Ready, Set Go! (Live Riverside Studios ’03) will be available on April 12th
Parlophone Records is proud to announce the release of a special David Bowie limited double vinyl LP and CD of Ready, Set, Go! (Live, Riverside Studios ’03) which will be released on April 12th for Record Store Day. The live version of “New Killer Star,” which opened the show, is available digitally.
On September 8, 2003, 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 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 Bowie 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 Bowie doing brand new live Q&A sessions for those broadcasts.
- 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
