H&M High Line Festival May 9-19 Manhattan
 

Perhaps taking a cue from the All Tomorrows Parties festivals which each have featured a guest curator, David Bowie has been chosen to hand-pick the artists to perform at the first H&M High Line Music Festival in Manhattan.
In celebrity gossip news, reportedly, Robert De Niro, whose Tribeca Film Festival concludes three days before H&M Fest begins, is upset at Bowie.
http://www.wikio.com/entertainment/m...op/david_bowie

The line-up as announced (so far) includes:

Air
Arcade Fire
Bang On A Can
Daniel Johnston
Deerhoof
Ken Nordine
Laurie Anderson
Laurie McLeod
Legendary Stardust Cowboy
Meow Meow
The Polyphonic Spree
Ricky Gervais
The Secret Machines

I'd never heard of "The Legendary Stardust Cowboy," but I found this rather cryptic homepage for Mr. Norman Carl Odam.
I imagine Gervais is doing some version of a performance piece. Although, he does play a little rhythm guitar...He did on The Simpsons, at least.
Claude Cahun was a surrealist/conceptual photographer and writer and her art will be featured. Also, of Supreme note, will be an appearance
(And I bet we can thank Laurie along with David) of octogenarian jazz word-man Ken Nordine.
A "Spanish Film Retrospective" is also slated on the festival event calendar.
So, if you happen to be in NYC during May 9-19, (or for the Tribeca Film Festival the week previous) then I'd imagine this is worth checking out.
Laurie Anderson, Deerhoof, and Daniel Johnston should be really good shows, and to be able to see Ken Nordine is a once-in-a-lifetime type-of-thing.
The High Line is set thirty feet above street-level on seven acres that occupy three neighborhoods and is currently being transformed into a greenspace park opening officially sometime in 2008.

some preliminary event info
http://www.brandish.tv/2007/04/david_bowie_cur.html

Is this a prelude to David Bowie's own line of clothing at H+M?

http://www.wordjazz.com/

awesome Ken Nordine mp3s!

It's a festival, but one can purchase tickets for each show separately.
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pile of shit...the do gooders are gonna ruin the High Line, big fences, cut the weeds, fill in the holes, everything that made it interesting, rules, did I mention lots of RULES?

Has anyone here ever gone into the Rochester NY subway tunnels?

For comparison, Bowie's Meltdown at the South Bank Centre, London, 2002:

Daniel Johnston
The Legendary Stardust Cowboy
The Waterboys
The Divine Comedy
Harry Hill
Kimmo Pohjonen
The Lonesome Organist
Television
Gorillaz'
Gonzales
The Langley Schools Music Project
Terry Edwards and The Scapegoats
Asian Dub Foundation
Coldplay
Pete Yorn
Suede
Badly Drawn Boy
Stew
Mercury Rev
Supergrass
Bobby Conn
David Bowie
The Dandy Warhols

Who would've thought it would be possible to mention so many awful bands in just one thread?

Yeah, the festival is over now, so sue me.

but maybe this next post will infuriate you EVEN MORE!!!

Question Mark, whose house burned down recently, will play with Paul Shaffer, Joe Bouchard of BoC, and Tommy Ramone at a benefit for himself at the High Line Ballroom on the 23rd.
http://www.highlineballroom.com/bio.php?id=57

David Bowie's Meltdown: New York edition.. five years (ahem) after anyone was excited.