Live: Nippon Budokan, Tokyo

David Bowie performed at the Nippon Budokan in Tokyo, Japan, on 8 March 2004, as part of A Reality Tour.

It was the 63rd date of the tour, which began on 7 October 2003 in Copenhagen, and the first of two consecutive nights in Tokyo.

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 there on 11 December 1978 during the Isolar II Tour; 20, 21, 22, and 24 October 1983 for the Serious Moonlight Tour; 17 February 1992 for Tin Machine’s It’s My Life Tour; and 4 and 5 June 1996 for the Outside Tour.

The setlist

• ‘Rebel Rebel’
• ‘New Killer Star’
• ‘Fame’
• ‘Cactus’
• ‘All The Young Dudes’
• ‘China Girl’
• ‘Never Get Old’
• ‘The Loneliest Guy’
• ‘The Man Who Sold The World’
• ‘Hallo Spaceboy’
• ‘Sunday’
• ‘Heathen (The Rays)’
• ‘Under Pressure’
• ‘Life On Mars?’
• ‘Looking For Water’
• ‘Quicksand’
• ‘Days’
• ‘Sound And Vision’
• ‘Be My Wife’
• ‘A New Career In A New Town’
• ‘Ashes To Ashes’
• ‘I’m Afraid Of Americans’
• “Heroes”
• ‘Five Years’
• ‘Suffragette City’
• ‘Ziggy Stardust’