Month: September 2000

Get the CD of the film of the T-shirt in your local record emporium today (like you need me to tell you that). After the TV show last night and the radio comp last Friday, watch out for more Bowie at the Beeb competitions not only here, but also here: www.bowieatthebeeb.com and most likely at aforementioned local record emporium too! Weren’t they pretty btw…all those BNutters at the Beeb last night, he weren’t half bad either!

Total Blam Blam – (European Correspondent)

Watch out for a new international TV and radio ad campaign for Novell’s Net Services Software featuring David’s early 70’s classic “Changes.” This will be a major ad campaign, and here’s a tip! Keep your eye out for the fish bowls!

Tomorrow night the broadcast of David’s appearance at the BBC Radio Theatre will be shown on BBC2 at 10:00pm (GMT). Satellite dish, anyone?

DAVID BOWIE releases a triple-CD collection of unreleased recordings next week and dotmusic been asked to host an exclusive micro-site to mark the occasion.

Dotmusic, in association with EMI and the BBC, will launch the site on Monday, the same day as the release of ‘Bowie At The Beeb’.

The collection, recorded between 1968 and 1972, includes tracks chosen personally by Bowie, the majority of which have been taken from the albums ‘Space Oddity’, ‘Ziggy Stardust’, ‘The Man Who Sold The World’ and ‘Hunky Dory’.

Other than stable Bowie acts of genius such as ‘Rock ‘n’ Roll Suicide’, ‘Changes’, ‘Ziggy Stardust’ and ‘Five Years’, there are non-album tracks and covers, including The Velvet Underground’s ‘Waiting For The Man’.

The collection also includes his first-ever live performance with guitarist Mick Ronson and his 1968 session with the Tony Visconti trio. Artwork for the album is by Guy Peellaert, responsible for the design of the seminal ‘Diamond Dogs’ album. The third CD included with the compilation captures Bowie’s performance at the BBC Radio Theatre in June earlier this year.

Dotmusic will also be giving away a host of exclusive prizes as part of the micro-site, which includes sound samples, a gallery, screensavers and the full lowdown on ‘Bowie At The Beeb’. The prizes include a signed print of the cover art, albums, t-shirts, posters and subscriptions to www.davidbowie.com.

Return to dotmusic.com for the micro-site on Monday.

Emmanouils’ Gail Ann Interview Broadcast Tomorrow!!

Tomorrow (Sunday, September 24) at 8PM EST, George Washington University’s Online Radio (WRGW) will broadcast Emmanouil the Troll’s interview with Gail Ann Dorsey! If you have any questions you’d like him to include, you can e-mail them to him today!

How Gail finds time to drop in in the middle of her busy tour schedule with Dar Williams is beyond us – but we’re thrilled that she will!

Note that the show will be rebroadcasted on Tuesday the 26th between 2-4PM EST forall European Bnetters!!

Click here for a link to the WRGW homepage!

Thanks Troll!

Gail’s tour dates with Dar this month are as follows:

Date	Venue
Oct. 1	St. Paul MN – Fitzgerald Theater
Oct. 3	Bozeman MT – Emerson Cultural Center
Oct.6	Vancouver – Richard’s on Richards
Oct. 7	Portland OR – Aladdin Theater (2 shows)
Oct. 8	Seattle – Moore Theater
Oct. 10	Santa Rosa – Merlo Theater
Oct. 11	San Francisco – Warfield
Oct. 12	Sacramento – Crest Theater
Oct. 14	San Juan Capistrano – The Coach House
Oct. 15	LA – Henry Fonda Theater
Oct. 17	San Diego – Belly Up
Oct. 18	Tuscon AZ – International Arts Center
Oct. 20	Salt Lake City – Gardiner Concert Hall
Oct. 21	Grand Junction CO – venue t/b/d
Oct. 22	Boulder CO – Boulder Theater
Oct. 24	Dallas TX – venue t/b/d
Oct. 26	Austin TX – TV taping – Austin City Limits
Oct. 27	Houston – venue t/b/d
Oct. 28	Austin – venue t/b/d

When it rains, it pours! Musical BowieNettters Jade, Versigh and Kari aren’t the only winners today, they are joined by a graphic designer from Altrincham (just outside Manchester) named Rob Hughes. Rob wins a goody bag of stuff including the star prize of a print of the Bowie At The Beeb artwork signed by David thanks to his award winning answer to the question, “David Bowie could do worse than support The Shirehorses on tour because…” which was…..

Not that you need one, but on Sunday night those of you in the UK can watch the long-awaited broadcast of David Bowie’s appearance at the BBC Radio Theatre back in June (no fair)! The show will be on BBC2 at 10:00pm (GMT) and will be followed by a screening of the classic Cracked Actor documentary.

Of course after seeing how incredible the performance was (if you haven’t already), you can rush out the next day and pick up the CD (the limited edition 3rd disc, that is)!

To celebrate Monday’s release of Bowie at the Beeb, here follows the transcript of a brief chat I had with Kevin Cann about the production of the Bowie at the Beeb sessions CD. Kevin’s pedigree is a fine one, from his one man Bowie exhibition in Watford way back when, via the unequalled achievements of the best Bowie fan magazine to this day, Starzone… Kevin was also the author of the excellent David Bowie: A Chronology in 1983, and he has played an important role in the vast EMI re-issue campaign of the last couple of years. Which brings us neatly to the present and his work on Bowie at the Beeb, as art director and researcher for the project. Go here for some insider information on how the project became what it is.

Total Blam Blam – (European Correspondent)

The votes are in for the Dee Bee Cover Project!

We know it was tough to choose between some of these top notch covers, but we’ve tallied the votes and the BowieNetters have spoken!

And the winners are:

BEST OVERALL COVER
Quicksand	by The Jade	stream	download
MOST ORIGINAL COVER
Hallo Spaceboy	by Versigh	stream	download
BEST BOWIE CLONE
Life on Mars	by Kari Palo	stream	download

Congratulations to the winners, and really to all of those who participated in this gross display of BowieNutters’ talent! Each of the three winners will receive a neat little prize package including an autographed photo of David, an autographed CD and a coveted plastic boat!

Again, David and the BowieNet staff extend special thanks to ramsey for pulling this project together! Click here for a link to her site which features cover artwork and info about each of the bands.