We'll squawk like pink monkey birds!
Yes, tonight is mischief night, but the real fun starts at 10PM EST on Halloween when we chat with David! But the Yahoo chat is just a warmup for what follows next, when we follow David over to BowieNet chat which will be sure to include a surprise....
If you are unable to attend the chat but would like to submit a question in advance, you can mail your question(s) for David to: Saint Alphonzo
Tomorrow is the last day for the two competitions (that I have set) currently running on BowieNet. The deadline for entries is midnight of October 31st in your timezone. If you missed them first time around, go to the following news stories for the full details:
10/02/00 NEWS: MORE FANTASTIC PRIZES IN YET ANOTHER GROOVY COMPETITION...PHEW!! go here: http://www.davidbowie.com/members/news/bowienews/news/20001002.html
10/12/00 NEWS: UNCOMMONLY RARE BOWIE AT THE BEEB T-SHIRTS TO BE WONgo here: http://www.davidbowie.com/members/news/bowienews/news/20001012.html
Remember your entries must be sent from an @davidbowie.com or .co.uk address, unless you have a valid reason for not being able to send from your BowieNet account. There is obviously no deadline for supplying your ideas for the 'guess-the-lyric' competition. Don't worry if you don't have access to a photo-editing program, just tell us your idea, and if we like it, we'll knock it up for you. What could be easier? Go to the stories above for further entry and prize details.
Finally, if you think our competitions are hard, click on the image above, (if you haven't already) to see how hard Bowie-related quizzes set by comedian Harry Hill are. The quiz was lifted from the tour programme on sale in the foyer at Harry's current UK tour. If you can stand the torture of side-splitting laughter for a couple of hours, check him out...I did, and what are the chances of that happening?
Total Blam Blam - (European Correspondent)
Once, in the Diamond Dogs days, Warren Peace, as he was known then, danced and sang his way round the world with David. He did the infamous Russian trips and all the ships that sailed back and forth across the five (that's seven -ed.) seas. Now he continues his life as a successful dance-hit man with 'Fiji' a country neither David nor Geoff ever actually got to. Read all about it in Bowie's new journal entry.
In case you missed the link to it above, here is a link designed to really catch your attention with the familiar journal page image!
Something like that. Anyhow, check out the latest from David!
What a great month it's been for journal entries! Have you seen the latest?
Only three days left until our spooky chat with Halloween Jack! Be sure to show up in your "cybercostume" (i.e. pick an imaginitive chat nickname) as boninwie suggests on the message boards!
Reports from the VH-1 Vogue Fashion Awards are still cropping up in the UK. Following the first highlight from the show on Channel 4's Big Breakfast and the same sort of coverage later on the Celebrity! programme on ITV, pictures have now started to appear in print. Check out this week's HELLO! magazine (Issue dated November 3rd) for a quite splendid picture of David and Stella (different to the one posted above) also taken by the most talented Kevin Mazur.
Total Blam Blam (European Correspondent)
David is at it again with yet another journal entry!
As always, it's full of "proper drawings and big words..." LOL!
A strange young man called Dylan...
You may remember a journal entry of David's from Friday, October 6th 2000, where David mentioned going to see The Who at Madison Square Garden. The journal was accompanied by several pictures that David took at the show, including a close-up of Jakob Dylan's face. Jakob is lead singer with the support for that evening, The Wallflowers. You may also remember that the version of 'Heroes' that The Wallflowers performed moved David to describe their performance of the song as '...damned fine...'
Anyway, if you want to see the picture of David taking that very picture of Jakob, (which you should be getting tantalising, and probably quite irritating, glimpses of above) simply click on the sleeve of The Wallflowers' version of 'Heroes' above, and you will be magically transported there. Modern technology, eh?
Total Blam Blam (European Correspondent)
Just a reminder that we'll be chatting with David Bowie on Halloween night! The action starts on yahoo.com at 10PM EST and then moves right here to BowieNet at 11 where the real fun begins. Anything can happen...
Access the BowieNet portion of the chat from the Bowiechat homepage, as usual!
The Sunday Times magazine features an interview with 39 year old GQ editor, Dylan Jones this week. He talks about how his image has changed over the years, and discusses his teenage obsession with David.
"I remember trying to get involved with fashion at the time of glam rock, when I was just coming into my teens. I was obsessed with David Bowie and I desperately wanted a Bowie haircut but I couldn't have one; I haven't got full-bodied hair, so the hairdresser compromised and I ended up looking like Dave Hill of Slade for about six weeks. And I remember experimenting with fluorescent socks and platform boots. If the fashion police had been around in those days, I'm sure I would have been in solitary confinement."
Thanks, Spaceface!
David Bowie sports Oxford Bags for Hunky Dory photo shoot. Picture by Brian Ward.
Who made these trousers?
As mentioned in a previous BowieNet report, next Thursday (Nov 2) sees the release of GQ Cool by Joe Levin, including a foreword by David Bowie and an afterword by Paul Smith. This most stylish book collects together many of the key sessions that Jo Levin, as fashion director at GQ, has been responsible for over the last decade. With actors, musicians, artists and sportsmen, from Keith Richards, Brett Anderson, Placebo, Boy George, Bryan Ferry, Iggy Pop, Goldie and Beck to Hugh Grant, Harrison Ford, Samuel L Jackson, John Travolta, Ewan McGregor, Tim Roth, Malcolm McDowell, David Beckham and many more. Oh, and nine pictures of David Bowie in Paul Smith clobber! In fact there are more pages on David Bowie than any other subject in the book.
Elsewhere in the book, Joe gives a fascinating behind-the-scenes glimpse of the supposedly glamorous world of fashion photography, including the time she accidentally packed pink and blue crochet dresses instead of Paul Smith suits for a David Bowie shoot! Click on the cover above to read the original living skeleton's foreword to GQ Cool, and to find out who was responsible for tailoring those trousers above thirty years ago! };-)
GQ Cool is published by Pavilion Books on 2nd November 2000 priced £16:99. Check out GQ magazine here: www.gq.com
Total Blam Blam (European Correspondent)
A wonderful new CD by Bowie old friend and a fave artist, Annette Peacock has just been released. It's called 'an acrobat's heart' and represents her writing over this last while. Very beautiful and edgy. It's on ECM Records folks, buy one today. You won't regret. In all likelihood Annette will be making an appearance, presumably on synth and vocals, on the Visconti produced Bowie album penciled in for next year.
Opening strange doors that we'll never close again....
We are thrilled to announce a chat with the ultimate scary monster, David Bowie himself (or should I say Halloween Jack)! The chat will be twofold, beginning on yahoo.com at 10PM EST and then trick-or-treating on over to BowieNet where David will chat some more with BowieNutters from 11-12PM.
Access the BowieNet portion of the chat from the Bowiechat homepage, as usual!
Just the Gracenote to guide us....
The missing version of Ziggy Stardust from Bowie at the Beeb which was mistakenly ommitted in favor of a duplicate track is now available via download to owners of the album!
The technology used to obtain the download is another groundbreaking first from Bowie, and an example of one possible future of the music retail business. For the first time ever, a major record label and recording artist have chosen to use jukebox software enabled with CD recognition technology to offer additional tracks to consumers who purchase CDs.
To get the track, you need to download and install a copy of MusicMatch Jukebox 6.0 Beta (if you don't have it already), drop the CD into your CD-ROM drive and Gracenote's CDDB will identify the CD with its exclusive CDKey technology. Once verified, you can download the live version of Ziggy Stardust.
Go here to get the MusicMatch software and/or download the track! To read the official press release, just go to the Press Release page
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November's Mojo magazine runs a four page article about the extraordinary life and times of Vince Taylor, a cult hero singer who had a brief period of success in the late 50's and early 60's. He was one of David's inspirations when Ziggy Stardust was created.
"He came over to London for a couple of weeks, and I got to know him. He was TRULY NUTS, and really thought he was some composite between the Son of God and an alien......."
Go here for more of David's thoughts about Vince and more photos.
Spaceface (Uranus Correspondent)