Budokan first night
Big breakfast at hotel and glorious sunny day. Went to Zojoyi temple and Shiba Park and then tube to Ginza with very friendly help from locals. It was interesting watching people come into the temple and pray. Coins were thrown into a large wooden box with slats on the top and then some sort of incense powder was sprinkled on to the smouldering ashes. There were rows of tiny statues representing the souls of stillborn children each holding plastic windmills.
Robin was very successful in his attempts to order us some lunch in a cafe in the basement of a dept store. This involved arm waving and pointing at the plastic food in the window. Shortly after two bacon and egg sandwiches arrived. HMV Store was pretty impressive - we both managed to spend some money with little difficulty. Had a look around the basement food halls in the department store which were fabulous. Ladies in subway were shouting against each other to sell their chocolates and biscuits.
Dashed back to hotel for quick change before heading to the Budokan to meet JunJun and collect our tickets. Found JunJun very easily and she took us to the ticket office where we were successful in getting our tickets for both Tokyo concerts. Two very happy and relieved people. Bowie was awesome to use Robin's favourite adjective. We were six rows from the front and met some people from Bowienet who had also come over from Europe as well as two who had just been around Australia and seen all the shows there for two weeks. How do these people find the time and money ? Highlights included three tracks from 'Low' plus 'Quicksand' off 'Hunky Dory'. The man really rocked as did his band. Concert started at 7:30pm and was over by 9:30pm so we went home on the tube with all the people coming home from work. Lots of street vendors outside afterwards with little stalls selling photos and keyrings by gaslight - photos won't do it justice.
Full setlist from Tokyo
01 Rebel Rebel
02 New Killer Star
03 Fame
04 Cactus
05 All The Young Dudes
06 China Girl
07 Never Get Old
08 The Loneliest Guy
09 The Man Who Sold The World
10 Hallo Spaceboy
11 Sunday
12 Heathen (The Rays)
13 Under Pressure
14 Life On Mars?
15 Looking For Water
16 Quicksand
17 Days
18 Sound And Vision
19 Be My Wife
20 A New Career In A New Town
21 Ashes To Ashes
22 I'm Afraid of Americans
23 "Heroes"
(Encore)
24 Five Years
25 Suffragette City
26 Ziggy Stardust
Robin was very successful in his attempts to order us some lunch in a cafe in the basement of a dept store. This involved arm waving and pointing at the plastic food in the window. Shortly after two bacon and egg sandwiches arrived. HMV Store was pretty impressive - we both managed to spend some money with little difficulty. Had a look around the basement food halls in the department store which were fabulous. Ladies in subway were shouting against each other to sell their chocolates and biscuits.
Dashed back to hotel for quick change before heading to the Budokan to meet JunJun and collect our tickets. Found JunJun very easily and she took us to the ticket office where we were successful in getting our tickets for both Tokyo concerts. Two very happy and relieved people. Bowie was awesome to use Robin's favourite adjective. We were six rows from the front and met some people from Bowienet who had also come over from Europe as well as two who had just been around Australia and seen all the shows there for two weeks. How do these people find the time and money ? Highlights included three tracks from 'Low' plus 'Quicksand' off 'Hunky Dory'. The man really rocked as did his band. Concert started at 7:30pm and was over by 9:30pm so we went home on the tube with all the people coming home from work. Lots of street vendors outside afterwards with little stalls selling photos and keyrings by gaslight - photos won't do it justice.
Full setlist from Tokyo
01 Rebel Rebel
02 New Killer Star
03 Fame
04 Cactus
05 All The Young Dudes
06 China Girl
07 Never Get Old
08 The Loneliest Guy
09 The Man Who Sold The World
10 Hallo Spaceboy
11 Sunday
12 Heathen (The Rays)
13 Under Pressure
14 Life On Mars?
15 Looking For Water
16 Quicksand
17 Days
18 Sound And Vision
19 Be My Wife
20 A New Career In A New Town
21 Ashes To Ashes
22 I'm Afraid of Americans
23 "Heroes"
(Encore)
24 Five Years
25 Suffragette City
26 Ziggy Stardust