David Bowie performed at the Roseland Ballroom in New York City, USA, on 11 June 2002, as part of the Heathen Tour.
It was a warm-up show for the tour, and saw Bowie and his band perform 1976’s Low and 2002’s Heathen in full.
Earl Slick was on guitar, Gerry Leonard played guitar and keyboards, and Mark Plati played guitar, bass guitar, and keyboards. Gail Ann Dorsey was on bass guitar, guitar, and backing vocals, and Mike Garson played keyboards. Sterling Campbell was on drums, and Catherine Russell played keyboards and percussion and sang backing vocals.
Bowie had previously performed at the Roseland Ballroom on 14 September 1996 during the Outside Tour, and for the Mini Tour on 16 and 19 June 2000.
The setlist
- ‘Speed Of Life’
- ‘Breaking Glass’
- ‘What In The World’
- ‘Sound And Vision’
- ‘Always Crashing In The Same Car’
- ‘Be My Wife’
- ‘A New Career In A New Town’
- ‘Warszawa’
- ‘Art Decade’
- ‘Weeping Wall’
- ‘Subterraneans’
- ‘Sunday’
- ‘Cactus’
- ‘Slip Away’
- ‘Slow Burn’
- ‘Afraid’
- ‘I’ve Been Waiting For You’
- ‘I Would Be Your Slave’
- ‘I Took A Trip On A Gemini Spaceship’
- ‘5:15 The Angels Have Gone’
- ‘Everyone Says ‘Hi”
- ‘A Better Future’
- ‘Heathen (The Rays)’
Also on this day...
- 2004: Live: Amsterdam Arena, Amsterdam
- 2000: Glastonbury 2000 diary – part eight
- 1997: Live: Muziekcentrum Vredenburg, Utrecht
- 1996: Live: Kousei Nenkin Kaikan, Kitakyushu
- 1983: Live: Ullevi, Gothenburg
- 1978: Live: Forest National, Brussels
- 1973: Live: De Montfort Hall, Leicester
- 1969: Live: Midsummer Pop Festival, Cambridge
- 1967: David Bowie moves in with Kenneth Pitt
- 1966: Live: David Bowie and the Buzz, California Ballroom, Dunstable
- 1965: Live: Davie Jones and the Lower Third, Starlight Rooms, Brighton
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