Live: NEC Arena, Birmingham

David Bowie performed at the NEC Arena in Birmingham, England, on 19 November 2003, as part of A Reality Tour.

It was the 25th date of the tour, which began on 7 October in Copenhagen, and the first of two consecutive nights in Birmingham.

Earl Slick and Gerry Leonard played guitar, Gail Ann Dorsey was on bass guitar and vocals, and Mike Garson played keyboards and piano. Sterling Campbell was on drums, and Catherine Russell played keyboards, percussion, guitar and sang backing vocals.

Bowie had previously played at the NEC Arena on 5 and 6 June 1983 during the Serious Moonlight Tour; 19 and 20 March 1990 for the Sound+Vision Tour; and 20 and 21 November and 13 December 1995 for the Outside Tour.

The setlist

• ‘Rebel Rebel’
• ‘New Killer Star’
• ‘Reality’
• ‘The Jean Genie’
• ‘Fame’
• ‘Cactus’
• ‘China Girl’
• ‘Afraid’
• ‘Fashion’
• ‘The Loneliest Guy’
• ‘The Man Who Sold The World’
• ‘Hallo Spaceboy’
• ‘Sunday’
• ‘Under Pressure’
• ‘Life On Mars?’
• ‘Ashes To Ashes’
• ‘The Motel’
• ‘Loving The Alien’
• ‘Never Get Old’
• ‘Changes’
• ‘I’m Afraid Of Americans’
• “Heroes”
• ‘Bring Me The Disco King’
• ‘Slip Away’
• ‘Heathen (The Rays)’
• ‘Five Years’
• ‘Suffragette City’
• ‘Ziggy Stardust’