Standing tall in the dark…
The 97th show of David Bowie’s A Reality Tour took place at Shea’s PAC in Buffalo, NY, last night, and this lucky audience was treated to some special setlist changes indeed.
Apart from the return of The Motel and Battle For Britain, two brand new additions to the setlist were selected from David’s classic Hunky Dory album: The Bewlay Brothers and Queen Bitch!
Here’s the full officially-confirmed 26-song setlist courtesy of HNB:
Buffalo May 25th 2004
01 Rebel Rebel
02 Cactus
03 Sister Midnight
04 New Killer Star
05 Looking For Water
06 All The Young Dudes
07 China Girl
08 The Loneliest Guy
09 The Man Who Sold The World
10 The Motel
11 Battle For Britain (The Letter)
12 Sunday
13 Heathen (The Rays)
14 Hallo Spaceboy
15 Under Pressure
16 Reality
17 Station To Station
18 Ashes To Ashes
19 Quicksand
20 Modern Love
21 I’m Afraid Of Americans
22 “Heroes”
(Encore)
23 The Bewlay Brothers
24 Queen Bitch
25 Suffragette City
26 Ziggy Stardust
Jeff Miers of
David Bowie has always been ahead of the curve. It was no surprise, then, that his sold-out show at Shea’s Tuesday found him still pushing the envelope, 35 years deep into one of rock’s most ambitious and consistently forward-looking careers.
Bowie’s current tour flies beneath the moniker “A Reality,” and that’s fitting; for 21/2 hours Tuesday, he and his seamless band brought an audience equal parts stunned and elated into another world, an elevated plane of artistic experience. In the arena of rock, this was quite simply as good as it gets.
Those lucky enough to claim a ticket stub for this intimate-yet-grandiose show will likely never forget it. Bowie is a class act, and remains one of the most influential artists in rock music. That he still manages to challenge his audience at this stage of his career is an inspiration to all who care about the music’s future.
Jeff sounds like one very satisfied customer indeed. You can read the whole of his review
A Reality Tour continues tomorrow night at the Ford Pavilion at Montage Mountain in Scranton, PA.