Bowie for Glastonbury.

[Zoo Music Girl]

It is true: several dates at Hammersmith Apollo in Aug and Sep. Tickets on sale next Friday.

It's a huge deal. Doubt I'll go but some of my friends will shit themselves with excitement.

[FloorFiller]

katebush.com seems to have crashed

[smudger]

its

Tuesday, 26th August
Wednesday, 27th August
Friday, 29th August
Saturday, 30th August

Tuesday, 2nd September
Wednesday, 3rd September
Friday, 5th September
Saturday, 6th September
Tuesday, 9th September
Wednesday, 10th September
Friday, 12th September
Saturday, 13th September
Tuesday, 16th September
Wednesday, 17th September
Friday, 19th September

Tickets will go on sale at 9.30 am next Friday, 28th March 2014 here

www.eventim.co.uk
www.gigsandtours.com
www.ticketmaster.co.uk

Edited March 21, 2014 by smudger

[stuartbert two hats]

Good God, it's true. This is bigger news than Bowie coming back, whether it's more exciting or not is up to you, but it is bigger news.

[Zoo Music Girl]

Yeah, it is! Whenever I hear 'big live news', though, I always leap to Bowie...

[Wooderson]

Visconti touring that week. Not with Dave obv.

[DJL]

Opened this page and saw tour dates, then "Good god it's true" and "yeah it is". Was briefly very excited.

[glasto-worker]

I didn't see his appearance at Phoenix, but I'm not sure it's considered a classic.

I also had tickets for TITP the year he bailed.

SCUNNERED

If you mean The Phoenix festival when Bowie sang on Thursday 18th of July 1996 then I am not surprised as very few people were able to see it - I worked at them all so I was already onsite so I saw the whole concert - was a bit puzzled why it was so quiet { many wandered off after The Prodigy } - I was told later there was some screw up over people arriving but what the specific reason was I don't have a clue as I was miles away from the entrance - between 96 and 97 I must have seen him a good five or six times { all mean fiddler events } so they all merge into one.

There is a few youtube clips although I suspect the ones claiming to be from 1996 is 1997 as the claimed 1996 clips look a lot more crowded than what I remember.

its a shame Vince pulled the plug as I did like working there.

there is a old posting that shows the line up for 1996 so these are not my images

[dentalplan]

If you mean The Phoenix festival when Bowie sang on Thursday 18th of July 1996 then I am not surprised as very few people were able to see it - I worked at them all so I was already onsite so I saw the whole concert - was a bit puzzled why it was so quiet { many wandered off after The Prodigy } - I was told later there was some screw up over people arriving but what the specific reason was I don't have a clue as I was miles away from the entrance - between 96 and 97 I must have seen him a good five or six times { all mean fiddler events } so they all merge into one.

My parents said they were in an enormous traffic jam on approach to the fest and missed Bowie so that might've been it.

Edited January 6, 2015 by dentalplan

[jonodillieono]

never seen 00.30 been written as 24.30 before

[glasto-worker]

My parents said they were in an enormous traffic jam on approach to the fest and missed Bowie so that might've been it.

Someone was supposed to open up certain car parks but there was a mix up and gates were not open - have no clue why it did not get sorted straight away - all I know was there was lots of unhappy people walking about on the Friday and they claimed the jam ran back onto the M40. { which was a fair old distance from the airfield - about 6 or 7 miles away }

I also heard that even the ones who were able to get parked had a problem getting their tickets processed - so it was one balls up after another.

It was a Glastonbury gap year so more tickets were sold than the previous years.

I think that is why he was on the bill in 1997 because so many missed him in 1996.

[russycarps]

oof just looked at the setlist from that gig, expecting it to be a load of shit.

I'd have been gutted to have missed it because of a lousy traffic jam...

1. Look Back in Anger
2. Scary Monsters (And Super Creeps)
3. The Hearts Filthy Lesson
4. Outside
5. Aladdin Sane (1913-1938-197?)
6. The Voyeur of Utter Destruction (As Beauty)
7. The Man Who Sold the World
8. Hallo Spaceboy
9. Breaking Glass
10. Telling Lies
11. Jump They Say
12. Under Pressure
    (Queen & David Bowie cover)
13. "Heroes"
14. Strangers When We Meet
15. Lust for Life
    (Iggy Pop cover)
16. All the Young Dudes
    (Mott the Hoople cover)
17. White Light/White Heat
    (The Velvet Underground cover)
18. Moonage Daydream

[glasto-worker]

oof just looked at the setlist from that gig, expecting it to be a load of shit.

I'd have been gutted to have missed it because of a lousy traffic jam...

I suspect the reason why it got a bad write up is due to reporters not actually being there .

I have read rubbish like ' Many Bowie fans walked off when he started singing ' - sure some fans walked off but I suspect they were not Bowie fans they were Prodigy fans and went off to see whatever.

[russycarps]

That's a set-list I wouldn't have been bothered about missing tbh

you'd rather sit in a traffic jam than see the likes of heroes, moonage daydream, the man who sold the world, aladdin sane etc?

Fair enough.

[CaledonianGonzo]

A radical drumm & bass 'reimagining' of Moonage Daydream, no less.

[stuartbert two hats]

Opened this page and saw tour dates, then "Good god it's true" and "yeah it is". Was briefly very excited.

I just saw your post, and also got very excited, before realising I was excited about you being excited about me being excited about Kate Bush!

[russycarps]

not for those few,no. But most of the rest of the set is why I never bothered to see him in his later years

I honestly thought there would be hardly any "hits" in the setlist at all.

I hadnt considered what sort of arrangements they'd be though I must admit.

[glasto-worker]

not for those few,no. But most of the rest of the set is why I never bothered to see him in his later years

He wasn't particularly great around that time

sorry but you just wrote ' I never bothered to see him in his later years ' so how would you know ?

No one is expecting him to have the same energy of his gigs in the 70's

really if you cant be bothered to see him you cant really claim anything .

I saw him five or six times over those two years and it was well worth being there.

[Wooderson]

That Phoenix line up always makes me envious. Great weather too.

[Gnomicide]

there is a old posting that shows the line up for 1996 so these are not my images

Loving that Friday line up.

[glasto-worker]

Loving that Friday line up.

Neil Young was also signed up with Vince so I saw him at loads of concerts including Finsbury Park 11 July 1993 - The London Fleadh Finsbury Park Saturday 16th June 2001 and many other events - you just cant beat it Bowie on the Thursday and Young on the Friday - I was working in the Guest area bar { may have been called the VIP area } and I swapped a shift so worked early on the Thursday - Friday and Sunday but missed the Saturday night.

[The Nal]

nothing to do with the energy, it's the crap material he was releasing and performing on his tours. I went a couple of times and didn't like him, then saw some videos of his later shows, which confirmed he hadn't got any better.

There was a brief respite when he did Glastonbury and played mostly his better (older) material with a good band

The Reality Tour was off the hook. Wasn't expecting a setlist this good . Great band too.

Its a shame his heart packed in around then. From 1999 onwards he was really going through a rejuvenation. He was finally comfortable playing the classic stuff, and playing it well. Heathen and Reality are good albums too.

[russycarps]

The Reality Tour was off the hook. Wasn't expecting a setlist this good . Great band too.

Its a shame his heart packed in around then. From 1999 onwards he was really going through a rejuvenation. He was finally comfortable playing the classic stuff, and playing it well. Heathen and Reality are good albums too.

yep, his "brief respite" lasted 4 and a half years..

[eFestivals]

That Phoenix line up always makes me envious.

just about all line-ups look better from a historical viewpoint than they do at the time, due to the smaller bands on the bill getting bigger.

[The Nal]

I didn't like Heathen or Reality much. So, for me, it was a brief respite

They were possibly his best albums in over 20 years at that point. I was never a fan really beyond the greatest hits up until then. Too many memories of my old man listening to Never Let Me Down and Tonight which out me off.