Month: August 2015

 

“Drink to the health of the store at Groninger”

 

Tickets for the V&A’s DAVID BOWIE is at the Groninger Museum, Groningen in the Netherlands, have now gone on general sale and first day sales were brisk.

Of course, the lure of being able to pick up more collectable Bowie vinyl won’t have hampered those ticket sales.

As we told you previously, a limited edition pressing of the Man Of Words/Man Of Music album on blue vinyl, alongside classic versions of Amsterdam and My Death as a limited edition orange vinyl 7″ single, will be available to visitors to the exhibition.

The records are being released via Parlophone on the day of the opening on December 11th, 2015. They are exclusive to DAVID BOWIE is at the Groninger Museum and many of you have asked how many of each will be up for grabs.

Well, we’re pleased to be able to tell you that a healthy quantity of 1,500 copies of each are being pressed.

 

#BOWIEisNL

 

Apologies to Mort Shuman for the crude appropriation of his English lyrics for Amsterdam, to provide today’s lyric quotation.

 

“I got a lust for life, Oh a lust for life”

 

David Bowie graces the cover of yet another publication this week, with the issue of Dutch magazine, Lust For Life.

The 8-page article focuses mainly on the David Bowie (Five Years 1969 – 1973) box set.

But there’s also a spread about Lazarus with the show’s director, Ivo van Hove, and elsewhere in the mag there’s an interview with Andreas Blühm, director of the Groninger Museum, next stop for the David Bowie is touring exhibition. 

 

#LustForLifeNL 

 

“For in front of that door, there is…Me!, Me!, Me!”

 

Like last week’s album, Live Santa Monica ’72, David Bowie’s final Ziggy show at Hammersmith Odeon on July 3rd, 1973, was also one of the more popular live Bowie bootlegs before it was picked up officially.

But unlike Live Santa Monica ’72 (which took thirty six years to eventually be released by EMI), Ziggy Stardust and The Spiders From Mars – The Motion Picture Soundtrack, was first issued ten years after the event in tandem with the film in 1983.

Speaking of the film, check out this moving performance of My Death over on the David Bowie YouTube channel now.

You can also listen to the soundtrack here.

 

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“One more, weekend, of lights and evening faces”

 

There’s a clue in the image here and the headline, but here’s a bit from the blurb…

 

Look out all you rock ‘n’ rollers! St. John’s is once again celebrating the five-decade long legendary career of one of the greatest minds in modern music; DAVID BOWIE!! TWICE!! TWO NIGHTS!!

It was sold-out to capacity and one of the biggest nights of downtown St. John’s music in 2014, and it’s bound to be the biggest night of 2015! That’s right, we’re doing TWO nights in a row, bringing you the BEST talent St. John’s has to offer to perform songs by the thin white duke! Friday, August 28th AND Saturday, August 29th at The Rockhouse Ongeorge!!

 

Check out the FB event page if you’re appetite has been whetted.

 

#BowieTribute

 

“Ich, Ich bin dann König”

 

Classic Rock Germany @Classic Rock Deutschland has published an 8-page cover feature focusing on the David Bowie (Five Years 1969 – 1973) box set.

Aside from the feature there’s also a 10/10 review of the box set.

Check out their FB page for more and if that tempts you further you can go here to purchase it online.

 

“Then we were Ziggy’s band”

 

Another big thumbs up for the David Bowie (Five Years 1969 – 1973) box set in the new issue of UNCUT.

There’s a nine out of ten review of the release by Bud Scoppa, not to mention a rather tasty double page picture spread of the boy Ziggy and his gang in a short piece about the box contents by Michael Bonner.

The October issue of UNCUT is available in all the usual formats and places now.

 

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“I’ve got Friday on my mind”

 

Friday Music will release their fourth Bowie 180g audiophile coloured vinyl for RSD/Black Friday on November 27th.

Housed in their trademark tri-fold sleeve, Earthling will be pressed on translucent green vinyl.

Originally released in February 1997, the nine-track album was a Top 10 hit in many European countries, also spurning five great singles in the shape of: Telling Lies, Little Wonder, Dead Man Walking, I’m Afraid of Americans and Seven Years In Tibet.

Keep an eye on the RSD site for participating stores in your area.

 

“You’ve gotta have a plan, In the world of today”

 

Back in May we mentioned that Friday Music would be releasing a translucent blue 180g audiophile vinyl pressing of Heathen, to be followed shortly thereafter by a clear vinyl issue of Reality.

Well, now a translucent blue ‘hours…’ joins the line-up, along with the aforementioned (see previous item) translucent green Earthling, Black Friday/RSD release.

These releases are 180g audiophile single albums in tri-fold sleeves.

Here are the release dates, all of which are 2015:

 

Heathen (translucent blue) – August 7

Reality (transparent) – September 25

‘hours…’ (translucent blue) – November 20

Earthling (translucent green) – November 27 (Black Friday/RSD release)

 

Check out the Friday Music David Bowie store here.

 

#BowieFridayMusic 

 

“MOJO the lion, yeah yeah”

 

Jim Irvin reviews the David Bowie (Five Years 1969 – 1973) box set in the new issue of MOJO (http://smarturl.it/MOJOoct2015), which also has a full page advert for the September 25 release.

The magazine has awarded the set 4 out of 5 stars and we’ll leave you with Mr Irvin’s conclusion to the piece.

 

“In these five years he was pouring out everything he had, pop music that was funny, sexy, chilling and other things that others weren’t attempting. It hasn’t all aged well, but that antic spirit – the roll-up, here-you-go-Mrs, arts-lab hooligan with a huge left hemisphere – makes Bowie uniquely himself while being many other things, the creator of a body of work no one else has, or will, ever come close to.”

 

#FiveYearsBox  #DavidBowie  

 

“We’ve got five stars, what a surprise”

 

In the latest issue of Q magazine, David Quantick has given the David Bowie (Five Years 1969 – 1973) box set top marks.

Here’s an edited excerpt from his review with a bit from both the intro and the conclusion.

 

The past, in David Bowie’s case, is not so much a foreign country as an entire solar system of extraordinary planets…the albums Bowie made were each a genre in themselves, blueprints for a career and as different as Venus from Mercury.

Here they are, 10 albums – including two lives, a double rarities collection and one covers disc – in a boxed set, with a booklet introduced by Ray Davies and a general sense of wonder that this creative outpouring, this insane variety of different ideas, sounds and visions, took place roughly in the same length of time of that, say, Mumford & Sons have managed to hesitantly carve out three albums, one of which is different because it doesn’t have banjos on it.

These 10 albums are all brilliant…and it’s almost extraordinary to realise that this race to space would actually be exceeded, creatively, by the hyperdrive of the next five years.

 

And who are we to disagree with that?

Meanwhile, the faint image in the background of our montage was taken of the Warner Music Group building in Burbank, Los Angeles. Hard to get a scale of the Five Years hoarding they are proudly displaying, but you wouldn’t get it through your front door!

 

#FiveYearsBox  #DavidBowie