
Opening reception:
Fri 19 May, 6-8.30pm
Free, all welcome – A great chance to meet the artists.
For directions and general enquiries, please see:
We can be heroes, for ever and ever…
NME Heroes
The 50 stars who changed Rock N Roll forever -as voted for by you! But who’s number one? Jimi Hendrix, Kurt Cobain? Liam Gallagher? Richey Manic? Or David Bowie? And did Pete Doherty even make it onto the list?
Obviously the results of this were always bound to spark much debate, as these lists always do, but it’s great to see that the results aren’t quite what one would have expected.
For example, main Arctic Monkey, Alex Turner, didn’t make the top 20 and while it’s clear Bowie is well-respected at NME (he was voted most influential musician of all time back in December 2000…see above left) none of his contemporaries made the Top 10, Bob Dylan being the closest, eight places below Bowie.
As you can see from the scan above, David was voted number 8 in the poll, and here’s a few excerpts from the article in praise of our man…
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DAVID BOWIE ? Man of multiple personas – One of the cleverest pop stars ever, in his shape-shifting 40-year career David Robert Jones has been a mod, hippy starchild, new romantic and an alien sex lizard. This is a man whose motto is, “I don?t know where I?m going from here, but I promise it won?t be boring.”
NME was there: “The first time I met Bowie was at the Dorchester in 1977, around the time of “Heroes”. I was in a waiting room with all the other journalists, very nervous and very stressed out, because Bowie had been one of my ultimate heroes. My jaw dropped when I saw him. He was a rock god, honest, very bright, and lived up to his reputation immaculately. He was charming, he wore his charm like a crown.” Allan Jones, ex-NME editor
What you said: “He changed everything; not just music, but fashion and sexual politics. Bowie was the artist of the 20th century and his influence is felt in all the so-called musical heroes of today.” Lee Trewhela, Cornwall
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There’s more to the Bowie piece, including a tribute from Paul Smith of Maximo Park, but it wouldn’t be fair to reproduce the whole lot while the magazine is still on sale. This is the reason I haven’t given away the rest of the top 10 yet, as NME haven’t even done so on their own website.
Anyway, congratulations are due to DB for being the only artist of his generation to achieve such a high position, and to the NME readers for having a bit more suss than they’re possibly credited with. It’s also nice to see that the NME doesn’t have an ageist editorial policy, unlike the BBC’s Radio 1.
“I’ll see you lot in about three and a half years then!” – New York’s a go-go. DB at MSG in 2003.
You’re always first on the High Line…
David Bowie today announced plans for a return to the concert stage next year when he curates the first HIGH LINE FESTIVAL, a new annual arts and music event for NYC, established by David Bowie himself, David Binder and Josh Wood.
THE HIGH LINE FESTIVAL will be shaped each year by a different visionary curator, and as first curator David will be the creative voice behind the festival in May 2007, choosing a diverse collection of artists and musicians who inspire him and capture his point of view.
The 10-day marathon event will take place at street level and at neighbouring venues alongside the High Line, New York?s biggest and most prestigious public works project in over 50 years ? a public park is being created from the abandoned elevated train tracks on New York City?s West Side.
THE HIGH LINE FESTIVAL will include music, nightlife, visual art, performance and film ? featuring superstars and emerging talent ? all of which celebrate the spirit of David Bowie?s creative vision, and it will culminate in an enormous outdoor David Bowie concert, his first full show in New York City since the Reality Tour hit Madison Square Garden on December 15, 2003, see picture above.
His live performance will be enjoyed by tens of thousands of spectators at the festival itself, while millions more will experience the concert online and on satellite radio.
As co-founder of THE HIGH LINE FESTIVAL, David Bowie will help choose future iconic curators from the diverse world of music, film and the performing arts. The curators and performances they chose will be as diverse as New York City itself.
DB is clearly very keen to get on with the task ahead of him, and his enthusiasm was obvious when he spoke of the festival earlier today: “As David, Josh and I have been formulating our plans, I?ve been particularly excited about seeking out emerging artists and giving them a place in a Festival that will also feature some very well-known names. That will be an ongoing mission of The High Line Festival ? to offer performances and exhibitions that are unique and original to New York. I am proud and honoured to be The High Line Festival?s first curator and I am eager to start building the line-up for Spring 2007.”
David Binder, one of Bowie’s two co-founders, had this to say about our man and THE HIGH LINE FESTIVAL: “Throughout his legendary career David Bowie has always been at the forefront of music and art ? so he is the perfect artist to shape the inaugural Festival. His eye for talent and his passion for emerging artists is nothing short of spectacular. One of the most exciting things about the Festival for me is how different curators will actually change the complete flavour of the event each year ? curators can be filmmakers, musicians, painters, someone with passion and vision.”
The other co-founder, Josh Wood, was equally excited about the event: “David Bowie has been our inspiration. He knows a lot about a lot of different things. He?s also the consummate New Yorker. We?re interested in producing a Festival that is as wonderfully wild, intelligent and eclectic as David Bowie?s legendary career. It?s so right that he?ll be calling the creative shots for the first Festival, and we?re looking forward to working with him for years to come. All three of us are also excited about placing the Festival along New York City?s High Line ? it will be the coolest stretch on the New York calendar along the coolest stretch of the City.”
Stay tuned to BowieNet for a full schedule of programming for THE HIGH LINE FESTIVAL over the coming months.
Fall dog is cruel and smart…
AOL users will be pleased to learn that David Bowie’s excellent five-song session and interview recorded back on September 23rd 2003 is now available for your viewing pleasure once again in the AOL archives.
We first told you about the session in October of that year, on the day that it was first broadcast. (10.10.2003 NEWS: EXCLUSIVE FIVE-SONG BOWIE SESSION ON AOL)
In it, David and the band perform a great acoustic version of Fall Dog Bombs The Moon along with I’m Afraid Of Americans, New Killer Star, Rebel Rebel, and Days.
AOL users should be able to
Sit in the garden, Growing tomatoes by the score…
We teased you with a still from the latest Duncan Jones directed TV advert, which aired for the first time last Sunday. (04.30.2006 SNIPPET: SOME SILLY SUNDAY FUN FOR THE UK)
As you can see from the still above, the advert is for
We also offered a further 50 to the first person to tell us what the piece of music Duncan used in the piece is.
Sadly there were no takers for either piece of information, but for those interested the music used was the intro to a track called The Suits Are Picking Up The Bill by an American band called Squirrel Nut Zippers.
Actually, I’m only teasing…BowieNetter Dez was the first to post with Heinz Tomato Ketchup, so he wins 50 of those all important points.
From the brow of the superbrian…
Don’t forget to tune in to
According to Eno, while David drew the card with the instruction: “Destroy everything” Brian’s instruction was: “Change nothing and continue with immaculate consistency”. What a fun day that must have been!
(Anal Blammo note: Sorry Brian, but there is no “Destroy everything” card. In fact, the closest is “Destroy – nothing – the most important thing” – Which I guess would produce a similar result.)
Bowie content aside, it’s a great listen anyway. The first part includes a play of the first record the young Brian Peter George St. John le Baptiste de la Salle Eno ever bought, Get a Job by The Silhouettes, (a recording also enjoyed by the young David Robert Jones) through to his time with Roxy Music and The Portsmouth Sinfonia.
If you missed that broadcast you still have a few hours to
Presumably the interview will continue this evening with the recording of Lodger and will hopefully touch on the making of 1. Outside, too.
And he’s hooked to the silver screen…
The current issue of
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The Dad Who Fell to Earth
Sneaks into the movies.
By Jada Yuan
David Bowie is taking a break from being David Bowie, at least for a year. ?I?m fed up with the industry,? he said at the Vanity Fair party last week. ?And I?ve been fed up for quite some time.? He greeted strangers with, ?Hi! I?m David. I have seven children. And I?m fucking freezing.? So how does an icon slack? ?Just don?t participate. I?m taking a year off?no touring, no albums. I go for a walk every morning, and I watch a ton of movies. One day, I watched three Woody Allen movies in a row. I like going out to the Angelika: If the first one?s only okay, I?ll sneak into one after the other. It?s so easy.? He says he has no plans to take up hobbies either. ?I?ve been listening to Arcade Fire and Secret Machines and this great opera from the eighties called Nixon in China. It?s just that. He gets off the plane. He has dinner with Mao. Someday, I might do opera. But I don?t have a musical in me, much less a vampire musical.?
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So there you have it, an opera perhaps…but certainly nothing for the rest of this year.
Whatever David does decide to do, I know you’ll all want to
Enjoy your time off David…God knows you’ve earned it.
Much love to you and yours from everybody here at BowieNet.
Just a few of the gifts awaiting despatch in the BowieNet warehouse yesterday.
Free games for May…
As promised earlier in the month, (04.16.2006 NEWS: BOWIENET VAULT POINTS LIST…HONEST GUV!) today sees the start of a brand new BowieNet give-away open to all current BowieNet subscribers.
Apart from the goodies outlined in aforementioned news story, we will be adding more exciting stuff to the BowieNet vaults over the next month. But in the meantime, all you have to do to be in with a chance of winning something is send us an e-mail here.
Usual rules apply: 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.
We intend to make this a monthly thing, with a fresh chance each month to send in your name.
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. Once you have responded to a prompt your e-mail will make it through as normal.
Each contest will close at midnight UK time on the last day of each month, with winners being announced the next morning and the new draw starting at noon (UK time) on the first of each month.
So, next month we will announce the winners for May and so on every month until you empty the vaults…if that ever happens!
As I say, we’ll be posting details of the new items over the next month, so you don’t have to worry about choosing anything just yet. Good luck kidz!