Latest Bowie-related Iphone App Is Toilet

Brilliant Adventure…Not

I’m sure the iPhone users out there understand the need to get anything Bowie-related on to their phone…particularly stuff you can’t get elsewhere, like iPhone specific applications.

I search regularly for such things, so imagine my excitement when I noticed an application back in May called Triff Of The Davids.

Despite my headline, it’s not actually a WC based programme. No. What I mean is that the application itself is a load of old toilet, to use the vernacular.

Here’s a grab of a typical screen…

If you laughed at that, you should be ashamed of yourself.

They’ve even used a pap shot…though at least this gives me the opportunity to inform you that David is wearing Aquascutum in this particular picture…something I meant to tell you at the time.

Back to the app…things this bad are usually free on the iPhone, but this isn’t even worth the forty nine pence it will set you back…please take my word for it…it’s not even worth the time to check out how bad it is.

With this ‘news’ item and the time I spent ‘playing’ the thing, that’s an hour of my life I will never get back.

Finally, the catchline above reads: “Adventure games aren’t just for nerds. They are for Bowie fans too.” That may or may not be true, but it’s got absolutely nothing to do with this!

Happy Tenth Birthday To Alexandria Jones

We wish you well, we wish you well…

Many happy returns of the day to Lexi who has reached double figures!

You?re probably much too sophisticated for Spongebob now, but you might still have a secret hankering for Lord Royal Highness?s biomass converting device, especially today and especially if it is still stuck at ?ice-cream only?.

In the UK, the current ?hot? tenth birthday party is a make-up party, so Mum’s expertise might come in handy today as well.

Very best wishes for a wonderful day from all of us here at BowieNet. Members who want to send a personal message to Lexi can add tothis thread started by dez.

No Bowie Gaga Collaboration

Rumours and lies and stories they made up…Part 461

When this tall story first surfaced a few days ago it was denied as a hoax in an update to the same article and we thought that would be the end of it.

I guess some folk see what they want to see though and now the rumour that David Bowie has been working with Lady Gaga seems to have taken off.

The hoax was started by some bright spark or other with the above forgery. We’ve highlighted the supposed Bowie contributions.

However, in a nutshell, the suggestion that David Bowie is producing and participating in the production of Lady Gaga’s next album is untrue and a hoax.

Why Hunky Dory Is On Gorillaz' Plastic Beach

These are your favourite things, When you’re a (2D) boy…

Back in March (03.08.2010 NEWS: ALL IS HUNKY DORY ON GORILLAZ’ PLASTIC BEACH) we highlighted the fact that the sleeve for David Bowie’s Hunky Dory was among the mysterious items on display in 2D‘s rowing boat on the sleeve of the Gorillaz‘ latest opus, Plastic Beach.

I put out a request to see if anybody understood the relevance of the album among 2D’s booty and I’m pleased to say that both Damon and Jamie responded…albeit via an interview with Serge Simonart in last month’s (August issue) Record Collector magazine

In fact Jamie, if you watch even closer you’ll see that the inscription actually reads: “TO 2D LOVE DAVID X”.

Thanx for clearing that one up boys…I guess Hunky Dory is the perfect desert island disc.

Anyway, next time don’t be shy, feel free to contact us directly. 😉

Official 2011 David Bowie Calendar Due End Of August

Any day now…

The official 2011 David Bowie calendar which we told you about in June, (06.07.2010 NEWS: EXCLUSIVE OFFICIAL 2011 DAVID BOWIE CALENDAR DETAILS) is still on schedule and is now due to be published on Monday, August 30th.

Stay tuned for a contest to win copies shortly…possibly signed by David Bowie!

Bowie Is Uk's Most Wanted Wedding Singer

There’s a Sailor who sings…

Recent research undertaken by PRS for Music in the UK reveals that David Bowie is the male singer the public would most like to perform at their wedding.

The results of the survey, which polled 2,000 people across the UK, also reveals that Beyoncé and Take That come top as most popular female singer and most popular band respectively to perform at weddings.

Well, if anybody out there manages to persuade David Bowie to sing at their wedding, I do a very good line in Best Man speeches.

I’ll leave you with the top ten of the most wanted male singer from the poll…

Most Wanted Male Singer

01 David Bowie
02 Robbie Williams
03 Lionel Ritchie
04 Barry White
05 Elton John
06 Tom Jones
07 Rod Stewart
08 Bryan Adams
09 Neil Diamond
10 Meat Loaf

Well I guess there’s nothing wrong with setting your sights high.

Eight-page Bowie Appreciation In September Gq Magazine

He knows it’s all worthwhile…

Nicholas Coleridge has written a wonderful piece for an eight-page feature in the September issue of GQ magazine.

In it Nicholas describes his journey as a Bowie fan from his familiar blown-away-by-Starman-on-TOTPs-initiation in 1972, (the same life-changing experience so many of us reading this had) right through to meeting Bowie at an aftershow backstage at Wembley during the 2003 A Reality Tour.

Here’s the standfirst…

“Enduringly enigmatic, eerily ageless and utterly essential: six decades into his career, the Thin White Duke is still the epitome of cool. But how, exactly, did he morph from star man to soul boy to great Briton without committing rock?n?roll suicide? And what does an obsessive do when he comes face to face with the man who sold the world?”

The picture inset bottom right in the montage above is of GQ editor Dylan Jones, Nicholas Coleridge and an icon backstage at aforementioned Wembely meeting in 2003.

It’s really worth picking up GQ for a proper read of this, and, even if the pedants among us can spot a couple of minor factual wobbles in the piece, these do nothing to hamper the overall enjoyment of the article…and that’s not even taking in to account some fine pictorial content.

I’ll leave you with Nicholas’s Bowie playlist taken from the article…

FROM SPACE ODDITIES TO MODERN LOVES
NICHOLAS COLERIDGE?S BOWIE PLAYLIST

01 – Cygnet Committee
02 – The Width Of A Circle
03 – Saviour Machine
04 – Life On Mars?
05 – Suffragette City
06 – Rock ?N? Roll Suicide
07 – Panic In Detroit
08 – Time
09 – Sweet Thing
10 – Candidate
11 – We Are The Dead
12 – Win
13 – Somebody Up There Likes Me
14 – Word On A Wing
15 – Wild Is The Wind
16 – Sound And Vision
17 – “Heroes”
18 – Sons Of The Silent Age
19 – Look Back In Anger
20 – Ashes To Ashes
21 – Let?s Dance
22 – China Girl
23 – My Death (live)
24 – I Would Be Your Slave
25 – Slip Away

FOOTNOTE: Not sure if he’s seen this issue of GQ as he hasn’t posted anything just yet…but if you’re reading this, Paul K, you need to get a copy as BowieWonderWorld gets a nice mention. Well done chap.

Phil Cornwell As Db At Edinburgh Fringe

Sit in the garden, Growing potatoes by the score…

BowieNetter Mike Leigh (no, not THAT Mike Leigh) has been in touch with details of Phil Cornwell‘s impending stint at The Edinburgh Festival Fringe…over to Mike…

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The comedy impressionist Phil Cornwell is performing his first one man show in twenty years. As well as his infamous Mick and Keith impressions from his hit series Stella Street, he has a whole new routine as Bowie, as well as impressions of all the Beatles. I don?t want to give too much away but let?s just say that Bowie appears to have taken up gardening?.

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You can catch Phil’s show at The Edinburgh Festival from August 16th to 30th – Tickets available here.

The Bowie Experience Do Ziggy Stardust…mostly

It’s safe in the city, to love in a doorway…

Well, I don’t need to say much more really…apart from the fact that you can see what else The Bowie Experience is planning to do here and you can read more about the Mathew Street Music Festival here.

I don’t want to contravene the Trades Description Act, so I guess I should also mention that Laurence and the boys aren’t doing the full Ziggy Stardust album.

It seems they’ve dropped It Ain’t Easy, Lady Stardust and Star in favour of three songs I guess they consider better crowd pleasers.

Strange way to treat a classic album, but here’s the setlist for the day as it stands right now anyway…

Five Years
Soul Love
Moonage Daydream
Space Oddity
Watch That Man
Starman
Hang Onto Yourself
The Jean Genie
Ziggy Stardust
Suffragette City
Rock ‘N’ Roll Suicide

Speaking of Bowie impersonators…(Sorry Laurence, I know you’re a tribute act, not an impersonator…but that would have ruined my link!)

Station To Station Put Back One Week Due To High Demand

This week dragged past me so slowly…

Well, it’s all there in the headline. But, to reiterate, the Station To Station packages that we told you about last month, (07.01.2010 NEWS: S2S SPECIAL AND DELUXE EDITION BOXES DUE IN SEPTEMBER) have now been put back one week to September 27th in the UK and September 28th in the US.

The perfectly reasonable reason for this is because the demand for stock exceeded EMI’s initial expectations and they want to be sure they can fulfil the pre-orders…well, you wouldn’t want to be the one who couldn’t get a copy for the sake of a week’s delay now, would you?

Meantime, stay tuned for a contest to win various related items ahead of the day of release, not least of all an official Station To Station promotional T-shirt wot you won’t find in the shops, innit?