Station To Station

Have you seen the Phaidon book about train stations called STATION TO STATION?

The book Station to Station is about the life and architecture of the railway station and its evolution over the last 150 years.

Thanks to Randy for the photo :)

Placebo Bowie And Visconti

Here is a photo of Placebo, David Bowie, and Tony Visconti taken during the recording session of "Without You I'm Nothing" Thanks to our friends at Hut Records and Virgin Records.

Photo was taken by Frank W. Ockenfels III

Stigmata

In less than one month, record stores will be featuring the highly anticipated soundtrack to the MGM motion picture Stigmata (on Virgin Records / in stores August 24, 1999).

Here are a few pre-release shots from the forthcoming CD.

Hours Bonus Track

The new David Bowie album 'hours...' will be released in Japan with a special bonus track not included on the UK or US versions. The 'hours...' bonus track for Japan-only will be a piece of 'faux-pyschodelic chantin' drone' called 'We All Go Through' according to Mr. Bowie.

Special Announcement: Ultrastar Launches 2nd Isp

www.sunspot.net has the first glimpses of the big news. UltraStar launches it's 2nd ISP with the legendary "Baltimore Orioles." You can check out further details at http://www.theorioles.com

Even Bowie (creator of BowieNet and co-founder of UltraStar) gets in on the news:

"We feel we can add the same excitement and sense of community to OriolesWorld which has brought so many music fans together at BowieNet. We couldn't be more pleased to be associated with this first class franchise." - db

Just wait for the next round of announcements coming soon :)

Bowienet T-shirt Reminder

Thanks to everyone for sending in your designs for the new BowieNet T-shirt contest. Keep em coming and we will post all designs that were sent in soon. This is just a reminder: Submit your designs for an official BowieNet t-shirt.

The Hunger

If you have The Movie Network in Canada, don't forget to catch Bowie introducing the new series "The Hunger."
Replacements"

Air times for Hunger: Replacements (EST)

Saturday Jul 24 11:30P (premiere)
Thursday Jul 29 1:00A
Thursday Jul 29 10:45P

Story Synopsis for Replacements:
A doctor attempts to uncover the evil that is turning the women in his town into zombies. Stellina Rusich. starringStellina Rusich. Rated: R

Bowie Ball

Finally! We have posted up new images, videos, and journals from the infamous BowieNet Ball, held in New York City back in late May, 1999.

The Ball was the brainchild of several hardcore BowieNet chatters who wanted to meet "in the flesh." The hostess of the Ball, Leezacan be seen here explaining how the ball came to be.

More videos will be posted in the coming weeks.

Where did the videos come from? If you remember back last month, ZDTV did a special 3 part series on Bowie. Part of the ZDTV piece was made up of member interviews taken at the Ball. Well, BowieNet got our hands on the out-takes, and we will be posting them in the coming weeks in this new BowieNet Ball archive area.

If you have any photos or journals you want to share, please feel free to send em in. We will post em up in this new section. Enjoy!

Special Announcement: So You Want To Work For Bowienet ???

BowieNet is about to start producing some snazzy t-shirts to put in the BowieStore to celebrate our 1 year anniversary. We have some nice internal designs that we are working with.... but then it hit us - the talent pool is really our members and since you are all screaming for a new contest - here it is.

Submit your designs for an official BowieNet t-shirt. There are no rules or regulations (except you can't rip off any copyrighted materials).

We will pick 5 finalists, post the winners design and then let our members pick the ultimate winner. Besides becoming famous - the finalists will receive both our new t-shirts and the one designed by the winner, a copy of the limited edition EP from Placebo - "Without You, I'm Nothing" - featuring a duet with David - signed by both Placebo and David, and our famous BowieNet mousepad. The grand prize winner will receive......something big!!!!!

So what are you waiting for??

Bowie Is Wired

Wired Magazine has recently posted a new poll entitled: "Readers Rave: People, Companies and Products that are Transforming our World."

The poll has 11 categories including Best Entertainment Website, New Media Innovator, and Entertainment Innovator.

David has received 2 prestigious spots in the poll.

1. BowieNet has been nominated for Best Entertainment Website(Your favorite online obsession)

2. David Bowie has been nominated for Entertainment Innovator (Blowing our minds).

There are only 3 people nominated in 2 categories:
1. Steve Case
2. Steve Jobs
3. David Bowie

So, once again, it's time for another online poll. Check it out at www.wired.com. The polling ends Aug. 10th, with an award ceramony on October 14th in San Francisco.

He Gets To Everyone

Apparently Bowie was an influence on Ricky Martin. This according to Martin himself. In a recent interview, part of which was on Yahoo News, this nugget was revealed:> 'Martin also has several rocking post-"Livin' La Vida Loca" singles in the pipeline, including a duet with Madonna.

"I grew up listening to Boston, Cheap Trick, Journey and David Bowie," said the ex-Menudo member from Puerto Rico. "When I was a kid, my brothers and I were all into rock, rock, rock."

Does this also bode another duet in the offing for our wonky-eyed hero?

Home Movies

Last week, Bowie went into the studio with Reeves Gabrels and Mark Plati to wrap up the forthcoming "Hours..." album.

Here are a couple of fun video clips taken in the studio. No documentary work here, but we thought you might like to have a look into the studio during the making of the "Hours..."

We are talking about (of course) his Cycling Knees

The second clip shows Bowie giving a quick lesson to the boys in how to Keep Time

Bowie Art

Be on the lookout for David's ivolvement with the Brooklyn Museum of Art's showing of "Sensations"

Without You I'm Nothing

BowieNet Exclusive:
This photo was sent over by the Placebo camp as a potential cover for the new Placebo/David Bowie Enhanced CD EP 'Without You I'm Nothing.'

Here is a short sample of the track Without You I'm Nothing.

As always, you can check up on Placebo at their official website: http://www.placebo.co.uk.

Thanks to Virgin and Hut records for the track ;)

The Ideal Woman

The premier edition of 'V' magazine (Sept.) will feature theIdeal Woman.

Bowie's contribution is in the form of a 'female nipple'spelling out the word 'Iman'

It's title? 'Ideal Woman X 2' -Have a look.

Bowie will also write an introduction to the work of artist Micheal RayCharles.

Visconti, Rustic Overtones, And Bowie

Last month, BowieNet reported that David Bowie was working with Tony Visconti and up-and-coming New England band Rustic Overtones. Here is a brief update.

Earlier this week, Tony Visconti invited a few BowieNet staff to attend the final night in the studio with himself and Rustic Overtones. We were treated to several tracks and got to watch Visconti work his magic with the soundboards! (FYI: very impressive)

Bowie has made contributions on 2 songs for the forthcoming Rustic Overtones album, which is due out on September 28th, on Arista Records.

David sang the choruses and added spoken word to the track "Sector Z", a humorous "message" to people on other planets.

The second track, entitled "Man Without A Mouth", has David adding some backing vocals that are very haunting indeed.

If you haven't already, check out this special Rustic Overtones section. You can also check the band out on their website: www.rusticovertones.com

Omikron Review

Check out a new review on Omikron from the Adrenaline Vault, one of the top gaming destinations on the Internet.

The Adrenaline Vault is an independent source of gaming information and is considered by many to be the ultimate gamers website.

Here is an excerpt of the review:
It is no secret that David Bowie has been contributing his talents, both in terms of music and integration as an interactive NPC. Upon completing the first significant clump of gameplay, Bowie's theme song for the title plays while the camera swoops through the city as though it were filming the introduction for a 21st Century Miami Vice. It was a nice reward.

Also, don't forget to have a gander at the 28 new character personas posted in the BowieNet Omikron area.

Garson Gets "stigmatized

Here are a few words from Mike Garson abouthis collaboration with Billy Corgan on the"Stigmata" film score:

Composing the score with Billy Corgan was anextraordinary experience. We worked 28 daysstraight for 12 hours per day. Billy is an extremely creative and musically gifted artist. The interaction between us was superb. Each of our ideas and insights really coalesced into one unified effort.

In addition to the score, we also wrote the end credit theme, "Identify," which is performed by Natalie Imbruglia on the soundtrack.

One final note...Life has its serendipitous ways of creating interesting effects: I met Billy Corgan through David Bowie. Ironically, Bowie contributed a song to the soundtrack album, as well. Small world! - Mike Garson

Mike Garson will join Bowie in the upcoming VH-1 STORYTELLERS session. Get all the latest on Mike Garson at his website: www.nowmusic.net/.

Omikron Review

Check out a new review on Omikron from the Adrenaline Vault, one of the top gaming destinations on the Internet.

The Adrenaline Vault is an independent source of gaming information and is considered by many to be the ultimate gamers website.

Here is an excerpt of the review:
It is no secret that David Bowie has been contributing his talents, both in terms of music and integration as an interactive NPC. Upon completing the first significant clump of gameplay, Bowie's theme song for the title plays while the camera swoops through the city as though it were filming the introduction for a 21st Century Miami Vice. It was a nice reward.

Also, don't forget to have a gander at the 28 new character personas posted in the BowieNet Omikron area.

Placebo And David Bowie Join Forces For New Ep

"Without You I'm Nothing" released in August

David Bowie joins Placebo on a new recording of the band's "Without You I'm Nothing", to be released as a limited edition gatefold CD EP by Hut Recordings on Monday 16th August.

The single is produced by Steve Osborne and features mixes from UNKLE,Americruiser and Brothers in Rhythm.

The track, recorded in New York earlier this year cements a relationship that started when Placebo supported David Bowie on his European tour in 1996.Early the next year Placebo were invited by Bowie to play at his 50th birthday party in New York's Madison Square Garden.

Bowie also joined Placebo on stage to perform "Twentieth Century Boy" at the 1999 Brit Awards in February this year, followed by an appearance with the band at their Irving Plaza show in New York the following month.

The original version of " Without You I'm Nothing" is the title track to Placebo's current album, released in October last year, The album has subsequently sold over 250,000 copies in the UK, with a further 800,000 sales around the rest of the world.

The new EP, credited to PLACEBO FEATURING DAVID BOWIE, will be released only on CD (FLOORCD10 ), with 20,000 copies available. "Without You I'm Nothing" also contains a web link to the band's site, plus enhanced "live" imagery, thus making the release ineligible for the UK single chart.