Hey BowieNet, here's another KelMarSuperVixen special for you.
Entitled A David Bowie Fan's Guide to Self Defense.
Enjoy!
Bowie To Play Yahoo Awards
- As we told you yesterday, Bowie was named ONLINE PIONEER OF THEYEAR by Yahoo Internet Life and will be performing live atthe Awards Show in New York City!!
Here is a poster-style advertisement.
Last Part Of 'golden Years: The David Bowie Story'
PART 3 : GOLDEN YEARS - THE DAVID BOWIE STORY.REMINDER!
SATURDAY 25TH MARCH!
RADIO 2 (FM 88 - 90.2 MHz)
7.00 - 8.00pm GMT
( EST 2.00pm )
Just an extra reminder to tune into the final part of 'GOLDEN YEARS: THE DAVID BOWIE STORY' this Saturday. This excellent series has been received well here in the UK, not least by 'The Listener' section of The Independent On Sunday magazine, The Sunday Review. No doubt inspired by Spaceface's in-depth coverage of the show, The Independent last Sunday printed a generous two-page spread with highlights from the first part of The David Bowie Story.
Meanwhile, Spaceface herself created a deliberate mistake in her last piece just to see who actually reads this BowieNews section. Needless to say you were all far too polite to point out that for her picture captioned: 'Young Americans' sessions with Luther Vandross 1974, she neither used a picture from the Young Americans sessions or one with Luther Vandross! Everyone knows, including Spaceface, (and especially Bowie Nut Stephen King whose favourite Bowie album was the Goblin King's masterpiece) that the picture used was in fact taken eleven years later at the recording of Underground for the Labyrinth soundtrack, and while Luther was present along with Chaka Khan and Cissy Houston he isn't actually in the shot used.
A less deliberate mistake (one would imagine) from last week's episode, was Carlos Alomar's claim that 'Footstompin' was a Lou Reed song, when even Rednik could tell you that it was actually released by The Flares! The programme is also web-cast here so Turn on, Tune-in, and Drop-in, if you're this way again. };-)
Total Blam Blam - (European Correspondent)
Holly Tonight! (and More)
All you folks in the New York Metropolitan area, check out Holly Palmer's gig tonight at the Dark Star Lounge!
Where:
Dark Star Lounge
New York City 158 West 72nd St.
betw Broadway and Columbus
New York City 158 West 72nd St.
betw Broadway and Columbus
When:
Tonight at 8:30pm
Here are some more Holly gigs, some of which include the fabulous Emm (all these dates are in New York City):
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Enjoy the shows, everyone!!
Yahoo! Online Music Awards
"The third annual Yahoo! Internet Life Online Music Awards will be held this year at Studio 54 in New York City on Monday, July 24th. The event will honor those visionaries, including individuals, websites and companies whose substantial contribution to the developing world of online music has been, and continues to be profound.
A nationwide appeal for Call for Entries opens March 22 thru April 21. Applicants are invited to register by logging on to the website:
For more info, go to the Press Release section of BowieNet.
Tomorrow
The issue of German internet magazine "Tomorrow" from March 2000 is running a short article concerning David Bowie and www.bowiebanc.com.
Tomorrow Magazine is online under the link:
http://www.tomorrow.de/index.html
Besides that they will broadcast directly on the 25th of March a live-concert by Sakamoto from the Theater of Living Arts in Philadelphia:
http://www.tomorrow.de/sakamoto
All can be found under that link as I know a lot of people on BowieNet are Sakamoto fans too :-)!
thanks bianca!
Fanmeeting
On Sunday March 26 it's time to meet with other Bowie fans again!
The International David Bowie Fanclub will organise it's annual fanmeeting again.
Here are the details:
Date : March 26 2000
Time : 13.00 till 18.00 hours
Place : Cultureel Centrum Azotod (same place as last year!)
Meerendijk 126, De Meern (near Utrecht)
Tel. 030-6663403
Costs : Members Fl. 7,50 (1 guest for the same price)
Non-members Fl. 12,50
How to get there:
By car : take the A12, exit De Meern
By bus : from Utrecht Central Station, take bus 127, 128 or 180.
thanks to Ludo Wopereis
03/24/00 NEWS: 4TH ITALIAN BOWIEBASH
- Here is an account of the rockin' Italian BowieBash!
"This ain't rock'n'roll?This is GENOCIDE!", screamed Bluvertigo's frontman Morgan right after stepping onstage at 11.30 pm. This is how the 4th Bowie Bash began at the Rock Caf¶ in Mussolente, near Bassano del Grappa (Vicenza). The band paid tribute to David Bowie with the second gig of their european "Electric Live" tour, which consisted in an hour and a half-long setlist featuring material from their three studio records, plus a special encore featuring the group's own rendition of the Thin White Duke's "Fame". The cover - as well as the entire set - was performed with high energy and electricity, and the whole show shifted Bluvertigo's sophisticated studio style towards a more raw and funky direction which deeply satisfied the nearly 2.000 members in the audience.
After the gig, the party continued in the other half of the Rock Caf¶. The main disco floor was filled with sounds from the seventies, particularly from the glam era, heavily featuring DB songs as well as material by fellow rockers Lou Reed, Iggy Pop and many others. The party was also embellished with a great screen showing many Bowie videos plus a variety of related movies - from an Andy Warhol's Factory documentary to Stanley Kubrick's "A Clockwork Orange" (which deeply influenced the creation of Ziggy and the Spiders' characters).
A nearby smaller room was transformed in a little museum of Bowie memorabilia, including many beautiful pictures from different concerts during the Outside and Earthling tours, original Bowie paintings and a collection of rare vinyl records.This musical marathon ended at 4 am with the powerful Bowie/Placebo rendition of T. Rex's classic "20th Century Boy". See ya all next year?
big thanks to FRANCESCO CIPRESSO!
4th Italian Bowiebash
Here is an account of the rockin' Italian BowieBash!
"This ain't rock'n'roll?This is GENOCIDE!", screamed Bluvertigo's frontman Morgan right after stepping onstage at 11.30 pm. This is how the 4th Bowie Bash began at the Rock Caf¶ in Mussolente, near Bassano del Grappa (Vicenza). The band paid tribute to David Bowie with the second gig of their european "Electric Live" tour, which consisted in an hour and a half-long setlist featuring material from their three studio records, plus a special encore featuring the group's own rendition of the Thin White Duke's "Fame". The cover - as well as the entire set - was performed with high energy and electricity, and the whole show shifted Bluvertigo's sophisticated studio style towards a more raw and funky direction which deeply satisfied the nearly 2.000 members in the audience.
After the gig, the party continued in the other half of the Rock Caf¶. The main disco floor was filled with sounds from the seventies, particularly from the glam era, heavily featuring DB songs as well as material by fellow rockers Lou Reed, Iggy Pop and many others. The party was also embellished with a great screen showing many Bowie videos plus a variety of related movies - from an Andy Warhol's Factory documentary to Stanley Kubrick's "A Clockwork Orange" (which deeply influenced the creation of Ziggy and the Spiders' characters).
A nearby smaller room was transformed in a little museum of Bowie memorabilia, including many beautiful pictures from different concerts during the Outside and Earthling tours, original Bowie paintings and a collection of rare vinyl records.This musical marathon ended at 4 am with the powerful Bowie/Placebo rendition of T. Rex's classic "20th Century Boy". See ya all next year?
big thanks to FRANCESCO CIPRESSO!
The Bowie Bunch
Here's the story,
of a man named Bowie...
Marsha, Marsha, Marsha! No, not THAT bunch, David Bowie and the company behind the scenes at BowieNet, UltraStar, team up with Hanson to give UltraStar a huge collection of fans, spanning at least three generations. Hanson's cutting-edge website, www.Hanson.net launches next week, with a fully interactive site, and Internet Service Provider (ISP), much like the one you are surfing right now!
The picture above is from a USA Today article about the match-up, and the Hanson Brothers' new site. View the complete story by clicking here.
PLUS! A BowieNet Exclusive, check out the picture in full color!
No Man News
Tim Bowness, the Vocals and Words half of the dynamic duo called, 'no man' was approached to contribute to a David Bowie tribute album in late 1999, and opted to perform his contribution - a cover of Tin Machine's "I Can't Read" - with Samuel Smiles.
Go to the 'no man' website
Portraits Of An Era 1960s-1990s
You are invited to visit "Portraits Of An Era: 1960s-90s" an online exhibition featuring by Fred W. McDarrah's celebrated photographic portraits of the last forty years. There are some beautiful photographs exhibited including a wonderful shot of DAVID BOWIE backstage at the Grammy Awards on 1st March 1975.
Besides David, there are some wonderful shots of Martin Luther King, Jack Kerouac, Muhammad Ali, Bob Dylan, Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, Edward Hopper, Willem de Kooning, Robert F. Kennedy, Malcolm X, Andy Warhol, Edie Sedgwick, Elvis Presley, Robert Mapplethorpe and others.
To visit the website, please click here.
This exhibition is also on display at their New York gallery March 9th - April 23rd, 2000.
Great Modern Pictures
17 West 24 Street
New York, NY 10010
Telephone: 212-242-2581.
NYC Business Hours: Tuesday-Saturday 10-6, Sunday 12-5.
Click here for a larger resolution image of DB from the exhibit, with some comments by the photographer.
Also at the website, 'David Bowie: Classic Photographs' a series of signed photos by Mick Rock, available for purchase, along with Mick's book 'MICK ROCK: A PHOTOGRAPHIC RECORD 1969-1980', and another series of Mick Rock photos 'MICK ROCK PHOTOGRAPHS: THE 1970's GLAM ROCK. Check it out...
David Bowie Named Online Pioneer Of The Year
NEW YORK: The third annual Yahoo! Internet Life Online Music Awards will be held this year at Studio 54 in New York City on Monday, July 24th. The event will honor those visionaries, including individuals, websites and companies whose substantial contribution to the developing world of online music has been, and continues to be profound.
The Yahoo! Internet Life Online Music Awards will pay tribute to well-established artists, up-and-coming bands and the pioneers of online music. Following on the heels of the tremendously successful production last year, this year's event continues to grow in scale with more awards and headline performers. David Bowie has been chosen as this year's Online Pioneer and will be performing live at the awards in New York City. The Online Pioneer award is an honor given each year to that individual who has been at the forefront of the music world's internet revolution. Bowie fans can find out more by enlisting with Bowienet and www.davidbowie.com.
Yahoo! Internet Life hosted last year's awards at Studio 54 and offered an array of live performers such as The Artist Formerly Known as Prince, Seal, Public Enemy and Wyclef Jean.
A nationwide appeal for Call for Entries opens March 22 thru April 21. Applicants are invited to register by logging on to the website: www.yilmusicawards.com.
This year's categories include:
· Best Overall Music Site
· Best News Site
· Best Internet-Only Album
· Best Internet-Only Single
· Best Reference Site
· Best Artist Site
· Best Fan Site
· Best Label Site
· Best Unsigned Band Online
· Best Live Music Event
Winners will be voted on by a select academy of influential leaders in the music, online and entertainment industries. The event will be cybercast live on the internet.
Fashion Of The Times
For those who did not get a chance to see the New York Times Magazine cover, 'Fashion of the Times', here is the complete story! Image Plates 1, 2, and 3 have images that go along with the 'interview', Plate 4 is a bonus 'Footnotes' section.
Images:
Plate 1 (images 1 thru 6)
Plate 2 (images 7 thru 10)
Plate 3 (images 11 thru 14)
Plate 4 (footnotes and images 1 thru 8)
Living Room Tour News
Emm Gryner has some news:
My 'Living Room Tour' is heading to Cork, Ireland and I'll be playing there on April 7th. For more info, folks can head to www.emmgryner.com.
Also, please don't forget Holly and Emm at Fez March 31 (Holly sings songs from the Until The End of The World soundtrack) and April 1st, Holly opens for Emm.
Of course, don't forget about Emm's Space on BowieNet!
thanks emm!
Music365 2000 For 2000
Music 365 has a running feature called '2000 For 2000'. Here are a few words about it from the website:
"Welcome, music lover, to the full and unexpurgated '2000 For 2000', Music365's indispensable guide to what our panel of experts believe to be the most influential, remarkable and popular albums from the century of recorded music. We're delighted to be able to tell you that they're all on line, right here, right now."
Although the actual contest is over, you can still find write-ups about each of the 2000 albums, and you can still rate the albums on a scale of 1 to 5.
Check it out at Music 365
Strangers When We Met...
Hallo Musicians!!I think I have now received all the CDs by snail mail that I was expecting. We will be converting the last few songs and organizing all the credits and artwork. I hope to have that done this weekend although I cannot guarantee. Bottom line is we will be getting all the files to BowieNet very soon (next few days I imagine).So this is your LAST CHANCE to get me any artwork or credits you want to send along with your song.This project has been a lot of fun for us. We have really enjoyed hearing all of the fan interpretations of Bowie's songs. I cannot help but believe Mr. Bowie himself will be thrilled!! Thanks again to all you talented people for putting in all this hard work and making this project so successful. We had 96 bands signed up and have gotten 52 entries to date, for a participation rate of 54%! That's much better than I had expected.You will be able to hear many of the submitted tracks at the Sneak Peek page at least until we submit everything to BowieNet. Needless to say, we can't continue to stream 40-some songs 24 hours a day indefinitely. (Bandwidth, you know!)Keep an eye out for our next project (after we rest :-): original songs by Bowie fans.Ramsey & Keith'Strangers When We Met...'Official David BowieCover Song Projectdbproject@dca.nethttp://ramsey.dca.net/deebee_cover_project.htm
Storytellers Release
David Bowie, Elvis Costello, and Jewel are among the artists that appear on VH1 Storytellers, an album that compiles standout performances from the music station's popular live music and anecdote series. The disc will be out April 25 on Interscope Records, with proceeds going to the City Of Hope children's charity. VH1 will also broadcast a video version of the album on May 3.
The tentative track list for VH-1 Storytellers is as follows:
1. David Bowie, "China Girl"
2. Stevie Nicks, "Edge of Seventeen"
3. The Pretenders, "Chain Gang"
4. Counting Crows, "Rain King"
5. Dave Matthews, "Crash"
6. Jewel, "Who Will Save Your Soul"
7. Lisa Loeb, "Stay"
8. John Popper, "Regarding Steven"
9. James Taylor, "Mexico"
10. Sheryl Crow & Stevie Nicks, "Strong Enough"
11. Eurythmics, "Sweet Dreams"
12. Natalie Merchant, "Carnival"
13. Elvis Costello, "Just a Memory"
14. Bee Gees, "How Deep Is Your Love"
Go to VH1.com
Radio 2: Golden Years
PART 3 : GOLDEN YEARS - THE DAVID BOWIE STORY.REMINDER!
SATURDAY 25TH MARCH!
RADIO 2 (FM 88 - 90.2 MHz)
7.00 - 8.00pm GMT
( EST 2.00pm )
Mark Goodier concludes the three-part documentary exploring the career of David Bowie. In this programme, Bowie discusses his life and career from 'Scary Monsters' up to his latest album, 'Hours...'. With contributions from Boy George, Hanif Kureishi, Rick Wakeman, Roger Taylor and Bob Geldof.
The programme is also web-cast here (this is the live stream, so check in during showtime, 7pm to 8pm GMT, Saturday night).
Part 2 of this revelatory, and in parts surreally funny, career retrospective, proved among other things that db missed a second career as a stand-up comedian! Move over Eddie Izzard and Billy Connolly! Make room for Crazy Daisy Jones! If there was a listener who didnÃÂt honk with sudden, unexpected laughter when David was describing working with Nic Roeg, please write to Dr B.B. Total for your Prozac prescription !
The more serious parts of the programme showed a David Bowie who has searched for the meaning of the more difficult times of his life, accepted these difficulties, and moved to a place where he can reflect on them, sometimes with pain, but also with affection and humour.
Although some of the stories told here have been aired previously, what is rather special about this series of shows is they reveal how David feels about his past, right now, in the year 2000. Once again there was supreme homage paid to DavidÃÂs talents, by some very well respected friends and collaborators.
"If you were in music, you HAD to be aware of what Bowie was doing, and you HAD to like it, because you would just go ïGod, where did THAT come out of? That is AMAZING!" - Bob Geldof
"And for me it doesnÃÂt matter if an artist is jazz, classical, pop, rock or folk, if they have that special magic, which, at the level he has it, thereÃÂs maybe only five or ten in any given generation, and heÃÂs one of them, thereÃÂs no question about it." - Mike Garson
"For some reason, I donÃÂt write successfully in peaceful environments. I BECOME my environment tremendously, and if IÃÂm in the Caribbean, I just become that silly. floppy, sunburnt lying about person with a lemon juice and a book, you know, and no more interesting than that." - David Bowie
For more about Part 2 of 'The Golden Years', click here for more stories, and click here for images. Click here for a Part 1 recap.
Enjoy!
thanks again spaceface!
Hey Big Spender
David Bowie squanders £20 million in one week!!The Sunday Times 'Rich List 2000' was published yesterday. Eagerly awaited each year by gold-diggers and jealous swine alike, the list's impact was lessened somewhat by the appearance last Sunday of The Mail On Sunday's own rich list, Britain's 300 Top Millionaires. The report in the Mail listed Bowie in equal 233rd position, with a personal fortune estimated at £120 million.However, one week later, yesterday's Sunday Times' own rich list placed the man who used to nick clothes from dustbins round the back of London's Carnarby Street, in equal 292nd place with a mere fortune of £100 million! Proving that while these listings are a little bit of fun, they are perhaps not wholly accurate. I know this is the case in fact, as when I asked the man who has scrounged fags from me in the past for a raise last week, he politely informed me that he had had to borrow a tenner from his missus just so he could go to the cinema that evening! Just proves that you can't believe everything you read.Total Blam Blam - (European Correspondent)
Stork Report
This picture of Iman ran today in the Daily News in the 'Rush & Molloy' column. Here is part of the short segment that goes along with the picture.
"The new issue of Vogue features a gorgeous nude portrait of expectant supermodel Iman. The Somalian stunner also speaks about how she and hubby David Bowie are handling the prospect of their first baby, due in August. She confides that, after first hearing the news, Bowie was floating around with such a blissed-out smile, and she recounts telling him, 'People are going to think you are back on drugs!' Iman says se doesn't want to know the gender of their little one, but Bowie does: 'He says he's too old to wait any longer.'"