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Hard News: Bowie for the BDO?

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  • Simon Grigg,

    David Bowie at BDO? Yes please please please please please please!

    It may happen but it would surprise a lot of people as he's been technically retired for about 4 years due to his ongoing health issues, apart from the odd guest appearance on record and screen. Last album was in 2003, and his last live show in 2005.

    He looks less than stellar here

    Just another klong... • Since Nov 2006 • 3284 posts Report Reply

  • John Fouhy,

    Also, if you're going to WoW, this may be useful:

    Restaurants with pre-WoW dinner specials

    Wellington • Since Nov 2006 • 87 posts Report Reply

  • Leopold,

    No one willing to go OT and mention Sue Bradford's resignation and implications for the removal of the steel in the backbone of the Opposition?

    Since Jan 2007 • 153 posts Report Reply

  • Tony Parker,

    If I was in the audience, I think I'd have to be physically restrained from strangling Paul Schaffer. The interplay they have where he keeps talking behind the host? Turns me green and makes me start ripping my shirt off.

    I've always viewed Schaffer as Letterman's trained monkey, and yes he annoys the fuck out of me too.

    No one willing to go OT and mention Sue Bradford's resignation and implications for the removal of the steel in the backbone of the Opposition?

    The glee with which this being greeted on the comments on Stuff are nauseating. Don't even dare venture onto Your Views.

    Simply Paris on Cuba would a nice place to take mum

    Napier • Since Nov 2008 • 232 posts Report Reply

  • Ross Mason,

    And for a little retro, try this. Sorry. technology didn't get to a video of the performer.

    Upper Hutt • Since Jun 2007 • 1590 posts Report Reply

  • LegBreak,

    He looks less than stellar here

    I’ll be happy if I look like that at his age.

    Wellington • Since Nov 2006 • 1162 posts Report Reply

  • Ross Mason,

    Bit for Greenbay fans to keep the Mech Man humming:

    Upper Hutt • Since Jun 2007 • 1590 posts Report Reply

  • Crunchy Weta,

    Obvious I know..Trons

    Oh yes and red dust here in Mamaku

    Mamaku • Since Nov 2006 • 35 posts Report Reply

  • George Darroch,

    No one willing to go OT and mention Sue Bradford's resignation and implications for the removal of the steel in the backbone of the Opposition?

    I can't bear to talk about that. My anger at New Zealand (not towards Sue, a personal hero) is pretty immense. The bile on one side, the smarmy hypocrites on the other. I got in to the office to the news this morning and I've been upset about it all day.

    WLG • Since Nov 2006 • 2264 posts Report Reply

  • George Darroch,

    Daft Punk, Robot Rock.

    WLG • Since Nov 2006 • 2264 posts Report Reply

  • Simon Grigg,

    I’ll be happy if I look like that at his age.

    yeah, but he's never, in some 40 odd years, looked puffy. The shots that did the rounds after that première fuelled quite some speculation at the time that he was on medication for what has been an ongoing problem with his ticker including at least one heart attack.

    If you look back at the shots even 3-4 years back, it's quite a change.

    Just another klong... • Since Nov 2006 • 3284 posts Report Reply

  • Isabel Hitchings,

    Someone had to...

    Christchurch • Since Jul 2007 • 719 posts Report Reply

  • giovanni tiso,

    Am I late to suggest Maria Pia's? It really is quite fabulous. Although I have yet to try Sweet Mama's Kitchen and it's probably better located.

    Wellington • Since Jun 2007 • 7473 posts Report Reply

  • giovanni tiso,

    Yeah, but he's never, in some 40 odd years, looked puffy.

    On the two occasions I saw him perform, he looked like a fucker who wouldn't come out for encores.

    Wellington • Since Jun 2007 • 7473 posts Report Reply

  • Kindling,

    Newtown • Since Aug 2009 • 2 posts Report Reply

  • Carlos,

    Apropos nothing... if James Dean lived

    CPH.DK • Since Mar 2009 • 27 posts Report Reply

  • Isabel Hitchings,

    On the two occasions I saw him perform, he looked like a fucker who wouldn't come out for encores.

    Really? When and where?

    Christchurch • Since Jul 2007 • 719 posts Report Reply

  • Russell C,

    Songs about Technology... can't find a link to the video but would be a shame to forget Dick (aka Richard) Driver's single from the 1980s 'Typewriter'.

    Wellington • Since Nov 2006 • 37 posts Report Reply

  • giovanni tiso,

    Really? When and where?

    The glass spider tour and the one after that. Milan stadium the first time and I'd say a smaller venue (Palatrussardi) the one after. On both occasions he made us wait for it too - our cheering was probably not grovelling enough in the end.

    Wellington • Since Jun 2007 • 7473 posts Report Reply

  • Simon Grigg,

    On the two occasions I saw him perform, he looked like a fucker who wouldn't come out for encores.

    78 at Western Springs he did a mean Stay & Hang on to Yourself as encores if memory is correct. Mind you, the state I, and pretty much anyone else I knew, was in, most anything would've sounded pretty mean...

    Just another klong... • Since Nov 2006 • 3284 posts Report Reply

  • Adrian Humm,

    Dargaville • Since Nov 2006 • 16 posts Report Reply

  • Bruce Wurr,

    My memory of the glass spider tour in 87(?) at western springs is that he did at least 2 encores.......but I could be confusing that with Pink Floyd and the Genesis ones - hey, it was a long time ago! It was a good concert all the same.

    I know I'm asking for it by looking at the "Your Comments" section but I can't believe the bile and disgusting comments appearing after Audrey Young's article on Sue Bradford in the Herald. Seriously - is this what people really think?

    Auckland • Since Dec 2006 • 97 posts Report Reply

  • Isabel Hitchings,

    Aha - Glass Spider and (I think the one you saw would have been) Sound+Vision were the ones he hated doing so he probably was all grumpy. When I saw him in 2004 he was in full on "cheerful geezer" mode and we got a rocking encore of Five Years, Suffragette City and Ziggy Stardust.

    Christchurch • Since Jul 2007 • 719 posts Report Reply

  • Joe Wylie,

    78 at Western Springs . . .

    Along with the weather, Bowie's manner that night lent a special warmth to a great show. The lowered lighting and sound-tower speaker-jumping during the intro to Station to Station confounded the sense of scale, setting up a kind of intimacy that lasted through to the the encores. Then again, substances may well have enhanced the experience.

    Few would have known how sick Bob Marley was when he performed there a few months later. His distant tranced-out performance couldn't have been a greater contrast with the outgoing Mr. B. Very much the opposite of what might have been expected.

    flat earth • Since Jan 2007 • 4593 posts Report Reply

  • Danielle,

    sound-tower speaker-jumping during the intro to Station to Station

    I love that song *so much*, like a crazy embarrassing gushy amount, so if I expressed truthfully how much I loved it you would probably back away from me nodding and smiling and hoping I didn't go for your jugular. I am unhinged about it. He didn't (perhaps understandably) play it in 2004. I would kill to have seen it live. Unfortunately I was three for most of 1978, so my concert-going was fairly limited...

    Charo World. Cuchi-cuchi!… • Since Nov 2006 • 3828 posts Report Reply

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