David Bowie - BBC Sessions Radio Theatre In Concert, London UK 2000 | ALBUMS THAT SHOULD EXIST

David Bowie - BBC Sessions, Volume 12: In Concert, BBC Radio Theatre, London, Britain, 6-27-2000

Paul says : "The next album in my series of David Bowie BBC albums in a particularly special concert. This concert took place two days after Bowie performed in front of a massive audience at the annual Glastonbury Festival. This contrast, by contrast, was extremely small, with only 250 people fitting into the venue.

The people lucky enough to get in consisted of fan club members who won a lottery. But also, a number of elites were allowed in, including stars like Russell Crowe, Meg Ryan, Boy George, Lulu, Bob Geldof, members of Duran Duran, and more.

This concert was officially released twice. The first version came out as a bonus disc on some versions of the album "Bowie at the Beeb." But it was missing five songs. Later, it was included as part of the box set "Brilliant Adventure." This included the missing songs.

However, both of these versions were missing all the banter between songs, and there was a lot of banter. So I used a bootleg version that contained everything. The sound quality of that was just as good as the released versions. However, I did cut out two false starts to songs.

This concert is a must-have for any Bowie fan. Knowing that he was recording this for the radio as well as probable later official release, he really rose to the occasion.”

Personnel

Personnel

David Bowie: vocals
Earl Slick: guitar
Mark Plati: guitar, bass guitar
Gail Ann Dorsey: bass guitar, guitar, vocals
Mike Garson: piano, keyboards
Sterling Campbell: drums
Holly Palmer: vocals, percussion
Emm Gryner: vocals, keyboards

 Tracklisting

• ‘Wild Is The Wind’
• ‘Ashes To Ashes’
• ‘Seven’
• ‘This Is Not America’
• ‘Absolute Beginners’
• ‘Always Crashing In The Same Car’
• ‘Survive’
• ‘The London Boys’*
• ‘I Dig Everything’*
• ‘Little Wonder’
• ‘The Man Who Sold The World’
• ‘Fame’
• ‘Stay’
• ‘Hallo Spaceboy’
• ‘Cracked Actor’
• ‘I’m Afraid Of Americans’
• ‘All The Young Dudes’*
• ‘Starman’*
• “Heroes”*
• ‘Let’s Dance’

*2021 edition

BBC Radio Theatre, London, June 27, 2000 is a live album by David Bowie originally released in 2000, and reissued in expanded form in 2021. 

The concert was recorded two days after Bowie’s headline set at the Glastonbury Festival, and was before an invited audience.

Fifteen of the songs were released as a bonus CD with initial copies of Bowie At The Beeb on 26 September 2000.

The set was reissued in November 2021 as part of the box set Brilliant Adventure (1992-2001). BBC Radio Theatre, London, June 27, 2000 was spread over two compact discs or three vinyl discs.

The reissue contained five bonus tracks which were not released in 2000: ‘The London Boys’, ‘I Dig Everything’, ‘All The Young Dudes’, ‘Starman’, and “Heroes”.

Paul says this is NOT the officially released version and has had work down on the recording by him. If you know otherwise please ask and I will remove it. Thank you

David Bowie - The London Boys (Live at BBC Radio Theatre, 2000)