David Bowie performed at the Auditorium Stravinski in Montreux, Switzerland, on 18 July 2002, as part of the Heathen Tour.
It was the tenth date of the tour, which began on 29 November at London’s Royal Festival Hall. This show was part of the Montreux Jazz Festival.
Bowie performed two sets – the second was 1976’s Low album almost in its entirety, with the exception of ‘Weeping Wall’, and out of sequence.
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.
The setlist
- ‘Sunday’
- ‘Life On Mars?’
- ‘Ashes To Ashes’
- ‘Cactus’
- ‘Slip Away’
- ‘China Girl’
- ‘Starman’
- ‘I Would Be Your Slave’
- ‘I’ve Been Waiting For You’
- ‘Stay’
- ‘Changes’
- ‘Fashion’
- ‘Fame’
- ‘I’m Afraid Of Americans’
- ‘5:15 The Angels Have Gone’
- “Heroes”
- ‘Heathen (The Rays)’
- ‘Everyone Says ‘Hi”
- ‘Hallo Spaceboy’
- ‘Let’s Dance’
- ‘Ziggy Stardust’
- ‘Warszawa’
- ‘Speed Of Life’
- ‘Breaking Glass’
- ‘What In The World’
- ‘Sound And Vision’
- ‘Art Decade’
- ‘Always Crashing In The Same Car’
- ‘Be My Wife’
- ‘A New Career In A New Town’
- ‘Subterraneans’
Also on this day...
- 1996: Live: Phoenix Festival, Stratford-upon-Avon
- 1990: Live: Merriweather Post Pavilion, Columbia
- 1987: Live: Stadio Comunale di Torino, Turin
- 1983: Live: Spectrum, Philadelphia
- 1974: Mixing: David Live
- 1973: Photo shoot: Pin Ups
- 1971: Mixing: BOWPROMO
- 1970: Live: Fickle Pickle Club, Southend-on-Sea
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