Tell him we've lost his necklace...
David Bowie has been filmed for a commercial promoting
The thirty-second TV spot, called Lost, chronicles
Starting tomorrow, (November 14th) Lost will premier on prime time Monday night TV in the U.S., and appearing along with DB and Snoop Dogg will be country music star
The 1979 Bowie song DJ will be briefly featured in the commercial.
You know I had, A great big bid...
This Sunday evening in the UK sees the start of
The Great Big Bid, powered by eBay.co.uk, gives you the opportunity to bid for items from your favourite BBC stars and shows, as well as buy or
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Two absolutely beautiful signed, mounted, framed and glazed photographs of two of the greatest iconic rock legends this country has ever produced David Bowie and Mick Jagger. Shot and signed by one the foremost and well respected photographers of our time, Brian Aris. Both images are black and white and measure approximately 65 cm by 45 cm (26in by 18in) and are wall mountable.
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Brian's pictures are well known among Bowie fans, as he was the man entrusted with official pictures of David and Iman's wedding and pictures of the happy couple with their new-born child...not to mention various other iconic shots of David including the one above from the same session as the auction picture.
Click on the above picture to see more of
And he was alright, the band was altogether...
Lots of live Bowie music to be had here and there during November...not by the man himself, of course, but it's all good stuff nevertheless. Sadly, I don't have any news regarding forthcoming shows by
If anybody from the band is reading this, please get in touch with your forthcoming plans and we'll give you a plug...so to speak. You can find out more about
And so, without further ado, onto those that are definitely performing just for you this month...
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First up, is Mr
Here's the remainder of Laurence's November dates:
November dates
Friday 11th - Bowiexp as 5 piece - The Hampshire Rose, 44 London Road, Widley, Waterlooville, Hants - Tel 02392 376754
Saturday 12th - Bowiexp as 5 piece -
Friday 18th - Laurence - The Spice Ship, 240 Preston Road, Preston, (N`r Weymouth) Dorset. Tel 01305 834651
Saturday 19th - Bowiexp as 4 piece -
Thusday 24th - Laurence - The Fox and Hounds, 22 High St`, Lyndhurst - Tel 02380 282098
Friday 25th - Laurence - The Cricketers, 41 Windham Road, Bournemouth, Dorset - Tel 01202 551589
Saturday 26th - Laurence - The Ridgeway, Smallridge, Axminster, Devon - Tel 01297 32171
Sunday 27th - Bowiexp as 4 piece - The Thomas Tripp, 10 Wick Lane, Christchurch, Dorset - Tel 01202 490498
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Next up is less a tribute, but more a homage to the songs of David Bowie. Next Tuesday, November 15th, sees a rare one-off performance of the quite brilliant
Here's a bit from the
"Darkness and Disgrace, Des de Moor and Russell Churney's astonishing cabaret set of songs by bona fide British pop star David Bowie, has drawn rave responses from both Bowie and chanson fans in its many incarnations over the past few years, from theatre piece to CD.
By popular demand, Des and Russell have revived the show as an in-concert presentation.. An intimate and emotionally dynamic journey through a landscape populated by mod Newley-wannabes, sexually ambivalent science fiction apocalypse prophets, Brel-fixated trash theatre queens, drug-stupefied cold war romantics, pre-millenial art murderers and wild-eyed aliens from Bromley."
If you didn't manage to get tickets for Madonna at Koko in London on Tuesday, nip along to this instead...there'll be less dancing, but a lot more truly great music!
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Space Oddity - David Brighton's Tribute to David Bowie - have a private East Coast show in Maine next Friday where they can offer a limited number of private invitations (complimentary passes) to BowieNetters. Because there are only a limited number available, BowieNetters are asked to request theirs in advance by e-mailing any of these three addresses:
BowieLive@aol.com, kallen@bowdoin.edu, BowieLive@juno.com
However, you may want to know the actual gig details before you place your request, so here they are:
Friday, November 18th
Showtime: 8pm - 9:30pm
Morrell Lounge in Smith Union at
Bowdoin College
6200 College Station
Brunswick, Maine 04011
(Private Invitations can be obtained in advance only)
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Lastly, (only because their gig is the furthest away...in measurements of time that is)
Dress in your finest Glam satin and tat and you'll gain free entry to the evening's fun...otherwise it's four quid.
Waiting so long, I've been waiting so, waiting so...
Our sincere apologies are due to the winners of the exclusive signed David Bowie holograms whose names we listed two months ago today! (09.12.05 NEWS: SIGNED 'hours...' HOLOGRAM CONTEST WINNERS)
The holograms, which have been made especially for us by
This man is an incredible perfectionist and I'm sure the five BowieNetters who have waited so patiently thus far (on the whole) will feel it will have been worth the wait.
David has a big fat Sharpie pen poised and ready to scribble his signature as soon as the holograms land on his writing bureau, and I'm hopeful we'll see the finished things within the next couple of weeks.
Hooked to the silver screen...
Those of you that subscribe to
Over to Peter Smit for the low-down...
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David Bowie Film Marathon
On January 22nd 2006, International David Bowie Fanclub 'The Voyeur' presents a unique David Bowie Film marathon. From 'Il Mio West' to 'Just A Gigolo', from 'B.U.S.T.E.D' to 'Basquiat'. A total of 12 of the finest David Bowie films will be shown in 2 cinemas.
The marathon will be held in 'De Gruitpoort' in Doetinchem. Reservations (? 3,50 per person per film) can be made at bowiefilm@hotmail.com.
The marathon is free of charge for members of
More information can be found at
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Sounds like a good idea to me. I'll leave you with a breakdown of the twelve films being screened...
~ LABYRINTH
~ MR. RICE'S SECRET A.K.A. EXHUMING MR. RICE
~ BASQUIAT
~ ABSOLUTE BEGINNERS
~ THE LINGUINI INCIDENT A.K.A SHAG-O-RAMA
~ MERRY CHRISTMAS MR. LAWRENCE
~ THE HUNGER
~ GUNSINGER'S REVENGE A.K.A. IL MIO WEST
~ EVERYBODY LOVES SUNSHINE A.K.A. B.U.S.T.E.D
~ JUST A GIGOLO
~ THE MAN WHO FELL TO EARTH
~ CHRISTIANE F. WIR KINDER VOM BAHNHOF ZOO
It was cold and it rained so I felt like an actor...
By now everyone in the UK (and probably everywhere else come to that) must have seen reports in which
Ricky has pretty well dropped David's name in all of his recent interviews on TV and radio in the UK, and the story hit the UK press with a bit in The Sun yesterday.
I asked DB if there was any substance to the story, and this was his measured response: "This may happen, yes. But it'll depend on what the weathers like next year." So let's pray the climate is pleasing to DB in 2006 as my mind is already working overtime trying to imagine what kind of character would be created for him.
For the first series, stars Ben Stiller, Ross Kemp, Kate Winslet, Les Dennis, Samuel L Jackson and Patrick Stewart all played distorted versions of themselves, all to cringingly convincing effect.
Ricky must be applauded for persuading Les Dennis to get his clobber off if nothing else...and for the incredible faces he pulls himself as a camp Genie of the Lamp in the same episode, which was one of the funniest things I've seen on TV, ever.
Check out the HBO Extras site
We've got five years, what a surprise...
Some of you may have heard an unfamiliar live version of Five Years on
Well, as the bat-eared among you may have spotted, it was actually the rather splendid version from Fashion Rocks with
The song is to be released as one of the tracks on an audio only digital EP, the other tracks being Wake Up with Arcade Fire and David's performance of Life On Mars? with
The Live EP will be available via iTunes world-wide from November 21st. However, a download single only of Wake Up from the EP will be available via iTunes in the UK for one week only from November 14th.
Proceeds from the downloads will go to Hurricane Katrina relief charities.
Meanwhile, the UK single for Arcade Fire's own version of Wake Up will be released next Tuesday through
The reverse side of the vinyl will be a specially designed etched graphic, following in the steps of previous vinyl singles from the band which have been variously: luminous, clear and white vinyl.
You can watch the video and pre-order the 7" of Wake Up
Congratulations are due to Arcade Fire for getting the #1 album of 2005 in the UNCUT top 100 with Funeral. Funny, it was David Bowie's album of the year in 2004 too!
It happens today...
As some of you may have been reminded by the TV advert showing in the UK last night, today sees the release by
The BowieNet competition for ten copies of the album ended last night, for which I asked the question: "Which of the sixteen studio albums covered by the same period as that covered by The Platinum Collection (1969 to 1987) are represented by just one track each on The Platinum Collection?"
And this was the answer:
Space Oddity (Space Oddity)
The Man Who Sold The World (The Man Who Sold The World)
Pin Ups (Sorrow)
The following 10 BowieNetters were selected by The Random Generator from among the very high percentage of correct entries...
ange
brendaj
fidelio
Jonr
low
m.art
peterjw
rikfiend
scotty
thesuperman
If you would all please forward your real names and addresses to me, we'll have these jolly good retrospectives with you in a jiffy.
Don't be afraid of the man in the serious moonlight...
We are very happy to be able to exclusively reveal details of the official EMI David Bowie - Serious Moonlight DVD (ICPN: 094634153997, cover above), that we first mentioned back in August. (08.04.2005 NEWS: SERIOUS MOONLIGHT OZ DVD, PLUS EMI VERSION DUE)
Due on March 13th 2006, Serious Moonlight is the official film of the 1983 tour recorded at Pacific National Exhibition Coliseum, Vancouver, Cananda, in September 1983, captured brilliantly by director David Mallet.
Also included is the Ricochet documentary, presented here in an extended version (at approximately 78 minutes) as a DVD extra. Ricochet allows the audience a rare and fascinating behind the scenes portrait of David Bowie, filmed entirely on location during his 1983 Serious Moonlight World Tour against the colourful backgrounds of Singapore, Bangkok and Hong Kong.
Here's the full tracklisting of the concert segment of the DVD:
01 Introduction
02 Look Back In Anger
03 "Heroes"
04 What In The World
05 Golden Years
06 Fashion
07 Let?s Dance
08 Breaking Glass
09 Life On Mars?
10 Sorrow
11 Cat People (Putting Out Fire)
12 China Girl
13 Scary Monsters (And Super Creeps)
14 Rebel Rebel
15 White Light, White Heat
16 Station To Station
17 Cracked Actor
18 Ashes To Ashes
19 Space Oddity
20 Young Americans
21 Fame/End Credits
...and here's the technical stuff:
Screen: 4:3
Regions: ALL
Disc Type: DVD-9
Running Time (approx): 173 minutes (TBC)
No. of Discs: 1
Subtitles:-
PAL: English, French, German, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese
NTSC: English, Spanish and Portuguese
Audio:-
Serious Moonlight: ? Dolby digital & DTS 5.1 and Dolby digital stereo
Ricochet: - Dolby digital stereo
Also scheduled on February 13th, a month ahead of the DVD, is the digital audio only Serious Moonlight Live EP (ICPN: 00946-349734-5-8) which includes the following tracks:
Space Oddity
China Girl
Breaking Glass
Young Americans
A live clip of Space Oddity from the DVD will be made available as a digital download (ICPN: 00946-349736-5-6) on the same day.
Wake up you sleepy head...
As I've said before, (05.17.2005 NEWS: BOWIE TRACKS ON THREE COMPILATIONS THIS MONTH) this is not so much news, more a service for completists, as I know there are a small band of collectors out there that must have every David Bowie release, even if it may not seem essential to the majority of you.
Having said that, the first of these three,
This double CD of "40 crackin' tracks to get you up and out!" was compiled from requests by Today FM Breakfast Show listeners and contains David Bowie's The Jean Genie. All profits from the sale of the album will be donated to
You can view the full tracklisting and purchase the album
The other two CDs are released by Virgin TV who have cornered the market with these compilations. (See aforementioned news story) Released next week on November 7th, School Reunion - the Party is a 62-track triple CD which contains Modern Love, and released the following week on the 14th is Capital Gold - Platinum Legends, a 63-track triple CD which contains Life On Mars?
This ain't rock 'n' roll. This is genocide!
Hot on the heels of their successful
The Diamond Dogs in Montréal with David Mollet as David Bowie
Thursday November 3rd @ 9:00pm
at SOFA BAR (451 Rachel East; corner Rivard, close to St-Denis)
Cover charge: $7
Tickets on sale at SOFA BAR
You could even print out the handy pocket-sized flyer above and take it with you in case you forget where you're going on the way there!
Then I got the small red box...
For those of you that missed the auction end, the above lunchbox, painted by Lexi Bowie, (10.21.2005 NEWS: LEXI LUNCHBOX LIVE AT LAST) raised a remarkable $2,025.00 for the
This makes it the second highest price of the 47 items so far auctioned by the charity, first place going to
There are twenty boxes still being auctioned, with more to come, including a
Go *Actually, Bono's lunchbox is no smaller than any of the others on offer, (stop sniggering) but I had to make today's lyric quote work and at least it is red!
Do you walk in peace...
We first told you about David and Iman's artwork contributions to the
Although most of the Bowie products are still to be produced, the organisation has informed us that DB's Peace Thru Art wristband is now available to buy.
Still to come are porcelain plates, T-shirts and mugs. The limited edition plate and mug will be launched at Harrods in March 2006. We'll post more details on how to buy these items as they become available.
The wristbands retail at £2.99 (GBP), $5.53 (US DOLLARS), ?4.57 (EUROS) and can be bought online by clicking on the image above.
You can also encourage friends, family and anyone else in your address book to buy a Bowie wristband or two, by clicking on the image above or by going
Remember, it's all in a very good cause, as outlined in aforementioned news story.
It will tumble from the sky...
The December edition of
The feature is packed with stunning pictures, (including some you may not have seen before) which I'm sure is no surprise to anybody reading this, seeing as how everybody knows Bowie's portrayal of Thomas Jerome Newton is the coolest rock star performance on celluloid of all time ...and that's a fact very much backed up by this
I won't give any more away than that as you might not buy a copy when
Still hoping to run a competition for copies of the excellent
Nothing's gonna touch you in these golden years...
Next Monday (November 7th) sees the release by
As you'd no doubt expect, we have ten copies to give away to an equal number of lucky BowieNetters...and so straight on to the easy peasy contest question.
The Platinum Collection covers the period 1969 to 1987 covered by the sixteen studio albums listed below.
Space Oddity
The Man Who Sold The World
Hunky Dory
The Rise And Fall Of Ziggy Stardust And The Spiders From Mars
Aladdin Sane
Pin Ups
Diamond Dogs
Young Americans
Station To Station
Low
"Heroes"
Lodger
Scary Monsters...And Super Creeps
Let's Dance
Tonight
Never Let Me Down
What we want to know, is: which of the original albums above are represented by just one track each on The Platinum Collection?
Don't concern yourself with single versions, etc. For example, though Ashes To Ashes is the single version on The Platinum Collection it still represents Scary Monsters...And Super Creeps.
Here's the tracklisting of the three CDs which make up The Platinum Collection to make things a little easier:
The Best Of David Bowie 1969/1974
01 The Jean Genie
02 Space Oddity
03 Starman
04 Ziggy Stardust
05 John, I'm Only Dancing
06 Rebel Rebel
07 Let's Spend The Night Together
08 Suffragette City
09 Oh! You Pretty Things
10 Velvet Goldmine
11 Drive-in Saturday
12 Diamond Dogs
13 Changes
14 Sorrow
15 The Prettiest Star
16 Life On Mars?
17 Aladdin Sane
18 The Man Who Sold The World
19 Rock 'N' Roll Suicide
20 All The Young Dudes
The Best Of David Bowie 1974/1979
01 Sound And Vision
02 Golden Years
03 Fame
04 Young Americans
05 John, I'm Only Dancing (Again)
06 Can You Hear Me
07 Wild Is The Wind
08 Knock On Wood
09 TVC 15
10 1984
11 It's Hard To Be A Saint In The City
12 Look Back In Anger
13 The Secret Life Of Arabia
14 D.J.
15 Beauty And The Beast
16 Breaking Glass
17 Boys Keep Swinging
18 "Heroes"
The Best Of David Bowie 1980/1987
01 Let's Dance
02 Ashes To Ashes
03 Under Pressure (Queen with David Bowie)
04 Fashion
05 Modern Love
06 China Girl
07 Scary Monsters
08 Up The Hill Backwards
09 Alabama Song
10 Drowned Girl
11 Cat People (film version)
12 This Is Not America (David Bowie and The Pat Metheny Group)
13 Loving The Alien
14 Absolute Beginners
15 When The Wind Blows
16 Blue Jean
17 Day-In Day-Out
18 Time Will Crawl
19 Underground
Send your answer to me here.
Usual rules apply: Only one entry per BowieNet account. Also, please remember you must enter using your BowieNet e-mail or at least supply your BowieNet user name.
The competition ends at midnight UK time on Sunday November 6th, and we'll announce the winners on the following Monday morning. Good luck, folx.
Ragged limbed and hungry mama...
Nicely timed for a Halloween release, the complete uncut and uncensored series two of Tony and Ridley Scott's The Hunger is released as a 4-disc Region 2 box set tomorrow.
As I'm sure you already know, David Bowie introduces each episode and also stars in Sanctuary, the first instalment of the twenty two episodes. Here's the full breakdown of each disc...
Disc 1
Sanctuary (Starring David Bowie)
Skin Deep
Dream Sentinel
Wrath Of God
Nunc Dimittis
The Seductress
Brass
Disc 2
Approaching Desdemona
Week Woman
Triangle Of Steel
Falling Man
Night Bloomer
Disc 3
The Suction Method
Dangerous
Replacements
And She Laughed
The Sacred Fire
The Diarist
Disc 4
Double
Bottle Of Smoke
Sin Seer
The Perfect Couple
The Making Of... The hunger inside
If you've not already seen Sanctuary, and you like your David Bowie in one piece, I suggest you avoid this release. };-)
You've got your mother in a whirl, She's not sure if you're a boy or a girl...
For those of you that have missed Spaceface's plugs in the
As previewed in last week's programme, this second episode, called Oh You Pretty Things, will attempt to explain DB's (among others) contribution to the wonderfully confused ideologies of the Glam Rock era and beyond...during which, according to the BBC2 site, "David Bowie encouraged boys to play with their sisters' make-up boxes".
I think you'll agree that if any one person can be held responsible for the changing sexual attitudes in Britain during that decade, it was without doubt David Bowie.
Last week's look back at the 1960's featured a 40-year-old snippet from the BBC TV programme Tonight, (originally broadcast in November 1964) on which the young Davie Jones (see above) put forward his case for The Society For The Prevention Of Cruelty To Long-Haired Men ...a full 10 years before the lyric quotation above.
I'm sure you've all seen the full Tonight broadcast before, but it's always a treat to see again. Anyway, Oh You Pretty Things airs at 9:00pm in the UK on Sunday evening, and while I doubt we can expect anything new from it, I'm sure it's well worth a look.
What kind of magic spell to use?
Those of you in Montréal that enjoy an early start to the Witching Season may want to check out The Diamond Dogs at the
Here's the stuff you need to know if you fancy going along and getting spooked to the sound of David Bowie's music as performed by Diamond Dogs...
The Diamond Dogs in Montreal with David Mollet as David Bowie
Friday October 28th 7:30pm
@
5240, Ave. du Parc
Montréal
H2V 4G7
15$ Tickets on sale at However, if you're in Seattle and you prefer your Halloween on the more traditional date of October 31st, you may want to glide along to If you click on the flyer above, you can read a piece by Adam Lawrence over at "The event will feature a host of great local bands paying homage to Bowie through songs from all points of his career. And to top it all off, the cover is by donation and all proceeds go to Hurricane Katrina relief."
$5 Suggested Donation. 8:00pm doors.
Venue:
Tel: 206-324-8000.
I saw boys, toys, electric irons and TV On The Radio...
As reported in the Daily Star earlier in the week and in
Here's a bit from
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It was halfway through Franz Ferdinand's show last Monday at New York's Madison Square Garden theatre, that the band noticed a familiar-looking figure in the wings, tapping an expensively shod foot to the glam stomp of the Scottish quartet's latest single 'Do You Want To'. Earlier the Glasgow-based quartet had seen him poring over their setlist, expressing delight at some of the songs they intended to play that night.
'I spoke to him and I asked him if he'd ever been to Harlem,' recalls Franz Ferdinand's amiable guitarist Nick McCarthy three days later. 'He said the first time was, "When I was Ziggy." I thought, bloody hell, you really are that guy, aren't you?'
David Bowie, who's turned up to watch the band the last two times they've played in his adopted hometown of New York, is a committed Franz Ferdinand fan.
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Well, as NME said after DB's visit to a Clap Your Hands Say Yeah show, "...you're no-one in America these days unless you've had David Bowie turn up at one of your shows..." Quite.
Thanx to BowieNetter loisroma for the pointer to the pictures.