Bowie's Riverside

2003 Holy Grail Released worldwide as a Record Store Day limited edition on April 12, 2025, David Bowie’s A Reality Tour (Live At Riverside Studios, London 2003) — captured September 8, 2003 and first broadcast live globally via satellite — finally gets its first official physical release. This 14-track set (2×LP 180g or CD digisleeve with booklet) features the full Riverside performance, produced/mixed by Tony Visconti. Limited pressing (6,400 LPs US, CD numbers unspecified). A long-awaited companion to the 2010 live album.

Album Overview

Label: ISO Records / Parlophone.

Formats: 2×LP 180g (RSD limited), CD digisleeve (RSD limited).

℗ & ©: 2025 Jones/Tintoretto Entertainment Co., LLC under exclusive license to Parlophone.

Recorded live at Riverside Studios, Hammersmith, London – 8 September 2003.

Engineered by Sanctuary Mobiles. Mastered by John Webber at Air Lyndhurst.

Full Track Listing

Vinyl 2×LP (DBRSD2003 / 5021732531179)

Side A

1. New Killer Star

2. Pablo Picasso

3. Never Get Old

4. The Loneliest Guy

Side B

1. Looking For Water

2. She'll Drive The Big Car

3. Days

4. Fall Dog Bombs The Moon

Side C

1. Try Some, Buy Some

2. Reality

3. Bring Me The Disco King

Side D

1. Hallo Spaceboy

2. Cactus

3. Afraid

CD (DBRSDCD2003 / 5021732531186)

1. New Killer Star (5:08)

2. Pablo Picasso (4:41)

3. Never Get Old (4:23)

4. The Loneliest Guy (4:30)

5. Looking For Water (3:38)

6. She'll Drive The Big Car (5:49)

7. Days (4:15)

8. Fall Dog Bombs The Moon (4:26)

9. Try Some, Buy Some (4:49)

10. Reality (4:42)

11. Bring Me The Disco King (8:42)

12. Hallo Spaceboy (5:38)

13. Cactus (2:57)

14. Afraid (3:38)

2×LP, RSD Limited – ISO/Parlophone DBRSD2003 – Worldwide – 12 Apr 2025

CD, RSD Limited Digisleeve – ISO/Parlophone DBRSDCD2003 – Worldwide – 12 Apr 2025

Production and Context

Produced by David Bowie. Recorded/mixed by Tony Visconti. The band: Bowie (vocals/acoustic guitar), Earl Slick & Gerry Leonard (guitars), Gail Ann Dorsey (bass/backing), Catherine Russell (keyboards/guitar/backing), Sterling Campbell (drums), Mike Garson (piano/keyboards). First global live satellite broadcast concert. Long-awaited official release of the Riverside 2003 set.

Legacy and Collectibility

A Reality Tour (Riverside 2003) is Bowie’s final live capture in pristine form — the legendary satellite broadcast finally on vinyl/CD. RSD 2025 limited pressings.

Verify catalogue DBRSD2003 (LP) / DBRSDCD2003 (CD). This set is a must-have for Bowie live collectors.

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Sources

Information is drawn from my personal knowledge and supplemented by web sources, including Prince Vault, Discogs, 45cat, AllMusic, Rate Your Music, Wikipedia, BBC Official Charts Company, Billboard Chart History and YouTube

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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.

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

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