Month: November 2005

It happens today…

As some of you may have been reminded by the TV advert showing in the UK last night, today sees the release by EMI of the low-priced triple CD The Platinum Collection.

The BowieNet competition for ten copies of the album ended last night, for which I asked the question: “Which of the sixteen studio albums covered by the same period as that covered by The Platinum Collection (1969 to 1987) are represented by just one track each on The Platinum Collection?”

And this was the answer:

Space Oddity (Space Oddity)
The Man Who Sold The World (The Man Who Sold The World)
Pin Ups (Sorrow)

The following 10 BowieNetters were selected by The Random Generator from among the very high percentage of correct entries…

ange
brendaj
fidelio
Jonr
low
m.art
peterjw
rikfiend
scotty
thesuperman

If you would all please forward your real names and addresses to me, we’ll have these jolly good retrospectives with you in a jiffy.

Don’t be afraid of the man in the serious moonlight…

We are very happy to be able to exclusively reveal details of the official EMI David Bowie – Serious Moonlight DVD (ICPN: 094634153997, cover above), that we first mentioned back in August. (08.04.2005 NEWS: SERIOUS MOONLIGHT OZ DVD, PLUS EMI VERSION DUE)

Due on March 13th 2006, Serious Moonlight is the official film of the 1983 tour recorded at Pacific National Exhibition Coliseum, Vancouver, Cananda, in September 1983, captured brilliantly by director David Mallet.

Also included is the Ricochet documentary, presented here in an extended version (at approximately 78 minutes) as a DVD extra. Ricochet allows the audience a rare and fascinating behind the scenes portrait of David Bowie, filmed entirely on location during his 1983 Serious Moonlight World Tour against the colourful backgrounds of Singapore, Bangkok and Hong Kong.

Here’s the full tracklisting of the concert segment of the DVD:

01 Introduction
02 Look Back In Anger
03 “Heroes”
04 What In The World
05 Golden Years
06 Fashion
07 Let?s Dance
08 Breaking Glass
09 Life On Mars?
10 Sorrow
11 Cat People (Putting Out Fire)
12 China Girl
13 Scary Monsters (And Super Creeps)
14 Rebel Rebel
15 White Light, White Heat
16 Station To Station
17 Cracked Actor
18 Ashes To Ashes
19 Space Oddity
20 Young Americans
21 Fame/End Credits

…and here’s the technical stuff:

Screen: 4:3
Regions: ALL
Disc Type: DVD-9
Running Time (approx): 173 minutes (TBC)
No. of Discs: 1
Subtitles:-
PAL: English, French, German, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese
NTSC: English, Spanish and Portuguese
Audio:-
Serious Moonlight: ? Dolby digital & DTS 5.1 and Dolby digital stereo
Ricochet: – Dolby digital stereo

Also scheduled on February 13th, a month ahead of the DVD, is the digital audio only Serious Moonlight Live EP (ICPN: 00946-349734-5-8) which includes the following tracks:

Space Oddity
China Girl
Breaking Glass
Young Americans

A live clip of Space Oddity from the DVD will be made available as a digital download (ICPN: 00946-349736-5-6) on the same day.

Wake up you sleepy head…

As I’ve said before, (05.17.2005 NEWS: BOWIE TRACKS ON THREE COMPILATIONS THIS MONTH) this is not so much news, more a service for completists, as I know there are a small band of collectors out there that must have every David Bowie release, even if it may not seem essential to the majority of you.

Having said that, the first of these three, Ian Dempsey’s Kick Start, (actually released at the tail end of last month on October 28th) certainly couldn’t be described as insignificant.

This double CD of “40 crackin’ tracks to get you up and out!” was compiled from requests by Today FM Breakfast Show listeners and contains David Bowie’s The Jean Genie. All profits from the sale of the album will be donated to the Go! campaign for Special Olympics Ireland.

You can view the full tracklisting and purchase the album here. The midweek chart suggests that Ian Dempsey’s Kick Start will enter the Irish charts at #1.

The other two CDs are released by Virgin TV who have cornered the market with these compilations. (See aforementioned news story) Released next week on November 7th, School Reunion – the Party is a 62-track triple CD which contains Modern Love, and released the following week on the 14th is Capital Gold – Platinum Legends, a 63-track triple CD which contains Life On Mars?

This ain’t rock ‘n’ roll. This is genocide!

Hot on the heels of their successful Kola Note Bhalloween party last Friday evening, The Diamond Dogs are back on stage tonight. Here’s the low-down.

The Diamond Dogs in Montréal with David Mollet as David Bowie
Thursday November 3rd @ 9:00pm
at SOFA BAR (451 Rachel East; corner Rivard, close to St-Denis)
Cover charge: $7
Tickets on sale at SOFA BAR

You could even print out the handy pocket-sized flyer above and take it with you in case you forget where you’re going on the way there!

And red mutant eyes gazed down on Hunger City…

BowieNetter pooky has pointed out a site dedicated to the Hunger series, the DVD box set of which we told you about last week. (10.30.2005 NEWS: HUNGER BOX SET OUT ON REGION 2 DVD TOMORROW)

Click on the image above or go here to get there.

Then I got the small red box…

For those of you that missed the auction end, the above lunchbox, painted by Lexi Bowie, (10.21.2005 NEWS: LEXI LUNCHBOX LIVE AT LAST) raised a remarkable $2,025.00 for the Celebrity Designed Lunchbox auction.

This makes it the second highest price of the 47 items so far auctioned by the charity, first place going to James Frey whose lunchbox commanded a $2,375.00 final bid.

There are twenty boxes still being auctioned, with more to come, including a small* red box by Bono, currently at $1,700.00.

Go here to view the currently active auctions.

*Actually, Bono’s lunchbox is no smaller than any of the others on offer, (stop sniggering) but I had to make today’s lyric quote work and at least it is red!

It will tumble from the sky…

The December edition of UNCUT magazine has a 12-page special on The Man Who Fell To Earth with fascinating new interviews by Rob Hughes with Nic Roeg and Candy Clark, among others.

The feature is packed with stunning pictures, (including some you may not have seen before) which I’m sure is no surprise to anybody reading this, seeing as how everybody knows Bowie’s portrayal of Thomas Jerome Newton is the coolest rock star performance on celluloid of all time …and that’s a fact very much backed up by this UNCUT piece.

I won’t give any more away than that as you might not buy a copy when UNCUT hits the shelves on Thursday otherwise.

Still hoping to run a competition for copies of the excellent Criterion two-disc edition of TMWFTE, if we ever get sent our copies that is.

Do you walk in peace…

We first told you about David and Iman‘s artwork contributions to the 21st Century Leaders charity organisation’s campaign: whateverittakes.org back in June. (06.18.2005 NEWS: DB EXPLAINS INSPIRATION FOR CHARITY ARTWORK)

Although most of the Bowie products are still to be produced, the organisation has informed us that DB’s Peace Thru Art wristband is now available to buy.

Still to come are porcelain plates, T-shirts and mugs. The limited edition plate and mug will be launched at Harrods in March 2006. We’ll post more details on how to buy these items as they become available.

The wristbands retail at £2.99 (GBP), $5.53 (US DOLLARS), ?4.57 (EUROS) and can be bought online by clicking on the image above.

You can also encourage friends, family and anyone else in your address book to buy a Bowie wristband or two, by clicking on the image above or by going here to send them an e-card.

Remember, it’s all in a very good cause, as outlined in aforementioned news story.