FYI: Tomorrow morning on the Virgin Breakfast Radio Show, Chris Evans will announce the David Bowie / Astoria show, which is scheduled for December the 2nd.
Kit Kat Club Ticket Giveaway Tonight
Just a reminder that TONIGHT, BowieNet will be giving away lots of tickets for the Kit Kat Club show. Join us in the chat room for an exciting round of Bowie Jeopardy at 8:00 p.m. EST. Thats tonight! We will be having a small get together on the day of the show where winners of tickets can meet and pick up their souvenir laminates. All winners will get a confirmation email by end of day Friday with ALL the details. See you in the chat room!
David Bowie Day/the Priory
Nov 9th was rather a red letter day for TV viewers inthe UK!! Not only did VH1 have an entire day entirely devoted to David Bowie, but UK viewers also got a full Bowie-dose on the first edition of a new Channel 4 light entertainment show ?The Priory?.
Featured on VH1 was a show entitled VH1 to 1, which featured new interview footage, with David being filmed from twolocations. When asked about?hours...? he said that instead of having two or threedifferent focuses, like?Earthling? and ?Outside?, the new album had only onefocus, the songs and the lyrics.
The question of happiness came up, and he had this to say,
?I hate albums that are really happy. When I am really happy, I don?t like to hear happy albums, and when I am really sad I don?t wanna hear happy albums...and I tend to gravitate towards the lonelyand isolated anyway when I write.?
On revisiting his back catalogue.. he said he had changed his mind from?never? to ?all right, maybe a bit?, reporting that he had done ?Changes? in Europe recently ?and yeah, it was great..its a really good song! (laughs). ?
For The Priory, David appeared in a short section called ?Sorry, I can?t be with you?. Recorded in Austia, therewere six videotaped questions for him to answer.
Here are the questions.
Q : (Constance) What?s a normal day in your life?
A: (j/k ) I surround myself with cameras, and shootshows like this one, andthen in the afternoon I do a gig.
Q : (Bonnie) Name your favourite song?
A : Shipbuilding by Robert Wyatt (written by ElvisCostello) (1983). Theyshowed a clip of it, erm..was he serious?
Q : (Phil) Where do you get your ideas for hairdo?sand funky clothes?
A : For the last 30 years I have consulted a guycalled Norman Berkley inWillesden. Once a year, I ask him about what?s at thecutting edge, and hesends me a selection of magazines.
Q : (Adrian) Do you have pets, and what are theirnames?
A : I had a cat called Sally and a dog called Wendy,but they both got runover!
Q : Your mid 80?s output wasnt really bad, just badlyproduced?
A : You are right
Q : If you were on Stars In Their Eyes, who would yoube?
A : David Beckham
Thanks to Spaceface for the recap
I Kiss You
''Let me please introduce you to one of the funniest sites yet. Mahir is a hero of Webnetness as far as I'm concerned.
His home page was stumbled upon by accident and quickly circulated around the world. Within a couple of days Mahir had over a million hits and his phone was ringing off the hook from foreign ladies wanting to come and visit him in Turkey. It picked up like crazy, a sleuth of homage sites to him have appeared, the one, the only, 'MAHIR'. It's just TOO funny to ignore!!! -David Bowie
GO TO THIS PAGE, THEN CLICK MAHIRS HOME PAGE (TOP) TO DISCOVER WHAT ALL THE FUN WAS ABOUT.
Cher?
It looks like VH1 will be replaying the old Cher Variety Show with David Bowie today at 3:00pm Singer David Bowie, actor-comic Steve Martin.
Survive Single
The Survive Single is to be released in the UK on January 10th 2000. It will come in 3 flavors.
Survive UK CD1
Survive (New Version)
Survive (Album Version)
Pretty Things (Stigmata Film Version)
Survive (Video)
Survive UK CD2 (Live In Paris Collectors Edition)
Survive (Live)
Thursday's Child (Live)
Something In The Air (Live)
Survive (Live Video)
There will be a third format for the UK which is TBA
Reeves Gabrels Releases Internet-only Album
Long-time Bowie collaborator Reeves Gabrels releases his new album online in an unprecedented move bypassing traditional record companies and CD production. The album, Ulysses (della notte), went online at www.ReevesGabrels.com on November 4th, and will not be available in stores.
"The Internet lets me make my music available to listeners within a week of completion. And these songs are coming out unaltered or remixed by a record label's A&R department. What you hear is what I wanted you to get. No compromises," said Reeves Gabrels.
When fans download Ulysses (della notte) they will receive a bonus player that is the equivalent of a virtual album cover with audio playback capability. The result is the integration of the music and album art online.
Even More Omikron
To add to the already impressive list of articles Nomad Soul has received from the press, here is another helping of pertinent previews, riveting reviews, and intriguing interviews.
What were the most challenging aspects and time periods of the development? "You mean apart from the fistfights in the Omikron Fight Club? [Laughs hugely?] Collaborating with David Bowie and Reeves Gabrels, Bowie?s guitarist, was a fear that became a pleasure, and the biggest problem David Cage had was just to sustain his team. It?s very demanding developing a game that has everything!"
What was the most satisfying aspect of the development, and the final game? "Collaborating with Bowie, collaborating with Bowie, the fact that there IS a final game, and Collaborating with Bowie."
go to the Adrenaline Vault "Both music and sound are used to great effect during the game, the music more so. The David Bowie and Reeves Gabrels soundtrack and ambiance music is very well suited to the game. Most of the David Bowie tracks are only played when you visit one of the bars his band is playing in (You pick up flyers that tell you where the next gig is)."
go to Active Net "...There is the glass spider himself: Bowie. Originally, he was asked to license some of his previous work for the game. But after he looked into the game and its ingenious premise, he decide to provide several original tracks for the game, one of which will be an upcoming single. And as if that weren't enough, the man himself appears in the game as the mysterious BOZ."
go to Daily Radar "Enter the Omikron, a dome-covered city set in a universe parallel to our own. Playing as Boz, "The Virtual Being," your task is to save the souls living under the Dome from Astaroth, the god of blackest evil. Legendary rock icon, David Bowie lent his superb voice talents and visual likeness to the main character, as well as contributing music to the soundtrack. Omikron combines a deep plot with action, adventure and investigation, creating a dark world of surreal insanity."
go to Gamefan "Welcome virtual traveller, enjoy your stay..."
An Omikron fan site. Here you can find plenty of downloads, and screenshots, and a history of the game, the city of Omikron, and the characters.
go to Omikron Travel Guide "David Bowie has been in the bloodstream of nearly every musical movement, from folk to the glittery birth of glam rock, and now into electronica and beat-driven balladry. With his role in the upcoming Omikron, he's found a way to marry his many interests, doing the voice and music for the virtual rock star Boz. He recently talked to us about his role in the Internet community, and the present state of future music."
go to IGN PC "I think its' a sort of huge database about a world called 'Omikron'. There are huge texts, shots, sounds, gigs of data scattered on this server."
go to IX-Database The Nomad Soul "Tu provieni da una dimensione parallela. Al momento stai controllando questo corpo tramite l'interfaccia di un videogioco per computer. Il tuo involucro fisico è ancora nella tua dimensione, ma la tua anima è qui, a Omikron..."
As you can tell, this is an Italian game site and magazine.
"Mr. David Bowie's latest genre crossover is 'Omikron: The Nomad Soul,' a new computer game that draws the player into a world of changing faces, shifting identities and demonic possession. The goal is to save a fictitious city from destruction, with lots of new music by Bowie as your soundtrack."
go to the San Francisco Gate -- E-guide
Bowie Shows And Appearences
Several exciting additions have been made to the Shows and Appearances section, including 3 new European gigs in December.
Keep your eyes on BowieNet for additional chances to win tickets for these Bowie Gigs.
Bowie Interviews Bowie
Deja who? This one is really great! Here is exclusive David Bowie Interview: David Bowie at the age of 53 interviews David Bowie at the age of 23. Huh? Well you will just have to read it for yourself.
Here is an excerpt:
db1. (53 years old) You look tired, what have you been up to?
db2. (23 years old) Thanks, you don't look so rested yourself. I've been recording a song called Space Oddity. It's a sort of a sequel to '2001', a fantastic movie I just saw with my girlfriend Hermione, and the other half of my duo, a guy from Yorkshire called Hutch. This Kubrick guy is fantastic. So modern, really objective and with this amazing cold eye. Fantastic.
db1. You've got to learn some more adjectives. I'm sorry to tell you that Kubrick just passed on, quite unexpectedly. Hey, go and see 'Clockwork Orange' when it comes out. It'll change your life.
db2. Yea, well, I doubt it. Andrew Loog Oldham, the Stones manager has already lifted bits of the book for a Stones album liner-notes. I think they were supposed to do the film.
db1. Ah, but you haven't seen the false eyelashes yet.
db2. Eh?
db1. Never mind. Have you met Jagger yet? I can't remember.
Here is a preliminary listing of where you can find the article in print.
Australia
National weekend broadsheet newspaper
Belgium
De Morgen the Flemish daily newspaper
Denmark
POLITIKEN - Front cover - Sunday edition and front cover on cultural section
France
Music Up. Monthly music magazine.
Germany
SZ Magazin:  streetdate: Fridays ÂÂ
Holland
Telegraaf newspaper
Italy
MAX
New Zealand
Metro
Norway
Dagbladet (daily newspaper)
OR VG (daily newspaper)
OR Aftenposten (daily newspaper)
plus Elle (women?s fashion magazine)
OR Henne (women?s fashion magazine)
OR Mann (men?s lifestyle magazine)
Portugal
Expresso Magazine
Spain
Rolling Stone Sweden and Musiker Magasinet ÂÂ
United Kingdom
GQ Magazine ÂÂ
Czech Republic
ROCK & POP.ÂÂ
Russia
Ya Molodoy
Shift.com Interview
"For three decades now, we?ve watched and listened. And for three decades, David Bowie?s career trajectories, his often-cited re-inventions--from the glittering gender-bending glam persona of Ziggy Stardust to the crooning Thin White Duke and the harmless New Romantic--have walked the fine line between seeming entirely erratic and seamlessly organic, depending on which critic you ask. Bowie?s most recent shift was onto the net."
go to the full interview
Vh1 David Bowie Day Tv
BOWIE TV TODAY
Here are the listings for today!:
08:30 David Bowie Video Timeline
13:00 Greatest Hits: David Bowie
13:30 VH1 to 1: David Bowie
16:00 Story Tellers - David Bowie
18:00 Greatest Hits: David Bowie
18:30 VH1 to 1: David Bowie
19:00 David Bowie at the Beatclub
22:00 Story Tellers
23:00 FILM: Ziggy Stardust
01:00 VH1 to 1: David Bowie
01:30 Greatest Hits: David Bowie
Special Announcement: Kit Kat Club Ticket Giveaway
This Thursday night, BowieNet will be giving away dozens (and then some) of additional tickets for the Kit Kat Club show.
Join us in the chat room for an exciting round of Bowie Jeopardy this Thursday at 8:00 p.m. EST. Keep your eyes on BowieNet for additional details!
'thursday's Child' Video Nominated For Mtv Euro Award
'Thursday's Child', the first single off 'hours...' has been nominated for an award at the 1999 MTV Europe Music Awards. You can GO VOTE for the main categories at the MTV web site, or by calling one of these telephone numbers:
09009 141414 (UK) or 1550 144444 (Eire)
The ceremony will be beamed live from The Point in Dublin to more than 300,000 homes worldwide.
Show time is:
November 11 from 2000-2200 GMT
GO VOTE!! for your favorite artists at the MTV Europe Awards website
go to the MTV Europe website
Bowie On Bbc 2 Radio
If you live in the UK, don't forget that today on BBC Radio Two, between 16:00 and 18:30,Bowie will appear on Radio Two's Saturday Music Mix show, hosted by Billy Bragg.
go to the BBC Radio 2 website
Kit Kat Club Contest
Here are the trivia questions used in last night's contest. Congratulations to the winners, who answered these questions in no time at all!
| Q: Who produced David's first single with the King Bees, 'Liza Jane'? |
| A: Leslie Conn |
| Q: How old was David at the time of this release? |
| A: 17 |
| Q: In "The Man Who Fell To Earth", Newton makes an album. What is thetitle of this album? |
| A: "The Visitor". |
| Q: Who was the author of the mini-series 'The Buddha of Suburbia" towhich David did the soundtrack album? |
| A: Hanif Kureishi. |
Congratulations to our lucky winners!
Wb Legend Award Press Release
Here is a snippet of the WB Radio Legend Award Press release.
"David Bowie, one of the most influential and ground-breakingmusicians of our time, is set to receive the Legend Award, to be presented at The WB Radio Music Awards..."
Db Discography Updated
The Illustrated dbDiscography (v10.3.1) has been updated. The interface was changedslightly, and every bit of information about 'hours...' (foreignreleases, singles, promo's) was added, as well as the gigs db recently performed to promote his new album. All in all enough reason to have a look!
go to the Illustrated dbDiscography
Entertainment Weekly's Greatest 100
- The #510 Winter edition of Entertainment Weekly lists the 100 Greatest Entertainers from 1950 -2000. Coming in at #54, you've guessed it, David Bowie!
Here's what they had to say:
David Bowie is the supreme incarnation of the addage, "He was X before X was cool." He was gender-bending before gender-bending was cool. He was heavily into space aliens before space aliens were cool.
And who topped the list?
1. The Beatles
2. Elvis Presley
3. Marilyn Monroe
go to the full story
Kit Kat Contest Special
Don't forget that TONIGHT at 5:00pm EST, BowieNet members will have the chance to win passes to the Kit Kat Club show on November 19th.
We will ask 4 trivia questions to our live chat audience. The first to answer a question correctly wins a ticket. It's as simple as that! The 4 winners will receive a special souvenir laminate for the Kit Kat Club show!
Please log into the #BowieNetChat room for this special contest. See you there!