Month: January 2008

Come together, party…

Two events worth a mention for this coming weekend: In the UK, RocKabaret‘s We Could Be Heroes is on Saturday the 19th in London, and in the US, BOWIEBALL takes place the following day in NYC.

Here’s the blurb for the former…

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Saturday 19th January is
WE COULD BE HEROES
A night celebrating the many great artists, musicians, writers & other creative who?ve influenced us. Come as or inspired by your hero!

WANTED: We are trying to organize a catwalk of David Bowie’s characters.
Please contact me at nikkie@rockabaret.co.uk with “WE COULD BE HEROES” in the title of your email to enter the catwalk.

?Rockabaret is the decadent Enfant Terrible of London rock scene? TimeOut 2007

DETAILS DETAILS DETAILS!
IMPORTANT: Entry to the gloriously ornate Cobden Club is restricted to members and their guests, so be a guest of Rockabaret by emailing your name to door@rockabaret.co.uk

Rockabaret is monthly dress up arty club night in London playing David Bowie, alternative rock, sleazy glam, retro pop, show tunes and vintage French songs, spiced up by art performances intervals in a magnificent Cobden Club’s Grand Hall.

See website or myspace for more details.
www.rockabaret.co.uk
www.myspace.com/rockabaret

Entrance: £6 B4 9.30 With flyer £8. Without flyer: £10.
Flyers downloadable from www.rockabaret.co.uk/flyer.htm

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For those of you unable to read the information on the above BOWIEBALL flyer, click on it to reach a bigger version where details of this increasingly popular event will become clearer.

Tick, tock, tick, tock, tick, tock…

In an attempt to tie-up some of those loose ends that have been nagging away at the back of my brain for far too long, I thought you might finally enjoy the results of the Placebo contest which we ran over a year ago! (10.26.2006 NEWS: WIN PLACEBO PROMOTIONAL CLOCK RADIOS AND LTD CDS)

For those that don’t remember it, (and why should you?) we asked you to supply the reason you think I used the lyric quotation of: “Tick, tock, tick, tock, tick, tock”.

Well, Without You I?m Nothing, (the song that was re-recorded by Placebo with David Bowie sharing vocals) contains those very lyrics, and considering the clock/radio prize I thought it an appropriate line.

Anyway, here are the ten clever sausages that The Random Generator pulled out of the frying pan today…

Five winners of the Placebo clock radio:

carmel
ruth
sirdidymus
taf1970
thecleaneststar

Five winners of the 10-year anniversary CD/DVD collectors editions of the debut Placebo album:

akd
maxine.hillson
samadhi
tabalicious
tenimmo

If you lot are still actually interested in your prize, send us your name and address and we’ll endeavour to get it to you before another year evaporates.

As The World Falls Down…

We told you about Austin Chick‘s August back in May of last year, (05.20.2007 NEWS: BOWIE FILMS PART FOR NEW AUSTIN CHICK FILM) when we reported that David had filmed his part as Ogilvie, a hard-nosed British CEO of a dotcom company, during The High Line Festival.

I recently asked him how the filming had gone and it seems it wasn’t the hardest day’s work he’s ever done:

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“My bit was filmed last year not that far from where I live so it felt a little like wandering down the road for a morning paper, dropping into a quiet building and making a quick cameo appearance in a movie and continuing on home to read. Nice. – db”

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Initial reports suggested we wouldn’t be able to see the fruits of David’s labour until 2009, but hopefully things have moved forward a little with the news that August premieres at Sundance in a couple of weeks. Here are the screening details…

Screenings:
Tue. January 22, 5:30pm, Library Center Theatre, Park City
Wed. January 23, 2:30pm, Library Center Theatre, Park City
Thu. January 24, 9:45pm, Broadway Centre Cinemas V, SLC
Sat. January 26, 11:30am, Library Center Theatre, Park City

Click on the poster above for more information about August over on the Sundance Film Festival site.

Elvis is English…

Many happy returns of the day to David Bowie on his 61st birthday from everybody here at BowieNet. Hope you have a particularly splendid day, David, filled with love, fun, too much cake and a big wobbly jelly.

Thanx to BowieNetter Space_Girl for creating the above birthday montage, which I purloined from THE STICKY DAVID BOWIE BIRTHDAY THREAD where members can post their own birthday greetings to David if they haven’t already done so.

If you’re getting too much Elvis on your radio today, contact your favourite station and DEMAND MORE BOWIE!!

I’m looking for a party…

Following on from Tuesday’s news item, (01.01.2008 NEWS: HAPPY NEW YEAR…PLUS DB 61ST BIRTHDAY BASHES) two more Bowie birthday celebrations have come to light.

First up, is an event in Sheffield in the UK on Sunday evening with an exclusive one-off performance by tribute outfit: THEBOWIECONTINGENT.

Here’s the info sent in by BowieNetter icarusboy…

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BOWIEFEST IV

DAVID BOWIE’S 61st BIRTHDAY SPECIAL – Sun 6th January 2008

BOWIEFEST is now in it’s fourth year! BOWIEFEST is returning to West Street Live, Sheffield on 6th January and will celebrate Bowie’s 61st birthday with some fantastic live music from The Repomen, Anna Hague, Scott Pilkington (The Candy Gods), Pisco Sour Hour, Chis Murphy & Boxer Genius and culminate in the last ever performance by tribute band The Bowie Contingent, who’s original interpretations of Bowie’s hits have earned them a reputation amongst fans as a must-see Bowie tribute act.

The Bowie Contingent, who have been absent from the stage since January 2007, are reforming especially for the event to perform one final time.

The evening will also feature DJ’s, video projections, montages of rare photographs

Doors open: 7.00pm – FREE ENTRY!!!

West Street Live, West Street, Sheffield, UK (Tel: 0114 253 6510)

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Also, a couple of BowieNetters from Germany have informed me about the above event on the 12th in Berlin. I’m afraid we have been given no more information than is contained in the poster, but hopefully somebody in the know will ad more details to this thread on the MBs.

Feels like something’s gonna happen this year…

A happy new year from everybody here at BowieNet to everybody reading this.

Today’s lyric quotation isn’t based on anything more than my own gut feeling, but I can say with confidence that there will be some big improvements here at BowieNet in 2008 which you’ll start seeing towards the second half of the year.

Sorry if that seems too far away and not very specific, but hopefully you will think the changes will have been worth the wait.

In the meantime, on with the present…

The intriguing image above is the front of the flier for the Japanese party in celebration of David Bowie’s 61st (January 8th) and it takes place in Tokyo on Sunday January 6th. Here’s some info with links kindly sent in by BowieNetter EriWilde

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David Bowie Night Vol.8 – ‘Bowie’s 61st Birthday Party’

David Bowie Night, as it literally goes, is the club event dedicated exclusively for David Bowie. As the sound and vision of Bowie and the artists related to him are played and displayed, quiz contests on Bowie and live events are incorporated in the fan event, which Bowie fans never fail to get a kick out of.A very wide range of generations, from high school students to senior people, support this event.Moreover, quite a few celebrities who were related with Bowie, like Yasuko Takahashi, the stylist who had charge of Bowie’s costumes during the Ziggy period, and the administrators of major Bowie fan sites, have visited this event.This time, we are going to celebrate the commemorable 61st birthday of Bowie!Let’s spend the wonderful night together with many Bowie fans over a glass of champagne!

Date: January 6, 2008 ~ Time: 18:00 – 22:30 ~ Place: CLUB ACID, Shinjuku

Address:Kowa Bldg B1F2-3-12 ShinjukuShinjuku-ku Tokyo160-0022 Japan

Admission Fee: 2,000 yen (w/1 drink)

DJs: junne (P.R.O.M.), koki(Love Bar), pelo ~ VJ: custard pudding ~ Live Painting: m tack, KENTA

David Bowie Night Official Website

English Page

myspace.com DAVID BOWIE NIGHT

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If Tokyo is not too convenient a venue for you to celebrate David Bowie’s 61st, perhaps New York is a little better. The folks at glamdammit have sent in information about their extremely popular annual Bowie Bash which you can reach by clicking on the glamdammit logo above.