David Bowie’s Reality Tour travelled the world in 2003 and 2004.  A DVD was shot in Dublin over the course of November 22nd and 23rd 2003.  This dvd has been available since October of 2004.  But since Bowie is now pretty much retired after suffering a heart attack during the Reality Tour (his final tour to date) they just recently released a CD version as well as digital versions.

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This newly released audio only version includes 3 additional songs: Fall Dogs Bomb The Moon, Breaking Glass, and China Girl.  I personally attended The Reality Tour when it hit NYC and can tell you that it was a great show.  The set is both a compilation of greatest hits with a bunch of new songs from the new Reality album.  Reality unfortunately wasn’t a huge hit.  I still defend it though as it has some pretty good songs on it.  But even if you skip over those you still have a live show featuring tons of great classic material for a pretty good price.

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The Pixies started their 3 day, 4 show, 95% sold out NYC run tonight at the Hammerstein Ballroom.  If you didn’t know this is the Doolittle Tour.  For the anniversary of Doolittle the band is doing a tour and playing the entire album plus b-sides.  Very cool.  Anyway I’d seen The Pixies once in 2005 and was incredibly impressed.  They really brought it.  And tonight was no exception.

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