Just another WordPress site
Free, yeah…yeah, yeah, yeah…yeah, yeah, yeah…
David and the boys are on between 11.00am and 2:00pm, (with breaks) and frankly, if you can make it, you’d be a fool not to.
Did you notice the two lyric quotations in today’s items are from the same song? And what a lovely sentiment the song carries with it.
Loveliness is everywhere…
————————————————————————————————————-
After years of enduring the ‘Ziggy Stardust meets Tiny Tim’ tag, Taylor Mac embraces it in what promises to be a typically gorgeous show: Mac tackles Bowie’s full album plus some of Tim’s numbers, bound together with musings on the nature of comparisons in contemporary cultural discourse. Highly recommended.
————————————————————————————————————-
Taylor’s show begins a five-night run at London’s Soho Comedy & Cabaret Theatre on June 1st and Time Out New York has already described him as: ‘One of the most exciting theatre artists of our time’.
The New Yorkers among you may have already caught this performance when it recently opened in The Big Apple…if that’s still a term for New York?
You can read a review of the show from Joe’s Pub in New York on May 21st
Comparison Is Violence Setlist
Five Years (Performed as Two Years) /Spaceship Song Medley
Soul Love
Together (Silver Spoons Theme)
Moonage Daydream
Starman/Tiptoe Through The Tulips Medley
A Flower Falls (The Lily’s Revenge)
Lady Stardust (Performed with Lady Rizo)
Hang On To Yourself
I’ve Never Seen A Straight Banana (Written by Ernest Hare in 1926) (Recorded by Tiny Tim in 1976)
Suffragette City
Lady Stardust
Rock N’ Roll Suicide
Encore
Fill Your Heart
“Heroes”
I’m sure you all know that Fill Your Heart from Hunky Dory was also recorded by Tiny Tim. However, it was
Go
The return of The Thin White Duke…
An unexpected treat for the UNCUT subscribers among us on Monday morning was the delivery of the July issue of
In a twelve-page feature by John Robinson, the magazine looks at the reign of The Thin White Duke during 1975/1976 via interviews with people around him and archive interviews with Bowie himself.
The article is also illustrated with many stunning photographs from the likes of Geoff MacCormack, Andy Kent and Terry O’Neill…as you can see from this teaser montage…
As always with these things, accuracy isn’t necessarily always top of the list. One particular goody is the news that The 1976 World Tour was in fact called the Isolar Tour…which I guess means that The 1978 World Tour was called the Isolar 2 Tour!
Anyway, while you’re reading the thing you can have a listen to the cover mount CD: TRANSITION/TRANSMISSION – 14 tracks from the new heroes of art rock, which you should be able to read the tracklisting of below.
The July issue of UNCUT should be on the shelves shortly, though there’s not even mention of it on the
There was a boy, a very strange enchanted boy…
I’m sure many of you reading this in the UK caught BBC 2’s dramatic presentation on Sunday evening,
The drama was part of BBC 2’s Eighties Season and as you would expect of any accurate portrayal of the period, David Bowie’s influence loomed large over the ninety minute broadcast. As you can see from the montage above, the image of David Bowie was frequently on view, usually in George’s bedroom.
The excellent soundtrack contained “Heroes”, Beauty And The Beast and Always Crashing In The Same Car, among other classics from the period…that period being from the first days of Steve Strange’s Blitz club in London, (that arose after the success of Bowie Nights at Billy’s in 1978) up to Culture Club‘s first appearance on TOTPs in 1982.
The emotional ups and downs of George’s early days as a face on the London scene were interspersed with flashforwards to his much publicised problems with drug addiction in 1986.
Aside from the music, the costumes, hair and make-up were superb, (if not a little more professional than the originals) and the casting certainly wasn’t unflattering on the whole.
In one hilarious scene, (picture above and bottom left in montage above) we even glimpse Bowie’s hand and leg as he emerges from his car during a visit to Blitz where he is received by a spellbound Steve Strange (played by Marc Warren) who falls to his knees to kiss Bowie’s hand…all to the tune of Beauty And The Beast.
The scene was based on real events when Bowie went to the club in search of extras for the Ashes To Ashes video, though I’m not sure how accurate Strange’s reaction to the apparition before him was.
The ensuing hysteria as Bowie enters the club was well staged. It seems the programme makers had the good sense not to try and use a Bowie lookalike that might have spoiled the effect of this visit from on high. Bowie instead remains invisible to the viewer among the excited throng, like the queen bee in her hive surrounded by attentive worker bees.
Here’s a bit of dialogue between Boy George (played by Douglas Booth) and Jon Moss (Mathew Horne) shortly after a confused and drug ravaged George crashes into former lover Moss’s front garden to the tune of…you can guess that one…
———————————————————————————————————————–
Boy George: I’m going to prison aren’t I?
Jon Moss: You’re not going to prison.
BG: I won’t survive in a place like that.
JM: No one’s going to prison.
BG: Don’t you watch the news? That Norman Tebbit wants to lock me up and throw away the key.
JM: You shouldn’t have fucking voted for them then, should you? What’s his beef anyway. You’re a rock ‘n’ roll stereotype, we’ve been exporting them for years.
BG: What have I done that’s so evil?
JM: You got a little older. A little less cute… (long pause) It’s like Bowie.
BG: Bowie?
JM: You think he didn’t go through this shit? He killed Ziggy he didn’t know where to go next. Then he puts out Station To Station and everyone thinks it’s the end. But what happens after that he finds his way to Berlin and records Low.
BG: I love Low.
JM: Well that’s where you are right now, somewhere between Station To Station and Low. It’s a transition.
———————————————————————————————————————–
Hmm…“He killed Ziggy…Then he puts out Station To Station.” What happened to Pin Ups, Diamond Dogs (and attendant tour), David Live and Young Americans?
I also don’t particularly remember feeling like it was the end of Bowie when he released Station To Station. He embarked on a world tour, his debut feature film The Man Who Fell To Earth was released and he returned to the studio to work on Low, the groundbreaking album he released a year after Station To Station that informed much of the best bits of the New Romantic sound.
Anyway, these are minor quibbles and I don’t think
If you’re in the UK and you didn’t see it yet, you still have a few days left to view it here. If you’re not in the UK, perhaps you’ll be mildly consoled with
Blue, blue, Hollowblue…
Gianluca from
Aside from joining in our recent “Heroes” theme, (05.03.2010 NEWS: GUESS THE MIMED ALBUM SLEEVE ON THE QUIETUS + 05.03.2010 NEWS: JEREMY MESSERSMITH PARODIES BOWIE ALBUM COVER + 05.12.2010 NEWS: BOWIE IS MOST POPULAR SLEEVEFACE SUBJECT + 05.15.2010 NEWS: MORE ALBUM COVER MADNESS WITH ANIMATED ALBUMS) Gianluca also reminded me of Hollowblue’s wonderfully moving cover of Letter To Hermione that was released on the
The Bowie tributes continued in November last year when Hollowblue performed a three-track session of Bowie covers for Rai Radiotre, comprising “Helden”/”Heroes”, Some Are and Always Crashing In The Same Car.
The session is available to listen to for free along with Letter To Hermione
I moved up to take a place, near you…
First there was
Above is one I bashed out earlier, so to speak, and below are three taken directly from
OK, let’s see what you lot can do…we’ll feature the best ones here on BowieNet.
He’s chameleon… (Hang on, no he isn’t)
Sony has launched a T-shirt line called
Here’s some bumf…
———————————————————————————————————————–
Not only do you get a very cool T-shirt, but you also get online access to a streaming playlist of the artist, and personal information about them! Every T-shirt tag features a secret code that you simply enter in at Archive1887.com and voila ? music to your ears! As a special bonus, each Archive 1887 tee includes a key that can be worn as a necklace or charm in honor of the “access” each shirt provides. Seriously, have you ever heard of a T-shirt that gives you so much cool stuff?
———————————————————————————————————————–
Seeing as the Mick Rock images being used are the one above from the Pin Ups session and the Raw Power and Transformer cover shots, I don’t think they could be described as “never-before-seen images from the Sony Music archives”.
However, what you get once you’ve entered your secret code in at
FOOTNOTE: I left the text in on the montage above because it tickled me somewhat!
Fashion – Turn to the left, Fashion – Turn to the right…
With the news of Liberal Democrat leader Nick Clegg (above) teaming up with the Tories to form Britain’s first coalition government since 1945, it became apparent that we could have a Bowie ‘fan’ at Number Ten in the not too distant future.
Well, it could happen. Now that he’s Deputy Prime Minister in the UK, Clegg could step into the top job if for any reason the newly ‘elected’ Conservative Prime Minister, David Cameron, was no longer fit for purpose.
Callers to the show were quick to point out that Changes was a song, not an album, unless Mr Clegg had selected a Bowie compilation over the other albums in the Bowie back catalogue…which in itself isn’t a crime, just unusual.
The 20-year-old photograph of a 22-year-old Clegg, above, supposedly dressed as Ziggy Stardust for a fancy dress party, first surfaced in 2007. But, the picture was resurrected for a Christmas card sent out last year by Labour Chief Whip Nick Brown with the heading: “
What Brown couldn’t have guessed when he created this bit of mischief was that Clegg would be merely one man away from the job just six months later!
Now Clegg has expanded his list of favourite music with this lot: Jonny Cash, Led Zeppelin, David Bowie, Prince, Macy Gray, Schubert, Bach.
Perhaps it was David Cameron’s cheeky use of Bowie’s Changes at the
Anyway, it wouldn’t be the first time we had a Bowie fan in Number Ten. I’m sure you all remember Tony Blair‘s appreciative speech when he presented Bowie with the Outstanding Contribution Award at The Brits in 1996. If you don’t, view it
Hold my face before you…
We’ve been covering this wonderful art form since the whole idea was started by some Dutch types back in January 2006. (01.16.2006 SNIPPET: BOWIE SLEEVES HELP CREATE NEW WORKS OF ART)
Then
It transpires that DB is the most popular artist when it comes to Sleeveface contributions and you can view the majority of the entries
I’ve used the two examples pictured here simply to continue the “Heroes” theme I set the other day. (05.03.2010 NEWS: GUESS THE MIMED ALBUM SLEEVE ON THE QUIETUS & 05.03.2010 NEWS: JEREMY MESSERSMITH PARODIES BOWIE ALBUM COVER )
Here’s a bit from an article regarding the newly-launched Indian version of Sleeveface on
————————————————————————————————————-
“We can’t remember exactly, but it was probably David Bowie,” says Roston, independent festival promoter and co-founder of the Sleeveface group on Facebook which has about 16,000 members.
Form-shifting 60s Brit pop star David Bowie has also earned himself the maximum number of Sleeveface photos. It’s little to do with idol worship and more to do with Bowie’s self-obsession. “Bowie just happens to like his head big on almost all his record sleeves,” explains compulsive sleevefacer and London-based magazine art director Christophe Gowans in an e-mail interview.
————————————————————————————————————-
Self-obsession? Not sure about that…but the old adage: ‘If you’ve got it, flaunt it’ springs to mind. Who wouldn’t want the whole world to see their face as big as possible if it was as good as David Bowie’s?!
Ch, ch, ch, ch, changes…
OK, this is the fourth and hopefully the final version of the cover for the upcoming
The name of the album has reverted to: The Untitled Tribute to David Bowie and it’s still due on September 6th.
You can pre-order the release on the