“Watch out David, here we are in Paris and Blam Blam is taking a shot that
he’ll no doubt try and pass off as a picture from Vienna. Boy that’s cheap!”
Not the loneliest guy in the world…
The Wiener Stadthalle in Vienna, Austria was the venue for another memorable show from David Bowie on the latest stop of his A Reality Tour. The 30-song, two hours and forty minutes set saw the return of a storming version of Reality for the first time since Copenhagen, and the surprise inclusion of The Loneliest Guy for the first time.
It seems that this is one of those shows that will stay in our memories the longest, because, not only is it the last… hang on, wrong speech… Seriously though, by all accounts it does seem that this Vienna concert will stay in the memories of those present as being one of the most emotionally-charged performances of the tour, with some of David’s very strongest vocal performances. Eyewitness reports suggesting that David even had to wipe a tear from his eye during Heathen.
Here’s that really rather good set list, courtesy of an exhausted Lord Of The Things (That GP is insatiable) and a highly efficient Bianca, confirmed by some bloke called Sailor on the MBs:
Vienna October 29th 2003
01 Rebel Rebel
02 New Killer Star
03 Reality
04 Fame
05 Cactus
06 Sister Midnight
07 Afraid
08 China Girl
09 Fall Dog Bombs The Moon
10 Hallo Spaceboy
11 Sunday
12 Under Pressure
13 Ashes To Ashes
14 Days
15 Fashion
16 Never Get Old
17 The Motel
18 5:15 The Angels Have Gone
19 Loving The Alien
20 Changes
21 Let’s Dance
22 She’ll Drive The Big Car
23 The Loneliest Guy
24 I’m Afraid Of Americans
25 “Heroes”
26 Heathen (The Rays)
(Encore)
27 Bring Me The Disco King
28 Hang On To Yourself
29 Suffragette City
30 Ziggy Stardust
Don’t forget that Friday’s show at the Koln Arena in Cologne is Halloween night. David is expected to perform a set peppered with topical songs, kicking off with Future Legend (incorporating Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered) and continuing with Lightning Frightening, Scream Like A Baby, Scary Monsters, Cat People, Please Mr. Gravedigger, Neighbourhood Threat, The Pretty Things Are Going To Hell, I’m Deranged, We Are The Dead, Beauty And The Beast, Afraid, Sister Midnight, We Are Hungry Men, The Mysteries, Moonage Daydream, Subterraneans, Glass Spider, Shadow Man, Chant Of The Ever-Circling Skeletal Family and ending with Bleed Like A Craze, Dad. All newly arranged by Gerry ‘Spooky Ghost’ Leonard.
Actually, that’s all complete bollocks… just made it up, would be an interesting evening though.