Come And Buy My Toys…oops, I mean ‘Heathen’!
As Sailor mentioned on the
The Times…a Reader Replies
Yes, I’ve read the morning papers…
David Bowie has responded to an article that appeared in The Times last week, in which Stuart Maconie criticised him for the selections he has made for the Meltdown line-up. Today the popular UK broadsheet publishes David’s response, complete with a blurb on the front page and pictures of David, Mercury Rev and Asian Dub Foundation. You can read David’s reply in full by clicking on the image above.
Bowienet Area: 2 Presale – Moments Away
One wrong word and you’re out of sync…
We did post this last night, but here it is again for obvious reasons. Here’s all the stuff you need for that first BowieNet Area: 2 pre-sale that commences this morning (Friday May 3rd) from 10:00am (EST), and continues through to 6:00pm.
Please note that pre-sale times are respective of each venue’s time zone…although this first round of pre-sales are all EST anyway. Here are those dates and venues again, with revised ticket allocations:
Holmdel, NJ – PNC Bank Arts Center – Wednesday, July 31st – Pre-sale ticket limit is 6 tickets per household
Boston, MA – Tweeter Center – Saturday, Aug 3rd – Pre-sale ticket limit 12 tickets per household
Toronto*, CAN – Molson Amphitheatre – Monday, August 5th – Pre-sale ticket limit is 4 tickets per household
(*The Toronto BowieNet pre-sale is going up at the same time as the public on-sale. But remember we have allocated tickets with choice seating just for BowieNet members.)
Detroit, MI – DTE Energy Music Theatre – Tuesday, Aug 6th – Pre-sale ticket limit is 12 per household
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Slow Burn Now Available For Streaming
look inside…
the new ‘HEATHEN’ box on the BowieNet homepage, and you’ll find a link to stream the full length ‘radio edit’ of ‘Slow Burn’. This is the first of many tracks from ‘HEATHEN’ to be made exclusively available to BowieNet Members.
More tracks will be inserted in to the ‘HEATHEN’ feature box playlist as we get them. Check this space to keep on top of the latest ‘HEATHEN’ tracks available on-demand.
Click here to be taken back to the BowieNet homepage, and one step closer to hearing ‘Slow Burn’
Get Em Now!!!
This just in, David Bowie, along with an impressive line-up including Sheryl Crow, Counting Crows, Wyclef Jean, and others, have been scheduled to play live at the upcoming MTV Tribeca Film Festival concert on Friday May 10th.
Sounds nice right, well it gets better. BowieNet has gotten our hands on FREE TICKETS just for you! That’s right; we will be giving away dozens of free tickets for BowieNet members. If you are going to be in the New York area on May 10th, then enter our random drawing for tickets right here.
The lucky winners will be notified via email on May 7th, and will be given instructions on how to get tickets in hand. Each winner will receive 2 free tickets to the event.
The 3 hour show will feature performances by David Bowie, Counting Crows, Wyclef Jean, David Bowie & Sheryl Crow and Stand Up from Robin Williams and Jimmy Fallon.
| Event:  | MTV Rock & Comedy Concert |
| Show Name: | MTV Presents Inside The Tribeca Film Festival |
| Date: | Friday, May 10th |
| Doors: | 5:30 p.m. |
| Time: | 7pm – 10pm |
| Location: |
Battery Park City / State Street & South Street |
Parts of this concert will be used as in conjunction with a documentary to be aired on May 24th @ 8pm EST/PST on MTV. This event will happen rain or shine.
Manchester On Sale This Saturday
“Where’s that bloody Neil Hannon got to David?.” – “Oh, I wouldn’t
worry Brett, we still have another nine years until Manchester!”
Divine (Comedy) in both, our lives…
Tickets for David Bowie’s performance on the first day of the four day ‘Move’ festival in Manchester go on sale this Saturday morning (4th May) at 9:00am local time. There has been a slight adjustment to the support acts,
This will be David’s first show in Manchester in almost five years, he last appeared in the city on the Earthling tour back in July 1997. As we already told you, the show takes place on Wednesday July 10th at the
Online via:
Bowienet Area: 2 Presale – Get Ready
Waiting For The Man…or all dressed up with somewhere to go.
David Bowie – Detail from a picture by Markus Klinko & Indrani.
One wrong word and you’re out of sync…
OK, as promised on Tuesday, here’s the stuff you need on that first BowieNet Area: 2 pre-sale that commences tomorrow morning (Friday May 3rd) from 10:00am, and continues through to 6:00pm.
Please note that pre-sale times are respective of each venue’s time zone…although this first round of pre-sales are all EST anyway. Here are those dates and venues again, with revised ticket allocations:
Holmdel, NJ – PNC Bank Arts Center – Wednesday, July 31st – Pre-sale ticket limit is 6 tickets per household
Boston, MA – Tweeter Center – Saturday, Aug 3rd – Pre-sale ticket limit 12 tickets per household
Toronto*, CAN – Molson Amphitheatre – Monday, August 5th – Pre-sale ticket limit is 4 tickets per household
(*The Toronto BowieNet pre-sale is going up at the same time as the public on-sale. But remember we have allocated tickets with choice seating just for BowieNet members.)
Detroit, MI – DTE Energy Music Theatre – Tuesday, Aug 6th – Pre-sale ticket limit is 12 per household
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Bowiephiles
The year of the scavenger…
Diamond Dogs : Yahoo : 05/01/02
Kylie Minogue is currently one of the hottest tickets touring the UK. For disappointed fans unable to buy tickets, her Manchester Arena show is to be webcast this Saturday at 3.30PM EDT. Yahoo ran a story on Wednesday which included some details of her set. “Visuals for the show have been inspired by the worlds of “Dr Who,” “Star Trek,” Bowie’s “Diamond Dogs,” “A Clockwork Orange” and the New York underground dance scene of the 1980s.” The Guardian, in a review of the show at Cardiff Arena, were complimentary overall, although slightly dubious of the evidence of this inspiration, saying: “the centrepiece of Bowie’s 1974 shows…. was an enormous hydraulic blood-spurting penis – presumably an influence too far for Minogue’s designers.”
Making Pop History : LA Times : 04/25/02
The LA Times Pop music critic, Robert Hilburn has the following to say, in an article about the recent Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival. “Pop music thrives on the discovery of exciting and original new artists–stepping into a club or arena and being so swept away by the artist’s imagination and charisma that you feel a page in pop history is being turned. My own list of memorable first encounters includes David Bowie at the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium … “ (bonster)
Thin Nude Becks : GQ : Out now
An almost-nude David Beckham had posed for a ground-breaking photoshoot in the current ‘World Cup’ issue of GQ, the UK magazine for men. Dylan Jones, editor and well known BowiePhile, is all excited. He has this to say, in an interview with ‘This Is London’ (The fashion)… “is really cutting edge … he looks like David Bowie as the Thin White Duke”.
‘Win’ : Sky Sports : Current
‘Win’ is the backing track for a new ‘Sky Sports’ football trailer. David sings “All you’ve got to do is win” over slow-motion football action, as captions offer advice on how to achieve success in the league. (SusanS)
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This Month's Db Pic In Q
I heard telephones, opera house, favourite melodies. I saw boys, toys, irons and T.V.’s*
This month’s David Bowie picture in
“Just listen to the lyrics of Five Years: ‘A soldier with a broken arm, fixed his stare to the wheels of a Cadillac / A cop knelt and kissed the feet of a priest / And a queer threw up at the sight of that.’ He was the first person to use that word “queer” – I’d been called that all my life at school – and suddenly this pop star said it. So it was, ‘Fuckin’ hell, he’s talking to me directly!'”
George also says of the back sleeve of ‘Transformer’: “And the photo on the back – no one was ever sure if it was Lou Reed in both pictures – one of a drag queen and one of Lou Reed looking really sexy.”
Hate to destroy your 30-year-old illusion George, but neither of them are Lou Reed…and while I’m in the mood I’ll destroy the biggest of the illusions about that rear cover…it’s a banana! Ask Mick Rock if you don’t believe me.
*Yes, I know I’ve left out the word electric, but those of you that understand Cockney rhyming slang will understand why! };-)
Reveal my secrets, More than enough for me to share…
Elsewhere in Q, Bryan Ferry is this month’s subject of ‘Cash For Questions’. BowieNetter Wendy Smedley managed to get a Bowie-related question published…and here it is, along with Bryan’s answer:
You’ve always been a bit sniffy about David Bowie, haven’t you? Even though he was one of the most vociferous early champions of Roxy Music. He asked you to appear in his Blue Jean video and later to re-record If There Is Something with Tin Machine and you turned him down flat. Why?
“When did he ask me to appear in the Blue Jean video? Liar! And he did do If There Is Something with Tin Machine. Oh…did he want me to sing on it? No, I wouldn’t want to do that particularly. But you’re right, he has always been incredibly complimentary. And I never say much about other artists because it can so often get misconstrued. So I tend to try and say nothing and maybe that comes over as being a bit stuck-up. He’s done some great things that I think are very, very good indeed.”
Moby: "bowie Is Untouchable"
“Without David Bowie, popular music as we know it pretty much wouldn’t exist.”
So says Moby…”I’m right behind you on that one!” David may have replied.
I’ll never touch you…
Obviously this won’t be the first time Moby will have seen a Bowie show, the following recollection places his first ever David Bowie concert as either the 1987 Glass Spider Tour or the 1990 Sound + Vision tour: “I remember the first time I saw David Bowie it was in Giants Stadium [in East Rutherford, New Jersey] in front of 80,000 people.”
Whether it was that show or somewhere else along the line that first did it for Moby, he makes it clear in an interview published on
“David Bowie is my favorite musician of the 20th century, I mean, he’s an amazing live performer, and I can’t think of a single musician from the 20th century who made as many remarkable albums as he did. Also, he influenced everybody. Without David Bowie, popular music as we know it pretty much wouldn’t exist.”
In an interview with Moby in this month’s
While we’re on the subject of Q…