Tune into this two-hour special encore presentation of NetAid.
go to NetAid
go to TNT-TV.com
Don't forget, the top 5 winning t-shirts designers will get an autographed copy (that's signed by Placebo AND Bowie) of the limited edition EP from Placebo and David Bowie- "Without You, I'm Nothing" - for our BowieNet tshirt contest prizes.
Remember, one vote per person please! Contest ends Friday, October 22, 1999
10 lucky BowieNet members have Bowie tickets in their hands and are heading to Paris! Winners were notified yesterday. Where is your ticket you ask? Well, you still have one more day to get your requests in for the Vienna / Libro Music Hall Ticket Giveaway! The clock is ticking! We will stop accepting ticket requests at NOON EST, on Thursday October 14th, 1999. Don't delay. Get your ticket requests in by then. The show is Oct. 17th at the Libro Music Hall, Uia Valtellina 25, Vienna.
Here is an excerpt:
"With long hair framing his gaunt face and suspenders holding up elegant pants, Bowie in his latest incarnation seems a perfect cross between Ziggy Stardust and the Thin White Duke, eccentricity melding with sophistication."
"In the audience, Boy George sang along to the lilting Drive-In Saturday, while everyone seemed to remember some of the words to China Girl and Life on Mars. Though the concert still had a few hours to run, it was Bowie's Rebel Rebel, ground out with a strut and a sly smile, that resonated long after the nine performers had headed home in long black limousines."
"After donating to NetAid, one might consider investing in Bowie, whose stock-market listing could only get a boost from his redemption of Saturday's well-intentioned but uninspiring show."
go to USA Today article
What? Don't speak German? well, here is the translation for you:
David Bowie fans who were not able to get tickets for the show on the 17th of October 1997, which has been sold out for two weeks, will get a consolation: Lion:cc broadcasts the show live on the internet.
The Bowie show will be broadcast live from the Libro Music Hall on http://bowie.lion.cc on Sunday from 8pm onwards, an can be seen on that website for three month after the live webcast. Parallel to that BowieNet Europe, the german speaking version of BowieNet, is launched.
Bowie, voted star of the century by the readers of the English daily paper The Sun, has just released his 23rd album "Hours...". It entered the Austrian album sales charts at number 4.
According to Bowie's request, the capacity of the venue was reduced so that only 3000 lucky ticket holders plus 150 press representatives from nine different countries can enjoy the show of the year.
Here is the overall European Charting:
No 5 in Great Britain
No 2 in Sweden
No 5 in Japan
No 4 in Norway
No 7 in Italy
No 4 in Austria
No 9 in Greece
No 4 in Germany
No 7 in France
Top Ten all over Europe!
The www.netaid.org rock concert to fight global poverty have started reporting viewership for its Internet broadcast.
Organizers said 2,385,455 people logged on to the NetAid Web site to see at least part of the 11 hours of music from three venues: Wembley Stadium in London, Giants Stadium outside New York City and the Palais des Nations in Geneva.
David Bowie, Bono, Sheryl Crow, Puff Daddy and dozens of other rock acts helped attract the large viewership on the Internet.
NetAid.org has posted up RealVideo backstage interviews with David Bowie, as well as "The Best of NetAid" Concert footage.
Other interviews include David Ganola and Iman, Eurythmics, Jewel, Quincy Jones, Robbie Williams, Sting and Wyclef Jean.
BowieNet members can now officially enter our Vienna / Libro Music Hall Ticket Giveaway! 10 tickets to David Bowie's live Vienna / Libro Music Hall performance are up for grabs. The clock is ticking! We will stop accepting ticket requests at NOON, this Thursday October 14th, 1999. Don't delay. Get your ticket requests in by then. The rules are simple: fill out the form AND 10 lucky winners will be notified via email and placed on the guest list.Each member will only win one ticket. You may not give your ticket away, scalp it or put it on eBay - if you enter, you are stating that YOU will attend the show and supply your own transportation/lodging to the event. If you cannot attend for any reason, you must contact UltraStar so we can put the ticket back "in the hat" to allow another member the chance of winning. The show is Oct. 17th at the Libro Music Hall, Uia Valtellina 25, Vienna
Entitled David Bowie: The music industry's youngest star, the interview is available in RealVideo format.
BUT WAIT: The clock is ticking! Just a few short hours to get your name in! Don't delay. We are closing the entry page down TOMORROW AT NOON EST Sharp, so make sure you get your ticket requests in by then.
The rules are simple: fill out the form AND 10 lucky winners will be notified via email and placed on the guest list.
Each member will only win one ticket. You may not give your ticket away, scalp it or put it on eBay - if you enter, you are stating that YOU will attend the show and supply your own transportation/lodging to the event. If you cannot attend for any reason, you must contact UltraStar so we can put the ticket back "in the hat" to allow another member the chance of winning. The show is Oct. 14th, at Elysée Montmartre (72 BLD ROCHECHOUART) in PARIS
PLEASE NOTE: As a second added bonus, we have also secured 10 tickets for the Vienna Show!! Once the Paris tickets are gone, we will start the Vienna Ticket giveaway, so keep your eyes open!
Bowie fans who attended the show reported that Life On Mars was justpiano and vocals, and that Pretty Things rocked like a mutha!
Here was the set list:
Life On Mars
Thursday's Child
Can't Help Thinking
Word On A Wing
China Girl
Repitition
Always Crashing The Same Car
I Can't Read
Survive
Changes
Encore
Pretty Things Are Going To Hell
Seven
Drive In Saturday
Rebel Rebel
Included in the audience was Joe Elliot from Def Leppard, members of the huge Irish boybandBoyzone, and Irish singing phenomenon The Corrs were there as well.
The strangest guests of all were Andrew Lloyd Webber (Cats, Jesus Christ Superstar, etc) and Mr. Riverdance himself Michael Flatley!
Legend has its own place in social history and David Bowie is one very realand very vital musical legend.
All of this he proved and much more when he headlined the inaugural Witness(Guinness) invite only show in the Hot Press Hall of Fame last night.And every celebrity in Ireland checked it out to suss out what was happeningand to pay homage to someone who has always defied definition butpersonified celebrity.
Kicking off the show with a spirited ballad version of Life on Mars, Bowiebrought his audience through a musical kaleidoscope of his career fromChanges to China Girl and far beyond.
Thanks to Chris Gaffney for the news blurb
Giants Stadium in East Rutherford, NJ
Wembley Stadium in London
The Palais des Nations in Geneva
VH1.com will webcast the event, BOTH live on-stage and exclusive backstage footage.
Survive
Rebel Rebel
China Girl
Only 'Survive' was broadcast along with David's interview with host Chris Evans.
Directed by Martin Scorsese, David Bowie plays the part of Pontius Pilate in this critically acclaimed masterpiece.
Willem Dafoe, Barbara Hershey and Harvey Keitel star in Martin Scorsese's thought-provoking adaptation of Nikos Kazantzakis' controversial novel.
To get a better look, here are some screen grabs of the virtual concert. These screen shots show David and company performing a song inside the game!
From Virgin:
Over the past 30 years, we've witnessed a multitude of David Bowies, as the ever-ch-ch-ch-changing one shifts restlessly between identities, images and sounds. But when push comes to shove, which Bowie has packed the perfect pop punch? Here, we send the eight best-known Bowies into the ring, to see which keeps swinging when the fur flies...
Want to find out about round two? Click here.
Here is an excerpt:
Bowie's twenty-third album is as nakedly emotive a collection as anything in his ironic catalog; it's a summary statement from the man who invented postmodern rock & roll, so school is in session. But teacher is more concerned with baring wounds than with making big statements: "The pretty things are going to hell/They wore it out, but they were well" is as big as it gets.
The sentiment sounds chucked from Johnny Rotten's diary, almost a kiss-off from the rock era. Bowie is probably the only cat around with the history, irony and distance to deliver that lyric as self-critique, death sentence, feud reminiscence and party favor all the same time.
You can read the entire article here on BowieNet now. Thanks to our friends at Rolling Stone for the article.
Exhuming Mr. Rice received an amazing response the children's jury and the children were extremely impressed with Mr. Bowie's performance. Here are some of the comments that were pulled from the voting forms:
"He was so natural and compassionate." (Virginia Welch, age 11.)
"Death is like a bad subject and his character made us feel OK about talking about it." (Alex Doss, age 12.)
"I saw him in a couple of movies. This is my favorite because he made me feel like he cared for about kids". (Destiny de Los Rios, age 10.)
Here is the CICFF Festival Schedule
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Cinemagic | Northern Ireland |
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| Feb. 25 ? March 5 | Fantasporto | Portugal |
If you haven't already seen it, or even if you have, here is a Exhuming Mr Rice Special Feature from BowieNet.
Here is an excerpt:
'hours...' is a richly textured and emotionally vividset.
'Thursday's Child and If I'm Dreaming My Life have theemotional throb of his tremulous '70's ballads "Can YouHear Me" and "Word on A Wing'
'This time around, Bowie sounds influenced by nobodyexcept himself, and he couldn't have picked a betterrole model.'
**** four stars!
Thanks to Spaceface for the scan ;)