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David Bowie 'A Reality Tour'
Posted by Lunaman on 26 January 2010 - 6:13pm.
The Dame is back - well sort of. This week see's the release of 'A Reality tour' a double live cd. I've had the dvd of this tour from 2004 and watched it many times over the years. The band are fantastic and the show from Dublin is superb. In case you might think you've heard Bowie live and this is a moneyspinner form the record company may I suggest you have a listen. As well as some great old songs it also illustrates how good his recent realeases have been - 'Heathen(the rays' is certainly worth a listen. This is one of my favourite from the show -
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Gail Ann Dorsey
Great show
and a great cd. I've seen him on every tour from 1983 onwards and this was the best tour by far. The version of Life On Mars on this tour had me weeping into my sleeves. Probably the best example I've seen of an established artist slotting new matrial into the set alongside the classics. It's seamless.
Arise
Sir David Bowie.
It's surely overdue now. For services to entertainment would be a gross understatement.
I believe
that he has turned down any honours offered his way. Tony Blair was a huge fan so I'm sure he tried to 'Sir' him
Arise...
Sir Dame.
Just one last tour...
Please.
Yes, refused in 2003
Which makes me admire him even more
All that talent ... And principles
I have just bought it
It sounds superb. Fantastic production too.
when it finishes
you'll find Heroes in the little boxes underneath.
I think I have something in my eye
I'm up to
'Fantastic Voyage'.
Bloody hell, this is superb. Some absolutely beautiful performances.
Which little boxes, Jon? I downloaded it from iTunes...
On Lunarman's original vid
when it ends you will get a series of related vids swing up at the end or here it is anyway!
Brilliant
Cheers Jon!
The album was a blinder.
I was there
I was there I was there I was there I was there I was there I was there I was there ...!
And it was utterly brilliant, even in the wretched Point Depot.
P.S. Did I mention that I was there?
I Was There Too
A fucking spectacular gig
I was there too
A fucking spectacular gig. And I met Irish rugby legend Denis Hickie in the VIP lounge!
The person who first last and always will inspire me
the only man who means more to me than HJH . My chance of seeing such majesty live again forever taken from me by a mad, lollipop-wielding Scandinavian....
Just one more album, just one more tour........please!
Now hear this David Robert Jones, I wrote a song for you......
About a strange young man named Bowie
With eyes of brown and blue...
Saw him at the Glasgow show a couple of days before Dublin
and it was an excellent show - nearly 3 hours of it. He really is a top drawer performer - and a what a voice. His band was tight as.
Now, I've already got the DVD. Can somebody tell me why I need the CD as well?
Three
previously unavalable tracks - but yes I know what you mean.
The mix
is terrific. Somehow seems more solid on the CD.
Went to London a couple of days afterwards...
...expecting nothing as he'd been rubbish the last time, but it was sensationally good, one of the best gigs I've ever been too.
To these ears, the CD has better sound than the DVD, with Earl Slick's guitar more prominent. It's not cut as much (although still some, mostly the Dame saying "fuck" here and there) - you get the snippet of Get It On in Cactus for example. And if you get it off iTunes there's a whole lot more of it - the entire 35 song show.
You have to fiddle a bit with some idiosyncratic ordering to get it to run in show order, ie finishing with the Ziggy triple play, but it's worth it.
And I've always wondered - are those pixie ears he's wearing on the cover or just a trick of the light?
Yes totally agree
I was a the Wembley gig too. I had the pleasure of taking the FPO who had managed to never see him before. She was utterly spellbound as we had tickets in the third row. It was funny listening to the FPO telling people what an effect he had on her. He is still working his magic it would seem.
It's on Spotify
or so it said when I logged on last night.
Does anyone know...
if he is working on any new music at the moment? I haven't seen or heard any news at all recently.
new Bowie - the best rumour for ages...
http://robpongi.blogspot.com/2010/02/david-bowie-reflects-on-comeback.ht...
Gail Ann Dorsey (supposedly) said YES in a recent interview.
fingers crossed.
"He suggests the excellent..."
Thanks so much for posting that Sinj. Not only is it happy news but the translation is superb!
The mind boggles. Ancient Chinese folk and jazz! And David "urgently back to work and plans to work on a new album"
Coincidentally....
I was talking to my eldest daughter and the GLW this weekend about Bowie.
We were in the car listening to Can You hear Me (prob my fav' Bowie track of all time*) and my daughter was asking me about Bowie live and we got talking about the possiblility of another tour, to which I prmomised that if such a thing happens I would take the GLW and said daughter so they could expreince the unrivalled majesty of Bowie live. The clips here have bought such a tingle in my spine, something no other artist will do on the basis of a a 3" youtube window.
I am not sure on his current state of health and funnily enough Danny Baker was doing a call out to the Dame yeterday on the BBCLondon show, asking anyone to get in touch and let us know he was OK.
I truly hope hes well and happy and one more greatest hits tour would be out of this world.
By the way, the best show ive ever seen was in Holland on the now deeply unfasionable serious moonlight tour. However, I was just 16, fist time id seen Bowie after being a fan from about 11 (influence of an older brother) and was the night after I left school. Well needless to say it hit me in the solar plexus and tears were shed through numerous songs. Unfuckingbelievable!!!
*This is of course subject to change without notice)
Toy
Bowie was supposed to put out an album of re-recordings of his 60s tracks, some turned up as b-sides but the album never made it. Anyone know where I might "read about it" on the internet?
more details
Toy
Bits and pieces are floating around the interweb, but from what I've heard, there's a goodish clutch of revisited versions of those 60s tracks 'in the can' somewhere, including The London Boys, I Dig Everything, Silly Boy Blue and Can't Help Thinking About Me. The latter turns up, in blistering form, on the 2002 or 2003 VH1 'Storytellers' film, which is think is easily found. A couple of Googles around 'Toy' should elicit further details.
Prompted by this thread, I spent a few hours Googling last night. Opinion seems to be divided as to whether he is recording, plans to record or has effectively retired. A chap in the Telegraph speculates that he is in 'poor health' and is unlikely to do anything in the near future. Elsewhere, I read that according to Iman's Twitter feed, he is 'up to something'. I just hope she isn't saying that wearing hair-curlers and brandishing a broom, Nora Batty-style, but more in a wife-waiting-for-her-husband-to-return-from-the-studio manner...
Bowie in this week's NME
http://www.nme.com/photos/a-z-of-david-bowie/163865/1/1
NME claim to have "interviewed" The Dame for this week's NME.
On my return home this evening,I swiped my son's copy for a gander and in reality(no pun intended), its a brief Q&A Bromley Dave does via e-mail with the Bowienet editor, and an article that is spun around a rumour that there has been some studio activity with Peter Murphy from Bauhaus.
It's so nice to read the Bowielove
on this site.
I am experiencing its warm glow now.
Last time I saw the Dame...
...was at Glastonbury. We'd been so excited about the gig all weekend and having partaken of extended libation throughout the three preceding days' festivities, I was of keen mind as we awaited His arrival. 'What do you think he'll open with...?' we speculated.
None of us guessed it would be Wild Is The Wind, and I admit to shedding a tear as 'Love me, love me, love me, love me, say you do...' thumped me in the chest.
Previous gig to that was a MTV special at Glasgow Barrowlands in 1997 (I think), where he opened with a solo acoustic Quicksand. That was fairly special, too. GAD was wearing Alexander McQueen 'bumster' strides, as I recall.
Talking of Gail-Ann, I saw her solo show in Edinburgh in 1990, having rather liked her Corporate World album at the time. Must dig that out, actually, and hear how it sounds now. Difficult to believe it was 20 years ago.
Please, please, please let us have another Bowie album and tour. Please.