Black Tie White Noise Competition Winners

Luck just kissed you hello!...

The Black Tie White Noise Competition that we set on Sunday (08/03/03 NEWS: BLACK TIE WHITE NOISE COMPETITION) is now over. We have 10 copies of the newly released Black Tie White Noise Limited Edition three disc set to give away to our lucky winners.

We asked you to: name each of the cover versions featured on David?s solo studio albums in chronological order (including Reality)

To keep it simple we excluded Pin-Ups, songs with co-writing credits, compilation albums and Tin Machine albums from the contest - although some of you were so keen you sent in absolutely everything, :-) including bonus tracks! It was rather fun.

Anyway, the correct answers are listed below. I have added the album titles for completeness :

Hunky Dory
Fill Your Heart ? (Biff Rose/Paul Williams)

The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and The Spiders From Mars
It Aint Easy ? (Ron Davies)

Aladdin Sane
Let?s Spend The Night Together (Mick Jagger/Keith Richards)

Young Americans
Across The Universe (John Lennon/Paul McCartney)

Station To Station
Wild Is The Wind (Dimitri Tiomkin/Ned Washington)

Scary Monsters
Kingdom Come (Tom Verlaine)

Let?s Dance
Criminal World (Peter Godwin/Duncan Browne/Sean Lyons)

Tonight
Don?t Look Down (Iggy Pop/James Williamson)
God Only Knows (Brian Wilson/Tony Asher)
I Keep Forgettin? (Jerry Leiber/Mike Stoller)

Never Let Me Down
Bang Bang (Iggy Pop/Ivan Kraal)

Black Tie White Noise
I Feel Free (Bruce/Brown)
Nite Flights (Engel)
Don?t Let Me Down and Down (Tarha/Valmont)
I Know It?s Gonna Happen Someday (Morrissey/Nevin)

Heathen
Cactus (Black Francis)
I?ve Been Waiting For You (Neil Young)
I Took A Trip on a Gemini Spacecraft (Norman Carl Odam)

Reality
Pablo Picasso (Jonathan Richman)
Try Some, Buy Some (George Harrison)

Ok, now for the winners! Congratulations to the following ten BowieNet Members :-)

54 sinj
92 wine
52 shanejohns
22 juliand
50 koiblood
70 stoneghosts
32 mariosv2
11 tony
95 mikey
35 fm

Do not worry about the numbers besides your names. They are just the random numbers Spaceface selected which correspond with your entry number.

Now all you have to do is email me at susans@davidbowie.com with your real names and addresses from your BowieNet account as proof of identity. No proof of BowieNet membership means your prize will be passed on to another entrant. Your prizes are ready to go and will be shipped out to you as soon as you supply this information.

Thanks for participating :-)

Bring Me The Disco King On Underworld Soundtrack

You must see the movie...

With just over a month to go until the release of Reality and New Killer Star, you will be pleased to hear that a mix of Bring Me The Disco King will be available to be heard a little earlier. A 'loner remix' of the track, which was especially recorded for the film, and which features Maynard James Keenan (Tool and A Perfect Circle) & John Frusciante (Red Hot Chili Peppers) will be released on Sept 2nd as part of the Soundtrack Album for the highly anticipated film Underworld.

Underworld (in theaters September 19) reimagines Vampires as a secretive clan of modern aristocratic sophisticates whose mortal enemies are the Lycans (werewolves) a shrewd gang of street thugs who patrol the city's underbelly. The balance of power is upset when a beautiful young Vampire and a nascent Lycan -deadly enemies for centuries- fall in love.

The music superviser for the film is Danny Lohner of NIN. He asked DB for a contribution for use in the film and David gave him Bring Me The Disco King. Danny remixed the track and worked with Maynard James Keenan and John Frusciante in the studio to create Bring Me The Disco King (Loner Remix), a radical remix which will appear both in the film and on the soundtrack album.

The official website for the soundtrack says:

Underworld, the soundtrack, is a collection of exclusive and unreleased rare tracks from some of the most influential and respected artists in the rock world today. Featuring songs you won?t hear anywhere else by the giants of the genre. This album combines the intensity of Maynard James Keenan (Tool, A Perfect Circle) with the brilliance of David Bowie with the creativity of a score by Danny Lohner(NIN).

Tracklisting

1. Awakening - The Damning Well featuring Wes Borland, Richard Patrick, Josh Freese, and Danny Lohner.
2. REV 22:20 - Puscifer featuring Maynard James Keenan, Danny Lohner
3. Throwing Punches - Page Hamilton
4. Rocket Collecting - Milla
5. Now I Know - Renholder
6. Bring Me The Disco King (Loner Mix) - David Bowie featuring Maynard James Keenan & John Frusciante
7. Optimissed - Skinny Puppy
8. Down In the Lab - Renholder
9. Judith (Renholder Mix) - A Perfect Circle
10. Suicide Note - Johnette Napolitano
11. Baby's First Coffin - Dillinger Escape Plan
12. Hover (Quiet Mix) - Trust Company
13. Falling Through The Sky - Renholder
14. Weak and Powerless (Tilling My Grave Mix) - A Perfect Circle
15. Worms of the Earth - Finch
16. From A Shell - Lisa Germano
17. Death Dealer's Descent - Renholder
18. On The Lash - The Icarus Line
19. All Of This Past - Sarah Bettens

Look for more about this album when Total Blam Blam returns to the fold.

:))

Forthcoming George Underwood Exhibition

The Stareway by George Underwood

Hang him on my wall...

One of the snippets of information David gave away during his chat with Jonathan Ross (08/03/03 NEWS: JONATHAN ROSS TRANSCRIPT AND MORE) on Saturday was about a new show by his old friend George Underwood, starting at the Portal Gallery in London on October 20th this year.

I'm sure you all know that George was a school mate of David's. David told Jonathan a gem of an anecdote about George in those days and here it is:

DB: He's a great painter. In class one day, our English mistress - this was when we were like 10 or something or maybe a bit older than that - she said she didn't like him at all because he was always making jokes all the time and disrupting the class. She stood him up at one time, she said 'Underwood, I want you to make a sentence using the phrase 'herd of cows'. So he said 'erm...........men from Mars have never heard of cows'.

Check out George's website, and do get along to the show at The Portal Gallery if you can.

:))

Second Paris Show Details Announced

Tens of thousands found me in demand...

We are very happy to announce details of a second show at the Paris Bercy on Tuesday October 21st.

Tickets go on sale to the general public on Monday 11th August at 9.00AM Paris time.

At this time, BowieNet is not offering a pre-sale for this show.

Keep checking the BowieNet A Reality Tour Tickets Page for updates.

:))

Macy Gray To Support U.s. Leg Of Tour

The lady from another grinning soul...

It has just been announced that Macy Gray will be joining David as the support act for the US leg of his World Tour.

David has been a fan of Macy's since she burst onto the scene in the late '90s and raved about her here on BowieNet more than once. Macy's new album, The Trouble With Being Myself has been receiving wonderful reviews.

More details as we get them.

:))

Poughkeepsie Gig Now Sold Out

I'll be back soon...

The exclusive BowieNet Members Only Gig at The Chance Theater in Poughkeepsie on August 19th is now sold out.

Congratulations to all of our lucky members who got tickets. Only thirteen days to wait now until the opening warm-up gig for the David Bowie 2003 Reality World Tour!

:))

Bowienet Warm-up Show At The Chance In Poughkeepsie

Now that I've really got a Chance...

We are enormously proud to be able to announce an exclusive BowieNet warm-up show for the forthcoming Reality tour at The Chance Theater in Poughkeepsie, New York, on August 19th. This show has been arranged at the last-minute to polish up some of the new material and some other songs from the new setlist.

I asked David how he was looking forward to this performance:

"Get to try out the new things at the Chance gig. Won't be the longest show we've ever done but having such a lot of new things onstage will give it an edge. The whole band feels terrific about the new songs. They feel like they were made to play live. Can't wait."

This is a BowieNet show, as the tickets will only be available to BowieNet members. The show is general admission, and tickets will be limited to two per member at $45 each.

Tickets will be on sale at 5PM EST, and you can purchase yours by clicking on the image above, or by going here.

Boy, it's good to be a BowieNetter, you lucky, lucky people.

Jonathan Ross Transcript And More

I feed the pigeons in New York and I dig everything...

The much anticipated David Bowie phone-in to yesterday's Jonathan Ross Radio Show was a lot of fun and full of surprises.

David's section started at about 2hrs 30mins into the show, but earlier Jonathan discussed David Bowie with both Rolf Harris (Stylophones, what else?) and Siouxsie and Budgie; who told a typical 'My God, I'm breathing the same air as David Bowie' anecdote from when they supported him on tour in the '80's.

Once David joined the show, his topics of conversation included mu-mus, Ricky Gervais, George Underwood, didgeridoos (he played a few snatches on air), his new pigeon shed (from which he was speaking while feeding the pigeons apparently), possible songs for the set lists for the autumn 'Reality' shows (!), and his appearance on Jonathan's TV show in September (of which more from us if and when it is confirmed). Just yer average celebrity chat really (not). David was as fascinating and eclectic as always. Here is a short extract:

JR: You must be enjoying this at the moment because 'Heathen' was such a huge hit for you, deservedly so.

DB: It was fantastic. Yeah. I can't think of anything better at the moment. I am producing music that I really feel proud of. I have got a fantastic band and the tours that we have been doing have just been going down a storm.

JR: And of course home life seems to be going great as well.

DB: Well the loveliest thing is we have just built a pigeon shed on top of the roof here which is really good.

JR: That's nice.

DB: So I am up here at the moment in the pigeon shed feeding the pigeons and I have got a little bunsen burner here so I can make coffee. But Moby's place, which is just over the road about two streets away, he's got me on to this - keeping pigeons.

JR: Do you send pigeons to each other?

DB: Yeah we send song ideas. We kind of tie them to the legs of the pigeons and send them backwards and forwards.

SusanS has been beavering away, transcribing the whole of the section of the show with David, and the show is already streaming online on this link. So you can listen again, or read the transcript, here, or even do both at the same time!

Spoiler Warning: If you don't want to know which songs have been chosen for the potential set list, then don't listen or read.

We were also treated to that promised 'first listen' to New Killer Star, whereupon the boards filled up with delighted posts in record time. And having had the track on heavy rotation, as have most of you I'm sure, I have to say I agree with all of them!

:))

Black Tie White Noise Competition

They say 'Hey, that's really something!'...

To coincide with the release of the new Black Tie White Noise Limited Edition three disc set (due out in the UK tomorrow), (06/24/03 NEWS: BTWN LIMITED EDITION 3 DISC SET RELEASE DELAYED IN US). Blammo has left us with this bit of mischief.

We have 10 copies of this rather lovely item up for grabs in our Black Tie White Noise competition. The question is quite simple so you should all be in with a chance. All you have to do is name each of the cover versions featured on David?s solo studio albums in chronological order (excluding Pin-Ups unless you want to type it all out ;-).

To be clear, the competition just covers David?s solo studio albums including Reality. It does not include the Tin Machine or compilation albums and it does not include songs that carry a co-writing credit.

Please email me your answers at susans@davidbowie.com with BTWN Competition as the subject heading. The usual rules apply, you must use your BowieNet account or supply your BowieNet username and there must be only one entry per BowieNet account.

The competition ends on Wednesday night at midnight UK time. In the absence of Blammo, Spaceface will push the random selector button and the winners will be announced on the 7 August.

Good luck.

2 New Tracks Available In The Reality Jukebox

Looking for water...

2 new and 'refreshing' tracks have been added to the 'REALITY' jukebox.

Click the image above, or RIGHT HERE to have a listen.

Enjoy.

Bowienet News Archive For July Is Live

Time flies when you're having fun...

The BowieNet News Archive for July 2003 is now live - and what a great month it was. :)

You can read the summary of events by going to the 2003 BowieNet News Summary page or you can check out the whole of July by clicking on the screen grab above.

Have fun.

Listen To Db On The Jr Show Tomorrow

There's a brand new talk...

Wherever you are in the world, don't forget to tune in to The Jonathan Ross Show on BBC Radio 2 tomorrow morning from 10.00AM London time. As Blammo told us last week (07/25/03 NEWS: LISTEN TO THE J R SHOW ON SATURDAY MORNING and 07/28/03 NEWS: DB REMEMBERS RICK WAKEMAN AND HUNKY DORY):

Jonathan announced the wonderful news that he has the world-wide exclusive first play of New Killer Star, and a live phone-in from David. Expect the phone-in during the last hour of the show.

You can listen to the show online, here.

Enjoy!

:))

Official Lyrics To 'new Killer Star'

I discovered a star...

After this mornings first airing of New Killer Star on the Jonathan Ross Show (of which much more later), a certain 'Sailor' has posted the complete lyrics on the BowieNet Message Boards. And here they are:

New Killer Star

See a great white scar
Over Battery park
Then a flare glides over
But I won?t look at that scar

Oh, my nuclear baby
Oh, my idiot trance
All my idiot questions
Let?s face the music and dance

Don?t ever say I?m ready, I?m ready, I?m ready
I never said I?m better, I?m better, I?m better
Don?t ever say I?m ready, I?m ready, I?m ready
I never said I?m better, I?m better, I?m better than you

All the corners of the buildings
Who but we remember these
The sidewalks and trees
I?m thinking now

I got a better way
I discovered a star
I got a better way
Ready set go
I got a better way
A new killer star
I got a better way
Ready set go
I got a better way
The stars in your eyes
I got a better way
Ready set go
I got a better way
I discovered a star
I got a better way
Ready set go

All my life in a comic
Like the way they did the bible
With the bubbles and action
The little details in color

First a horseback bomber
Just a small thin chance
Like seeing Jesus on Dateline
Let?s face the music and dance

I discovered a star
Like the stars in your eyes

Don?t ever say I?m ready, I?m ready, I?m ready
I never said I?m better, I?m better, I?m better
Don?t ever say I?m ready, I?m ready, I?m ready
I never said I?m better, I?m better, I?m better than you

All the corners of the buildings
Who but we remember these?
The sidewalks and trees
I?m thinking now

I got a better way
I discovered a star
I got a better way
Ready set go
I got a better way
A new killer star
I got a better way
Ready set go
I got a better way
The stars in your eyes
I got a better way
Ready set go
I got a better way
I discovered a star
I got a better way
Ready set go

You can check out Sailor's post, here.

:))

Blammo Takes Yet Another Annual Break!

Hope the weather's good and it's not too hot, For me...

I'm shortly off on another annual family holiday, Italy again, but Sorrento this time. As I said last time, don't let my absence deter any of you who were thinking of posting me foreign magazines, or any other Bowie-related goodies, as my long-suffering sister will be house-sitting again... and she enjoys the early alarm call from the Postie!

The news will be left in the more-than-capable hands of Spaceface, with a bit of help from Susans... and you should contact Spaceface if you have any news-worthy snippets. (Don't worry LizSK2, I'll be dealing with you on my return... and don't give the game away!)

There will still be loads happening in the short term: more snippets from Reality, as promised by David on the MBs; David on Mr Woss's show on Saturday; at least one competition, (I've already given Susans the prizes to mail out to the winners... that's a teaser above.) and that only takes us up to Monday!

Stay tuned for more over the coming days, and I'll see you all again in the not too distant future. Much love to all...Blammo oxo };-)

Bowie & Bing - The Fun Continues In Nme

Dressing down for the NME...

The occasional reader of NME may be puzzled by the above picture story in the Gossip section of this week's NME. The top story in a column called Plus Ones next to the picture story will have done nothing to clear the confusion:

Keen Gossip viewers will be aware that David Bowie was on holiday last week. What was he up to? We'll tell you: watching Blur in New York, along with The Strokes. Which is all well and good, but The Strokes have never been immortalised in a hilarious comic strip, have they? Still, perhaps it's only a matter of time...

Well, keen BowieNet viewers will be aware that David Bowie was not on holiday last week, even if he did go and see Blur. (07/21/03 NEWS: EXCLUSIVE NEW JOURNAL FROM DB... IT'S A LONGUN'!) NME is of course referring to the regular Bowie & Bing comic strip the popular UK music weekly have been running for the last couple of months, from which David was conspicuously absent last week.

His inclusion in this week's strip (above) isn't immediately obvious, unless NME is suggesting that David Bowie isn't merely a chameleon, as most lazy journalists would claim, but in fact, a shapeshifter!

David's role in this surreal series has been more obvious, as in the one from a couple of weeks back below.

I do realise that this particular example may not translate too well outside of the UK, (that's assuming you can read it at all at this size) but if the demand is great enough, I may post bigger versions of all the strips so far published... Oh, my aching sides.

Bowie Tribute Night In Vancouver On Thursday

Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday born I was Thursday's Child...

BowieNetter David Hawkes has sent in details of a Bowie tribute evening in Vancouver this coming Thursday evening at 8:00pm. A bunch of local Vancouver bands are putting together the tribute, and apparently, they are all bands with an average age of 22 or so. Over to you Mr Hawkes:

The event is happening here at a club called the Green Room (Just around the corner from BC Place, where DB performed with Peter Gabriel and The Tubes for the Serious Moonlight tour) here in beautiful Vancouver B.C....the same city they filmed the China Girl video and the Serious Moonlight tour.

The club supports and books (!) up and coming indie bands and is full of scensters as it were. Here's a little info on the gig: The players feature Canadian musos...a former Mathew Good drummer, a Black Halos guitarist, a Limblifter singer and a Sarah McLachlan bass player, Brian Minato, etc.

Good clean fun. Uh...there may be a bit of debauchery...but come on!

Thanx David. Unfortunately, I am unable to find an online presence for The Green Room, but it would seem the following information is correct:

The Green Room
695 Cambie St
Vancouver, BC - Canada
604.280.4444

If you're in the area on Thursday, do try to go and give your support. Please tell them we sent you and do let us know how it went.

Db Remembers Rick Wakeman And Hunky Dory

Rick Wakeman is a perfect example of how Care In The Community can really work.
David Bowie trusted this man enough to let him play keyboards all over Hunky Dory!

With your long blond hair...

Those of you that took our advice (07/25/03 NEWS: LISTEN TO THE J R SHOW ON SATURDAY MORNING) and tuned in to the Jonathan Ross radio show on Radio 2 on Saturday, will already be familiar with this news. But even if you did listen in, keep reading, as we have an exclusive comment from David regarding Rick Wakeman's thirty-plus-year-old memories of his first meetings with David... But more of that in a moment.

Jonathan announced the wonderful news that he has the world-wide exclusive first play of New Killer Star, and a live phone-in from David next week. Expect the phone-in during the last hour of the show. The announcement went something like this, proving that our story on Friday was such an exclusive that JR didn't even know about it himself:

(Life On Mars? plays) - We dedicate that to my friend Blammo. Blammo, Total Blam Blam, who runs one of the Bowie websites, and he told us that we've got something coming up next week. He knows more about what's going on here than we do. Next week we are going to be playing, exclusively I believe, a new David Bowie track from his next album which is going to be out later in this year, and the track is going to be called New Killer Star.

Jonathan went on to mention David's phone-in too. You can listen to the whole thing by clicking on the image above and forwarding to 40:30 minutes. As I said, Rick Wakeman closed the show with a brief interview that included this bit:

JR: Well that's incredible, and then Hunky Dory of course is one of THE greatest rock 'n' roll albums of all time and you played the keyboards on Life On Mars?.

RW: He invited me...(wow) ..I did the whole of the album. He invited me around to his house which was in Beckenham - which I nicknamed the original "Beckenham Palace".

JR: This was the white house he had in Beckenham.

RW: Yeah it was beautiful. I went in there and there was a big gallery and I went upstairs and there was a grand piano and he'd got his old battered 12 string. He said 'I want to play you some songs, I want you to learn them and then I want you to play them from a piano point of view'.

He said, 'I've always done stuff from an acoustic guitar point of view so I want to do all these songs from a piano point of view'. He said 'so I want you to play them in the style you play and I will make the band and everything work round it' - and one by one he just kept playing these songs like, you know, Life On Mars?, Changes and I'm going......

JR: Can you imagine sitting there hearing it for the first time.

RW: And it was astonishing and I said 'David most albums have got one decent track and you've got some blinders here' I mean every track was a blinder!

Of course, David remembers things a little more accurately. Here's his exclusive response for BowieNet:

"Lovely fella, Rick, however his memory is as loopy as mine in some places. Several songs on Hunky Dory were written on piano, e.g. Life On Mars? and Changes for starters, not guitar. I played my plodding version and Rick wrote the chords down then played them with his inimitable touch."

You can listen to the whole of Rick's interview by clicking on the image above and forwarding 2 hours and 36 minutes into the programme. If you just want the Bowie-relevant part of the interview, forward further to 2 hours and 54 minutes.

Apart from Hunky Dory, Rick also mentions David and "Brewer's Droop", the recording of Space Oddity and more. Susans has very kindly transcribed the whole thing for those of you who'd rather read the interview, and you can view that transcript by going here.

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New Bowienet Splash Page, Reality Jukebox And More

Me, I'm fresh on your pages...

As you signed in to www.davidbowie.com on your way to the news today, you may have noticed a very cool new splash page. (If not, you will shortly) Indeed, you may have already had a poke around and discovered a few exciting new features.

Apart from the usual areas, we have a great new feature called the Reality Jukebox. (See screen grabs below) This feature contains the kind of things you would perhaps expect, plus some others you wouldn't.

Firstly there are 90-second snippets of The Loneliest Guy and Looking for Water from Reality in the AUDIO section, (60-second snippets for non-members) and then there is a great new EPK (Electronic Press Kit) for Reality (Members Only) in the VIDEO section along with the French version of the TV ad for Vittel for everyone to see.

The Reality EPK itself runs for just under four and a half minutes, and it features more snippets of songs including New Killer Star, The Loneliest Guy, Pablo Picasso, Bring Me The Disco King and Never Get Old, along with a few teaser clips from the short film, Reality.

This is all interspersed with a new Bowie interview in which he suggests it's his professional duty to lie to us... so it's up to you whether you believe a word of it or not!

Click on the image below to go to the members-only version of the Reality Jukebox.

There is also the facility to e-mail the Reality Jukebox to a friend, and the opportunity for you people out there to get involved with a group of energetic and ambitious fans interested in helping to spread the word about Reality.

You can find out more about these "e-teams" in the Reality Jukebox and on the new splash page, where you can also read about your chance to a meet and greet with David Bowie himself.... It's all so very exciting!

A Very Happy Birthday To Iman

There was nothing left to view, Except Iman dear Lord who looked like you...

Here's wishing a wonderful birthday to that tasty bird who married the English rock star with odd eyes. Hope you have a very special day Iman, with much love and many happy returns from everybody here at BowieNet.