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Yes, I’ve read the morning papers…
Today’s
?The point of the festival, is not to dig out as many obscure and unknown acts as possible. It?s to put on what I would go and see. There are certain artists you just never miss; when they come into town you go and see them. That?s how I treat virtually all of the people that are on this.?
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Yes, I’ve read more morning papers…
Today’s
The piece was penned by David Usborne and though it’s mainly a feature focusing on David Binder and Josh Wood, it’s subtitled thus: Summer arts festivals such as London’s annual musical event are common in Europe but virtually unheard of in New York. David Bowie is about to change all that.
You can read the whole thing online by clicking on aforementioned dodgy scan.
And though my days are slipping by…
If you’re not sure what this is about, check out the previous news stories. (04.27.2007 NEWS: NEVER LET ME DOWN IS TWENTY-YEARS-OLD TODAY & 04.28.2007 NEWS: SIGNED BY DAVID BOWIE NLMD FOLDER COMPETITION)
As 99 per cent of you correctly worked out, 6 is the correct answer and here are the five winners that the well-rested TRS has picked from the virtual hat…
barley
dez
postmodernlover
RogInLA
steph11
If you folx would like to send in your details pronto, an ultra-rare, signed-by-David Bowie, NLMD press folder will be with you shortly.
The Seven Ages of RockÂÂ
6 x 60 mins & 1 x 90 minsÂÂ
Starting Saturday May 19th – Saturday 30th June, BBC TWO at 9pmÂÂ
BBC TWO takes you on a journey through the Seven Ages of Rock and explores the music that has been the soundtrack to our popular culture and defined each generation since the 1960’s. From the producers of award winning series Dancing in the Street, Walk on By,
and, most recently, Soul Deep, comes another landmark television history that will chart the story of rock music from the suburb to the stadium, from the crackly ’45 to the MP3 download. Along the way, rock’s greatest performers, singers, writers and producers tell us how rock emerged, grew, strengthened and gave voice to each new generation.
2007 sees rock music at its healthiest state since the 1970’s. Despite numerous predictions that ‘rock is dead’, it has survived. Fans are attending more gigs and more festivals than ever before and the guitar is definitely back as the weapon of choice. The
Seven Ages of Rock will, through the prism of a central wrap-around artist or group, explore a key era in rock. From the UK electric blues boom, via the psychedelic rock of the late 60?s; from the 70?s punk explosion and on to the rise of grunge and indie rock in the 1980?s and beyond, this series tells story of each age through the music itself: breaking down key tracks, getting behind the songs and ideas and providing a social context for the progression of the music. With contributions from names such as Roger Waters, David Bowie, Bryan Ferry, Phil Collins, Debbie Harry, Ozzy Osbourne, Johnny Marr, Dave Grohl, Noel Gallagher, Damon Albarn and Alex Kapranos, the series will set a new standard in heritage music television.
1. The Road to
The rock revolution of the 1960?s as seen through the life and music of Jimi Hendrix. We see how he became the first, ultimately doomed, icon of rock; from delta blues man, Dylan-esque poet and the technological prophet, Hendrix was the synthesis of everything that had gone before him and all that was to come. This episode also explores the influence of rhythm & blues on a generation of British musicians such as The Rolling Stones, Cream and The Who and how the song-writing of Bob Dylan and studio developments of The Beatles transformed the possibilities and ambitions of rock.
2. Between Rock And an
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How rock became a vehicle for artistic ideas and theatrical performance. From the pop-art multi-media experiments of Andy Warhol and the Velvet Underground to the sinister gentility of Peter Gabriel?s Genesis, this episode will trace the story of how artistic and conceptual expression permeated rock. We follow Pink Floyd from the fated art school genius of Syd Barrett via the global success of Dark Side of the Moon to the ultimate rock theatre show ? The Wall. Along the way, the film will explore the retro-futurism of Roxy Music and the protean world of David Bowie.
3. Blank Generation ?  tx Sat 2nd June
A tale of two cities,
4. Never Say Die ?  tx Sat 9th June
The longest surviving genre in rock, certainly the loudest, Heavy Metal is a worldwide phenomenon. With no intention of going away, metal has been the most controversial and misunderstood of all rock genres. Emerging at the tail end of the hippy dream, from the rust belt of industrial
5. Global Jukebox ?  tx Sat 16th June
The film follows the development of some the biggest names in Rock in the 70s and 80s (among them Queen, Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band, The Police and Dire Straits) and examines how – with events such as Live Aid and the rise of MTV – Rock achieved a global influence on culture and politics. The film will show how, in the early 90s, U2 effectively brought this era to a close, re-imagining what it meant to be a successful rock band, and reinventing the big rock show so completely that fifteen years later most major rock tours are still pale facsimiles of Zoo Tv and Popmart.
6. The Last Rock Star ?  tx Sat 23rd JuneÂÂ
The rise of alternative rock in the
7. What the World is Waiting For ? tx Sat 30th JuneÂÂ
British Indie music was once seen as the bastion of the over earnest ?High Fidelity? snob who would sneer at chart success. Often political in its stance, indie was a way of defining oneself in a sea of ersatz pop and vapid chart fodder. Not tied to the corporate dollar of the majors, the indie label was the redoubt against the forces of mediocrity and was a precious source of integrity and honesty. A generation would find meaning in the music of The Smiths, the archetypal indie group of the 1980?s. Lyrically adroit and melodically commanding, they would foment a dedicated following around the world. However, they split on the brink of huge success and the identity of indie rock would undergo a profound transformation. From the Stone Roses, the heir manqué of the indie music crown, via Suede?s dark sexuality and the media saturation of Brit-pop?s Blur v Oasis, indie was now a marketing device, ultimately losing any of it?s once cherished intimacy and integrity in front of 250,000 fans at Oasis?s Knebworth spectacle in 1996. Indie was mainstream. Indie was dead.
But was it? As the millennium dawned, a new cohort of bands emerged to redefine British indie. By returning to its roots in clubs and bars, even front rooms, indie became respectable again. Once again, it meant something beyond a marketing cliché. From The Libertines to Franz Ferdinand and The Arctic Monkeys, indie labels reconnected to their fans, using both new technology and good old rock n roll to inspire and motivate a new generation to ditch the decks pick up a guitar. Rock is back. But for some, it never went away.
When you rock ‘n roll with me…
You’ve probably already seen this story kicking around regarding a new BBC Two seven-part documentary series,
Reports have surfaced about rare and unseen Bowie footage being shown in the second episode, Between Rock And an Art Place, to be broadcast Sat 26th May.
This is from an online article published by Uncut magazine: “There will also be swathes of never-seen-before clips of David Bowie, including his show at the Rainbow Theatre on August 19 1972 and a performance of “Space Oddity” at the Ivor Novello Awards in May 1970. Both are being broadcast for the first time.”
Well, the Space Oddity clip will already be familiar to fans, and it has even had a DVD release. However, the Rainbow footage is not something anybody I know has seen.
A press screening in London last week provided no further clues, with a showing of the first episode: The Road To Woodstock, and a compilation of snippets from the remaining episodes…but no Bowie.
Further probing reveals that the Rainbow songs are Five Years and Hang On To Yourself, but I won’t have confirmation of what’s to be broadcast until next week.
Meanwhile, check out the press release section on BowieNet for The Seven Ages Of Rock programme schedule, and keep an eye out for the official site which is coming soon and can be reached by clicking on the images above.
Staying back in your memory, are the movies in the past…
OK, here’s the contest we’ve been promising for the last couple of days and it’s actually been devised by David Bowie himself. I should warn you that it’s only really going to be possible to enter if you’re attending the
Anyway, over to you David…
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Hello members – Below you’ll find a list of the films showing (in order of release date) during our film festival which kicks off a week from today with El Automovil Gris next Friday.
Below that is a numbered still from each of the films showing. All you have to do is match up all eleven titles (Eleven titles?? Yes, there’s a bonus movie at the showings) with each of the stills. Going to see the movies will help – heh heh heh.
The prize will be one of those original signed lithos of the Ziggy cover, personalised by me for the winner. Happy viewing – DB
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High Line Film Festival film titles in order of release date:
A ~ El Automovil Gris (Dir. Enrique Rosas Priego, Mexico, 1919)
B ~ Limite (Dir. Mario Peixoto, Brazil, 1931) (Bonus film)
C ~ El Prisionero 13 (Dir. Fernando de Fuentes, Mexico, 1933)
D ~ Dos Monjes (Dir. Juan Bustillo Oro, Mexico, 1934)
E ~ Aventurera (Dir. Alberto Gout, Mexico, 1949)
F ~ Robinson Crusoe (Dir. Luis Bunuel, Mexico, 1954)
G ~ Memorias del Subdesarrollo (Dir. Tomas Gutierrez Alea, Cuba, 1968)
H ~ El Espiritu de la Colmena (Dir. Erice, Spain, 1973)
I ~ Oriana (Dir. Torres, Venezuela/Francia, 1985
J ~ Los Amantes del Ciculo Polar (Dir. Julio Medem, Spain, 1998)
K ~ Machuca (Dir. Wood, Chile/Spain, 2004)
High Line Film Festival stills:
Thank you David. I think that’s pretty straightforward folx. For example if you think still # 2 of the boys on a bike is from Juan Bustillo Oro Dos’ 1934 film Dos Monjes, you would answer 2D, and so on until you have all eleven titles identified.
When you think you have all the answers, send them to me here. The contest is open until midnight New York time on Sunday May 20th.
Just to reiterate, the prize is another of the superb Ziggy Stardust album sleeve prints personalised to the winner by David Bowie.
Usual BowieNet 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.
Then I got the small black box…
We’ve posted a couple of items regarding Sony Music in Japan’s plan to release the five most recent David Bowie studio albums: 01. Outside, Earthling, ‘hours…’, Heathen and Reality, in the ‘paper sleeve’ format. (02.11.2007 NEWS: SONY JAPAN TO ISSUE FIVE BOWIE CDS AS ‘PAPER JACKETS’ & 03.13.2007 NEWS: SONY MUSIC JAPAN ANNOUNCES MORE BONUS TRACKS)
The company has now announced that purchasers of all five CDs in Japan will be given the above slipcase free to house them in. That’s the front of the slipcase on the left and the reverse on the right.
The release date remains June 6th. It’s unclear whether these releases will expand to other territories, but if they do, we’ll tell you all about it as soon as we get more information.
The Man Who Changed The World…
This one was a little late coming through, but the March issue of
The current
Not to be outdone, the
The piece is accompanied by the full-page illustration below which has David Bowie in pretty good company.
Two Bowie albums make the Top 100, The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and The Spiders From Mars and Low. Only two other artits manage two albums in the Top 100, Bob Dylan and The Rolling Stones, with The Beatles boasting a total of three.
The musicians who have taken up the task of explaining just why they think the Bowie albums are so important, are Brett Anderson and Ian McCulloch. Here follows brief snippets from both followed by MOJO’s own “Without this, no…” comments.
Ian McCulloch on Low
“…His voice is fantastic and magnetic, just pure Bowie…I loved the wordless vocals on the second side too, they’re so mesmerising and different. Eno helped, but Bowie was running that show. Low pretty much invented the ’80s, alongside Kraftwerk, just as Bowie had invented the ’70s…Low was like a guidebook to synth punk. If the Pistols and Ramones drove you to pick up a guitar and add plenty of chords, Low was what you can do with one finger, a synth and your imagination.”
Without this, no…synthpop, wedges, “getting Eno in”, the ’80s generally.
Brett Anderson on Ziggy Stardust
“Ziggy Stardust was a career-defining album…It’s certainly the iconic glam record. Bowie’s vocal on Rock ‘N’ Roll Suicide is untouchable, and those chord changes at the end of it are completely unexpected without sounding contrived…There’s something prosaic about the album’s cover, this photo of Bowie just standing in this little London backstreet, but his Ziggy persona seems all the wilder for that. A mate of mine remembers watching Starman on Top Of The Pops, and he said the buzz in the school playground was that Bowie was from outer space.”
Without this, no…UK punk, pop androgyny, gay-acting straights.
So there you have it…your world is quite different thanks to David Bowie…But then again, you already knew that.
Angels in a ton of sound…
We first told you about EMI’s plans to release David Bowie’s Glass Spider film on DVD in July of last year. (07.18.2006 NEWS: EMI TO RELEASE GLASS SPIDER DVD)
Back then we reported that the DVD would be issued in the second quarter of 2007, and with a release date of June 25th it’s still on schedule.
The original running order remains the same essentially. But, there will now be a standard 22-track DVD, above left, and also the same DVD will be released with the added bonus of a double 25-track CD, above right.
Here’s the tracklisting for the DVD. All selections are 2007 digital remasters:
01 Intro/Up The Hill Backwards
02 Glass Spider
03 Day-In, Day-Out
04 Bang Bang
05 Absolute Beginners
06 Loving The Alien
07 China Girl
08 Rebel Rebel
09 Fashion
10 Never Let Me Down
11 “Heroes”
12 Sons Of The Silent Age
13 Band Introduction
14 Young Americans
15 The Jean Genie
16 Let’s Dance
17 Time
18 Fame
19 Blue Jean
20 I Wanna Be Your Dog
21 White Light/White Heat
22 Modern Love
The CD omits both I Wanna Be Your Dog and White Light/White Heat, which were encore tracks featuring guest guitarist Charlie Sexton. These two tracks are replaced by six others that don’t appear on the DVD: Scary Monsters (And Super Creeps), All The Madmen, Big Brother, ’87 And Cry, Time Will Crawl and Beat Of Your Drum.
Here’s the tracklisting for the double CD:
CD 1 01 Intro/Up The Hill Backwards
02 Glass Spider
03 Day-In, Day-Out
04 Bang Bang
05 Absolute Beginners
06 Loving the Alien
07 China Girl
08 Rebel Rebel
09 Fashion
10 Scary Monsters (And Super Creeps)
11 All The Mad Men
12 Never Let Me Down
CD 2
01 Big Brother
02 ’87 And Cry
03 “Heroes”
04 Sons Of The Silent Age
05 Time Will Crawl
06 Young Americans
07 Beat Of Your Drum
08 The Jean Genie
09 Let’s Dance
10 Fame
11 Time
12 Blue Jean
13 Modern Love
As we mentioned previously, and as I’m sure you remember from the video release, the show was filmed at Sydney, Entertainment Center in November 1987.
Stay tuned for a contest to win both formats shortly.
New York’s In Love…
Following on from the
Stay tuned for that contest to accompany the