Month: February 2001

Did you know that our dear Emmanouil the Troll will be graduating from George Washington University soon and will therefore no longer be the Program Director for WRGM? Alas, it is sad (for listeners), but true!

The following feature then, is extra cool because not only does it feature Emm talking about her solo career, life with David, a live performance and the premier of her new song with Mike Garson, it is also very likely the last time we will hear Emmanouil interviewing her! Wow! Here’s the first part, including the premier of her song with Mike! Check back next week for Part II of this excellent interview, which will include a live performance from Emm!

Part I

Part II

Asian Blue (with Mike Garson)

Thanks, Emmanouils!

My pretty has a picture…

You may remember a piece from the tail-end of last year (12/28/00 NEWS: BOWIE DONATES IMAN FOR AUCTION, SHE COULD BE YOURS!) about a quite beautiful print of Iman that David had donated to an auction in aid of Global Kids. Well, BowieNetter Spud won the item via eBay with a most generous bid. Here’s a short message he posted to me last month:

“Blammo, Just a quick line to let you know my Iman print by db arrived today, perfectly intact and with it came a bit of info on Globalkids who have raised $80,000 through their most recent fundraising efforts (their best to date).

Just wanted to thank you for alerting the bnet public to the auction. I am proud to own a pretty exclusive piece by db, and its all down to bnet and the power of the internet.

Many thanks mate, Spud.”

Well done sir, thanks for your generosity…Hands together for Spud folks, what a lovely bloke he is.

Total Blam Blam (European Correspondent)

Nothing much could happen…

This month’s Arena magazine has a particularly revealing thirteen-page interview and picture special with a small but perfectly formed ‘Earthling’ era shot of David Bowie, with this accompanying quote from Patsy:

“…David Bowie, I thought he was going to be husband number one. I had this whole idea that he would meet me and fall madly in love with me but when we met on Absolute Beginners, he ignored me. I met him when I had become a rock wife and he and Iman were very friendly. I don’t even think he thought I was the same person.”

I’ve not given David time for a right to reply on this one, but it’s hard to imagine that he actually ignored Patsy, don’t ya think?

More pictures from the shoot are said to be available at Patsy’s “brand new official website – www.patsykensit.com”. For those of you that like to look at a beautiful woman half naked (Yes Paul, that means topless) you will be distressed to learn that this link isn’t yet working! But then there’s always the magazine of course.

Total Blam Blam – (European Correspondent)

Read ’em pal and grin

mojo4music.com has finally opened its doors, as you may have spotted if you checked out the link in Blam’s article yesterday. Some areas of the site are a reflection of what has already been seen at q4music.com, but there are also several new items related to David, which haven’t been officially available online before, such as this from 1994 on Santa Monica ‘ 72.

“Blessed by official release at last, this in-concert set was taped for US radio at the glowing moment of Bowie’s breakthrough. Its tracks overlap in part with the Ziggy Stardust movie soundtrack, but for sonic quality and nervous excitement this performance beats every other live album in the Bowie catalogue. Ronson and the Spiders do their carrot-topped master’s bidding with fiery grimness; the fey supremo lisps and bleats superbly. Songs include Queen Bitch, Waiting For The Man, Suffragette City and Jean Genie, each and all invigorating rock’n’roll, heroic enemies of hippy Woodstock staleness”.

Check it out, here.

:))

Thanks, Spaceface!

Just another future song…

The rather gorgeously designed official site of the film Moulin Rouge has loads of exclusives from the new Baz Luhrmann movie, including an audio snippet of Beck’s version of David Bowie’s ‘Diamond Dogs’. The track, recorded last September, was produced by Timbaland for the Moulin Rouge Soundtrack which looks set for a summer release. The song sounds like it has been recorded in Beck own inimitable style, which is appropriately barking mad! (Rather contrived pun definitely intended.)

Thanks to cuddly Curly Stockton of London Town for pointing me in the direction of this one.

Total Blam Blam (European Correspondent)

Do you have INside Volume I yet?

This printable and downloadable ‘electronic book’ contains the most memorable happenings on BowieNet in the year 2000.

Sailor had this to say about INside Volume I:

“…That’s an unbelievably beautiful piece of desktop publishing!!! Cartloads of congrats to you and your team for creating a very touching and evocative piece that will become an important memorabilia/document in the years to come. I’m gobsmacked.”

Look for the new box on the homepage in MUTATIONS, download, and enjoy!! INside Volume II is also in the making for 2001!

Thanks, Seven!

The RUPERT GOLDSWORTHY GALLERY proudly presents a group exhibition featuring work by Christopher Brooks, Steven Evans, Rupert Goldsworthy, Beom Kim and Elisabeth Kley. The show runs from Feb 8th to March 4th 2001. There will be an opening reception for the artists on Saturday February 17th from 6-8pm.

The artists in this show work in a wide variety of styles. Christopher Brooks presents new photographs which combine the domestic with the surreal.

Steven Evans shows new confetti drawings which can be seen to combine the celebratory with the mournful. Rupert Goldsworthy will show a new figurative painting on canvas and poetry/word pieces on paper. Beom Kim’s small ink-on-canvas works continue his witty investigations in Conceptual painting. Elisabeth Kley presents a series of black and white ink drawings of celebrated twentieth century cultural icons in their later years.

For further information on this or upcoming exhibitions at the gallery, please contact us at (212) 414-4560 or by e-mail at r-goldsworthy@hotmail.com.

Art Exhibition: Group show featuring work by Christopher Brooks, Steven Evans, Rupert Goldsworthy, Beom Kim and Elisabeth Kley
Dates: Feb 8th – March 4th 2001
Opening Hours: Thurs – Sat 12-6PM
Opening: Saturday, February 17th from 6-8PM
Location: Rupert Goldsworthy Gallery, 453 W.17th St New York, NY 10011 (2nd Floor, corner of 10th Ave.)

** NB please note the Gallery is now open Thursday – Saturday, 12-6PM.

That man has pushed beyond his brain

Is David having a meltdown? Find out in his latest journal entry!

…hit me Jack…

This month’s Mojo continues its fascination (pun intended) with David Bowie’s ‘soul period’ (see 12/13/00 NEWS: BOWIE, CAVETT AND THE YEAR OF THE DIAMOND DOGS). In a piece that takes up the better part of two pages, the recording of ‘Young Americans’ is discussed, including an eye-witness account from May Pang on the recording of ‘Fame’. May feels better qualified to comment than most on this event, seeing as how she “was straight” at a time when “There was so much drugs – even John (Lennon) had never seen so much cocaine.”

The album, that started life as ‘The Gouster’, helped cement Bowie’s success in The States, staying in the chart for a year. The title track’s appearance in the top thirty paved the way for Bowie’s first US number one, ‘Fame’. Proving that however the song did actually come into being, the drugs in this case did actually seem to work!

Elsewhere in the mag, there is an excellent ten-page special on the band that David Bowie called “the band of the ’80’s…”, The Pixies. Most people with an ounce of suss understand this statement to be fact. There is also a feature on the terrible inspiration for Billie Holiday’s incredible performance of ‘Strange Fruit’. The story of the horrific lynching of Thomas Shipp and Abram Smith in 1930, that you are most likely already familiar with. A story so unbelievable that it would be comforting to think that it belongs only to a time long before ours…but, still it goes on.

Total Blam Blam (European Correspondent)

Be there or be square!!

That way cool little club under the Time Cafe (380 Lafayette at GreatJones Street) the Fez presents both Gail Ann Dorsey AND Emm Gryner (+Meghan Toohey) this Saturday 17th.

Reservations can be gotten on (212) 533-2680. Doors open at 6:30pm. Cover is$10. See you there!