Month: July 2007

Gone, gone, the DVDs have all gone…

With the news that David Bowie’s Glass Spider DVD entered the UK Music DVD Top Ten at #9 earlier this week, we thought it was probably a good time to announce the winners of the contest we set recently. (06.26.2007 NEWS: TEN GLASS SPIDER DVD/CD 3-DISC SETS TO BE WON)

But, before we get on to the winners, here are the answers to those questions that all ten winners obviously got right…

Question 1 ~ Above is the front of the DVD booklet which utilises a shot from one of the breathtakingly stunning moments from the Glass Spider show. What song would have been performed at this point?

Answer 1 ~ Time

Question 2 ~ One of the Glass Spider band members’ fathers used to be David’s art teacher at Bromley Tech. What was the name of that teacher?

Answer 2 ~ Owen Frampton

Question 3 ~ The two CDs in this set were actually recorded at a different show to that at which the film was made. The Olympic Stadium, Montreal, August 30th, 1987 and The Entertainment Center, Sydney, November 7th and 9th, 1987 were the shows in question. But, which show was the film made at, and where were the CDs recorded?

Answer 3 ~ The show was filmed at Sydney, Entertainment Center, on November 7th and 9th, 1987 and the audio for the CDs was recorded at the Olympic Stadium, Montreal, on August 30th, 1987

Question 4 ~ Who was the guest guitarist in the film during I Wanna Be Your Dog and White Light/White Heat?

Answer 4 ~ Charlie Sexton

Question 5 ~ Which artists originally recorded the songs mentioned in the previous question?

Answer 5 ~ I Wanna Be Your Dog originally appeared on The Stooges’ eponymous debut album from 1969, while White Light/White Heat first surfaced as the title track on The Velvet Underground’s second album from the previous year, 1968.

And the winners in an alphabetical type doo dah, are:

2212
giuseppetarantino
haywoodstenton
jimmycov
jungtheforeman
m.art
mothtrap
scotty
thirduncle
tonyp

Let me know where you want your winnings sent, you winners you.

She’s so swishy in her satin and tat…

If you’re kicking around the SF Bay area this evening, wondering where on earth you can catch a unique celebratory presentation of David Bowie’s Ziggy Stardust album, then look no further than the handy and well-timed details below…

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This Tuesday July 3 – Hang On To Yourself!

In loving memory of Ziggy’s last stand, (34 years ago today) Trannyshack presents an interpretation of “Ziggy Stardust & The Spiders From Mars”!

Featuring Glam-tastic performances by:

Jordan L’Moore
Heklina
Precious Moments
Putanesca
Metal Patricia
Kiddie
Vinsantos
Fauxnique
Miss Trannyshack 2006 Raya Light …and more!

Trannyshack at The Stud
399 9th St. @ Harrison

Your cordial hostess Heklina
Door Mistress Chocolate
DJ Derek
Visuals By III

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As I post this, you still have a good few hours to get your glammed up self down to Trannyshack. Apparently the show itself starts at midnight local time…just as those of us over this side of the planet are settling in to a busy Wednesday morning’s work.

Click on the flyer above for more information regarding Trannyshack.

He opened strange doors that we’d never close again…

The August edition of MOJO magazine has a free A5 supplementary booklet celebrating that often unfairly maligned of musical decades, the 1980s.

The 52-page booklet contains the above pages in relation to David Bowie’s 1980 masterpiece: Scary Monsters… And Super Creeps.

Here are the first couple of paragraphs from the piece…

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Scary Monsters still sparkles today. Its intense, churning grooves sound remarkably contemporary – in retrospect, it’s the obvious source of Blur’s angular rock attack from Park Life on – but despite the complexity of its arrangements, there are many moments of unaffected simplicity. Recorded mostly at New York’s Power Station, Scary Monsters moves on stylistically from its three Berlin-inspired predecessors, but also looks back, both at Bowie’s own career and at the new wave kids who were coming up behind him.

Popular folklore has it that Bowie, working in New York after his sojourn in Europe, was intent on scoring a hit record. Certainly Chuck Hammer, who had met Bowie via Lou Reed, observed a frighteningly intense work ethos when he arrived to add his cutting-edge guitar synthesizer to three songs. Bowie, mustachio’d, in full-length leather jacket and Japanese sandals, was armed with a clipboard to plan the recording, while producer Tony Visconti was almost scarily ‘on-it’; recording and planning ahead at the same time. “They were an absolutely unified team, impressively organised,” says Hammer. “There was no chaos – but it was very relaxed and creative, too.”

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So there you have it…The greatest album of the eighties made in the first year of the decade and not bettered in the nine that followed. IMHO.

Suddenly, all your history’s ablaze…

I know you’re all aware that David Bowie contributed backing vocals to the song Province on TVOTR‘s Return To Cookie Mountain album.

You may remember that the song was also released as a limited edition green vinyl 7″ 45 and as a download single back in May of last year, ahead of the album’s release in July, 2006.

Well, now 4AD is reissuing the song tomorrow as a two-track 45, in the sleeve above, and as a three-track download single. Here’s the breakdown:

Province – Released 02 July 2007

7″ 45 – AD 2724
A – Province (Featuring David Bowie)
B – Dumb Animal

Digital (AAC) Digital Download – EAD 2724S
1 – Province (Featuring David Bowie)
2 – Dumb Animal
3 – Wasted Weekend

If Province has thus far escaped you, for one reason or another, you can check it out on TVOTR’s MySpace page.

You can order Province directly from 4AD by clicking on the image above.