Neil on 1972 Bowie concert
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Neil on 1972 Bowie concert
THE DAILY TELEGRAPH(LONDON)
September 22, 2005, Thursday
THE GIG OF A LIFETIME Neil Tennant on David Bowie at Newcastle City Hall, 1972
by Robert Colvile
I went with about five friends, in the middle of our A-levels. The venue was more than half empty, but that only made it more exciting, almost conspiratorial.
We all sort of fell in love with him. He had spiky red hair, and this weird, quilted lizard suit, and was just incredibly charismatic.
He made some very camp joke, and we all laughed at it. Before the next song he said: "This is for all the strange people in the audience", and we thought he meant us.
Then at the climactic moment - in Suffragette City, when he goes "Wham, bam, thank you ma'am" - all these little square posters were thrown off the balcony. We all grabbed them, then hung around backstage afterwards.
I've still got his autograph - I kept it in my copy of Ziggy Stardust.
The Pet Shop Boys and Dresden Sinfoniker's soundtrack to Battleship Potemkin is out now.
September 22, 2005, Thursday
THE GIG OF A LIFETIME Neil Tennant on David Bowie at Newcastle City Hall, 1972
by Robert Colvile
I went with about five friends, in the middle of our A-levels. The venue was more than half empty, but that only made it more exciting, almost conspiratorial.
We all sort of fell in love with him. He had spiky red hair, and this weird, quilted lizard suit, and was just incredibly charismatic.
He made some very camp joke, and we all laughed at it. Before the next song he said: "This is for all the strange people in the audience", and we thought he meant us.
Then at the climactic moment - in Suffragette City, when he goes "Wham, bam, thank you ma'am" - all these little square posters were thrown off the balcony. We all grabbed them, then hung around backstage afterwards.
I've still got his autograph - I kept it in my copy of Ziggy Stardust.
The Pet Shop Boys and Dresden Sinfoniker's soundtrack to Battleship Potemkin is out now.
Along the same lines, PSB have had a song played everyday so far this week on the horrendous Colin N' Edith show on Radio 1. They are having a competition where a fan is asked questions about his/her favourite group and plays against another fan of a different artist. Anyway, the guy who's chosen PSB keeps winning. He beat a Red Hot Chilli's fan today. His questions were meant to be hard today and included 'What's the name of the fan-club magazine?', 'Name of their movie?' etc. The lad today didn't know that they're currently in the studio with Trevor Horn, but I think that's the only one he got wrong. Oh, he also got the year Neil left Smash Hits wrong. He's on again tomorrow, just before 4. I think it's called Five Decades of Radio 1.
Here is the original story.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/arts/main.jh ... tleft.html
Don't worry Freak, there aren't any new pictures.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/arts/main.jh ... tleft.html
Don't worry Freak, there aren't any new pictures.
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