Hard News: Bowie for the BDO?
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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
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Also, if you're going to WoW, this may be useful:
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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?
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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
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And for a little retro, try this. Sorry. technology didn't get to a video of the performer.
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He looks less than stellar here
I’ll be happy if I look like that at his age.
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Bit for Greenbay fans to keep the Mech Man humming:
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Obvious I know..Trons
Oh yes and red dust here in Mamaku -
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.
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Daft Punk, Robot Rock.
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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.
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Someone had to...
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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.
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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.
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Apropos nothing... if James Dean lived
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On the two occasions I saw him perform, he looked like a fucker who wouldn't come out for encores.
Really? When and where?
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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'.
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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.
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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...
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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?
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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.
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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.
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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...
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