Month: September 2002

Bones and Oogie on a silver screen

David and the band performed ‘Everyone Says Hi’ and ‘Slip Away’ to a very appreciative audience on the Swedish TV show, ‘Bingo Lotto’ on Saturday. You can check out this post on our message boards for more.

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it’s only ‘cos you’re true

A new interview with David is showing across the USA and Canada today. ‘The New Music‘ a show which describes itself as:- The mandatory media source for an intelligent take on pop culture and music will air footage shot while db was on the Area 2 tour at 9.00PM ET and 6.00PM PT. ‘The New Music’ shows on both Much Music (today) and City TV on Thursday at 11.35PM ET and 8.35PM PT.

Here is a quote from what the website has to say about their luck in obtaining an interview. He is one of the most interesting, innovative, industrial and important artists of all time. … (He) has influenced about as many people as any other artist in history. … He is a force of his own. I can only be talking about one of two people and seeing as Beethoven is dead, that leaves David Bowie. Bowie has not only invented scenes, he’s survived them. I was lucky enough to talk to one of the last true artists while he was touring with Moby’s Area Two festival and he opened up about his life, his fear, his work and his disappointments.

Do make sure to check out the link, as you can see some outtakes from the interview online.

(Thanks to ursula2k for the pointer.)

Enjoy!

:))

David signs : Bengans, Gothenberg : 09/13/02

I’ll just write some love to you

As mentioned in the BowieNet News (09/02/02 NEWS: BOWIE BACK IN BRITAIN), David Bowie signs for you today at 5.00PM, at Bengans Internetshop, Gothenberg, Sweden. You can check out their webpage which says:- “It is a big honour for us at Bengans, having such a legendary artist coming here to sign his new album.”

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David sings : Grand Lottery Show, Gothenberg : 09/14/02

Singing old (and new) songs we loved

Also as mentioned in the News Item quoted above, David performs live on Swedish TV’s Grand Lottery Show.

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Interview : Arrow FM : 09/15/02

conversation piece

Arrow FM93, the Los Angeles radio station, will feature David this Sunday night at 10.00PM. OFF THE RECORD with Joe Benson will feature the music of David Bowie and conversation with David, keyboardist Rick Wakeman and producer Ken Scott. You can check out their website, here. (Thanks to Anita129 for the pointer)

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Pennebaker Documentary : BBC4 (UK) : 09/16/02

get some direction, wo-ooh!

Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars – The Movie, features in a fascinating new documentary about film makers DA Pennebaker and his wife Chris Hegedus. There are a number of interesting pages about this new show, online at BBC4’s website, here. The programme airs at 10.30PM.

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‘The Punk Years’ : ‘Play UK’ : 09/17/02

Ashes to ashes, punk to punky…

Well worth checking out, if you can receive the UK TV channel ‘Play UK’, is this documentary on the history of punk rock. Quite a number of the interviewees credit David as a major and unique influence. I know most of you already know how influential he was, on not just the birth of punk but also a number of other musical genres, but it’s really very nice to see David receiving his dues in this way. The programme airs at 4.15AM, so set your recorders.

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Mercury Prize TV and Radio : BBC Radio 1 and BBC 4 (UK) : 09/17/02

watch me – listen to me

Live coverage of the Mercury Music Prize from the Grosvenor House Hotel in London comes from BBC Radio 1 at 8.00PM, and BBC4 at 9.00PM. You can listen to Radio 1 online, here. Blammo will be bringing you more news about The Mercury Music Prize, nearer to the time.

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GQ Outstanding Achievement Award : This Is London : 09/04/02

The hero is a guy named you

This Is London and Metro both carried the same story this week, covering David’s GQ Outstanding Achievement Award. Dylan Jones, GQ editor and well-known BowiePhile, has this to say:- ‘David Bowie is a hero to our readers and has long managed to move with the times and even ahead of them.’

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Interview : Capital Radio : 09/06/02

I’d rather play here with all the madmen

If you missed David’s interview on Capital Radio last Friday, then don’t despair! You can now listen to the whole thing, online, here. Do make sure to listen, as us fans get a mention, and much to my mortification, so does my hometown although I can promise you *I* wasn’t in the audience on the date David mentions as his ‘worst ever gig’. At least that’s my story, and I’m sticking to it.. 😉

Enjoy!

:))

How Lucky You Are…

We are at last able to give a chance to 25 BowieNetters to win a place at Wednesday’s David Bowie Radio 2 performance at Maida Vale in London, that we told you about last week. (09/07/02 NEWS: BOWIE LIVE PERFORMANCE FOR RADIO 2) We were hoping to have the winners of Radio 2’s own competition for their allocation of tickets, but it seems those names aren’t yet available. All I can say to those of you that know they already have a place via the Radio 2 competition, is that it would be cool of you not to enter this competition too.

Please don’t enter this contest unless you are absolutely certain you will be able to attend. If there is any doubt that you can make it to London on the morning of Wednesday the 18th, then please do not enter.

OK same rules as usual, but here they are again just in case:

As ever, please be sure to provide proof of a BowieNet account…either e-mail your entry from your BowieNet account, or supply your BowieNet user name if you mail from a non BowieNet account.

If possible please provide a telephone number of where you can be contacted on Monday evening.

No duplicate entries please… duplicate entries will only be accepted if you are worried that a previous e-mail wasn’t sent properly.

OK, on to the competition… well it’s not so much of a competition actually. We thought the fairest way to do this one would be to randomly draw 25 names out of a list of people that can attend. So, all you need to do is send an e-mail to me at TotalBlamBlam@DavidBowie.com with a subject line of: I can attend on Wednesday the 18th.

The contest will end at midnight UK time on Sunday night, and we will notify the winners on Monday evening, after we have checked the validity of their BowieNet account. Good luck to each and every one of you.

I’ll spin you valentine evenings

European TV have two very cool new websites featuring areas devoted to David. Check out these pages at ARTE which give full details of the ‘David Bowie Evening’ airing tonight, which we reminded you about in BowiePhiles last Friday.

Starting at 8.45PM (France), you can see ‘Merry Christmas Mr Lawrence’, a short interview by Ray Cokes, (which you can also view streaming in the video section) as well as the hotly awaited TV showing of concert footage from the gig at Paris Olympia on 1st July this year. Among other pages, there is also a quiz with some great prizes.

tf1.fr, also has a new page devoted to David, with lots of great choices. You can enter a competition to win one of the last two pairs of tickets for the shows at the Zenith, Paris on 24th or 25th September, listen to live versions of ‘Everyone Says Hi’, and ‘Slow Burn’, see a clip from the ‘Slow Burn’ video, and also see streaming video of a section from an interview with David recorded on 7th July this year. Unfortunately, the interpreter tends to take over a bit on this last item.

You can also ask David a question, and then check back at noon tomorrow to see if he answers. The website says “The star answers your questions on video on Friday 13th September at 12.00”. Check it out!

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Love to know what’s what…

As we told you last month (08/22/02 NEWS: FORMATS FOR ‘EVERYONE SAYS ‘HI” CD SINGLE) the ‘Everyone Says ‘Hi’? CD set is released this coming Monday here in the UK.

Available as three different CDs, this set collects together the extra tracks that were originally intended for the withdrawn ‘Slow Burn’ UK release, plus the previously unreleased ‘Heathen’ outtake, ‘Safe’, and ‘Baby Loves That Way’, another track from the unreleased ‘Toy’ album.

These CDs normally sell for much less than the RRP in the first week of release, which means if you’re quick you can get the set for far less than the price of an album… You’re also more likely to help the single chart, which means another TOTPs appearance if it does! In other words, get out there on Monday and buy what has to be the best set of Bowie bonus tracks in a long time!

If you didn’t already buy the European ‘Slow Burn’ single, imho, ‘Shadow Man’ alone is worth the price of this set. Here’s the final breakdown for each of the formats:

‘EVERYONE SAYS ‘HI” UK CD SINGLE FORMATS

CD1
Everyone Says ‘Hi’
Safe (Outtake from ‘Heathen’ sessions)
Wood Jackson (Outtake from ‘Heathen’ sessions)

CD2
Everyone Says ‘Hi’
Baby Loves That Way (From unreleased ‘Toy’ album)
You’ve Got A Habit Of Leaving (From unreleased ‘Toy’ album)

CD3
Everyone Says ‘Hi’
When The Boys Come Marching Home (Outtake from ‘Heathen’ sessions)
Shadow Man (From unreleased ‘Toy’ album)

THE COMPETITION
OK, if that’s not enough to tempt you to your local record emporium on Monday morning, here’s a competition to win one of five sets as pictured above. Not sure how hard you’ll find this, but all I’m saying is that the Cryptogram below translates to a line from ‘Everyone Says ‘Hi’?, and you need to tell me what that line is:

Everyone Says ‘Hi’ Cryptogram

25 7 – 26 11 18 – 19 22 – 11 3 3 – 13 20 7 – 24 11 19 – 13 20 6 18 8 15

Send your answer to me at TotalBlamBlam@DavidBowie.com with a subject line of: “Everyone Says ‘Hi’ Cryptogram”. As ever, please be sure to provide proof of a BowieNet account…either e-mail your entry from your BowieNet account, or supply your BowieNet user name if you mail from a non BowieNet account.

Five runners up will receive the highly collectable, and much sought after, ‘Everyone Says ‘Hi” promo CD. See ya down the shops on Monday morning!

All the pretty things…

Dear Members,

We will be upgrading our e-mail servers on Monday, September 16th from 10PM to 2AM. Please take note that you will not be able to access your e-mail account at this time.

The disk quota for e-mail accounts will now be reinstated. In the event your mailbox is full, you will not be able to receive e-mail, and messages sent to you account will be returned stating that the user mailbox is full at the present time.

Thank you.

Sincerely,
The BowieNet Staff

We could run when the rain slows…

The Champs Elysées Virgin Megastore in Paris was host yesterday to the second David Bowie European signing session this week. Judging by BowieNetter Simone’s report on the MBs, yesterday was even more of a rushed affair than Monday’s session in London, mainly down to the fact that there were many more people to get through…Not that that spoiled anybody’s fun by all accounts. (Actually one account, Simone’s!)

As you can see from our pictures, kindly donated by photographer Philippe Auliac, David was resplendent in another striped number, a black and green jumper this time, and possibly another Paul Smith creation? Thanx to Simone and Philippe for their generosity.

We could run when the rain slows…

A wet and grey Monday morning in London’s West End yesterday, did nothing to dampen the spirits of hundreds of David Bowie fans at the HMV signing session in Oxford Street. David, looking as cool as ever in a black and white striped Paul Smith shirt (see detail below), laughed and chatted with incredulous fans who couldn’t quite believe their good fortune.

Many BowieNetters have asked me to pass on their thanks to the event’s organisers for what was a most successful day. All of the 150 competition winners went away very satisfied clutching a signed copy of ‘Heathen’, and the memory of a few cherished moments with David Bowie. However, it is reported that approximately 1,000 fans that weren’t lucky enough to win a wristband, had to satisfy themselves with a distant glimpse of the man.

It wasn’t any old black and white stripe…just look at the detail in that! Designed by Paul Smith, Computer enhancement, Total Blam Blam.

The event caught the imagination of the media here in the UK, with reports throughout yesterday on news broadcasts and pieces in this morning’s tabloids…not to mention several online postings. The tabloids seemed to focus more on the fact that David had stocked up on a few DVDs more than anything else though.

Among the titles that HMV refused to take any cash for were, the very hilarious Peter Kay’s Phoenix Nights, The League of Gentleman, Morecambe and Wise, and the frankly childish Paddington Bear and Andy Pandy. David, allegedly, also showed some interest in Muffin The Mule. He rounded of his little shopping spree with the latest release by Ash, ‘Intergalactic Sonic 7″s: The Best of Ash’. What a scrounger! };-)

You can view an online version of last night’s Liquid News broadcast here, (scroll along to 17.53 minutes) and the following reports by clicking on each relevant shortcut. Dotmusic – Ananova – BBC – ITV – NME

David is due to do an instore signing at the Champs Elysées Virgin Megastore today, any reports from BowieNetters present at the signing will be most welcome.

TV UPDATES: You may notice in some of the above reports that David’s appearances on Parkinson and on Later With Jools Holland have now been confirmed. The shows record on the 19th and 20th of September respectively, but unfortunately it looks like BowieNet will have no ticket allocation for either of these shows.

Tom Hanks will be the other guest on Parkinson, which will be broadcast later as the first episode of the new series. David will perform a couple of songs on the show and he’ll obviously be interviewed by Parky.

No mistake here… If you know what to do, good luck. If you don’t, you need to look around!