Month: March 2009

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I’m Afraid Of Americans…

As we told you some time ago, War Child’s HEROES album is released in Canada by Quebecor Records today, while the American version was released on February 24 by Astralwerks.

As previously mentioned, this North American release of the album has a slightly different line up to the European version. See the tracklisting here.

Meanwhile, TVOTR‘s Kyp Malone has been talking about his band’s contribution to the album again. (02.20.2009 REMINDER: WAR CHILD 7 INCH VINYL BOX OUT MONDAY…TVOTR TALK) Here’s a bit from the Edmonton Sun…

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Bowie chose Brooklyn experimental rockers TV On The Radio, whose latest album Dear Science was named the top album of 2008 by Rolling Stone, SPIN, Entertainment Weekly and The Guardian. TV On The Radio have put their own, unique drum-program-driven stamp on Heroes.

TVotR’s guitarist-vocalist Kyp Malone said it was a privilege to become involved in the War Child CD, particularly since their relationship with Bowie began before their third record, 2006’s Return to Cookie Mountain, on which the Thin White Duke ended up singing backup vocals.

It was TVotR’s keyboardist, David Andrew Sitek, who found Bowie was a fan of their music. Sitek found out where Bowie lived in The Big Apple and bravely dropped off a copy of the band’s first two albums. The rest, as they say, is history.

“It feels really good that (Bowie) asked us to do it,” Malone said.

Malone, whose band has six Canadian tour dates in May and June, said the responsibility of doing Bowie’s classic song justice only dawned after the fact.

“I didn’t feel any pressure until we were actually doing it. Then I tried to just think about making music and not think about trying to honour someone’s work I’ve respected for a long time,” Malone said. “I was listening to Bowie in a coffee shop, thinking about how distinct his voice is, and how much it is just his own thing, and it made me feel more comfortable about the job that we did, ultimately.”

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While we’re on the subject of North American releases, the jewel case version of David Bowie Live Santa Monica ’72 will be available there from next week, March 10th.

We had a friend, a talking man…

The headline says it…follow the links below to two new Geoff MacCormack interviews regarding From Station To Station: Travels With Bowie 1973-1976 …it’s all good stuff.

News Of The World Scotland – BOWIE PAL REVEALS LIFE ON TOUR WITH MEGA-STAR

The Bromley Times – My treasured memories with a true star man

I found the secrets, I found gold…

We first told you about the British Music Experience at the O2 in London last September. (09.24.2008 NEWS: ZIGGY OUTFIT FOR BRITISH MUSIC EXPERIENCE 2009)

Well now a spoof video of somebody ‘secretly filming’ the exhibition has been posted on YouTube…by the BME! You get to see the Bowie display (above) but it’s fleeting and poor quality.

As you can see, there are three Bowie outfits on loan: the 1973 Ziggy numbers jump suit with red lace-up wrestling boots, David Live suit from 1974 and The Thin White Duke 1976 World Tour stage clobber.

If you don’t blink, you can just make out the Ashes To Ashes pierrot outfit on display in the New Romantics section.

Stay tuned for a closer look at the Bowie display shortly.