Last night for one night only The Record Player at Newcastle Tyneside Cinema reconvened to play the new Bowie album on the day of its release and also entirely uncoincidentally, the man's sixty ninth birthday. It was quite a remarkable evening and it's an absolutely remarkable record. It's utterly 'Out There', which is perhaps the place where Bowie has always made his best records. There's jazz backing, but strange offbeat and disorientating jazz, and the arrangements are eerie and otherworldly. It's every bit up there with his seventies masterpieces. It's really as good as that!
Tribute should be paid to Steve Drayton, local comic and presenter, who organised and presented the event. The Record Player was a major initial spur in me starting this blog and was a wonderful communal event for people to share and discuss their love of music and appreciate records they way they should be. In their entirity, in one sitting and listen through to in one sitting. I think the feeling most of the regulars took away from the event last night having had a chance to listen to and discuss the record and then enjoy the post play quiz and festivities was how much they missed the whole thing. Anyway listen to Black Star for yourselves. It's extraordinary!
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