I spent the night with David Bowie
Jul. 22nd, 2004 10:58 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dream_labyrinthSomething I forgot because of the bad weather and everything bothering me:
I had a wonderful night last night.
My dear friend Michael had told me that Arte, a German-French TV station would show some pieces of the Hurricane festival, were David Bowie performed right before his surgery. So I kicked my parents out of the living room yesterday night and stayed up to watch it. The first great thing was to see Ray Cokes doing the presentation, well known back from the times MTV was only in English. He did i in French, though, which sounded really cool. There also was a stupid girl from German TV there, but clearly Ray was the person who knew what he was doing, and she was just there to look good.
Anyway, I had to wait through The Hives, Franz Ferdinand, The Prodigy and several other bands before they finally announced the highlight of the show. Clearly, just as myself they considered David Bowie as the most important, best and greatest act at the festival. They only had three songs they showed on TV, All the young dudes, I'm afraid of Americans and Heroes. It was great. It's a pity our TV screen is not very large. I'd prefer something like movie theater size. But he is so impressive, he doesn't need all kinds of funny things like other singers, he doesn't need to tell the audience to clap with the rhythm. He's just there and everybody listens.
At the festival, there are people with very different tastes in music. With all the other bands, some people just sat around waiting for tht particular show to be over. But not with David Bowie.
It is all the more impressive knowing that right afterwards he had to have surgery. He must have felt something was wrong while he was up on stage, but he didn't show it. On the contrary, it seemed as if he had a really good time. He doesn't need to prove anything anymore. So he can just enjoy himself up on stage and have fun. That got communicated to the audience, I think, and that is what made the show so cool.
There was a little bit of The Cure after David Bowie, which was nice, too. I haven't heard much of them lately and they are still pretty good.
So when I went to bed last night - early today, actually - I was in a really good mood. And remembering it now cheers me up, too.
I had a wonderful night last night.
My dear friend Michael had told me that Arte, a German-French TV station would show some pieces of the Hurricane festival, were David Bowie performed right before his surgery. So I kicked my parents out of the living room yesterday night and stayed up to watch it. The first great thing was to see Ray Cokes doing the presentation, well known back from the times MTV was only in English. He did i in French, though, which sounded really cool. There also was a stupid girl from German TV there, but clearly Ray was the person who knew what he was doing, and she was just there to look good.
Anyway, I had to wait through The Hives, Franz Ferdinand, The Prodigy and several other bands before they finally announced the highlight of the show. Clearly, just as myself they considered David Bowie as the most important, best and greatest act at the festival. They only had three songs they showed on TV, All the young dudes, I'm afraid of Americans and Heroes. It was great. It's a pity our TV screen is not very large. I'd prefer something like movie theater size. But he is so impressive, he doesn't need all kinds of funny things like other singers, he doesn't need to tell the audience to clap with the rhythm. He's just there and everybody listens.
At the festival, there are people with very different tastes in music. With all the other bands, some people just sat around waiting for tht particular show to be over. But not with David Bowie.
It is all the more impressive knowing that right afterwards he had to have surgery. He must have felt something was wrong while he was up on stage, but he didn't show it. On the contrary, it seemed as if he had a really good time. He doesn't need to prove anything anymore. So he can just enjoy himself up on stage and have fun. That got communicated to the audience, I think, and that is what made the show so cool.
There was a little bit of The Cure after David Bowie, which was nice, too. I haven't heard much of them lately and they are still pretty good.
So when I went to bed last night - early today, actually - I was in a really good mood. And remembering it now cheers me up, too.
