“Bowie heads back to Berlin to record”
During the late 70’s David Bowie released three records - Low, Heroes, and Lodger - both semi-recorded in and heavily inspired by the industrial city of Berlin. With stellar and iconic input from Brian Eno, these records have since been named “The Berlin Trilogy” and have become some of the glam-rock (it’s almost a crime to reduce him to such) titan’s most revered works. Now it appears Bowie has headed back to the city again to work on recording his first offering of new material since 2003’s Reality.
However, there is a catch. This information has been derived from the not-so-trustworthy Twitter internet service. David Bowie’s” Twitter reads as follows: “Cheers from a snowy Berlin! Working on some 
new material!” Something about all this makes me doubtful. But who knows, maybe he’s trying to get back in touch with technology, but going about it in all the wrong ways. Doesn’t he know about facebook!? For a guy who predicted that both Nine Inch Nails and Arcade Fire would be the next big things of their time, he should get better taste in widgets.
Anyways, keep your eyes peeled for any new news or *cough*debunking*cough* of this story. Let’s hope it’s true, otherwise we’ll have to stick to listening to him do backup vocals for TV on the Radio or Scarlett Johansen’s Tom Waits covers. Yeesh to the latter.
Actually Twitter seems to be the thing among my circle as of late, so who knows…
Coachella this year, right?
Feb 11th, 2009 at 8:06 am
[...] other day, news surfaced that David Bowie was back in Berlin working on new material. At the end of our news article, we stressed that if the aforementioned information is false, we [...]
Jan 28th, 2009 at 8:33 am
[...] In other words, no trip to Berlin, no new album, nothing. [...]
Jan 24th, 2009 at 3:25 pm
[...] Aunque es un poco precipitado afirmarlo como cierto, ha aparecido en Twitter una cuenta bajo el nombre de David Bowie con un mensaje directo: “¡Saludos desde un Berlín nevado! ¡Trabajando en nuevo material!“. En el poco probable caso de que este sea el Bowie real y ahora haya descubierto una herramienta como Twitter, sería el retorno del artista a Berlín tras haber grabado a finales de los 70 tres discos allí junto a Brian Eno (Low, Heroes y Lodger). David Bowie no publica disco de estudio desde 2003 con Reality, y recientemente se le ha visto haciendo coros en el nefasto Anywhere I Lay My Head de Scarlett Johansson, así que no estaría de más que nos deleitara con algo nuevo. Aprovechamos para decir que nosotros también tenemos un Twitter (y el nuestro es real), y que pensamos que David Bowie puede ser el bombazo que se rumorea que este año tendrá el Primavera Sound 09. (Vía: Consequence of Sound) [...]