Well, damn.

[dmacabre]

In Bowie news, producer Tony Visconti's recent interview with The Times says that Bowie's not planning a tour, and he's also not planning on doing any interviews ever again. So no Glastonbury or music festivals, either. On the bright side, Visconti did say that Bowie does still want to make records, so there's that?

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[dmacabre]

*nod* This is what I'm hoping, too. After all, Visconti said that Bowie told him in 2009 that he wasn't writing! I found that really hard to believe. Not touring makes sense because it's exhausting, but not writing at all? I can't see an artist quitting permanently. Even if he's not up for a world tour, surely the one-off concert isn't out of the question?

BWW is an interesting place. I used to lurk more often and I knew some people there who were nice, but most of them seemed a bit odd and set in their ways. I'm not surprised they're unaware that Bowie has younger fans, because the environment isn't (or at least, it wasn't when I was lurking) overly friendly to a younger fan. Most of them don't rate Labyrinth as anything but an embarrassment and are scathingly dismissive about younger female fans who discovered Bowie's music through it. They don't "get" fandom in general-- and certainly not fanfiction or fanart. Eventually I drifted away because they seemed happier talking about the stuff they've always talked about and being a fairly closed circle of people.