David Bowie's READY, SET, GO! (LIVE, RIVERSIDE STUDIOS ’03) Set for Record Store Day 2025 Release

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READY, SET, GO! (LIVE, RIVERSIDE STUDIOS ’03)

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 April 12 for Record Store Day. Hear and watch the live version of "NEW KILLER STAR," the opening song from the show. Listen HERE.

 

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 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 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.

DAVID BOWIE

READY, SET, GO! (LIVE, RIVERSIDE STUDIOS ’03) 

 

2LP

Side 1

New Killer Star

Pablo Picasso

Never Get Old

 

Side 2

The Loneliest Guy

Looking For Water

She’ll Drive The Big Car

 

Side 3

Days

Fall Dog Bombs The Moon

Try Some, Buy Some

Reality

 

Side 4

Bring Me The Disco King

Hallo Spaceboy

Cactus

Afraid

 

CD

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

 

Produced by David Bowie and Tony Visconti.

 

Vocal, Guitar: David Bowie

Keyboards: Mike Garson

Bass, Vocals: Gail Ann Dorsey

Guitars:  Earl Slick 

Guitars, Vocals: Gerry Leonard

Drums: Sterling Campbell

Keyboards, Guitar, Vocals: Catherine Russell