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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'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

• David Bowie - vocals, guitar, 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

Warm-Up Show

• 11/06/2002 Roseland Ballroom - New York, NY

Europe

• 29/06/2002 Meltdown Festival - Royal Festival Hall - London, England
• 01/07/2002 Paris Olympia - Paris, France
• 03/07/2000 Quart Festival - Kristiansand, Norway
• 05/07/2002 Horsens Ny Teater - Horsens, Denmark
• 07/07/2002 Seat Beach Rock Festival - Wellington Race Track, Ostend, Belgium
• 10/07/2002 Move Festival - Old Trafford Cricket Ground, Manchester, England
• 12/07/2002 E-Werk Festival - Cologne, Germany
• 14/07/2002 Les Arenes de Nimes - Nimes, France
• 15/07/2002 Summer Festival - Lucca, Tuscany, Italy
• 18/07/2002 Auditorium Stravinski - Montreux, Switzerland

North America - Area:2 Festivals

• 28/07/2002 Nissan Pavilion - Bristow, VA
• 30/07/2002 Tweeter Center at the Waterfront - Camden, NJ
• 31/07/2002 PNC Bank Arts Center - Holmdel, NJ
• 02/08/2002 Tommy Hilfiger at Jones Beach Theater - Wantagh, NY
• 03/08/2002 Tweeter Center for the Performing Arts - Mansfield, MA
• 05/08/2002 Molson Amphitheater - Toronto, ON
• 06/08/2002 DTE Energy Music Center - Detroit, MI
• 08/08/2002 Tweeter Center - Tinley Park, IL
• 10/08/2002 Pepsi Center - Denver, CO
• 13/08/2002 Verizon Wireless Amphitheater - Irvine, CA
• 14/08/2002 - Shoreline Amphitheatre - Mountain View, CA
• 16/08/2002 The Gorge Amphitheatre - George, WA

Europe

• 22/09/2002 Max-Schmeling-Halle - Berlin, Germany
• 24/09/2002 Le Zénith - Paris, France
• 25/09/2002 Le Zénith - Paris, France
• 27/09/2002 Museumsmeile - Bonn, Germany
• 29/09/2002 Olympiahalle - Munich, Germany
• 02/10/2002 Carling Apollo Hammersmith - London, England

North America

• 11/10/2002 The Music Hall at Snug Harbour - Staten Island, NY
• 12/10/2002 St. Anne's Warehouse - Brooklyn, NY
• 16/10/2002 Colden Center at Queens College - Queens, NY
• 17/10/2002 Jimmy's Bronx Cafe - The Bronx, NY
• 20/10/2002 Beacon Theater - Manhattan, NY

Above 5 shows referred to as The New York Marathon Tour

• 21/10/2002 Tower Theater - Philadelphia, PA
• 23/10/2002 Orpheum Theatre - Boston, MA

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 Bertold 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