BOWIENET NEWS : OCTOBER 2000

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

David chats on Halloween
- he joins Yahoo! and BowieNet chat David writes the foreword to a new book called 'GQ Cool'
- and Blammo digs out this rather lovely shot 'The Complete David Bowie', by Nicholas Pegg is released
- Blammo tests for accuracy The 'Rock Style exhibition' opens in London
- check out some classic db stage gear David made a surprise appearance at the VH-1 Vogue Fashion awards Blammo gives us this rather sexy db animation :-) 'TOP TEN' looks back at 1980 and celebrates some of David's achievements that year

10/02/00 NEWS: MORE FANTASTIC PRIZES IN YET ANOTHER GROOVY COMPETITION...PHWEW! - guess the lyric - a new style comp
10/02/00 NEWS: PAGE HAMILTON CHAT TRANSCRIPT - check out the Page Hamilton chat transcript and enter a new competition
10/02/00 HOT NEWS: BEEB CLIMBS CHARTS - Bowie at The Beeb is a top ten album, it sits at no7 on the UK chart
10/02/00 NEWS: NEW JOURNAL ENTRIES! - David talks about Lisa Germano and Michael Ray Charles in his latest journals here & here
10/03/00 NEWS: DEE BEE COVER PROJECT UPDATE - a request for project participants to get in contact
10/03/00 NEWS: THREE PAGE BOWIE AT THE BEEB REVIEW IN RC - check out the Record Collector 'Bowie at the Beeb' review
10/03/00 NEWS: FROM TODAY'S BOSTON GLOBE - The Berklee College of Music auction 2 framed Iman prints by db
10/03/00 NEWS: MORE BOWIE AT THE BEEB? - the BBC are to launch a classic rock radio station with some db content
10/03/00 NEWS: COMING SOON - another Roseland clip is on the way
10/04/00 NEWS: MORE ROSELAND VIDEO - check out the latest Roseland clip, filmed by Duncan
10/04/00 NEWS: PLACEBO: PRIZE WINNERS! - the winners of the ask Placebo a question competition are announced
10/04/00 NEWS: BOWIE: MULLET GOD? - Blink magazine mentions db in an article on hair
10/04/00 NEWS: MORE JOURNAL ENTRIES! - more MRC show pics, news of 'Toy' and David discovers 'Eddy' in his latest journals here & here
10/05/00 NEWS: ROCK STYLE EXHIBITION OPENS IN LONDON TODAY - The Rock Style exhibition opens in London - with db's stage clothes
10/05/00 NEWS: BOWIE ON VH-1 GERMANY - David's 'Live From The 10 Spot' appearance is to be aired tomorrow and Sat
10/05/00 NEWS: SOMETHING IN THE AIR - 'Hours' was released a year ago today in the USA
10/06/00 NEWS: NEW JOURNAL ENTRY - 'a very talented man came to play today' and David goes over to MSG. Read his latest journal entry
10/06/00 NEWS: MORE GAIL ANN CRUMMIES - check out the final Gail Ann clip from the 'Bottom Line'
10/06/00 NEWS: TOY AT MUSIC 365! - David's journal entry makes the news at Music 365
10/06/00 NEWS: TOY ALSO IN ROLLING STONE - Rolling Stone also pick up on the news in David's journals
10/07/00 NEWS: BOWIE STORE LAUNCHED ON AMAZON - UK Amazon launch a Bowie store, with interviews, favourites and recommendations
10/07/00 NEWS: BOWIENET SITE OF THE MONTH - 'web surfin' Sailor' gives us a site of the month
10/07/00 NEWS: VH1 DANCE SONGS - 'Let's Dance' is no71 in the VH1 'Top 100 dance songs'
10/09/00 NEWS: HAPPY COLUMBUS DAY! - Happy Columbus Day to those in the US
10/09/00 NEWS: BEEB SAILS UP ONLINE CHARTS - 'Bowie at the Beeb' goes top 10 in the US Internet sales - courtesy of Billboard
10/09/00 NEWS: MORE BOWIE JOURNALS! - David gives us some Emm and shares his thoughts on 'Bamboozled'. Read his latest journal entry
10/09/00 NEWS: MR RICE'S SECRET IN ATLANTIC CITY - 'Mr Rice's Secret' is being shown at the Atlantic City Film Festival
10/10/00 NEWS: THE COMPLETE DAVID BOWIE...NOT QUITE - 'The Complete David Bowie' is released this month. Blammo tests for accuracy
10/10/00 NEWS: OH GOD, I COULD DO BETTER THAN THAT! - 'is Philip Treacy morphing into David Bowie? He wishes...'
10/10/00 NEWS: VH1 DANCE SONGS - 'Let's Dance' will be featured tonight on VH1's 'Top 100 Dance Songs'
10/11/00 NEWS: SONICNET BORROW FROM BOWIENET - SonicNet quote some news from David's journal
10/11/00 NEWS: GQ COOL! - David writes the foreword of a new book called 'GQ Cool'
10/11/00 NEWS: NEW DISCOGRAPHY - the illustrated db discography site is updated to v11.5
10/11/00 NEWS: NEW JOURNAL ENTRY - David gives us some news of a Who track he is recording, 'Pictures of Lily'. Read his latest journal
10/12/00 NEWS: CRUMMIES OF LILY - check out the hilarious new crummie no.1 of David playing his Stylophone :-)
10/12/00 NEWS: UNCOMMONLY RARE BOWIE AT THE BEEB T-SHIRTS TO BE WON - BNEt have 10 of these rare T-shirts to give away
10/12/00 NEWS: BEEB IN ROLLING STONE - Rolling Stone carries a full page ad for 'Bowie at The Beeb'
10/13/00 NEWS: MORE "MYSTERMAN" CRUMMIES - David digs out the stylophone instructions in crummie no.2
10/13/00 NEWS: BRILLIANT ADVENTURE - David talks of a studio trick in his latest journal entry & shows us some guitar effects in crummie no.3
10/13/00 NEWS: GROUND CONTROL TO DAVY JONES - Rolling Stone runs a feature on Cameron Crowe and uses an old db article
10/13/00 NEWS: DRY CLEANING ONLY - yes it's Yamamoto Kansai :-) - check out some shots from the Rock Style exhibition
10/14/00 NEWS: SUPER CREEP LOVES SCARY MONSTERS - Corey Slipnot chooses Scary Monsters as his 'sex record'
10/14/00 NEWS: WHO TRIBUTE! - David's version of 'Pictures of Lily' is to be on the Who tribute album. Check out lily crummie no.4
10/16/00 NEWS: BOWIE PROVIDES SAMPLE...SORDID DETAILS FOLLOWING - Samantha Mumba's 'Body II Body' is released today
10/16/00 NEWS: THE ELUSIVE PHOTO CONTROL UNIT! - check out the final studio crummie no.5 from the lily session
10/16/00 NEWS: GOD KNOWS I'M GOOD - David appears in the Guardian Observer's most influencial people (this year) list
10/17/00 NEWS: WE ARE HUNGRY MEN - Nigella Lawson's all time favourite album is 'something like Ziggy Stardust or Aladdin Sane'
10/17/00 NEWS: ELVIS COSTELLO'S TOP 500 - Elvis Costello lists four db albums in his top '500 Albums You Need' - Vanity Fair
10/18/00 NEWS: ART DECADE...WELL MONTH ACTUALLY - a free db print offer, db contributes to ArtAid2000 + news of 'Painting The Century'
10/18/00 NEWS: MORE OMIKRON! - another great clip from 'The Nomad Soul' game - 'David' performs 'The Pretty Things Are Going To Hell'
10/19/00 NEWS: VOTE NOW! - vote for David and Iman in the VH1 'most stylish couple' poll
10/19/00 NEWS: CRACKED ACTOR'S SECRET - 'Bowie's Rice is understated, intelligent and gentle' - a review of Mr Rice's Secret
10/19/00 NEWS: BOWIE RECOMMENDS YOU GET 'STONED'! - David recommends the book 'Stoned' by Andrew Loog Oldham
10/20/00 NEWS: EMM AT THE SEATTLE ASIAN AMERICAN FILM FESTIVAL - Emm will appear on Oct 28th and take part in a Q&A session
10/20/00 NEWS: BOWIE ON UK TV TOMORROW - 'TOP 10' looks back at 1980 and celebrates some of David's achievements that year
10/20/00 NEWS: FASHION AWARDS - a reminder to vote for David and Iman
10/21/00 NEWS: ZIGGY FIX - a 'Bowie at the Beeb' mispressing update - news of a downloadable replacement 'Ziggy Stardust' track
10/21/00 NEWS: BOWIE ON CHANNEL 4 TONIGHT - a reminder to watch David on Channel 4's 'TOP TEN' programme
10/21/00 NEWS: OMIKRON REVISITED! - a reposting of the 'Nomad Soul' clips
10/23/00 NEWS: STELLAR PERFORMANCE FROM DAVID AT VH-1/VOGUE FASHION AWARDS - David makes a surprise appearance :-)
10/23/00 NEWS: ENO AT THE PARTOBJECT GALLERY - Brian Eno has 87 of his generative pictures on display in North Carolinas
10/23/00 NEWS: SOMEBODY UP THERE LIKES ME! - the new BowieNet member of the week is announced
10/24/00 NEWS: LIVE ZIGGY TRACK AVAILABLE! - download the replacement Beeb 'Ziggy' track - read the latest press release
10/24/00 NEWS: NEW JOURNAL ENTRY - David plays with a tiny guitar in his latest journal entry
10/24/00 NEWS: WILL THE REAL ZIGGY, PLEASE STAND UP? - Mojo runs a four page feature on Vince Taylor. Go here for more
10/24/00 NEWS: YOUR CHANCE FOR FIFTEEN MINUTES OR MORE! - re-work the new db print from BowieArt - David will judge the comp
10/24/00 NEWS: RUMOURS AND LIES AND STORIES THEY MADE UP PART 376 - Blammo quashes some db rumours
10/25/00 NEWS: SCARY MONSTERS (AND SUPER CHATS)! - David will join Yahoo! chat and BNet chat on Halloween
10/25/00 NEWS: AN ACROBAT'S HEART - Annette Peacock's new CD, 'an acrobat's heart', is released
10/25/00 NEWS: GQ COOL OUT NEXT WEEK - the 'GQ Cool' book is released next week. Read David's foreword
10/26/00 NEWS: BOWIE SHOOTS DYLAN, NEW EVIDENCE - David photographs Dylan Jacob and you can catch him here
10/26/00 SNIPPET: GQ EDITOR'S BOWIE HAIRCUT - 'I desperately wanted a Bowie haircut but I couldn't have one' - Dylan Jones
10/26/00 NEWS: HALLOWEEN CHAT WITH BOWIE - a reminder to join David at the Halloween chat on BowieNet and Yahoo!
10/27/00 SNIPPET: BOWIE CARTOON - check out the latest db cartoon from BowieNetter Ysengrin
10/27/00 NEWS: NEW JOURNAL ENTRY - Gerry pops into the studio and David browses through his comix. Read his latest journal entry
10/27/00 NEWS: HELLO! IT'S DAVID AND STELLA AGAIN - Fashion show reports appear on 'Big Breakfast' (ch4), 'Celebrity' (ITV) & in HELLO!
10/28/00 SNIPPET: YSENGRIN'S BOWIE CARTOON - a repeat posting of the new Ysengrin cartoon
10/28/00 NEWS: NEW JOURNAL ENTRY - a repeat posting of the previous journal
10/28/00 NEWS: THE COUNTDOWN CONTINUES! - only three days to go to the Halloween chat with db
10/30/00 NEWS: CHAT TOMORROW! - for those who can not make the db chat - submit a question in advance
10/30/00 SNIPPET: A BIG ONE FOR GEOFF! - Geoff ('Warren Peace') has a successful dance hit called 'Fiji'
10/30/00 NEWS: NEW JOURNAL ENTRY - David talks of his old friend Geoff, and his monster hit. Read his latest journal entry
10/30/00 NEWS: PLACEBO - YOUR QUESTIONS ANSWERED (PART 1) - Placebo answer your questions - check out part 1
10/30/00 NEWS: ALL YOU'VE GOT TO DO IS WIN - it is the last day for 2 BNet comps - and take a look at some Harry Hill's db quiz questions
10/31/00 NEWS: HAPPY HALLOWEEN - check out this wonderful halloween crummie no.6 of David singing 'Afraid'
10/31/00 NEWS: CHAT TONIGHT - join David in Yahoo! chat and BowieNet chat tonight
10/31/00 NEWS: PLACEBO - YOUR QUESTIONS ANSWERED! (PART 2) - Placebo answer your questions - check out part 2
10/31/00 NEWS: LIVEANDWELL.COM CD STILL FREE TO ALL NEW MEMBERS - and a reminder to check out the interactive aspect of CD2
10/31/00 NEWS: JOURNAL ENTRY - a repeat posting of the previous journal
10/31/00 NEWS: MARK PLATI'S SITE 'V2' - Mark Plati's site has been updated and includes shots from the 'Toy' studio session

The 'Painting The Century' exhibition opens at the NPG
- check out the David and Iman print by Stephen Finer Happy Halloween!
- check out this wonderful crummie of David and Mark Plati performing 'Afraid' David writes the foreword to the 'GQ Cool' book
- read it here BNet presents 'I'm Afraid of Americans' from Roseland
- filmed by Duncan Jones :) check out this hilarious db stylophone crummie :-)

- Geoff has a hit record
- David tells us all about it in his journal ....'dry cleaning only'
- yes it really says it :-) ...this outfit is one of the db costumes at the 'Rock Style' exhibition in London Gerry pops into the studio and David browses through his comix
- check out his journal Placebo answer your questions - click here for part 1
- see 31 Oct for part 2 and
- see 01 Nov for part 3 BowieArt offer a free db print for download and have a new competition David gives us an insight into a new track he is recording
- check out his journal David tells us about Lisa Germano
- check out his journal David shoots Jakob Dylan
- click here for a shot of db in action David shows us some studio effects
- check out this great crummie of db and Mark Plati David donates one of his dhead prints to ArtAid2000
- click here for a larger version

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