Month: June 2001

If you want it, boys*, get it here thing…

You’ve possibly seen the above promo’s circulating on auction sites and you may have read information regarding the imminent release of both titles on mail order and news sites. Well, as things stand, ‘All Saints’ has been put back a little and is now scheduled for a July 23rd release and ‘Christiane F’ is pencilled in for mid-August. So don’t go blowing your hard-earned on the auction sites just yet, because we are giving you the opportunity to win either one of ten promos or one of ten stock copies of the CDs right here on BowieNet.

The ‘Christiane F’ competition will be announced nearer the release date…but the ‘All Saints’ competition we announced a couple of weeks back (06/12/01 NEWS: ALL SAINTS COMPETITION COMING SOON) is right here, right now.

Firstly decide whether you would prefer the stock copy or the promo. Obviously the promo is more collectable, but it doesn’t contain the excellent booklet David designed that can be found in the stock release. The choice is yours, but you may only enter one of the following two competitions. Both competitions are open until the end of the month, which gives you the rest of this week to find the answers. BowieNet competitions (that I post at least) ARE open to BowieNet Nannies/Helpers etc. As ever, you must post your entry from a BowieNet address.

‘All Saints’ promo competition

After the extremely difficult ‘Blood and Glitter’ competition, we have decided to keep these two a bit simpler. So, for your chance to win the promotional edition of ‘All Saints’, just tell me three different releases that have included the instrumental track ‘Crystal Japan’…your answer can include any format of release, for example, if such things actually existed: The Venusian version of the ‘Low’ CD, the b-side of the Outer-Hebridian ‘Scary Monsters’ single and the Bangkok cassette single of ‘Girls’…etc, etc, etc. Send your answer to me at MrTotalBlamBlam@AOL.Com with a subject heading of: ‘All Saints’ promo competition.

‘All Saints’ stock copy competition

Name the tracks common to both this issue of ‘All Saints’ and the ‘Christiane F’ soundtrack album. Send your answer to me at MrTotalBlamBlam@AOL.Com with a subject heading of: ‘All Saints’ stock copy competition. Good luck.

We will also be running the competition for the ultra-rare original release of ‘All Saints’ signed by David Bowie this week, so stay tuned.

*Ladies, please don’t think that the use of this lyric excludes you from the competition. };-)

He was the nazz…

A silly one for Saturday this, but fun nevertheless…Captain Stardust is a series of six books aimed at primary school children here in the UK. The books were designed to fit the National Curriculum as part of the “Longman Book Project” that aims to enable teachers throughout primary schools to teach: language; fiction; and non-fiction. As big a kid as I am, I have to say this wouldn’t be my normal preferred reading…but the title obviously caught my eye.

Captain Stardust is an inter-galactic hero in the traditional sense, apart from the spiky hair (long at the back) and the name of course. Stardust likes to dress in outlandish space costumes and he has an unhealthy interest in all things cosmic. In the book above for example, the Captain discovers “mysteriously beautiful rainbow crystals” on an unexplored planet which space pirates also have a keen interest in.

Captain Stardust’s spaceship (the Star-Chaser) is piloted by a chap called Tom, whose rank is not apparent, but I wouldn’t mind betting he’s a Major!

While we are on the subject of Ziggy’s continued influence, while holidaying in Corfu recently I noticed a fair few of the trendier young women visiting the island favoured a familiar cut and colour. I snapped one of the anonymous beauties below, poolside in Kassiopi, but never plucked up the courage to ask whether she was a Bowie fan. Feel free to send similar holiday snaps to me…this way we can work out the geographic demographic of the most comfortable place for Ziggy look-a-likes to holiday. };-)

David Bowie : The Observer : 06/10/01 From an in-depth profile of Destiny’s Child :- Beyoncé, who speaks in a honeyed drawl punctuated by frequent giggles, wears a sequined T-shirt with David Bowie’s face on it. (The T-shirt she’s wearing? Kelly customised it!) The girl is just impossibly curvy, with luminous, tawny skin. (read it and weep, Alecz)

David Bowie : The Guardian : 06/16/01 From a review of the new movie “Autumn In New York” :- Gere is right in his element as the elegant epicure. Imbued with a middle-aged hunkiness rarely seen outside of David Bowie‘s neighbourhood.

Young Americans : The Guardian : 06/15/01 From a review of Rufus Wainwright’s New York show :- In a delightfully dandyish suit and with a foppish mop of dark hair, he could be the David Bowie of Young Americans reborn as a homosexual Nick Cave.

All The Young Dudes : The Guardian : 06/13/01 From an interview with Ian Hunter :- “He just walked in and played it on an acoustic guitar. I’ve never been so grateful for anything in my life.”

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…you’ve never seen me hanging naked and wired

You may remember the recent piece in BNet news about the New York Academy’s ‘Take Home A Nude’ auction that raises funds for graduate student scholarships, and the program at the college. David contributed to the auction again this year and donated three prints produced specially for the event. Three variations of the print (in an edition of only five) are now available over at Bowieart.com where you can find further details.

Photographs and press cuttings about the event are now online at Velvet Goldmine, here, and Stefano has kindly written us an English version of his review of the event :-

The night of may 26 at Mago di Oz in Rome was a wonderful night and a big success.

The local press has given news of the event. More than 200 people has attended the party, many Velvet Goldminers were coming from any part of Italy, Torino, Milano, Padova, Rimini, Firenze, Palermo. The cover-band “Mr. Ziggy and the Glass Spiders” has been playing for almost 3 hours, raising a great enthusiasm among the people who were singing and dancing upon their chairs?..

Concert started with Warszawa sliding into 5 years with a dreaming ending of saxophone, Starman was a collective delirium, the fascinating Scary Monsters, the enjoyable Young Americans, the extraordinary Station to Station with a marvellous chorus of the audience, the out-of-space Moonage Daydream, the ever-touching Rock?n?Roll Suicide, the devilish Hello Spaceboy were just the highlights of the astonishing performance! And after this incredible and highly professional gig, the night went on with only Bowie music on the dance-floor until 5 in the morning??..

A special thank to Sailor, it?s just because of him that we had the chance to meet the people everyday we e-mail and chat with!

(Velvet Goldmine has moved to a new URL, so take this opportunity to update your bookmarks.)

(*Shakey)

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As a follow-up to yesterday’s new Roseland footage, a few of you have asked what the blazes is a Mutations Box?!?

In case you did not know, the Mutations Box is the box on the bottom of the Home page labeled, erm….Mutations. There are four features in it, and the one on the left is Roseland, as it says when you put your mouse over it.

Hope this is helpful to anyone who had trouble finding it…

Do you remember we another person…

One whole year already? You wouldn’t credit it, would you. Seriously though…For those lucky enough to have been there, June 19th 2000 will remain an unforgettable date in their memories (I guess they wouldn’t be memories if it was forgettable…oh, you know what I mean). For it was on this day one year ago that David Bowie played a very special show for BowieNetters at New York’s Roseland Ballroom.

Those who haven’t managed to internalise the fact, may remember that I rather cheekily took over DB’s Journal for the duration of my New York trip. But, for reasons too feeble to go into here, I never posted the last part of my review of this fabled Bowie performance. Well, Bill B will be pleased to learn that he can finally read that concluding piece here, along with some more pictures I took but never posted at the time.

But don’t fret, do you really think we would fob you off with my half-baked ramblings on such an important anniversary? Of course not. We know how much you have enjoyed the Roseland section of the Mutations box…well, check it out now for much more of Duncan’s brilliant film of the event, including some wonderful fan contributions. Them were the days…

For I’ve never been a winner in my life…

Possibly the hardest competition we have set so far, a fact that was reflected in the amount of entrants to this contest. Question nine proved to be the stumbling block for most of you, and I don’t think the answer has been published in many places apart from ‘Blood and Glitter’…I figured if you were really keen to win this set you most likely had the book anyway. Whatever, we had enough correct entries to give us the five winners we needed.

No point in prolonging the agony any further…The answers are here, and well done to the folks below…please send your real name and address to me @ MrTotalBlamBlam@AOL.Com, and we’ll have your very own Blood and Glitter set to you before you can shake a short stick at a tall bat!

breakingglass@davidbowie.com
bowieism@davidbowie.com
lilith@davidbowie.com
zstardst@davidbowie.com
simone@davidbowie.com

Bowieart.com and KCFA are pleased to introduce Michael Samuels, the first of six artists given the opportunity to transform the Tardis window set in Turnmill Street, EC1.

The window space on Turnmill Street gives the artists involved an opportunity to exhibit their work in an environment independent of a gallery setting, which will attract not only the attention of the art world but passers-by who may not normally go looking for art. Set within a brick façade alongside Farringdon Station, the window is on a street that sees a procession of commuters trek past by day and similar volumes of people with different intentions by night. Planning to change the backdrop to this, the artists involved find themselves bringing into question notions of the city, its urban landscape and consumerism.

Samuels?s work will operate on a level appropriate to its accessibility from the street and for this reason is a fitting choice of artist to launch the Bowieart window project.

Michael Samuels sculptures move between notions of the city and the experiences of urban living. The artist uses objects and models of thought familiar to the city dweller but in a cynical and often ambiguous twist that gives them a new life. Notions of Utopia, which may have been present in Michael?s earlier work, have given way to apocalyptic views of the city.

The artist?s first work is a new piece entitled Button-Pusher; a James Bond style suitcase bomb that displays a large LED timer that will provide a countdown for the duration of the show. This work questions anonymity within the city ? the ability to move around almost anywhere without suspicion. The work is motivated by many events ? vigilantes, the home terror inflicted in London during 1999, the rise of Militia in the USA?In the internet age the easy access to all kinds of information can be devastating.

In his second piece for the Tardis Michael presents a highly finished, beautifully made work that echoes the veneer used in advertising. Across a bright red airship runs a message in LED lights?the world is yours?the world is yours?the world is yours?seducing the viewer in a similar manner to the marketing campaigns we are bombarded with daily. Watched My Ship In, Watched Her Sail Away references the film Scarface; offering a cynical statement about not believing everything we see.

Michael Samuels graduated from The Royal College of Art last year, he was recently included in The Younger Generation at Sarah Myerscough Fine Art, he has shown at the Pump House, Phusion and Assembly, Stepney City. In 1995 his work was seen at the Venice Biennale.

Bowieart.com is a site that utilises the net to provide information and exposure to talented artists at the most important time in their careers.

Michael Samuels opens 18 June and runs till 13 July 2001 Series runs till November 2001

Tardis Studios, 52-56 Turnmill Street, London, EC1

Everything will be alright tonight…

No direct Bowie link to this one, but if you happen to be in the vicinity of the Coliseu in Oporto, Portugal, at 22.00 local time this very evening, you may want to catch Brian Eno in a rare live performance. Brian is joined on stage by J. Peter Schwalm, and the pair will be performing music from their recently released collaboration, ‘Drawn From Life’. If the performance is anywhere near the quality of the music on the CD, tonight’s audience is in for a beautiful time.

Those of you expecting to see the great man on Roxy Music’s current re-union tour may have already worked out that he definitely won’t be at tonight’s Birmingham NEC show, nor any of the other shows on the tour for that matter. Eno parted company with Roxy Music almost thirty years ago.

However, four of the original line-up; Bryan Ferry, Phil Manzanera, Andy Mackay and Paul Thompson, have decided that they can spend at least the duration of this 2001 tour in each other’s company, and they have dragged guitarist Chris Spedding along with them to join in the fun. You can still get tickets for some of the remaining UK shows here, and I believe tickets for July’s North American jaunt may still be available here. See you in Manchester on Wednesday.