Month: February 2000

Feb 28th 1987, 13 years since Andy Warhol (‘looks ascream, hang him on my wall’ (Hunky Dory : 1971))became the LATE great……

NME.com have a piece about him this week in their “Rock news from past NME’s” section.

“Warhol, pop artist extraordinaire, delivered to theworld not only the Campbell’s soup can as art but alsoThe Velvet Underground.”

“From the 1960’s onward, working out of his NewYork-based studio The Factory, Warhol often seemeddeliberately to be cultivating his own stardom.”

“As Quentin Crisp said, ‘All of us who make a styleout of being owe it all to Andy Warhol.'”

“In the future”, Warhol said, “everyone will befamous for 15 minutes.”

That sounds quite a lot like the internet to me. Canyou imagine his Home Page??….sigh

No-one I found does him justice, but you can try theselinks:-

The Andy Warhol Museum

www.artchive.com

We miss ya Andy!

thanks to Spaceface

The winner is…. BowieNet!

In the annual readers poll of German music magazine Musikexpress (Marchissue) readers voted www.davidbowie.com as the #1 website of the past year!

A landslide victory for our little wonderwolrd of a site: it got 8,6 % ofall the votes, almost twice as much as the runners up rollingstones.com andbeastieboys.com.

But that’s not all. German music freaks obviously love our DB nor justinteractively but also very actively: They consider him #2 solo artist ofthe year! Beaten to the top only by Beck (at least that’s good company) with10% of all the votes David again got almost twice as many as “#3 soloartistof the year”, Tom Waits, who got 5,4 %. David also charted in the”personality of the year” category at #9 amongst politicians, authors andsportsmen and a few musicians like Paul McCartney and Bono. (Sadly themisogynist attitudes David mentioned in his diaries recently are alsoreflected here: only one woman, tennis ace Steffi Graf, made it to the TopTen of that category.)

Also a great performance for “hours…“: #3 album of the year! And the clipfor “Thursday’s Child” was voted 6th best video of the year.

And even more chart sucess for DB in that issue of Musikexpress: In themonthly album charts voted for by readers “hours..” jumped up 3 places, nowranking at #5. And guest critic Robert Smith puts “Ziggy Stardust and theSpiders from Mars” at #5 in the list of his ten favourite albums of alltime.

Here are the full rankings of the relevant categories of the readers poll:

WEBSITE OF THE YEAR:
www.davidbowie.com 8,6%
www.rollingstones.com 4,7%
www.beastieboys.com 4,3%
www.mp3.com 3,9%
www.cdnow.com 3,4 %

SOLO ARTIST OF THE YEAR:
1. Beck 17,9%
2. David Bowie 10.0%
3. Tom Waits 5,4%
4. Robbie Williams 5,2%
5. Moby 3,8%

ALBUM OF THE YEAR:
1. Blur “13” 6,6%
2. Red Hot Chili Peppers “Californication” 4,8%
3. David Bowie “hours..” 4,4%
4. Travis “The Man Who” 4,2%
5. Beck “Midnight Vultures” 4,1 %

VIDEO OF THE YEAR:
1. “Coffee & TV” (Blur) 7,6%
2. “Turn the Page” (Metallica) 5,8%
3. “Beautiful Stranger” (Madonna) 5,6%
4. “Freak on a Leash” (Korn) 5,1%
5. “Why does my Heart feel so bad” (Moby) 3,9%
6. “Thursday’s Child” (David Bowie) 3,1%

Way to go!!!

RollingStone.com has set up a special message-board in which people can write their suggestions and thoughts for DB and Iman’s baby-on-the-way. You must register with RollingStone.com in order to submit your entry.

Go to the Baby Board

The international David Bowie Fanclub “The Voyeur” will have its annual Fanmeeting on March 26, Club Azotod, De Meern (near Utrecht) in The Netherlands.

Time 13.00-18.00 hours.

More info on The Voyeur

thanks to Ludo for the info

Although the official Glastonbury 2000 artist lineup and schedule announcements won’t be released until May or so, the word is spreading that Bowie will play the fest for the first time in 30 years. Music365.co.uk has their own crack at the story:

Here is a clip of the article:

A source close to this year’s festival said on Tuesday night (February 15) that the 53-year-old rocker – who in the last few days announced that he and his 44-year-old wife Iman are expecting their first child together – is to play the main stage on Sunday night. Rumours of Bowie’s appearance at the festival have been circulating for sometime, and the star has previously dropped hints that he is interested in taking part. Bowie was one of the acts at the first Glastonbury in 1970.

The latest issue (April 2000) of the German magazine ‘Computer Bild‘ voted ‘Omikron: Nomad Soul‘ the No.1 Adventure Game!!!

Go to Computer Bild Online

info from Bianca

The Oporto International Film Festival – FANTASPORTO 2000 starts tomorrow the 25th February to the 4th of March 2000. As a featured act, there will be several films starring David Bowie from “The Man Who Fell to Earth” to “Exhuming Mr. Rice“, this film is in competition, and also promo music videos and other stuff.

Fantasporto is a festival cinema that occurs every year in the city of Oporto in Portugal. Now going to its 20th edition, this festival is specialised in fantasy and science-fiction films.

Go to Fantasporto Online

This week’s ‘Melody Maker‘ has a section called Video Heads in which Placebo chose their favourite 7 Pop Videos of all time. Of course, David Bowie was a member of this exclusive list, they chose ‘Ashes To Ashes‘, and here is what they had to say:

Brian: “We obviously chose this as he’s a friend and good supporter of theband. I remember being about 11 years old, seeing this video for the firsttime and my mother walking in and going, (Affects an impressive doddery oldwoman voice) ‘Oh, he looks so stupid and, oh, I bet he sleeps with men orsomething…’ I was quite fascinated by it.”

Here is the list:

David Bowie: Ashes to Ashes
Ultrasound: Stay Young
U2: Discotheque
Whale: Pay For Me
Depeche Mode: Policy of Truth
Sonic Youth: Death Valley ’69
Placebo: Pure Morning

thanks to Electric Blue for the tip

Midnight, Saturday March 4th, Cinema Classics is screening the film ‘Cracked Actor‘. The flic is an excellent filmed record of DB’s first major American tour.

Cinema Classics is part video store, part theater, and part cafe, and is located on East 11th Street in the East Village of Manhattan, NYC (between 1st and 2nd Avenues). The theater serves up the best foreign, cult, contemporary independent and classic Hollywood films, and the Cafe dishes out homemade soups and sandwiches.

Ticket prices for regular screenings, and the Midnight Specials, are only $5.00. For Movie Theater information, call 212-971-1015

Go to CinemaClassics.com

Oh baby come unto me…

Meet Lara from the wonderful county of Middlesex north of London, that’s her above. And below, do you recognise that famous profile?…That’s right…That is Lara’s pet German Shepherd, Ziggy! Click on Ziggy’s nose to see what barking mad tomfoolery went on during the latest heat of TFI’s ‘Celebrity Zoo’ contest last Friday here in the UK.

Total Blam Blam – (European Correspondent)