Month: July 2001

One pair of tickets will be waiting at the venue for the lucky BowieNetter who can tell me what Bowie song was the inspiration for the show’s name. Yes, it’s that easy. If you need clues (yeah, right) you could do worse than checking out previous mentions of this stunning show here on BowieNet. (01/17/01 NEWS: BOWIE GETS THE CABARET TREATMENT IN LONDON – 01/23/01 NEWS: DARKNESS AND DISGRACE ENDS SUNDAY – 05/25/01 NEWS: TWO BOWIE-RELATED SHOWS AT EDINBURGH FESTIVAL)

When you think you know the answer, and you are SURE you can actually attend the show, send your answer to me at MrTotalBlamBlam@AOL.Com with a subject line of: “I wanna spend the night with Blammo!” and the date of the show you would like to attend. The winner will be announced this coming Saturday morning.

If you don’t fancy your chances in the competition, I should warn you that places are going fast, but you can reserve tickets on 0207 704 6665. Tickets for the Edinburgh Festival run between 13th-27th August can also be purchased now on 0131 226 0000.

FYI, I will be joining SusanS, Spaceface, Rednik and hopefully a couple of ladies from across the pond in the shape of Leeza and H2 for Friday’s show on the 27th, just in case you wanted to avoid us. If on the other hand you’d like to join us, I’ll be the fat bloke with a bunch of weirdoes!

You all remember the platinum beauty cavorting around in Mick Rock’s classic promo for The Jean Genie, who was also immortalised in the press ads for the release of the single via a George Underwood drawing. The stylish lass was of course the very sexy Cyrinda Foxe, a friend of David’s that loaned him at least one pair of ear-rings, and most likely much more.

Reports have surfaced regarding a contribution from David of an acoustic Fender 6 string guitar to a benefit for Cyrinda at CBGB’s recently. We are very sad to report that this story is true and that Cyrinda is in fact suffering a tumour. An auction was organised for the event by her many friends including her ex-husband, Aerosmith singer Steven Tyler. The money raised will help towards Cyrinda’s huge medical expenses.

The guitar David donated was kindly bought for $5000 by the editor of Punk magazine. Love and positive vibes to Cyrinda from all at BowieNet.

We’ll buy some…erm, no, we’ll just watch a band…

It is also true that David was spotted enjoying a set by the group TAPE recently, though, despite reports elsewhere, this story has no connection with the one above. Here’s what David said about the band:

“I went to see TAPE. They were a really very good outfit, a ‘rage’ type sound but more pop. One of them used to be in Bomb the Bass. Guitar player has a passing resemblance to Harry Potter.”

So now you know.

Tell the truth…

Unfortunately, the one rumour that you all hoped was true is in fact not. Mr Bowie will not be performing at the The 5th Annual Webby Awards this coming Wednesday, July 18th, neither will he be a presenter at the awards. Sorry. }:-(

One of the aforementioned listings magazines published today in the UK (The Times ‘Play’ supplement to be precise) has another glowing review of ‘All Saints’ written by Stephen Dalton. Here’s a bit of what he had to say:

“In 1976 David Bowie baffled his fans by giving up cocaine-addled Hollywood stardom to make avant-garde pop albums in Berlin. Released in 1977, the partly instrumental Low and Heroes incensed the critics and initially sold poorly.”

“With hindsight, though, their revolutionary blend of European electronic minimalism and rock guitars predicted everything from the post-punk synthesiser boom to armchair electronica.”

“These records were the Kid A and Amnesiac of their day, except that Bowie was operating in a virtual vacuum far removed from Radiohead’s fertile post-rock climate.”

Stephen goes on to advise the ‘Kid A’ generation that the compositions that make up this “terrific retrospective”, are “certainly worth rediscovering.” But then again, you already knew that. ‘All Saints’ is released world-wide on July 23rd.

If you feel that Tony Perry singing ‘Ashes To Ashes’ is worthy of your vote, and I know he will be, you can help him to the winner’s podium by calling 09011 980002 in the UK. Good luck once again Tony, and remember folks, you can read Spaceface’s excellent interview with Tony here.

David’s own fond memories of The Marquee feature heavily in tonight’s broadcast, including music from and recollections about all of the bands he was a member of that played the venue. The former mod talks about his early days of clubbing around London including his own local venue The Bromel Club, and about his time in outfits such as The King Bees, The Manish Boys, The Lower Third, The Buzz and The Hooker Brothers:

“I guess I started going (to The Marquee) around ’64. At that particular time I also had a band together, and we got our one gig at The Marquee in ’64…And that band was called The King Bees, which was a beefier version of a band that I had before called The Hooker Brothers, named rather naively after John Lee Hooker…But I wasn’t really aware of the other connotation of the word hooker! Never mind, The Marquee was our first real starring kind of thing, it was a big deal for us. That was in May 1964.”

Next week’s programme covers the period from the early seventies to the present day, and will take in David’s very last appearance as Ziggy for the filming of ‘The 1980 Floor Show’.

*All will become clear.

Already a favourite with BowieNetter ‘Baby’ Steve K, KOTJ seems to be having a strange effect on some of our older members. Arriving early for a coffee morning at chez Rednik this very morning, I was a little embarrassed to spy him through the window in the foetal position, guzzling on the teat of a baby’s bottle, dressed in an ‘adult baby’ romper suit. When he did finally answer the door, Rednik feebly protested that the outfit was actually “a man’s romper suit”.

So be warned, listening to KOTJ without the supervision of a child could induce ga ga noises.

Thanx to Pozie for the online pointers.

Insiders say that George has taken the challenge very seriously and intends to win, even going to such lengths as shaving off his eyebrows, using make-up artist Paul Starr (who has occasionally done David’s make up in the past), and having a Ziggy wig made specially for the event.

The bad news is that we’ll have to wait until the autumn to see exactly how George does, but in the meantime, don’t forget to vote for Tony Perry as David Bowie in the final of the mere mortal’s version of ‘Stars In Their Eyes’ this coming Saturday…see Spaceface’s excellent piece below. Rest assured that we’ll be rooting (oooer) for you both Tony and George.