NASHVILLE |DATE: AUGUST 9, 1996
FROM: MITCH SCHNEIDER/TRESA REDBURN
DAVID BOWIE
DAVID BOWIE
HEADS OUT FOR THE WEEKEND:
BOWIE TO PERFORM FOUR SPECIAL
BALLROOM SHOWS ON EAST COAST
ON TWO CONSECUTIVE WEEKENDS IN SEPTEMBER,
ON A BREAK FROM RECORDING HIS NEW ALBUM;
HE‰S ALSO GARNERING RAVE REVIEWS
FOR HIS WARHOL PORTRAYAL
IN THE MIRAMAX FILM BASQUIAT
Taking weekends off from recording his next Virgin album in New York, DAVID BOWIE will perform four special ballroom shows over two consecutive weekends in September on the east coast. The cities, dates and venues are as follows: Philadelphia (9/6 at the Electric Factory), Washington, D.C. (9/7, Capitol Ballroom), Boston (9/13, Avalon Ballroom) and finally New York City (9/14, Roseland Ballroom). Tickets for the shows go on sale August 9 (Philadelphia), August 17 (Washington, D.C. and Boston) and August 23 (New York).
After touring around the world for nearly a year and headlining festival dates in front of 30,000 to 90,000 fans, BOWIE wanted to perform several gigs–on the weekend and within driving distance from his current New York activities–in a more intimate setting. And if his recent overseas shows are any indication, the BOWIE set list will be wildly eclectic, including songs he's rarely–or never before–performed live. Songs performed in Europe, the U.K., Russia, Israel and Japan included "Aladdin Sane," "Moonage Daydream," "All The Young Dudes" (originally written by BOWIE for Mott The Hoople) and "Under Pressure," in addition to covers of the Drifters gem "On Broadway" (mixing in Tin Machine's "Baby Universal" along the way), The Velvet Underground's "White Light White Heat" and Iggy Pop's classic "Lust For Life," which BOWIE co-wrote.
Currently, BOWIE is earning rave notices for his portrayal of Andy Warhol in the Miramax film Basquiat about the late New York painter Jean Michel Basquiat. Of BOWIE's performance, Daily Variety enthused: "…probably best of all, David Bowie in a brilliant Warhol impersonation," while The Hollywood Reporter noted: "Bowie, (Benicio) Del Toro and (Michael) Wincott are all superb." In fact, writer and long time Warhol associate Bob Colacello told USA Today after the 7/31 New York premiere: Bowie's Warhol was "so much like Andy it was scary." For his part, BOWIE said, "I'd met him enough times so I kind of knew what (Warhol's) body language was and little idiosyncrasies of how he talked. But I don't really act, I do impersonations, so it was my impersonation of Andy."
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