Heathen Tour

Heathen Tour
At the Beacon Theatre, New York on 20 October 2002. L to R: Earl Slick (guitar), Mark Plati (guitar), Sterling Campbell (drums), David Bowie, Catherine Russell (keyboards), Gail Ann Dorsey (bass), Gerry Leonard (guitar). Mike Garson (keyboards) is out of shot to the left.
Tour by David Bowie
Associated album	Heathen
Start date	11 June 2002
End date	23 October 2002
Legs	4
Shows	36
David Bowie tour chronology
Mini Tour (2000) Heathen Tour (2002) A Reality Tour (2003-04)

The David Bowie Heathen Tour was a 2002 concert tour in support of the album, Heathen, and was also notable for the performances of all songs from the 1977 Low album.

History

The Low album, not previously performed live in its entirety, was premiered on 11 June 2002 at the Roseland Ballroom in New York City, together with all the songs from the Heathen album. With other commitments ruling out the possibility of a major concert tour, the Heathen Tour became a mini-concert tour similar to the 1996 Outside Summer Festivals Tour.

On 11 February 2002, it was announced that Bowie had accepted the role of Artistic Director^[1] at the Meltdown Festival, an annual music and arts event held at the South Bank complex in London, England. David Bowie's Meltdown 2002 run from 14 to 30 June, with a schedule of concerts and events including performances by The Legendary Stardust Cowboy, Coldplay, The Waterboys and a London Sinfonietta performance of Philip Glass's Low and Heroes symphonies. The closing night was billed as The New Heathens Night with Bowie headlining the event with support by The Dandy Warhols followed by a DJ set from Jonathan Ross.

The Heathen Tour proper began at the Meltdown Festival with Bowie embarking on a series of European performances including a link-up with Moby for the 12-date North America Area:2 Festivals with a return to Europe for a further six performances. Before returning again to North America to perform a final seven shows with the first five in each of New York City's five boroughs, dubbed The New York Marathon Tour by Bowie, who quipped; I could get home from all the gigs on roller skates.^[2]

Tour band

Bowie performing with Sterling Campbell in Mountain View, California

• David Bowie - vocals, guitar, saxophone, harmonica, stylophone
• Earl Slick - guitar
• Gerry Leonard - guitar
• Mark Plati - rhythm guitar, bass guitar, keyboards
• Gail Ann Dorsey - bass guitar, backing vocals
• Sterling Campbell - drums
• Mike Garson - keyboards
• Catherine Russell - keyboards, percussion, backing vocals

Tour dates

Songs

From Space Oddity

• "Space Oddity"

From Hunky Dory

• "Changes"
• "Life on Mars?"
• "The Bewlay Brothers"

From The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars

• "Moonage Daydream"
• "Starman"
• "Ziggy Stardust"

From Diamond Dogs

• "Rebel Rebel"

From Young Americans

• "Fame" (Bowie, John Lennon, Carlos Alomar)

From Station to Station

• "Stay"

From Low

• "Speed of Life"
• "Breaking Glass" (Bowie, Dennis Davis, George Murray)
• "What in the World"
• "Sound and Vision"
• "Always Crashing in the Same Car"
• "Be My Wife"
• "A New Career in a New Town"
• "Warszawa" (Bowie, Brian Eno)
• "Art Decade"
• "Weeping Wall"
• "Subterraneans"

From "Heroes"

• "Heroes" (Bowie, Eno)

From Lodger

• "Look Back in Anger" (Bowie, Eno)

From Scary Monsters (and Super Creeps)

• "Ashes to Ashes"
• "Fashion"

From Let's Dance

• "China Girl" (originally from The Idiot by Iggy Pop, written by Pop and Bowie)
• "Let's Dance"

From Outside

• "Hallo Spaceboy" (Bowie, Eno)

From Earthling

• "I'm Afraid of Americans" (Bowie, Eno)

From 'Hours...'

• "Survive" (Bowie, Gabrels)

From Heathen

• "Sunday"
• "Cactus" (originally from Surfer Rosa by Pixies, written by Black Francis)
• "Slip Away"
• "Slow Burn"
• "Afraid"
• "I've Been Waiting for You" (originally from Neil Young by Neil Young, written by Young)
• "I Would Be Your Slave"
• "I Took a Trip on a Gemini Spaceship" (originally by Norman Carl Odam)
• "5:15 the Angels Have Gone"
• "Everyone Says 'Hi'"
• "A Better Future"
• "Heathen (The Rays)"

Other songs:

• "Absolute Beginners" from Absolute Beginners: The Original Motion Picture Soundtrack, written by Bowie)
• "Alabama Song" (non-album single, originally from Bertolt Brecht's opera Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny, written by Brecht and Kurt Weill)
• "I Feel So Bad" (originally a single by Elvis Presley, written by Chuck Willis)
• "One Night" (originally a single by Elvis Presley, written by Dave Bartholomew, Pearl King and Anita Steiman)
• "White Light/White Heat" (from White Light/White Heat by The Velvet Underground, written by Lou Reed)

Notes

References

• Nicholas Pegg, The Complete David Bowie, Reynolds & Hearn Ltd, 2004, ISBN 1-903111-73-0