Recorded: 8 September 2003
Producers: David Bowie, Tony Visconti
Released: 12 April 2025
Personnel
David Bowie: vocals, guitar
Mike Garson: piano, keyboards, synthesisers
Gerry Leonard: guitar, vocals
Earl Slick: guitar
Catherine Russell: keyboards, guitar, vocals
Gail Ann Dorsey: bass guitar, vocals
Sterling Campbell: drums
Tracklisting
- ‘New Killer Star’
- ‘Pablo Picasso’
- ‘Never Get Old’
- ‘The Loneliest Guy’
- ‘Looking For Water’
- ‘She’ll Drive The Big Car’
- ‘Days’
- ‘Fall Dog Bombs The Moon’
- ‘Try Some, Buy Some’
- ‘Reality’
- ‘Bring Me The Disco King’
- ‘Hallo Spaceboy’
- ‘Cactus’
- ‘Afraid’
Ready, Set, Go! (Live, Riverside Studios ’03) was a live album released for Record Store Day 2025.
The audio was taken from a performance at London’s Riverside Studios on 8 September 2003. The show was filmed and broadcast live in 86 cinemas in 26 countries, to promote the Reality album.
A DVD of the show was included in the ‘Tour’ edition of Reality. In Canada the DVD was truncated to just five songs: ‘New Killer Star’, ‘Never Get Old’, ‘Days’, ‘Reality’, and ‘Bring Me The Disco King’.
Ready, Set, Go! (Live, Riverside Studios ’03) contained 14 of the 21 songs performed that day. Missing were versions of ‘A New Career In A New Town’, ‘Song 2’, ‘Rumble’, ‘Fantastic Voyage’, ‘Hang On To Yourself’, ‘Modern Love’, and a second version of ‘New Killer Star’.
The album was announced on 31 January 2025. Here’s the press release:
DAVID BOWIE – READY, SET, GO! (LIVE, RIVERSIDE STUDIOS ’03)LIMITED 14-TRACK VINYL DOUBLE ALBUM & CD
RELEASED BY PARLOPHONE EXCLUSIVELY FOR RECORD STORE DAY 12th APRIL 2025
Parlophone Records is proud to announce the release of a very special David Bowie limited double vinyl LP and CD READY, SET, GO! (LIVE, RIVERSIDE STUDIOS’ 03) which will be released on 12th April , 2024, for Record Store Day.
On 8th September, 2003, David Bowie made history at Riverside Studios in Hammersmith, London, with the biggest ever live and interactive music satellite event the world had seen to that point. The special one-off live concert was beamed simultaneously to fans in 86 cinemas in 26 countries, from Hong Kong to Helsinki, and 14 screens in Paris alone were dedicated to the show.
Bowie and his band unveiled the first-ever live performance of his new album REALITY, released a week later. Now, for the first time, the eleven-song main set, the REALITY album in its entirety, plus three previously unreleased tracks from the encore, will be available on double vinyl and single CD exclusively for Record Store Day 2025.
The event marked many firsts in technological terms; it was the biggest ever non-TV satellite broadcast, the first ever interactive cinema event via a Q&A element hosted by Bowie fan and broadcaster Jonathan Ross and the first live satellite event in 5.1 DTS surround sound, which was overseen by longtime collaborator, Tony Visconti.
The precedent-setting event also went live across Asia a day later with a live Q&A between David and fans in Japan, Australia, Singapore, and Southeast Asia. The event was also beamed to North and South America, and Canada the day the album was released, with David doing brand new live Q&A sessions for those broadcasts.