More Garson

Mike was recently interviewed by "MediaFlash" Magazine. Check out the article here.

'Free Flight', the jazz-fusion group in which Mike performs, is on tour! There are several concerts scheduled, including:

• March 18, Ft. Wayne, IN - Northrup Jazz Festival
• March 23-25, Indianapolis, IN - Bands of America Conference (Performance on 24th)
• April 1, Richmond, KY - EKU Jazz Festival
• April 8, Devine, TX - Devine Artists Series (Jim and Mike Garson Duo)
• May 5, Youngstown, OH - Flute Festival

info from mikegarson.com news

Bowie-carnaval

Carnaval is here!! So, what a better way to party Carnaval-style than a BowieBash! Here is the statement from organizer Andherson Miliatti:

"The Brazilian Fan Club Outside are planning their second annual meeting for March 2000. It will take place in Sao Joao da Boa Vista between the 4th and the 7th of March. Plans include a city tour, parties and a studio session where the fans will get together as a tribute band and play Bowie tunes till dawn."

A great time will be had by all!

For those thinking of going, Sao Joao da Boa Vista is about a 4 hour drive from Sao Paolo and a 10 hour drive from Rio de Janeiro. For more information, e-mail Andherson Miliatti [bowie@dglnet.com.br]

In the spirit of Carnaval, BowieNet is also pleased to introduce this week's Sites of the Week!

a special thanks to Andherson Miliatti

Represent N.y.c.

The N.Y. Music and Internet Expo starts today, March 3rd, and ends this sunday, March 5th.

Bob Goodale, President of UltraStar, will represent UltraStar and BowieNet at the N.Y. Music and Internet Expo come the first week of March. The Expo is a cutting-edge industry conference with panel discussions and speeches by the leaders of various music-related websites and programs, and even more importantly, some well-known artists who are active in the 'digital music revolution'. Other speakers include Chuck D. of Public Enemy, Ice-T, Robert Fripp, and Thomas Dolby Robertson, the writer of the classic 80s tune 'She Blinded Me With Science', and also the Head of Beatnik (the company that made the 'Interactive Fame Remix' on BowieNet).

Go to the N.Y. Music and Internet Expo website for more info

Brits Tonight!

As you all know, the Brit Awards '00 have David Bowie nominated for 'Best British Male'. Now, the only thing left to do is wait, and hope that DB wins the coveted prize. Good luck David!

Go to the Brit Awards site.

I Knew That It Would Happen Someday

According to a report on 'Billboard's Daily Music News' site, popular singing sensation Steven Patrick Morrissey, 40, (currently crowd-pleasing across the United States) closed his show at the Beacon Theatre (in New York City) last night, with the 1973 David Bowie classic, 'Drive-In Saturday'. The report states that: "...despite Morrissey's request for the audience to count how many mistakes the band would make while playing it..." the world's most famous vegetarian performed a version of the song that was: "...surprisingly well done..." More here.

Total Blam Blam - (European Correspondent)

Doors Open For Labyrinth Dvd

The Sunday Times 'Doors' (your entrance to the future)section has a review of 'LABYRINTH' on DVD this week.

"Jim Henson's film LABYRINTH is remembered as much forDAVID BOWIE's unfeasibly tight trousers as for itsamazing special effects (it was produced by GeorgeLucas of Star Wars fame).

First released in 1986, it has stood the test of time. The magical world created by Henson and inhabited byhis monsters still makes an appealingfairy tale 14 years on. The film follows a younggirl, Sarah, (Jennifer Connelly), hunting for her babybrother who has been kidnapped by the evil Goblin King(BOWIE).

BOWIE's soundtrack is superb, and the lifelikemonsters give the DVD an added dimension, making thefantasy world believable.

BOWIE fans will enjoy the 'making of' documentary,trailers and interviews."

thanks to spaceface

Jean Genie Gigs Uk

More UK gigs have been added to the current tour:

4th March at 'The Roadhouse' in Covent Garden.For more info, call 0207 240 6001. Or goto http://www.roadhouse.co.uk

17th March at 'The Venue' in New Cross SE14. For More Info, call 0181 692 4077.

1st April at 'The Arena' in Worcester.

14th April at 'The Robin Hood 2' in Bilston, West Midlands. For More Info call 01902 497860,or go to http://www.therobin.co.uk

This long established and much sought after band arecurrently offering a ëgreatest hits? set with severalcostume changes, which enraptured the audience at TheDome : Whitley Bay last Saturday. Lead singer, JohnMainwaring has the looks and voice to carryoff an evening like this without the usual 'wince'factor. For a fun night out, go and sing and dancealong!

If you would like to see JEAN GENIE in your area, telltheir agent at:

http://www.jfp.co.uk.

thanks spaceface!

Holly Tour

The great Holly Palmer is hittin' the road! Actually, she is hitting the Street... 72nd Street! To kick off a month packed with gigs, Holly is playing a gig tonight at the Dark Star Lounge.

Where:

Dark Star Lounge
New York City 158 West 72nd St.
betw Broadway and Columbus

When:

Tonight at 8:30pm

Here's the rest of the concert schedule for March (and one for April... all these dates are in New York City):

March 10th The Lounge March 17th The Lounge March 24th The Lounge March 31 The Fez (with Emm Gryner) April 1 The Fez (with Emm Gryner)

Enjoy the shows, everyone!!

Now! Birthday!

YOU SAY IT'S
YOUR BIRTHDAY...

It was on this day, March 1, 1999, that Mike Garson's Now!Music Network was officially launched! In addition to twospecial pieces of art (one of which was created by BowieNetmember Starluck!), Mike has written a "special" poem tocelebrate this milestone. For additional information, check out Mike's News Page at:

http://mikegarson.com/news

Go to the Now! Music Network

Raw Rock

Raw Power
Photographs By
Mick Rock

1972 was the year. During this time, Iggy & the Stooges - at the height of their musical powers and legendary excesses - recorded the now-seminal album 'Raw Power' and performed their only UK gig at London's 'The Scala'.

It was a crazed period captured on camera by one man: Mick Rock.

"Iggy Pop is, you might say, extreme. He makes the Mick Jaggers and Alice Coopers of this world look kind of timid. Words such as 'spontaneous' and 'unpredictable', frequently applied to him, are a little short on power. Iggy is a monster." - Mick Rock, 1972

Now, to be released this Spring, a deluxe edition book of 200 black and white images, including 47 striking color shots, documenting Iggy and his remarkable band at their finest. Most of these images have never been published before. The book also contains an interview of Iggy by Mick himself, and an introduction by Mick as well.

The book will be published May 2nd, 2000 in the UK, and June 2nd, 2000 in the USA.

There will be a full-scale exhibition and launch party to be held at the original venue: The Scala, on May 2nd.

Go here for a sneak preview of a couple of Mick's shots

Bowieday Today

The MTVE 'David Bowie Day' is happening 1st March across the Nordic & European feeds, which cover the following territories:

NORDIC FEED: Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Faroe Islands

EUROPEAN FEED: Belgium, France, Israel, Netherlands, Portugal, Spain, Switzerland, Greece, Russia, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Egypt, Georgia, Hungary, Iceland, Luxembourg, Malta, Moldova, Monaco, Poland, Romania, Slovak Republic, Slovenia, Turkey

This is what will be shown over the course of the day:

1. David Bowie - 'VH-1 Storytellers' - 1999

2. David Bowie - 'Live from the 10 Spot' - US MTV Show

3. David Bowie - 'Rockumentary' - 1991 Documentary with Kurt Loder

4. David Bowie - 'hours... special' DB interview with MTV South re. hours album, originally put together by MTV South last year, they have re-voiced it.

5. David Bowie - 'All-Time Top 10 David Bowie Videos' - 2000 As voted for by visitors to the MTV website. A selection of 20 was put onto the MTV website with visitors to the site invited to vote for their favourites. The results will be shown in a special program.

6. Bitesize segments - interview clips running into videos, eg. using clips from interviews with DB recorded last year, using clips from other artists saying what a huge influence DB is on them etc.

7. Promo clips to be screened throughout the day.

Q Stage

British music mag Q have another article this month that features Bowie. 'Stage' is listed among their 'Best Drumming Albums of All Time', and this is what they said about drummer Dennis Davis during the recording of 'Station To Station' in 1975:

"...it was his first as keystone of the rhythm section (with Carlos Alomar and George Murray) that lasted for five studio albums and this one - the contentiously mixed document of 1978's Stage tour, recorded in Philadelphia. Davis really lets his hair down throughout, barrelling round his kit, testing every cymbal in the shop and embellishing favourites such as a snail's-pace Ziggy Stardust and Station To Station with some flamboyant but fluid showmanship."

Go to Q Online

Blam's Little Spot

As promised in David's journal last week, Blam's Little Spot became available for public viewing yesterday. The first item up for the Blammo treatment is the legendary The Man Who Sold The World dress cover.

Total Blam Blam would also like to take this opportunity to thank everyone for their offers of marriage this leap year, February 29th, but feels duty bound to point out that he is in fact already married. He would also like to point out that Rednik is a married man too, and while Blammo is flattered by Rednik's offer, he feels that Red, in his responsible position of webmaster, really should know better.

NB: For the confused among you, it is traditional in the UK for ladies to propose to men on the 29th of February.

Total Blam Blam - (European Correspondent)

Davidbowieday

Get yer VCRs greased and ready, because tomorrow, Wednesday, March 1st, there will be THE DAVID BOWIE DAY on MTV Europe! Lots of good stuff is lined up for your home entertainment, so don't miss it!

Go to MTV Europe

Brits Vote

As you all know, the Brit Awards '00 have David Bowie nominated for 'Best British Male'. Now is your chance to back that nomination by voting for Bowie on the Brit Awards Website. The race is on, and the competition is fierce, but Bowie will prevail with your help... As we speak, db is in 2nd place, but gaining fast. Lookout Tom Jones, this is David's year!

Go VOTE!!!

Pretty Things

"The Pretty Things are definitely NOT going to Hell" as they have a new web site:

http://www.snappermusic.com/theprettythings

There you can hear audio and send a Pretty Postcard featuring an audio oftheir anthem to dope, "All Light Up". As you may or may not know Bowiecovered two P.T. songs on his 'Pin-Ups' album in the early 70's.

Bowienet Vote

OnlineStar, a German site, has a contest for 'Best Internet Site'. The contest is decided by voters from around the world. Go to the link even if you cannot read German, in the left corner is a space for the last name, next to it is one for the first name and underneath it the e-mail address. In the big white space just write the message, that you would like to nominate B-net, and maybe some reasons why.

Then just click on "Abschicken", and that's it.

Go here to vote for BowieNet!

thanks to Simone for the tip

Andy Warhol Anniversary

Feb 28th 1987, 13 years since Andy Warhol ('looks ascream, hang him on my wall' (Hunky Dory : 1971))became the LATE great......

NME.com have a piece about him this week in their "Rock news from past NME's" section.

"Warhol, pop artist extraordinaire, delivered to theworld not only the Campbell's soup can as art but alsoThe Velvet Underground."

"From the 1960's onward, working out of his NewYork-based studio The Factory, Warhol often seemeddeliberately to be cultivating his own stardom."

"As Quentin Crisp said, 'All of us who make a styleout of being owe it all to Andy Warhol.'"

"In the future", Warhol said, "everyone will befamous for 15 minutes."

That sounds quite a lot like the internet to me. Canyou imagine his Home Page??....sigh

No-one I found does him justice, but you can try theselinks:-

The Andy Warhol Museum

www.artchive.com

We miss ya Andy!

thanks to Spaceface

Baby Board

RollingStone.com has set up a special message-board in which people can write their suggestions and thoughts for DB and Iman's baby-on-the-way. You must register with RollingStone.com in order to submit your entry.

Go to the Baby Board

Theeeeee Winnah Is....

The winner is.... BowieNet!

In the annual readers poll of German music magazine Musikexpress (Marchissue) readers voted www.davidbowie.com as the #1 website of the past year!

A landslide victory for our little wonderwolrd of a site: it got 8,6 % ofall the votes, almost twice as much as the runners up rollingstones.com andbeastieboys.com.

But that's not all. German music freaks obviously love our DB nor justinteractively but also very actively: They consider him #2 solo artist ofthe year! Beaten to the top only by Beck (at least that's good company) with10% of all the votes David again got almost twice as many as "#3 soloartistof the year", Tom Waits, who got 5,4 %. David also charted in the"personality of the year" category at #9 amongst politicians, authors andsportsmen and a few musicians like Paul McCartney and Bono. (Sadly themisogynist attitudes David mentioned in his diaries recently are alsoreflected here: only one woman, tennis ace Steffi Graf, made it to the TopTen of that category.)

Also a great performance for "hours...": #3 album of the year! And the clipfor "Thursday's Child" was voted 6th best video of the year.

And even more chart sucess for DB in that issue of Musikexpress: In themonthly album charts voted for by readers "hours.." jumped up 3 places, nowranking at #5. And guest critic Robert Smith puts "Ziggy Stardust and theSpiders from Mars" at #5 in the list of his ten favourite albums of alltime.

Here are the full rankings of the relevant categories of the readers poll:

WEBSITE OF THE YEAR:
www.davidbowie.com 8,6%
www.rollingstones.com 4,7%
www.beastieboys.com 4,3%
www.mp3.com 3,9%
www.cdnow.com 3,4 %

SOLO ARTIST OF THE YEAR:
1. Beck 17,9%
2. David Bowie 10.0%
3. Tom Waits 5,4%
4. Robbie Williams 5,2%
5. Moby 3,8%

ALBUM OF THE YEAR:
1. Blur "13" 6,6%
2. Red Hot Chili Peppers "Californication" 4,8%
3. David Bowie "hours.." 4,4%
4. Travis "The Man Who" 4,2%
5. Beck "Midnight Vultures" 4,1 %

VIDEO OF THE YEAR:
1. "Coffee & TV" (Blur) 7,6%
2. "Turn the Page" (Metallica) 5,8%
3. "Beautiful Stranger" (Madonna) 5,6%
4. "Freak on a Leash" (Korn) 5,1%
5. "Why does my Heart feel so bad" (Moby) 3,9%
6. "Thursday's Child" (David Bowie) 3,1%

Way to go!!!