Month: December 1999

The contest is simple, scroll down the page and look at the pictures and answer the questions asto who IS with Bowie, behind RaMOANa’s fat head (they are all famous people). To enter thecontest, email RaMOANa with the subject “It’s NOT RaMOANa” and number your answers (1through 4).

Send your emails by December 15th, 12 noon EST and RaMOANa will draw thewinning entry from the emails with the correct answers. Drawing to be held at 6 p.m. the sameday. The winner will receive a fab Y2k Bowie Calendar!

The correct pictures with the answers tothe questions will be posted on this site by midnight December 15th.

go to RaMOANa’s contest

TV Guide this week has listed the results of a (U.S.) TV Guide/MTV poll of the top 100 videos, ever made, and Bowie is listed as #58 – Ashes to Ashes (click on the link to see a clip of the video).

The videos air 15 per night starting next week on MTV at 8 p.m. EST– we are guessing that means Bowie airs Thursday night! 😉

go to TV Guide’s 100 Greatest Music Videos article

go to MTV’s Top 100 Videos

“Not only is it the last show” etc… again

London is still reeling from the shock of the visiting media monster that is the Bowie machine. And Total BlamBlam is still in the recovery position… so here are a few pictures that he took yesterday at the Virgin MegaStoresigning and the Astoria show, to tide you over until he re-surfaces with his report tomorrow. Just click on theimage above for a link to images from both events.

click here for more pictures

From our European Correspondent, Total Blam Blam

“Not only is it the last show” etc… again

London is still reeling from the shock of the visiting media monster that is the Bowie machine. And Total BlamBlam is still in the recovery position… so here are a few pictures that he took yesterday at the Virgin MegaStoresigning and the Astoria show, to tide you over until he re-surfaces with his report tomorrow. Just click on theimage above for a link to images from both events.

click here for more pictures

From our European Correspondent, Total Blam Blam

This Sunday, December 5th, at 1:00pm, VH1 is showing their 1996 Fashion Awards (Music).

The hour-long show will have “Pop Up” video performances and highlights from the 1996 VH1 Fashion Awards, including “Stayin’ Alive” by the Bee Gees and a performance by David Bowie.

On Monday, December 6, at 1:00am, VH1 is showing their History of Rock ‘n’ Roll “The ’70s: Have a Nice Decade” (Music)

“The seventies may stand as the most colorful decade of rock, with the theatrics of artists like David Bowie, Kiss and Alice Cooper. Also, a new craze called disco swept across America.”

The first ‘Q’ magazine of the new millennium has afeature on ‘THE BEST 50 ALBUMS OF 1999’. These arenot ‘ranked’, but they do have this to say.

“The returning Dame looked fantastic and youthful and’hours…’ excitingly marked twin excavations of theacoustic guitar pop of Hunky Dory/Ziggy Stardust andthe glacial synth textures of his Berlin period.”

“BEST BIT: 3.10 into ‘Thursday’s Child’. The breathyfemale whispers that usher in the second gorgeouschorus of ‘throw me tomorrow…'”

info courtesy of Spaceface

‘Q’ Online has a 100 Greatest Albums Ever, too, and our man David made the grade with 3 albums:

We now have 20 tickets to the December 7th Copenhagen ‘Vega Musikkens Hus’ David Bowie Show up for grabs.

If you want a ticket to the COPENHAGEN show, just fill out the form including your BowieNet User name (NOT your password), and if you win, you will be notified via email on Monday morning, December 6th.

Please remember:
Please don’t enter if you can’t physically be in Copenhagen on Dec. 7nd.

The show is Dec. 7th at ‘Vega Musikkens Hus’

Street Address:
Enghavevej 40
1674 V.

Telephone:
3325-7011

Any questions can be forwarded toinfo@davidbowie.com
Good Luck!

A track from the STIGMATA soundtrack,co-composed by Mike Garson and BillyCorgan, was used on the ABC daytimedrama “General Hospital” Wednesday,December 1st.

The track, which appeared to be aremix or out-take of “reflect” wasused behind a pivotal plot pointand really set the mood.

For more information about MikeGarson, visit his official site:
http://www.mikegarson.com

Planned Accidents part 1 or as that bloke in that film said: “If you’re given a gift horse, walk up to it, yank its jaws wide open and take a good long look”

Reports of a mis-pressed version of Thursday’s Child CD 2 that is meant to contain the ‘Thursday’s Child (Rock Mix)’, ‘We Shall Go To Town’, 1917, and the ‘Thursday’s Child’ video are filtering through from the US of A. By all accounts the CD case and the disc itself list these tracks, but when played it turns out to be UK CD 1 with ‘We All Go Through’ and ‘No One Calls’.

Virgin have held up their hands to this one and have confirmed that it does indeed appear that about 200 mis-presses left the plant with the two formats mixed up. Appropriate punishment has been meted out to the guilty parties, and hopefully there have been promises made that it will happen again with the next single ‘Survive’!

For, you see, an instant collectors item has been created here that will no doubt become a regular item on eBay for those strange enough to want to part with it. I am only saddened that I have not been able to secure my own financial future and that of my extended family with a copy of my own.

So I am making an appeal to anybody out there that wants the actual version they thought they were getting by contacting me at: MrTotalBlamBlam@aol.com with ‘Thursday’s Child mis-press in the subject field, and I will gladly swap a mis-press for the normal version that was released here in the UK. What could be nicer for you?

From our European Correspondent, Total Blam Blam

Just a reminder David Bowie will be signing autographs at the Virgin MegaStore on Oxford Street between 4:00pm and 5:00pm.

THAT’S TODAY!