Gig Description

The second gig I ever went to and my first time seeing David Bowie. His second night at the NEC on the Sound+Vision tour. It was a family affair - went with my sister and two older brothers (in a Lada saloon). We were parked so far from the actual concert hall that we had to get a shuttle bus to and from the car park and took us ages to find the car afterwards!

I snuck a small portable tape recorder into the gig in an attempt to record it. The results are unlistenable but I still have the cassettes! Found a video of the gig online but that's not much better: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ILkOG8NL3M0.

A much better video is the Tokyo show as broadcast on Japanese TV: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=50A5q_9Znlc

A great setlist but not Bowie's best tour. In retrospect, the small band arrangements did the songs no favours. Bowie had broken off from Tin Machine to do this tour, and his heart clearly wasn't in it, which is probably why he said it would be the last time he'd do the 'greatest hits' (it wasn't, but that's another story). However, visually it was stunning. Bowie used a huge screen to project a mix of the show as it was happening and archive clips with which he interacted. Watch the Japanese video, you'll get the idea.

David Bowie - vocals, guitar, saxophone
Adrian Belew - guitar
Erdal Kizilcay - bass guitar
Rick Fox - keyboards
Michael Hodges - drums

Setlist:
Space Oddity
Changes
TVC15
Rebel Rebel
Golden Years
Be My Wife
Ashes to Ashes
John, I'm Only Dancing
Queen Bitch
Fashion
Life on Mars?
Blue Jean
Let's Dance
Stay
China Girl
Ziggy Stardust
Sound and Vision
Rebel Rebel
Station to Station
Alabama Song
Suffragette City
Panic in Detroit
Young Americans
Fame
"Heroes"
The Jean Genie
Pretty Pink Rose
Modern Love