DAVID BOWIE - Welcome To The Blackout (Live in London ‘78)

 DAVID BOWIE - Welcome To The Blackout (Live in London ‘78)




What an unexpected treat this release is, coming almost 40 years after it was recorded and with very little advance notice. Recorded over two nights in the middle of 1978, this concert was mixed by Bowie himself in 1979 (as the soundtrack for a concert film that was never issued) and then forgotten about until released in 2017. The 1978 world tour was peak Bowie, touring on the back of his recent Low and "Heroes" releases, but also featuring a heavy selection of material from The Rise And Fall Of Ziggy Stardust And The Spiders From Mars by David Bowie and Station to Station, too. Bowie was in perhaps the top vocal shape of his career, and with Adrian Belew and Carlos Alomar along, he has a stellar band to match. For years, fans have been able to revisit the 1978 tour via STAGE, a live double-album recorded slightly earlier in the tour. The performances captured on STAGE are excellent, but also much more mannered and rehearsed than those heard on WTTB, perhaps because they knew STAGE would be an official release at the time, or perhaps because STAGE was subjected to studio clean-up - who knows. Either way, it means that while STAGE and WTTB have virtually identical tracklists, the quality of performance and mix differ quite a bit between the two releases, making both essential for a fan. On WTTB, Bowie and the band are loose, happy, and energetic, with countless highlights across both discs. And WTTB, thankfully, gives us a complete representation of a show from the 1978 tour, as well as the tour's only outing of "Sound and Vision". STAGE, despite being reissued and expanded several times over the past forty years (most recently in 2017, too), still omits the traditional tour closer, "Rebel Rebel"! Like 2016's Cracked Actor (2CD), WELCOME TO THE BLACKOUT is a welcome addition to the Bowie catalog, helping fans revisit (or for some, like me, experience for the first time) one of Bowie's unmatched peaks.


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