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linger

Mon, 01 Feb 2016 23:12:26 +1300

David Bowie: Verbatim (BBC Radio 4, 30 Jan 2016). 1 hour of David Bowie in his own words. Available to stream (indefinitely) or as a MP3 download (until the end of February).

John Morton

Sat, 30 Jan 2016 17:33:11 +1300

An MTV interview from '95, interesting in it's own right, but the bits about Giorgio Moroder will particularly amuse Russell:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zri74q3HDDY

Jonathan Ganley

Sat, 23 Jan 2016 12:02:16 +1300

Boston Rd, Auckland, 1993.

David Hood

Thu, 21 Jan 2016 19:02:16 +1300

I thought this article on public grief in the Internet age was worth reading

http://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2016/01/enter-the-grief-police/424746/

David Hood

Wed, 20 Jan 2016 09:03:31 +1300

Heh

http://www.nme.com/blogs/nme-blogs/coldplay-discuss-the-time-david-bowie-shot-down-their-collaboration-request-its-not-a-very-good-song

Russell Brown

Tue, 19 Jan 2016 12:08:03 +1300

…not only that,
he killed him off a year too early!

Ha! That went right past me.

Ian Dalziel

Tue, 19 Jan 2016 11:11:04 +1300

He’s made a video...
...not only that,
he killed him off a year too early!

linger

Tue, 19 Jan 2016 09:09:00 +1300

Fair few musical connections around Red Dwarf. Actresses for the series included Clare Grogan (lead singer for Altered Images) as Kristine Kochanski in series 1-6, and singer Suzanne Rhatigan (whose album To Hell With Love featured several songs co-written by Craig Charles) as one of the aspects of the GELF…

Russell Brown

Tue, 19 Jan 2016 09:04:23 +1300

the actor who played Cat on Red Dwarf once sung backup vocals for Bowie

Woah. Swirly Thing Alert. This is an Awesome Fact.

Danny John-Jules. He's made a video of him and others working with Bowie on the Labyrinth soundtrack, set to the original, unheard, version of 'Chilly Down', when…

Rob Hosking

Tue, 19 Jan 2016 06:52:35 +1300

the actor who played Cat on Red Dwarf once sung backup vocals for Bowie

Woah. Swirly Thing Alert. This is an Awesome Fact.

Paul Campbell

Mon, 18 Jan 2016 22:57:02 +1300

What I learned today: the actor who played Cat on Red Dwarf once sung backup vocals for Bowie

Lee Jensen

Mon, 18 Jan 2016 12:41:23 +1300

Two cents worth – as far as neglected treats go, I've always liked Jump They Say, from Black Tie White Noise, and as is often my circumstance, I saw (rather than heard) it first. Directed by Mark Romanek (who also directed the video for the Bjork penned Madonna song Bedtime…

Andrew C

Mon, 18 Jan 2016 10:39:28 +1300

George Kay's interview with Bowie for Rip It Up in Christchurch in 1978, before the show. Pics by Laurence Aberhart.

I'm pleased to say the aberhart pic on the right survived, it sits on my bedroom wall. I hope the left hand one is living somewhere equally loved.

Gary Elshaw

Mon, 18 Jan 2016 09:57:43 +1300

Sortof related. 1:18 into the Underground video. The original animated gif :-) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CwVqOs3Aess

David Hood

Sun, 17 Jan 2016 11:50:38 +1300

Starman...

http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/belgian-astronomers-pay-tribute-to-david-bowie-with-new-constellation-20160116

Russell Brown

Sat, 16 Jan 2016 17:36:12 +1300

And why has policespeak become so weird?
Burgles? not as a verb but a plural? who knows?
Shoplifts? I am grammatically insulted and let’s not go into the firearms charge, too weird for words.

Jesus. I'm scared to look now. I might start shouting things to the rest of the…

Steve Barnes

Sat, 16 Jan 2016 14:51:58 +1300

After reading the Steve Braunias article I made the mistake of reading other pieces in the rag we laughingly refer to as or “National Newspaper”
NZ’s youngest offender only 3 years old the article was called “3 year old accused of stealing teddy” but for some reason the Herald…

Mike O'Connell

Sat, 16 Jan 2016 11:21:31 +1300

Steve Braunias this morning in the Herald looks at the stories behind five songs from Bowie's back catalogue http://www.nzherald.co.nz/entertainment/news/article.cfm?c_id=1501119&objectid=11574554

Russell Brown

Sat, 16 Jan 2016 10:48:35 +1300

Ah! There’s an instance of Alan Yentob’s 1975 film Cracked Actor on YouTube that has somehow survived the copyright cops since 2013. I gather Bowie’s misgivings about the film’s very raw depiction of him may have been a factor in its rarity over the years.

It’s Yentob’s first production for…

linger

Sat, 16 Jan 2016 01:06:33 +1300

The Mitch Benn tribute to Bowie has just been repeated as predicted. Currently available to stream until February 12th.

David Hood

Fri, 15 Jan 2016 21:53:19 +1300

A Choncords backstory

http://nerdist.com/flight-of-the-conchords-jemaine-clement-wrote-about-his-hero-david-bowie/

Steve Barnes

Fri, 15 Jan 2016 17:07:33 +1300

The Timaru Herald is a spoof news source, like the Onion orThe Croydon Advertiser…

….. Old Coulsdon man delivered David Bowie’s milk in summer of ’69
Chris, who went to Quernmore School, said Bowie – a former Croydon College pupil – ordered three bottles of silver top milk…

Hugh Wilson

Fri, 15 Jan 2016 14:12:31 +1300

The girl with the red shoes ..

http://www.sbs.com.au/nitv/nitv-news/article/2016/01/14/joelene-king-dress-reminder-amazing-man-david-bowie-and-what-can-be-achieved

Rich of Observationz

Fri, 15 Jan 2016 13:41:59 +1300

The Timaru Herald is a spoof news source, like the Onion or Waterford Whispers, right?

Alan Perrott

Fri, 15 Jan 2016 13:04:48 +1300

oh bollocks to that, it was a great idea and I suspect Bowie would have enjoyed the joke.

Scott Michael Savidge

Fri, 15 Jan 2016 11:11:31 +1300

Dangerous Minds spots a very non-excellent tribute here from Timaru...

Grant McDougall

Fri, 15 Jan 2016 10:58:32 +1300

George Kay’s interview with Bowie for Rip It Up in Christchurch in 1978, before the show. Pics by Laurence Aberhart.

Excellent interview with George about Bowie in Tuesday's ODT here

Excellent editorial on Bowie in Wednesday's ODT here

Hugh Wilson

Fri, 15 Jan 2016 10:36:03 +1300

Quick little tribute by Canada's Scratch Bastid

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8nKb2JC7Qn0

Tim Michie

Fri, 15 Jan 2016 10:06:23 +1300

Cancer…

Ben Austin

Fri, 15 Jan 2016 00:14:18 +1300

Just saw on the NYT site a Bowie story with Iggy Pop, on all the help the former gave Iggy. Interesting stuff and there is a 12 minute video from a 1970s (i think) tv show where the two are interviewed together. Quite neat.

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/14/arts/music/david-bowie-iggy-pop.html?ref=topics

Hebe

Thu, 14 Jan 2016 23:28:26 +1300

Intellectuals can be fans too. ;-)

Of course! I meant over-thinking the gut punch. Everyone to their own way of grief and loss.

I've found all this confusing. I didn't think I was much of a fan person yet I am grieving: no more projects, no more reinventions, no more…

Kumara Republic

Thu, 14 Jan 2016 19:18:28 +1300

If anyone deserves a final send-off into the solar system, like James Doohan…

David Bowie’s body cremated in New York, say reports

Hilary Stace

Thu, 14 Jan 2016 18:42:55 +1300

I really enjoyed Matinee Idle that Bowie day. I thought they were respectful but not hagiographic and I learnt a lot. The Ngati Toa piece was very interesting.

David Hood

Thu, 14 Jan 2016 16:22:54 +1300

In the sea of serendipity, I see another child of January 8th, Elvis,, did an unreleased song on mortality "Black Star" http://dangerousminds.net/comments/bowie_elvis_warhol_black_star_connection_popism_eats_itself

Though it is also a term for a cancer related lesion.

Mike O'Connell

Thu, 14 Jan 2016 15:45:46 +1300

Bring in guests, play country music, rai, acrobat, rocksteady and the records that well-known songs imitated or sampled.

I suggest this kind of feature such as The Pips in 'the inaugural edition of Summer Music 101's very own (and very serious) music awards' – on Boxing Day, hosted…

George Darroch

Thu, 14 Jan 2016 13:56:12 +1300

Whereas, RadioActive put on a very good show.

Radio Active 88.6FM
Tuesday Drive.
4 to 5pm.
David Bowie – Suffragette City.
David Bowie – Oh, You Pretty Things.
David Bowie – Drive In Saturday.
David Bowie – Running Gun Blues.
David Bowie – Love Is Lost.
David Bowie – Young…

Bart Janssen

Thu, 14 Jan 2016 09:06:07 +1300

And isn’t that the easiest thing to do?

You are right. Except it wasn't that easy to find a non-commercial radio playing that day and when i heard RNZ was doing it I thought hey they usually make a good fist of things.

For me the worst part was the…

David Hood

Thu, 14 Jan 2016 09:01:55 +1300

but she knew who he was

I would guess Labyrinth was probably the last time Bowie as an icon had a formative influence on a growing generation, rather than being seen as an artist doing interesting thing in relation to what he had done before.

nzlemming

Thu, 14 Jan 2016 00:05:11 +1300

Who's david Bowie. Is he anyone to do with the Bowie knife
No body knew.

A friend of a friend on FB noted that she'd never really been into Bowie, but she knew who he was – she'd listened to her mum's records #ouch

nzlemming

Thu, 14 Jan 2016 00:03:09 +1300

And this animation is just sweet as a follow on as well http://www.openculture.com/2014/09/david-bowie-brian-enos-collaboration-on-warszawa-reimagined-in-comic-animation.html

Awesome! Actual LOL. "No way! I've done two takes. Stuff it up your bum!"

Sofie Bribiesca

Wed, 13 Jan 2016 23:23:29 +1300

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iq0XJCJ1Srw

Sofie Bribiesca

Wed, 13 Jan 2016 23:22:50 +1300

As extensions of the Bowie 5 years doco

God that was good/ A friends kid was at the pub the yesterday. He said. "Who's david Bowie. Is he anyone to do with the Bowie knife
No body knew. Later someone metioned it. I explained ,yes it did. Kids from the…

Sacha

Wed, 13 Jan 2016 23:13:34 +1300

But instead we get these two guys playing novelty records and laughing at their own jokes. It's such a waste of those hours.

Welli, the worst of. #shame

David Hood

Wed, 13 Jan 2016 21:55:31 +1300

As extensions of the Bowie 5 years doco, the Rolling Stone piece by Nile Rodgers is a good read http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/nile-rodgers-on-how-little-richard-jazz-and-museums-shaped-david-bowie-20160112

And this animation is just sweet as a follow on as well http://www.openculture.com/2014/09/david-bowie-brian-enos-collaboration-on-warszawa-reimagined-in-comic-animation.html

Sofie Bribiesca

Wed, 13 Jan 2016 20:27:18 +1300

I don’t enjoy the show’s format at the best of times and I turned it off fairly quickly today.

And isn't that the easiest thing to do? So many folks have expressed themselves about the one man that has influenced many lives, and I think that's a good thing. Do…

Joe Wylie

Wed, 13 Jan 2016 17:53:38 +1300

The trouble with Matinee Idle is that it very effectively satirises an under-financed radio station playing self-indulgent dreck for 30 hours a week.

The few times I've listened I'm reminded of a long-departed friend who, with his darkly cynical sense of humour, never tired of predicting that the excesses of…

Russell Brown

Wed, 13 Jan 2016 17:40:24 +1300

Unfortunately, rather than (after the fashion of Steve Coogan) condensing this into a one-shot, half hour programme, they do the satire on the grand canvas of an actual radio station, 30 hours a week for six weeks. This is a bit much.

I think, in the end, this is what…

Rich of Observationz

Wed, 13 Jan 2016 16:45:40 +1300

The trouble with Matinee Idle is that it very effectively satirises an under-financed radio station playing self-indulgent dreck for 30 hours a week.

Unfortunately, rather than (after the fashion of Steve Coogan) condensing this into a one-shot, half hour programme, they do the satire on the grand canvas of an…

Paul Campbell

Wed, 13 Jan 2016 14:31:59 +1300

I find MI insufferable some years and enjoy it others, I suspect it has more to do with me than them ... It is after all a fill in for the journalistic silly season

Soon Lee

Wed, 13 Jan 2016 07:12:27 +1300

https://youtu.be/FiK7s_0tGsg
Bowie with Jeremy Paxman in 1999.
The Internet? Bowie got it.
ETA: Annnd I see Russell already posted it.

I think if you're already a fan of Matinee Idle you would have appreciated their Bowie tribute, but clearly that's a small percentage of RNZ's listenership. If you're not a…

George Darroch

Tue, 12 Jan 2016 22:51:25 +1300

And this one too. It was a farewell, and we didn’t know it.

Say goodbye to the thrills of life
When love was good, when love was bad
Wave goodbye to the life without pain
Say hello, your beautiful girl

Say hello to the lunatic men
Tell them your secrets…

izogi

Tue, 12 Jan 2016 22:17:27 +1300

I’m unsure how I’d cope beyond small doses, but I enjoy Matinee Idle. As far as today was concerned, I figured that if I’d wanted to hear major hits again and again then I’d go to Youtube, or any number of other sources. Not being highly invested in the music…

George Darroch

Tue, 12 Jan 2016 21:51:38 +1300

Look up here, I’m in heaven.

…
Ain’t it just like me?

https://youtu.be/y-JqH1M4Ya8

This stunning album deserves repetition. We’ll remember him for everything else, and we’ll remember him for this.

nzlemming

Tue, 12 Jan 2016 21:46:38 +1300

I don't enjoy the show's format at the best of times and I turned it off fairly quickly today.

Yeah, I'm the same, so I didn't bother. Shame, it could be good, but somebody removed adult supervision a few seasons ago and it's all too self-indulgent now.

Chris Morris

Tue, 12 Jan 2016 21:43:49 +1300

The concert at Athletic Park was part of the Serious Moonlight tour which Uncle Google tells me was 24th November 1983

Russell Brown

Tue, 12 Jan 2016 21:26:49 +1300

Dangerous Minds has a great post:

These fan-shot clips of David Bowie and the Spiders from Mars in Dunstable, supporting the then brand-new Ziggy Stardust album on June 21, 1972, have been sync’d up to live recordings. I’m unsure if the audio is from the same show, sometimes they’re really…

Russell Brown

Tue, 12 Jan 2016 21:07:46 +1300

Even if the DJs wanted to offer less played tracks I found their tone of mixed jocularity and “fuck what the punters want” to be less than pleasant.

Can’t say it made me feel better on a day of sadness.

I was guilty of a negative tweet or two. I…

nzlemming

Tue, 12 Jan 2016 20:32:23 +1300

Prime TV are re-running the David Bowie: Five Years doco at 8.30pm tonight.

Thanks for that. Saw this in time and the DVR is on. Vodafone/Sky still says it's Leonard Cohen, but it's recording and that's what matters.

JP Hansen

Tue, 12 Jan 2016 19:33:49 +1300

Regarding that earlier posted famous gif which failed to embed correctly (which I thought was brilliant), here's the backstory and some more of the artist's work.

vice.com/read/the-story-behind-that-famous-gif-of-all-of-david-bowies-hairstyles

Kumara Republic

Tue, 12 Jan 2016 19:02:39 +1300

Here's my visual tribute to the Starman himself.

Bart Janssen

Tue, 12 Jan 2016 18:49:09 +1300

with a heap of abuse.

eh I thought folks expressed their disappointment that the tribute was not the one they were hoping for.

Even if the DJs wanted to offer less played tracks I found their tone of mixed jocularity and "fuck what the punters want" to be less than…

Rob Hosking

Tue, 12 Jan 2016 18:09:20 +1300

And yet not unexpectedly, the non-conformist Bowie tribute that was this afternoon’s Matinee Idle was met with a heap of abuse.

Yeah. That was extraordinarily meanspirited.

Soon Lee

Tue, 12 Jan 2016 17:50:48 +1300

A propos, the non-conformity Bowie represented is intriguingly confusing for those FM radio stations, the very definition of conformity, the home of boxes with labels. Today I've heard quite a few of his songs aired, but you can hear the programmers' thought wheels turning: "We're rock, aren't we? Rebel Rebel…

Sacha

Tue, 12 Jan 2016 17:45:03 +1300

Prime TV are re-running the David Bowie: Five Years doco at 8.30pm tonight. From a review:

What this film does is tell Bowie’s ascent to mega-stardom in five different years of his career. The first is about Bowie as the glam-rock superstar Ziggy Stardust while the second year focuses on…

simon g

Tue, 12 Jan 2016 17:44:19 +1300

It's actually quite a relief that Bowie's tributes are happening in the political off-season. Nobody is having to pretend (tweets are a choice, answering interview questions less so). Hearing the hacks (not only Key) tell us how they were inspired by [memo to staffer: insert hastily Googled album title here]…

Russell Brown

Tue, 12 Jan 2016 17:04:50 +1300

is there significance in the PM not tweeting about this?

Not really. It was light-hearted. But David Cameron and Andrew Little have ...

Soon Lee

Tue, 12 Jan 2016 16:04:36 +1300

Matinee Idle just played that bit of Bowie on "Extras".

Mike O'Connell

Tue, 12 Jan 2016 15:58:05 +1300

He's been out jamming with the Mick Jaggernauts...the lyrics are brilliant!

Who recalls this, Bowie's ode to the Chubby Little Loser (aka Ricky Gervais) in Extras
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ge7S6-Ta3yg

And more Ricky Gervais, talking about Bowie in 2008
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cYeIqneQKA0

izogi

Tue, 12 Jan 2016 15:53:34 +1300

Philip Matthews noted on Twitter just now that we haven’t had a Bowie tweet from John Key

I’m not sure what I’m supposed to take from such a comment, but at the risk of a political distraction to some otherwise wonderful reminiscing which has caused me to reflect on how…

Joe Wylie

Tue, 12 Jan 2016 15:41:14 +1300

Big ups to the unknown author of this.

Ian Dalziel

Tue, 12 Jan 2016 15:26:29 +1300

generic “Bowie” parody
respectfully I offer...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f4zV4pJ8MwM

Kumara Republic

Tue, 12 Jan 2016 15:25:21 +1300

I also saw his tour at Athletic Park 5 years later – not the Glass Spider one. A lot better stage performance but not as much soul there.

Speaking of the Glass Spider tour...

Kiwi urban myth about David Bowie's Glass Spider tour finally put to rest

Russell Brown

Tue, 12 Jan 2016 15:22:49 +1300

To anyone who ever grew up in a conformist community, where [INSERT NON-MAINSTREAM ACTIVITY HERE] was frowned on if you’re lucky, or got you beaten up or worse if you weren’t, Bowie told us it’s okay to be different in the most emphatic way possible: he lived it.

Philip Matthews…

linger

Tue, 12 Jan 2016 15:07:26 +1300

every generation has had a unique Bowie that is their own to remember. From each unique starting point many of us have then explored the other Bowies
This point was quite well made by Mitch Benn in September 2015. (The episode is currently unavailable, but there's a good chance it'll…

andin

Tue, 12 Jan 2016 15:06:29 +1300

Was introduced to Bowie when schoolfriend Alastair Riddell got his records.
Many hours listening to them. Amazing
The Western Springs concert ’78? was it. Amazing sound
The intro train was incredible. and Bowie superb.
He has gone gracefully into that void after life
Bye David

Soon Lee

Tue, 12 Jan 2016 15:04:55 +1300

To anyone who ever grew up in a conformist community, where [INSERT NON-MAINSTREAM ACTIVITY HERE] was frowned on if you're lucky, or got you beaten up or worse if you weren't, Bowie told us it's okay to be different in the most emphatic way possible: he lived it.

Alan Perrott

Tue, 12 Jan 2016 14:54:20 +1300

just to add another to the pile, a Radio Soulwax Bowie mix

https://vimeo.com/53207758

and really dug your first post there Danielle.

Geoff Lealand

Tue, 12 Jan 2016 14:36:51 +1300

Intellectuals can be fans too. ;-)

nzlemming

Tue, 12 Jan 2016 14:25:18 +1300

I was only six when John Lennon died

I was 18 and I had to go onstage in a comedy after we'd heard. Not the most fun time but perhaps we tried that little bit harder.

izogi

Tue, 12 Jan 2016 14:23:18 +1300

ALL of them????

No, just the obscure and less popular stuff. It doesn't seem entirely chronological either.

Paul Campbell

Tue, 12 Jan 2016 14:20:47 +1300

Bowie Down Under (that other downunder)

Bart Janssen

Tue, 12 Jan 2016 14:16:32 +1300

We were having a discussion at work about why David Bowie's death is quite such a big deal. I don't know that we came up with any insight.

I think part of it is that Bowie spanned so many decades and in each he was so original, so every generation…

Danielle

Tue, 12 Jan 2016 14:07:46 +1300

‘I’m Patrick’…’I’m David’…’I design and sell paint brushes… and what do you do?’ …’Oh, I’m in the entertainment business’!

This delights me so much.

JP Hansen

Tue, 12 Jan 2016 14:06:34 +1300

NZ iTunes album chart as of about 10 minutes ago.

Mike O'Connell

Tue, 12 Jan 2016 13:55:28 +1300

I didn't go to QE2 1978 concert but gosh I nearly forgot, my father was on a the flight returning to Chc from Sydney. My father was sat next to (this in the days before business class),one David Bowie. They got talking, dad having no idea whatsoever who he was…

Russell Brown

Tue, 12 Jan 2016 13:42:57 +1300

Ha ha! It is pretty wayward, isn't it? I think it'll be all right.

Kevin McCready

Tue, 12 Jan 2016 13:22:19 +1300

He got it. He also got the internet in the Paxman interview as being a two way street. Wonder how many MSM still don't get that properly? BTW in the Paxman interview he said the only thing he collected was art. I've managed to find that he had Tintoretto, Rubens,…

Gareth Swain

Tue, 12 Jan 2016 13:20:08 +1300

One thing I've admired about David Bowie in recent years was that he sought new ideas in music after his commercial peak rather than rehashing his hits, and succeeded in making interesting albums. Hours..., Outside, Earthling, The Next Day, etc... they're all good and I listen to them regularly.

Ian Dalziel

Tue, 12 Jan 2016 13:12:40 +1300

There's a great Bowie aggregation here at Dangerous Minds

Peter Darlington

Tue, 12 Jan 2016 12:58:39 +1300

My husband and I are fucking sad as shit. I realised this morning this has catapulted right to the top of my personal Musician Death Sadness Rankings. I'm not sure how to create a proper post about this quite yet.

I hear ya. The deaths of Bowie, Lemmy and John…

Ian Dalziel

Tue, 12 Jan 2016 12:57:05 +1300

*Illustration by: Helen Green
from: http://blog.longreads.com/2016/01/11/david-bowie-1947-2016/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kszLwBaC4Sw
No intimations of mortality here…

Namaste to the mime who became a temporal meme
one of our writers of passage!
the g-g-g-gene-genius who came back to save us…

Danielle

Tue, 12 Jan 2016 12:53:58 +1300

I was only six when John Lennon died so I had to be retroactively sad by myself when I became a proper fan, but I was pretty crushed when George went in 2001. And Elliott Smith in 2003. This is a lot worse. Sigh.

Simon Bennett

Tue, 12 Jan 2016 12:48:36 +1300

I completely agree. Haven't felt this shocked and sad about the death of a musician since John Lennon died in 1980.

Danielle

Tue, 12 Jan 2016 12:40:23 +1300

Let me just say that I am so moved by…

Russell Brown

Tue, 12 Jan 2016 12:10:49 +1300

possibly with Bowie inspired by EC of course.

Yes, that seems to be the case.

Peter Darlington

Tue, 12 Jan 2016 12:03:21 +1300

Some excellent music nerdy for you Pete: how Bowie fathered the Sleng Teng rhythm and the Sex Pistols' 'God Save the Queen'.

Love it! I've always just presumed it was based on Eddie Cochrane but you can certainly hear it in "Hang onto yourself", possibly with Bowie inspired by EC…

Ken Double

Tue, 12 Jan 2016 11:43:23 +1300

There's this of course.

Russell Brown

Tue, 12 Jan 2016 11:42:55 +1300

Some excellent music nerdy for you Pete: how Bowie fathered the Sleng Teng rhythm and the Sex Pistols' 'God Save the Queen'.

Ken Double

Tue, 12 Jan 2016 11:30:04 +1300

He was actually a first rate writer of prose. It seemed to come more naturally than lyrics. Some mag I've forgotten commissioned him to write a series of science fiction short stories a while back and they were great. In a style of course, but that was his modus operandi.…

Peter Darlington

Tue, 12 Jan 2016 10:46:20 +1300

Nothing brings back feelings of what a remote outpost NZ was in the 1970s like David Bowie. His album covers for Ziggy, Alladin Sane, Pin Ups and Diamond Dogs between 1972-74 show him to be a completely alien presence, almost unfathomable to the reality of growing up over here. That…

Russell Brown

Tue, 12 Jan 2016 10:45:39 +1300

Noelle interviewed Hugh Lynn, who toured Bowie here three times, on RNZ earlier this morning. He made passing mention of Bowie's stage rider and she moved him on and I was all Noelle, ask him what was on the rider!!

And then I remembered that I knew, because there had…

Paul Campbell

Tue, 12 Jan 2016 10:31:24 +1300

I was also at the '78 Christchurch show ... the echo was because some bozo had set up the stage directly facing the grandstand .... where we were it was terribly annoying ... though at one amazing point Bowie started to sing to/with the echo

Russell Brown

Tue, 12 Jan 2016 10:20:39 +1300

George Kay's interview with Bowie for Rip It Up in Christchurch in 1978, before the show. Pics by Laurence Aberhart.

Robert Fox

Tue, 12 Jan 2016 10:06:10 +1300

My 14 year old daughter has just been getting into Bowie with no little help from yours truly. We listened to Hunky Dory together on holiday last week and it was great to see her and her younger sister enjoying one of my favorite albums from beginning to end. When…

Hebe

Tue, 12 Jan 2016 09:54:56 +1300

What I love about it is that it’s all of us getting to talk about how art moved and made us.

Yes! The intellectuals are starting to kick in now, which dismantles that visceral charge of being in my suburban bedroom, listening to 3ZM and hearing the thing that makes…

Richard Stewart

Tue, 12 Jan 2016 09:53:53 +1300

I have to say i was surprised at how emotional I felt – more like losing a personal friend than the passing of an admired artist. And yes I lost it when Let's Dance flooded the room last night.

Russell Brown

Tue, 12 Jan 2016 09:46:07 +1300

A photograph from another day. Jordan Luck's sister Miranda posted this pic of the (then) Dance Exponents meeting the man before playing support for Bowie at Western Springs in 1983.

Bart Janssen

Tue, 12 Jan 2016 09:34:30 +1300

RNZ National will be playing Bowie songs in chronological order from 12.30 pm today (Matinee Idle).

ALL of them????

Bart Janssen

Tue, 12 Jan 2016 09:33:01 +1300

social media

Because it's times like these we really are social.

Bowie was special, so many of his works took you straight back to the time you first heard or saw them. So many of his songs were so very new and very powerful that they marked a moment in…

simon g

Tue, 12 Jan 2016 09:25:01 +1300

RNZ National will be playing Bowie songs in chronological order from 12.30 pm today (Matinee Idle).

Russell Brown

Tue, 12 Jan 2016 09:24:21 +1300

Heard the news on my way to Jamie xx last night, and it coloured my evening somewhat.

But don't you feel lucky to have been there for what happened with 'Let's Dance'? I certainly do. I'll never forget that.

Mark Easterbrook

Tue, 12 Jan 2016 09:20:42 +1300

My 11 year old son asked to go to sleep listening to Bowie last night. I've done something right.

Russell Brown

Tue, 12 Jan 2016 09:17:27 +1300

When Jamie XX played Let’s Dance last night through that stonking sound system it was one of the most moving and exhilarating moments I have known.

Yes. I pretty much lost it. But, then, so did everyone else. It was so joyous.

And that 33 year-old Nile Rodgers production sounded…

Simon Bennett

Tue, 12 Jan 2016 09:06:57 +1300

Words are inadequate.

A couple of tiny memories: working out the lyrics to Life on Mars by stop-starting my cassette player and writing down the words phrase by phrase; and going into a hairdresser's with a black and white photo of immaculately blow-waved Bowie, and demanding to be made to…

Geoff Lealand

Tue, 12 Jan 2016 09:06:40 +1300

I think a little bit of me died last night. It was not because I was at this Christchurch concert but whilst Bowie was busy being born, so was I on the other side of the world. Irrelevant to him but increasingly important to me. Maybe it is intimations of…

Tim Michie

Tue, 12 Jan 2016 08:50:09 +1300

I hope you all were with friends when you heard the news. I'm damn glad I was. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AeQKUIZXDzc

Richard Stewart

Tue, 12 Jan 2016 08:30:54 +1300

Heard the news on my way to Jamie xx last night, and it coloured my evening somewhat. I came across this video recently, recorded live at the BBC in 1972 but not broadcast for another 10 years. Bloody fantastic.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3JWGXagA1MI

Joe Wylie

Tue, 12 Jan 2016 07:50:26 +1300

When he played Station to Station, the echo came back from the New Brighton area. Made that song very eerie. I remember my ears rang for a long time afterwards so the noise must have kept a lot of local residents up.
I also saw his tour at Athletic Park…

Chris Morris

Tue, 12 Jan 2016 07:14:09 +1300

I went to that Stages concert in Chch shown in the photo. Living in Wellington at the time but flew down just for it. The night was quite foggy. The stage was surrounded by these vertical tube lights, that flashed so it looked like they were in a cage. When…

Craig Ranapia

Tue, 12 Jan 2016 02:45:50 +1300

What I love about it is that it’s all of us getting to talk about how art moved and made us. We don’t do that often enough.

We're also really shit at saying what artists mean to us when they're still around to care. I really hope Bowie knew how…

Russell Brown

Tue, 12 Jan 2016 02:07:17 +1300

Holy shit, this is fantastic. Bowie talks about the internet to Jeremy Paxman in 2000.

https://youtu.be/Q0-51IkWpFE

Paxman's gurning in the cutaways adds the crucial element of comedy.

Russell Brown

Tue, 12 Jan 2016 01:57:46 +1300

What's been happening tonight on social media is unprecedented. Tweets that aren't about David Bowie seem a bit rude, frankly.

What I love about it is that it's all of us getting to talk about how art moved and made us. We don't do that often enough.

81stcolumn

Tue, 12 Jan 2016 01:41:01 +1300

"I had to phone someone so I picked on you. Hey, that's far out so you heard him too"

Tonight I'm okay with being a lyric bot. Other stuff not so much.

Russell Brown

Tue, 12 Jan 2016 01:10:42 +1300

Aw, man. There are a lot of my friends I want to give a hug to.

Stupid

Tue, 12 Jan 2016 00:58:50 +1300

Awesome Russell... I can nearly see it through the tears... x

Public Address

Tue, 12 Jan 2016 00:58:50 +1300

Discussion from blog post.