BOWIENET NEWS : JANUARY 2000

Here is the BowieNet news summary for January 2000. Please click on the link to be taken to the relevant page.

David is interviewed on the 'O Zone'
- click here for some lovely screen grabs The 'Survive' single is released.
- CD extras include a video from the Paris show Happy Birthday dear David
- 'A child is born'...8 Jan 1947 :-) The shirt that was....
- a lovely animation of David in his doomed shirt 
- visit the 4 Jan news for the 'shrink that shirt again' downloadable MP3 David is a bundle of fun on the 'Big Breakfast' :-)
- click here for more

01/03/00 NEWS: BIG BIG BREAKFAST - following David's hilarious 'Big Breakfast' appearance Blammo produces a BB special
01/03/00 NEWS: NEW JOURNAL ENTRY - db 'the idea is for us to record some of the songs that I wrote between 1964 - 1969'
01/03/00 NEWS: REMINDER: DB ON THE O ZONE TOMORROW IN THE UK - and he appeared on a Tomorrow's World Special'
01/03/00 SNIPPET: THE FINE ART OF SEPARATING PEOPLE FROM THEIR MONEY - db interview extracts are used on this show
01/04/00 SNIPPET: BOWIE ON KROQ - David has a lengthy 'phone in' interview with Rodney Biggenheimer of 'Kroq' radio
01/04/00 SNIPPET: 'SURVIVE' SINGLE OF THE WEEK ON RADIO 2 - and David speaks to the BEEB
01/04/00 SNIPPET: 'SURVIVE' FOR NEW FILM SOUNDTRACK - 'Survive' to be used in closing credits of the 'Rancid Aluminium' film
01/04/00 NEWS: SHRINKING JIMMY RETURNS - BowieNet presents....the 'Shrink That Shirt Again' song for Jimmy :-)
01/05/00 NEWS: DIGITAL DB - Rolling Stone mentions David in Electronic Media Devices article
01/05/00 NEWS: LAST NIGHT ON THE BBC - lovely screen grabs and highlights from David's 'O Zone' interview
01/05/00 NEWS: ULTRASTAR IN USA TODAY - Ultrastar lead off an article on the future of ISP's - in 'USA Today'
01/05/00 NEWS: DUBLIN HIGHLIGHTS - The Evening Herald - 'David Bowie performed the most spectacular show of the year in Dublin'
01/05/00 NEWS: DB2K - David and Iman in a Sunday Times 'Millennium' article
01/06/00 NEWS: Q MAG HAUL - ecstatic feedback on David's Astoria performance and 'Q' selects a duke shot for their '25 Greatest R&R photos
01/06/00 NEWS: NEW JOURNAL ENTRY - 'Oh, so many cookies in the post. thank you, yum yum.' (birthday boy)
01/06/00 NEWS: DB B-DAY BASHES - db birthday parties are to be held in Tokyo and Germany
01/06/00 NEWS: HOLLY GIGS - Holly Palmer venue details
01/07/00 NEWS: NEW JOURNAL ENTRY - db 'Wow, all this from one box of records' - a riveting journal on David's influences
01/07/00 NEWS: VH1 TOP 100 - 'Space Oddity' is in VH1's '100 Greatest Rock 'N' Roll Songs'
01/07/00 GREETING: HAPPY BIRTHDAY GAE - Happy Birthday to Mrs Blam Blam :-)
01/07/00 GREETING: ISN'T IT SOMEBODY ELSE'S BIRTHDAY SOON? - send your birthday greeting to David
01/07/00 NEWS: FANTASPORTO 2000 - some of David's films to headline the Oporto International Film Festival
01/08/00 TIMEZONE: THIS DAY IN HISTORY JANUARY 8TH 1947 - Happy birthday dear David :-) and a look back at the 'celebration'
01/08/00 NEWS: ASHES TO ASHES - Mike Garson composes 'Requiem for the 20th Century' Listen to it here
01/10/00 BIRTHDAY UPDATE: CEEEEELEBRATE GOOD TIMES C'MON! - hunt through David's birthday eggs
01/10/00 SNIPPET: 'SURVIVE' IT'S A HIT?! - the Live and Kicking panel vote 'survive' a hit
01/10/00 NEWS: NEW RELEASE DATE IN THE UK FOR 'SURVIVE' - now set for 24 January
01/10/00 NEWS: NEW JOURNAL ENTRY - David talks of his 'Little Richard' record collection :-)
01/10/00 SNIPPET: THE GIRL WITH THE MOUSY..ERM...BLONDE...OR IS IT RED?...HAIR - Eurythmics perform 'Life On Mars?' live
01/11/00 SNIPPET: LITTLE RICHARD? THAT'S MY SPECIALITY - Blammo watches his inbox ;-)
01/11/00 NEWS: BOWIEBANC - THE WORLD CATCHES UP! - 'now you can bank on Bowie'
01/11/00 NEWS: VIRGIN FANCIES DAVID BOWIE - 'Survive' is single of the week on Virgin radio
01/11/00 NEWS: GLASTO 2K FAN VOTE - vote for the artist you would like to see perform at Glastonbury
01/11/00 NEWS: HALLO DUCKY - DB IN A SPIN - David in an amusing on-line interview
01/12/00 NEWS: WE KNOW THIS TO BE TRUE - 'Hours' gets positive feedback on the Amazon.com 'users review' page
01/12/00 NEWS: BOWIEBANC.COM - news on the BowieBanc with a quote from Bob Goodale
01/12/00 NEWS: AND THE WINNER IS - the 'music of the Millennium poll' results - David's final position(s)
01/13/00 NEWS: NEW JOURNAL ENTRY - db 'We're off to an evening of honoring Susan Sarandon'
01/13/00 NEWS: 'WITHNAIL' AND YOU - check out the info page
01/13/00 NEWS: SNEAKER: DB INTERVIEW - a phone interview with David is to be aired on the Virgin Breakfast show tomorrow
01/13/00 NEWS: DIGITALCLUBNETWORK - cybercasts a live performance of 'Ziggy' by NYC musicians
01/13/00 NEWS: JUST FOR FUN: LIFE ON MARS?!? - the American Astronomical Society say it IS theoretically feasible
01/14/00 REPORT: DO YOU WANT GINGER WITH THAT DAVID? - Hot David helps workman lift paving slabs ;-) - the Chris Evans phone in
01/14/00 BIRTHDAY UPDATE: TOKYO 2000 - and more Bowie egg hunting
01/14/00 NEWS: HOLY POLLS - db = no1 artist, no2 video, no3 album, no3 sex symbol (the other 2 were girls :-)) & no5 single
01/15/00 REMINDER: BOWIE @ THE NPG - two weeks left for the 'Faces of the Century'. Here's some words from David on his selections
01/15/00 HOT NEWS: GIRLS, GIRLS, GIRLS, CHAT CHAT CHAT! - Gail, Emm, Holly and DAVID (a fella) to chat next week
01/15/00 NEWS: SOUND AND VISION - check out this 11 page online interview!
01/15/00 UPDATE: GLASTO 2K FAN VOTE - db is already in the top 5
01/15/00 NEWS: Q AGAIN - 'Q' review the 'Astoria' gig
01/15/00 NEWS: SOD UPDATES - member's site update
01/17/00 NEWS: MARTIN LUTHER KING DAY - in honour of Martin Luther King
01/17/00 NEWS: NEW JOURNAL ENTRY - David sees Susan Sarandon honored by the Center for Constitutional Rights
01/18/00 NEWS: DEE BEE PROJECT ROLLS ON... - there have been 88 entries so far
01/18/00 NEWS: THE MAKER'S VERDICT - Melody Maker has 'Hunky Dory' at no 7 in its '100 Best albums of all time'
01/18/00 NEWS: COOL STOOL - members' news piece - a stool is designed with David in mind
01/19/00 SNIPPET: THE SHIRT 'SURVIVES'! - 'Survive' is released this week. Here's an animation from the CD video extra :-)
01/19/00 CONTEST: DAVID AND LIZ - the David and Liz caption contest
01/19/00 REMINDER: BOWIE @ THE NPG - a reminder
01/20/00 NEWS: NEW JOURNAL ENTRY - db 'put in a call to " Eurythmics Live by Request " last night.'
01/20/00 NEWS: MUSICPHOTO.COM - a link to the site built around session photographer Lawrence Kirsch
01/20/00 NEWS: VIRGIN POLAND - vote for 'Hours' as the best album of the year
01/20/00 NEWS: MEGA BOWIE - no BNetters in the Sunday Post 'Mega Bowie Competition' winners list
01/21/00 NEWS: OMIKRON GETS BIG HITS - 'Omikron: The Nomad Soul' almost received a grammy nomination
01/21/00 NEWS: MSNBC COVERS BOWIEBANC - coverage of BowieBanc in the business section
01/21/00 NEWS: VELVET GOLDMINE POSTS ALCATRAZ PIX - the December Milano/Alcatraz concert page is added to the VG site
01/22/00 CHAT REMINDER: GIRLS NIGHT OUT - reminder for 26 January
01/22/00 EMM G ON BOWIENET - Emm gets her own space on BowieNet.
01/22/00 NEWS: FREE HOLLY CDS - Holly Palmer has a free cd offer
01/22/00 BOWIE HISTORY: WHATTA WEEKEND - this weekend in history - a look back
01/22/00 NEWS: GURU REVIEW - a member's review
01/24/00 NEWS: NEW JOURNAL ENTRY db - 'Wrote my magazine piece on my 'Clothes Thru' Time' over the weekend.'
01/24/00 Re-make/Re-model: REX RAY FOR YOUR PLEASURE - Rex Ray launches his own site
01/24/00 NEWS: BERLIN KINDERFILMFEST - Mr Rice's Secret is to be screened at the Berlin Film festival
01/24/00 NEWS: MAHIR LOVES US - we have contact :-)
01/25/00 NEWS: NEW JOURNAL ENTRY - db '..drifting off to the current fave CD, the Comedian Harmonists' David tells us all about them
01/25/00 CHAT REMINDER: GIRLS NIGHT OUT TOMORROW - a reminder
01/25/00 NEWS: MOJO MAG - David meets Mick Ronson - a Mojo feature
01/25/00 SNIPPET: GOT MY MOJO WORKING, AGAIN! - more Bowie related items in Mojo
01/26/00 NEWS: NEW JOURNAL ENTRY - db 'Phew!!! I'm not going back there till it's done' - Ultrastar is having a changeover
01/26/00 CHAT REMINDER: GIRLS NIGHT OUT TONIGHT!!! - final reminder
01/26/00 SNIPPET: IT'S A WRAP, ALMOST.. - caption contest reminder
01/26/00 NEWS: BRILLIANT CAREERS - salon.com - db is 'easily the most influential rock star of the post 'Beatles' era'
01/27/00 NEWS: NEW JOURNAL ENTRY - db 'Gee, last night, three girls wore me out. (stop sniggering in the back there!!)'
01/27/00 UPDATE: GIRLS NIGHT OUT!!! - click here for part a and here for part b of the transcript
01/27/00 NEWS: STOP THE PRESS - Iman is the new contributing beauty editor of 'Vibe' magazine
01/27/00 NEWS: SHES COMIN' TO YOUR TOWN - details of Emm's 'Living Room Tour'
01/28/00 SNIPPET: DB AND BB IN THE FT - the FT has an article on BowieBanc
01/28/00 GIVEAWAYS - news of Bowie giveaways at 'mp3.com', 'Tower Records' and 'Pizza Hut'
01/28/00 NEWS: BOWIE ESCAPADES - a charming member's cartoon of David escaping to safety
01/28/00 NEWS: BOWIE HISTORY: DB IN THE 70'S - a brief look back
01/29/00 NEWS: BOWIENET V2 UPDATE - a small glimpse of the new look V2 BowieNet
01/29/00 NEWS: TAKE A LOOK - a link to firstlook.com
01/29/00 NEWS: Q REVIEW - 'Q' reviews 'Survive' and praise the new album, 'Hours'
01/30/00 NEWS: NEW JOURNAL ENTRY - db 'I must recommend you to go see the exhibition of Odd Nerdrums work'
01/31/00 NEWS: KIT KAT EX-KLUSIVE - BowieNet presents - the 'Kit Kat' show!!
01/31/00 NEWS: NEW JOURNAL ENTRY - 'Traveling Light' and 'Still Statues'
01/31/00 NEWS: BOWIE NOMINEE IN BRIT'S BEST MALE CATEGORY - the awards take place on the 3rd March
01/31/00 NEWS: 'SURVIVE' GOES TOP 30 IN THE UK - David's 57th UK Top 40 Hit :-)
01/31/00 NEWS: ROLLINGSTONE REALLY RANDOMS - RS reports that David is to team up with Tony Visconti
01/31/00 NEWS: NEWSNIGHT INTERVIEW - a transcript of David's interview with Jeremy Paxman

David contributes to the 'Faces of the Century' exhibition
- click here for his selection comments David recommends Odd Nerdrums work
- one of thirteen! journals this month BowieNet presents - the 'Kit Kat' performance live!! Ysengrin gives us this charming db cartoon

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