DAVID BOWIE CONTINUES TO COVER NEW GROUND ON THE INTERNET

DATE: FEBRUARY 19, 1999

FROM: TRESA REDBURN/MITCH SCHNEIDER

DAVID BOWIE
CONTINUES TO COVER NEW GROUND
ON THE INTERNET

Once again DAVID BOWIE is entering a new realm on the Internet–this time as a reviewer for barnesandnoble.com at www.barnesandnoble.com. BOWIE is now a regularly featured book reviewer and this month critiques Most Art Sucks: Five Years of Coagula, written by Walter Robinson and Tom Patchett, providing a unique insight and personal ancedotes on the art world such as: "This small collection of articles and features from the last five years of the renegade art magazine Coagula tremble with indignation and righteousness from the vantage point of the metaphysical gutter…Surprisingly, shimmering uneasily next to the rants are several raves. A lovely tribute, organized by Finch, to the late Ray Johnson is particularly cherished by me, as Johnson and I spent several evenings together in the mid-70s when we shared the same downtown drug dealer. He threw off several portraits of me on two of those occasions though I was too shy to ask for one…Founded upon the same missionary principles as the U.K.'s 18th century Black Dwarf or today's Private Eye, Coagula has the voice and eye of the child in Anderson's fairy tale 'The Kings New Clothes.' This little boy, though, is spiteful, meritorious and irresistible."

Last month, BOWIE wrote a thoughtful and amusing review of Barney Hoskyns' Glam, which ended with: "I obviously can't speak up for Bolan or Roxy Music, but the section on David Bowie is halfway accurate. Though only half…but I would say that, wouldn't I?" BOWIE will be writing at least two reviews per month for barnesandnoble.com.

While online book reviews may be a new area for BOWIE, writing for distinguished publications is not. BOWIE has written features for U.K. newspapers such as the Daily Telegraph, (Florence Biennale `96), The Independent ("Death, Passion and Contradiction" with Damien Hirst) and the Evening Standard ("Bowie On Kossoff"), as well as having penned multiple articles for major U.K. magazines such as Q and Modern Painter. In the U.S., he has written for Interview and Ray Gun.

Elsewhere on his very own ISP BowieNet, as previously reported, BOWIE had been running a songwriting contest for "What's Really Happening," where he asked members of BowieNet to help him co-write lyrics. Just this week, BOWIE announced the winner: Alex Grant. Grant will receive a $15,000 publishing contract from Bug Music, a VIP trip to New York (where he'll join BOWIE for the recording of the song), a one-year subscription to BowieNet, a complete Bowie catalogue, $500 worth of music from CDNow and a three-year subscription to Rolling Stone. In other BowieNet news, this special artist-owned ISP was recently launched in the United Kingdom and is expected to be worldwide by the end of the century.