Bowie's New Album Is Now A Reality

You fall for Reality...

We are immensely proud to be able to give you an exclusive peek at the artwork for David Bowie's 26th studio album, Reality, and the final tracklisting for the release which is due on September 15th.

The sleeve, (above) features the combined talents of Rex Ray (who you all know and love for his work on many previous Bowie projects) and typographer Jonathan Barnbrook, who also worked on Heathen.

Reality is the fourth Bowie studio album to feature a painted image of David on the cover, (the first three being Diamond Dogs, Scary Monsters and, of course, Outside ) and we hope to bring you some of the ideas behind the construction of this sleeve in the very near future.

Here follows the definite final tracklisting for Reality:

01 New Killer Star
02 Pablo Picasso
03 Never Get Old
04 The Loneliest Guy
05 Looking for Water
06 She'll Drive the Big Car
07 Days
08 Fall Dog Bombs The Moon
09 Try Some, Buy Some
10 Reality
11 Bring Me The Disco King

Some of you may already be familiar with at least four of the titles on Reality for various reasons.

There are two cover versions on the album, the first being Jonathan Richman's Pablo Picasso, (Also covered by John Cale on his Helen Of Troy album) and the second being the George Harrison song Try Some, Buy Some, which was released on George's 1973 album Living In The Material World. Ronnie Spector also released a version of the song as a single on the Apple label.

The other two songs you may be aware of on Reality are both Bowie originals: Never Get Old and Bring Me The Disco King. The former was used in the recent Vittel advert, and the latter is a song that David has tackled before, but hasn't been happy with until now.

We are hoping to bring BowieNet members exclusive snippets of some of the tracks on Reality ahead of it's release in September, so stay tuned to BowieNet.

Glasgow Presale Tickets Available Shortly

I've gotta pack my bagpipes, leave this home, start walking, yeah...

The Scottish Bowie show, (at The Glasgow SECC on November 28th) that we told you about yesterday goes on sale to BowieNetters in just under three hours time, at 8:00pm UK time in fact.

Tickets for the general public sale will be available from 9:00am on Friday July 11th, when those of you that don't already have tickets via BowieNet can purchase your tickets online via ticketmaster (click on TM Scotland link) or via secc.co.uk.

Not much more I can say, except keep watching the A Reality Tour Tickets Page.

Ky And Frank Black In London Tomorrow

Kristeen Young in the Underworld by Total Blam Blam.

We could prepare to ascend...

After her triumphant debut at Camden's Underworld last month, (06/10/03 NEWS: GRANDADDY AND KRISTEEN YOUNG ROCK LONDON) Kristeen Young has been asked back by the venue to provide the support slot for the sold out Frank Black show.

She'll be performing sans band again, but don't let that give you the impression that her performance is anything less than dynamic and exciting in the extreme. If you can get a ticket, (which I'm afraid is highly unlikely unless you have more cash than you know what to do with) do get along to Camden tomorrow night at 7:30pm, to be sure to get a place down the front before KY's onstage time of 8:00pm.

I'm pretty sure if you do get in, Kristeen will be more than happy to sign copies of her new album, Breasticles, for you. But if you can't make it to the show, you can get the album, (which features the duet with David Bowie, Saviour.) online at fnac.

Obviously I don't have to tell you how good ex-Pixie frontman Frank Black and his band The Catholics are. Frank (writer of Bowie live favourite, Cactus) will no doubt perform songs from his next album, Show Me Your Tears, along with selections from his very healthy back catalogue. Hope to see a few of you BowieNetters there.

Glasgow And Milan Tickets Presale Now On

It's happening now...

We have literally just now received members-only tickets to the October 23rd show at the FilaForum in Milan, Italy, which are now on sale along with the newly-added November 28th show at the SECC in Glasgow, Scotland. There are also still some members-only tickets left for the November 23rd show at The Point in Dublin, Ireland.

The Glasgow presale will end at 3:00pm UK time this Thursday, just ahead of the public sale on Friday. (See story below) Tickets for the 2nd Dublin show and the Milan show will stay on sale until our allotment runs out.

I think you have all understood by now the importance of the A Reality Tour Tickets Page.

At Last, The Official Gad Website!

Gail Ann "Black-arach" Dorsey. Photograph by Susan Alzner.

Another girl standing next to me...

Gail Ann Dorsey finally has an official presence on the information super-highway, with the advent of gailanndorsey.com. The site is still under construction right now, but among the sections you can access, such as an in-depth biography and gig news, there is a photo gallery with a whole bunch of beautiful pics of Gail by Susan Alzner, such as the one above.

Hopefully the "coming soon" music and multimedia section will include some snippets from Gail's forthcoming album, which I've heard very good things about... and, while we're on the subject of talented ladies with a Bowie connection...

Bowienet Presale For Scottish Date Tomorrow

Well, how come you only want tomorrow...

The presale of BowieNet tickets for David's newly-added date in Scotland will go on sale tomorrow (Monday) at 3:00pm EST or 8:00pm UK time... So, I suppose you want to know some details regarding the when and where of the show? Patience my friends, all good things, etc., etc.

Firstly, you may like to know that when I asked David recently (after some silence regarding this gig) whether there was still going to be a Scottish Bowie show, he replied thus:

"erm...a promise is a...ah...promise...innit?...it'll be a bricht nicht the ken."

And who can argue with that? Anyway, as he says, a promise is a promise... so here is the date that you folx on the other side of Hadrian's Wall have been waiting for:

FRIDAY NOVEMBER 28TH - SCOTLAND, GLASGOW SECC

Let's hope the Welsh don't start screaming for a show, I flatly refuse to pay a £4.50 toll to get into Wales.* Anyway, keep watching that A Reality Tour Tickets Page for more details regarding this Glasgow gig, children.

*With apologies to Electric Blue, Clark Gwent and any other Welsh BowieNetters... I don't want to become BowieNet's answer to Anne Robinson.

Bowienet News Archive For June Is Live

Things that happened in the past...

Susans has posted the BowieNet news archive for June, and though it may seem that David Bowie's A Reality Tour is the only thing we reported in last month, it clearly wasn't.

Take a look at everything else that happened in June by clicking on the screen grab above, and read Susans' summary of the month by checking out the 2003 BowieNet News Summary page.

Db On Cover Of Filter Magazine

We're living in a golden age, a golden age, a golden age...

The July/August edition (Issue Six) of Filter magazine is proudly sports the above front cover... albeit a much better quality version.

As you can see, annotated by the headline 'Bowie's return to the Golden Years', DB is pictured seated on a throne, wearing what looks like something akin to Elvis's Gold Lame Nudie suit! There are more great shots inside, and we'll hopefully bring you some of these, and some quotes from the interview over the coming days.

Meanwhile, Gregg LaGambina of the magazine has posted this teaser, which you can also find on the Filter site by clicking on the image above:

So, we had this throne that was lying around the Filter Magazine offices and we were arguing and yelling and getting all hot and bothered about who we thought would be most worthy to sit in it and then we heard tracks from the forthcoming David Bowie album.

We followed him all the way to his studio in New York City, listened to his forthcoming Reality, sponged up all of his charming and cryptic philosophy, and came away with the confident prediction of his triumphant return to form. Read, listen, find out in Number Six.

This is the first of a few magazine features on the way, which we'll give you details of as we get them.

Happy Birthday America

Some Limey or other obscures the Stars and Stripes.

I'm afraid of Americans...

Well, it's the 4th of July and that means it's Independence Day in the U S of A. Have a great day to all of those of you that celebrate such things, and happy 227th birthday to America... Go easy on the apple pie, folks! };-)

Read On If You Didn't Get A Dublin Ticket

Angels have gone... No ticket?

The second Dublin Bowie show (at The Point on Sunday November 23rd) that went on sale this morning through ticketmaster Ireland, sold out in record time again. Some reports suggesting they were all gone within three minutes!

All-round top geezer, and resident Dubliner, BowieNetter Chris Gaffney, informs me that the Bowie ticket sell out was the top story on the popular local radio stations this morning... and it apparently went along these lines:

"David Bowie fans jammed phone lines and crashed computers, as tickets sold out this morning in record time for Bowies second Point gig, beating the time set just one week ago... by Bowie fans. It seems Irish fans can't get enough of The Thin White Duke who could probably sell out The Point for a whole month."

It seems that the fact that we didn't have a BowieNet allocation for this rollover show caught many of you out. But, I'm sure you've already guessed the good news. Yes, that's right... we've found out in the last hour that we do now have an allocation for BowieNet members that will go on sale this evening, in just under an hour and a half at 7:00pm UK time.

So, if you still need a ticket for the second Dublin show, keep watching that A Reality Tour Tickets Page kidz, where you may also notice that Birmingham VIPS have now gone on sale too!

It's turned out nice again. };-)

Boy George And Ziggy Screening In London Tonight

She will come to the show tonight, Praying to the light machine...

Tickets for tonight's anniversary screening of Ziggy Stardust And The Spiders From Mars: The Motion Picture, that we told you about a while back, (06/05/03 NEWS: ZIGGY LONDON SCREENING TICKETS ON SALE NOW) have now all sold out. But, if you want to take a chance, I am reliably informed that there will be returns available to callers at the box office tonight... you may want to call first though. (See aforementioned news piece for phone numbers, etc.)

Tonight's fun has attracted the interest of today's London press, with pieces in both METRO and the London Evening Standard's Metro magazine supplement... from which this extract:

If you venture into Brixton's nether regions tonight, don't be surprised if you encounter a strange assortment of scary monsters and super creeps wandering its darkened alleys. Girls who are boys and boys who are girls will be congregating en masse, for what is one of the most exciting clubbing events in recent memory.

The piece goes on to talk about the film, and the after party at the newly-opened Rock N Roll Fag Bar, where among others, the world's greatest Bowie fan DJ, Boy George, will be spinning discs, along with "Finnish drag queen DJ", Mikko.

This promises to be a great evening, and if you can't attend the screening, do try and make it along to the party later. Call 020 7737 2095 for more info on party tickets and 020 7733 2229 for the Brixton Ritzy Cinema box office.

If you don't get lucky with tickets, the first two people, or couple, to accost me with the request: "Please give me a Ziggy ticket, lovely Blammo!", just might strike lucky. See you in a couple of hours if you are going along. };-)

Second Dublin Date On Sale Thursday Morning

I'll see you in the morning...

The second Dublin show at The Point on Sunday November 23rd (that we told you about a couple of days ago), goes on sale tomorrow (Thursday) through ticketmaster Ireland at 9:00am local time.

Unfortunately we did not receive a BowieNet allocation for this rollover show, but you can reach the ticketmaster Ireland page by clicking on the image above.

Second Db Dublin Date Announced

Within for every second chance...

OK, this is another of those dates that's got out a little before we were expecting it too... but I guess that doesn't bother you lot too much!

Due to unprecedented public demand, a second Dublin show at The Point has been added to David Bowie's A Reality Tour... the first being the fastest selling of all the shows so far announced, in fact it sold out within five minutes of going on sale!

This second date has been scheduled, sensibly, the day after the first, and will take place on Sunday November 23rd. Tickets go on general public sale this coming Thursday July 3rd at 9:00am UK time. Not sure if we have a BowieNet allotment yet, but we'll certainly let you know before Thursday's public on sale.

Keep your eye on any new developments by clicking on the image above to take you to the A Reality Tour Tickets Page.

Just For One Day (heroes) Remix Winners

We can beat them, just for one day...

The 'competition' we set for the David Guetta vs Bowie remix, Just For One Day (Heroes) which was released yesterday, is over, and we now have our ten winners.

In keeping with the simplicity of this contest, here are the randomly-selected winners, sans any waffle from me:

3-track 12" vinyl single winners
70 lovelow
77 svp
123 kjap
174 TrippinZiggy
176 Vicious

1-track promo CD winners
95 big-bob
135 miki
163 MIABEAR1
189 Gena
252 ccarry

Don't worry about the numbers next to your user names, they're just your randomly-selected winning numbers that correspond with your time of arrival positions... if that makes sense to you, then you must be Stephen Hawking.

If the ten winners could please send me your real names and addresses from your BowieNet account to prove you are who you say you are. No proof of BowieNet membership means that your prize will be passed on to somebody else. Please respond ASAP, as post-mistress Susans gets the right royal hump if she can't despatch within 30 seconds of learning who the winners are!

Thanx to Virgin for the prizes, and if you haven't already, you can watch the Just For One Day (Heroes) video by clicking on the image above.

Birmingham And Vienna Presale Tickets Still Available

Well, I might stretch it till Wednesday...

There are still a few BowieNet tickets left for David's show in Vienna on the 29th of October and for the second Birmingham date on November 20th. But they will become unavailable from Wednesday at 10:00am EST (3:00pm UK time).

You may have also noticed that the BowieNet presale of VIP/Travel package offers ended last Friday, as we told you they would in the e-mail regarding these offers. What's left of these packages is now on general sale.

While they have no relevance to this particular story, I thought those of you outside of London might enjoy the three teaser adverts above, that appeared in the London Evening Standard ahead of the Wembley announcement. You can click on them to take you to the A Reality Tour Tickets Page, and you can check out the BowieNet Tour Calendar here, which, to be honest, has pretty much the same function.

Bowienet Vienna Tickets Presale Later Today

It's happening now...well, a little bit later actually!

We have just this minute received confirmation of a BowieNet allotment of tickets for David's show in Vienna, Austria, on the 29th of October. These tickets will become available through BowieNet this evening at around 3:00pm EST or 8:00pm UK time.

Public tickets for Zurich in Switzerland on the 24th of October have gone on sale today too. Keep watching that A Reality Tour Tickets Page kidz!

You've Found S+v Photocard Number 3

Waiting for the gift of Sound + Vision

If you're looking for it, you'll be happy. If it makes no sense, then visit this news story: 12/27/03 NEWS: THE GREAT BOWIENET HOLIDAY GIVE-AWAY - PART 2

Scottish Bowie Date... Will He, Won't He?

Bonnie Prince Bowie via the exceptional
PhotoShop skills of BowieNetter Zardoz.

There Is A Happy Land...

BowieNetters north of the border in the UK, will be heartened to learn that David has posted a very short message on the BowieNet MBs, with a heading of: Who loves Ye? ...and it goes something like this:

Looks like Scotland's on folks

Watch that space.

sailor

Well, I can confirm that there will be a Bowie show in Scotland, and as soon as we have more, you'll be the first to know. As ever, BowieNetters should keep an eye on these very pages, the MBs, and the A Reality Tour Tickets Page for any new updates.

Heroes Remix Out Next Week, Win A Copy Now

We can be us, just for one day...

After a couple of false starts, the David Guetta vs Bowie remix, Just For One Day (Heroes), that we first told you about a couple of months back, is finally released on Monday.

The recording has been circulating as a bootleg for some time now, and after it became a dancefloor favourite, and after DB had given it the thumbs up, Virgin decided to give it a full legitimate release.

The track received 'single of the month' in last month's issue of the painfully hip Dazed & Confused magazine, and NME said this of it:

Bowie's "Heroes" is looped to infinity over a pulversing house beat - at 5am, stuffed to the gills on some illegal substance, this would sound like the voice of God. We imagine.

Here are a couple more endorsements of the track:

"...a surefire terrace anthem" ? MIXMAG

"...will make you feel like your heart and cock are exploding" ? MUZIK

The collectors among you may already know that there were just 50 copies of the original single-sided 12" white label bootleg. Virgin then pressed up another 50 copies which were sent out with a press release containing the following blurb:

After 50 of these got into the hands of the likes of Tom Middleton, Erol, Pete Tong, Darren Emerson and Different Gear we knew this one was going to be big! We have cleared the sample now and have had another 50 whites delivered ? so now it's your turn. Not much to say about this record except it is a dancefloor destroyer.

After the great reactions from aforementioned DJs, and plays on Radio 1 etc., Virgin then released a double-sided 12" promo that contained a 6:39 minute extended version on the A-side, and a 6:10 minute dub version on the B.

The commercial 12" released on Monday will contain both of these versions and an original David Guetta track, Distortion. Just For One Day (Heroes) will only be available as a 12" in the short term, but there are plans for a CD single too, which is due towards the end of the summer.

Meanwhile, we have five copies of the commercial 12" and five copies of the promotional three minute radio edit CD up for grabs. For your chance to win a copy, simply tell me which format you would prefer by clicking on one of the following links... which should automatically enter you for the contest.

3-track 12" vinyl single

1-track promo CD

Usual rules apply, you must use your BowieNet account or at least supply your BowieNet user name and only one entry per BowieNet account. Entries from non-BowieNet accounts, and duplicate entries (unless supplied with a good excuse and a note from your mum) will be disqualified.

The contest ends Sunday night at midnight UK time, and we'll announce the randomly picked winners on the first day of July.

You can watch the Just For One Day (Heroes) video by clicking on either of the images above.

Re-recorded Rebel Rebel Out Now

You're a juvenile success...

The soundtrack CD for the new Charlie's Angels film, Full Throttle, that we've already mentioned several times, (the last time being: 05/28/03 NEWS: RE-RECORDED REBEL REBEL RELEASE DATE) was released on Monday here in the UK, and yesterday in the US.

It seems by some of the correspondence on the MBs that many of you are enjoying this re-recording of David Bowie's Rebel Rebel, from the soundtrack, just as much as I am. In fact, in a straw poll* I conducted this morning, 100 per cent of those asked thought that not only is the soundtrack worth buying for Rebel Rebel alone, but indeed, 100 per cent of those asked also thought that Rebel Rebel was the best track on the album by a long stretch.

Those of you that have heard this new Tony Visconti-produced Rebel Rebel, have obviously noticed that it uses the same arrangement as the version that David played live last year... albeit truncated to a teasing 3:10 seconds, stopping just when you're expecting it to crash in to another chorus and fade. But that's DB for you, it would be foolish to expect the expected from our man.

Click on the image above to take you to the official Full Throttle site.

* Admittedly, it was a poll of just one person, me in fact, but I was unanimous in my verdict!