Product Details

Exclusive to both Rhino and DB.com stores, NO TRENDY RCHAUFF (LIVE BIRMINGHAM 95)is the second of six strictly limited-edition live albums forming Brilliant Live Adventures.

Brilliant Live Adventures contains six exclusive and limited edition live albums providing an exciting snapshot of three Bowie tours from the 1990s. 30 years into his professional live career, these albums show great a performer Bowie still was.

NO TRENDY RCHAUFF (LIVE BIRMINGHAM 95)is apreviously unreleased live album recorded live at the Birmingham NEC 13th December 1995.This was the final show of the Outside tour in 1995 and was the first night of a five night festival promoted as “The Big Twix Mix Show.

The set list features rare liveperformancesof ‘Jump They Sayand ‘Strangers When We Meet. The album also features two versions of ‘HalloSpaceboy,thesecondofwhich wasfilmed asSpaceboy was theintended next single at the time. The video was never completed, as the track was subsequently remixed by the Pet Shop Boys for single release and an alternative promotional video made.

Excerpts from the show were broadcast by the BBC, and ‘Moonage Daydream’ and ‘Under Pressure’ were mixed by David Richards for release on the ‘Hallo Spaceboy’ CD single. Both versions on this album arepreviously unreleased,included here as played and mixed on the night they were performed.

NO TRENDY RCHAUFFwas produced by David Bowie andperformedby Bowie vocals and saxophone, Carlos Alomar rhythmguitar, Reeves Gabrels lead guitar and vocals, Gail Ann Dorsey bass and vocals, Zachary Alford drums, Peter Schwartz – musical director, keyboards and synthesisers,George Simms vocals, and Mike Garson piano and keyboards.