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The New York Premiere of “Mr. Rice’s Secret” is coming up at the 5th Annual Soney Brook Film Festival. The fest takes place at the State University of New York (SUNY) Stoney Brook school in Stoney Brook, Long Island, New York, and runs from July 19-29, 2000. Click the image above for a larger version of the poster.
For $30, you can get a Festival Pass, which allows you to see 47 films! You can get the passes by either calling (631) 632-ARTS, or by going to the following website:
Still riding the wave of the Glasto-experience! mtv.co.uk sent their delightful reporter “Billy Scumbag” to cover the fest. Here is a snippet:
“David Bowie is headlining at the Pyramid Stage and more out of curiosity I have to check it out. Yet again I?m torn though and had to miss some of The Old White Duke (who pleasantly surprises me) because I?m gagging to check Doves who are closing the New Band Tent…….. As they wind up their encore, flares fall over the main stage as Bowie still reels in my mind.
Walking out Gate 6 there was a festival newspaper on the floor with an aerial view of the site and the headline ‘Best Glastonbury Ever’. And that it was.”
Go to mtv.co.uk
David Bowie and BowieNet were mentioned on the radio yesterday morning on National Public Radio (NPR).
Go to NPR.org
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Ooops – Due partly to a Mac to PC translation error, but mainly to gross stupidity on my part, the version of the press release that went up on BowieNet yesterday had two fundamental errors in it. A search and replace that I did on the piece removed all of the figure ones from the original and meant that David Bowie’s Glastonbury debut changed from 1971 to 97. The error also created the lie that he performed to a mere 20,000 festival-goers instead of the actual 120,000 happy punters that attended the show.
I would like to offer my apologies to The Outside Organisation, BowieNet, David Bowie and not least to my mother, for my shaming of the family name! Please go here for the corrected version.
Total Blam Blam – (European Correspondent)
Here is a snippet from this month’s MOJO.
MOJO’s Time Machine section features the Ziggy farewell concert at Hammersmith Odeon this month. David is still being misquoted after 27 years! What he actually said was “It’s the last show that we’ll ever do.”, by which he meant that particular band. Mind you, I think there may have been a little bit of mischief in there……lol
Go here for the snippet.
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“He’s had many pretenders to his crown as the Godfather of Cool. But even those young enough to be his grandchildren could identify an original, a one-off”
– Richard Wallace Daily Mirror June 27th 2000
Some 30 years on from his debut Glastonbury performance in 1971, David Bowie stole this year’s prestigious festival and has earned his place in the rock ‘n’ roll history books with one of Glastonbury’s most definitive performances. Promoter Michael Eavis, who has booked acts like Radiohead, Oasis, Elvis Costello, Blur and REM over the years described David’s set as; “one of the best appearances in the history of the event”.
Bowie, resplendently dressed in a 3/4 length one-of-a-kind Alexander McQueen jacket (not too dissimilar to his Hunky Dory look) held his audience captive with a set that included killer tracks from his accomplished 30 year career, including Life On Mars?, Changes, Let’s Dance, Under Pressure, Heroes, Fame, China Girl, Ashes To Ashes, Ziggy Stardust, Rebel Rebel, and from more recent years, crowd pleasers such as Hallo Spaceboy and I’m Afraid Of Americans. Artists such as The Dandy Warhols, Kelis, Happy Mondays and Embrace were tripping over themselves to watch the 2 hour strong set from the side of the stage. Out front in excess of 120,000 people stretched as far as the eye could see, resembling nothing so much as a medieval gathering of the clans.
So far reaching were the effects of David’s Glastonbury performance that UK papers looked somewhat like Bowie fanzines the following day. Even the notoriously critical ‘credible’ British music press had to take their hats off to David and cited him as this year’s highlight. NME chose David as the Pyramid Stage pick of the day and reported; ‘DAVID BOWIE, Blimey he’s good. No, better than that, David Bowie bloody well patented pop music, and we all forgot.’
Following a set that many would claim impossible to better, David rocked an intimate audience just days later at a special show for the BBC, to be broadcast on TV later this year. Entertaining this specially invited crowd (faces in the audience included Russell Crowe, Meg Ryan, Lulu, Bob Geldolf, Richard E.Grant, Simon and Yasmin Le Bon amongst others) David filled the evening with amusing anecdotes of his past antics including many ribald tales that are best left in the BBC archives! The set was varied and included previews of some new interpretations of 60’s songs, such as ‘The London Boys’, that he is planning to record.
Preparations for both events weren’t easy amidst rumours that David would be forced to cancel due to his laryngitis but in typical David Bowie fashion he rose above it all to give arguably two of the best performances of his career.
In what’s been a very special week for David in the UK he has more than proved why he has been at the top of his game for some 30 years now. He has shown himself to be as relevant now as he has ever been.
The Bowie media blitz continues unabated here in the UK with reports about the BBC show still appearing, along with with news stories surrounding certain guests present at the show. Both The Sun and the The Daily Star have related pieces with pictures in today’s newspapers, and the BBC news site carried this review of the show.
The Outside Organisation in the UK also released this press release today.
Total Blam Blam – (European Correspondent)
Every day, the Swedish channel TV4 celebrates “name of the day”. On June 25th, the name was David. David Bowie was therefore mentioned as a famous person with the name. The narrator described Bowie as, quote: “The chameleont David Bowie is perhaps the most influential mucisian of all times”. If you can read Swedish, the link is:
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The next David Bowie single, ‘Seven‘, is now receiving airplay in the UK. A four-track promo CD is currently doing the rounds, and the ‘hours…’ outtake is already single of the week on Chris Evans’ Virgin Radio breakfast show here in the UK. The promo boasts four different versions of the song, being:
There are several formats of the single planned, including three different CD singles for the UK alone. Go here for our previous BowieNet report.
Total Blam Blam – (European Correspondent)
Every member of BowieNet gets one! If you have not yet filled out the Live and Well Address Confirmation Form , go there now by clicking HERE!! The CDs will start to ship in the next week, so keep an eye out for a special double-disk CD package!