The best story doing the rounds today is that David Bowie is going to play the Big Day Out.
The 2010 Big Day Out announcement is expected tomorrow. Despite what is doing the rounds of the net, the Bowie story is not true, according to Triple J, who will make the official announcement tomorrow morning (Tuesday September 29, at 6am.Bowie has been out of action for the last five years following a heart attack while on his previous A Reality tour. In 2004, the singer fell ill while performing in Germany and was rushed to hospital. Surgeons performed an emergency operation for an acutely-blocked artery.
Bowie has been out of the public eye ever since. The only peep anyone has heard from him was on January 6 this year when some saying they were Bowie twittered “Cheers from snowy Berlin! Working on some new material”. It was never confirmed if the tweet was genuine or not.
He is 62 years old now. His last album was ‘Reality’ in 2003.
If the Bowie Big Day Out story was for real, it would make a good follow-up to Neil Young’s 2009 Big Day Out appearance.
Alas, it is not.
Here is how the “leaked” line-up was looking:
Muse, David Bowie, Placebo, Massive Attack, Kasabian, Lily Allen, Jet, Groove Armada, Rise Against, The Mars Volta, Phoenix, Vampire Weekend, Calvin Harris, Foals, Mastodon, Dizzee Rascal, Girl Talk, Powderfinger, Josh Pyke, The Dead Weather, Grinspoon, The Temper Trap, Karnivool, Monsters of Folk, Tame Impala, Dappled Cities, The Middle East, Philadelphia Grand Jury, Regular John and Former Child Stars
Stick with Muse as a headliner though. We know that will be part of the announcement tomorrow.
