A Reality Tour
David Bowie
A Reality Tour is a live album by David Bowie, released on January 25–26, 2010, drawn from two concerts recorded at the Point Depot in Dublin on November 22 and 23, 2003 during his worldwide Reality Tour. Initially issued as a concert DVD in 2004, the audio version presents a fully remastered, career‑spanning set across two CDs (or 35 tracks in its digital edition), running nearly two hours and forty minutes. Backed by a six‑piece band—Earl Slick and Gerry Leonard on guitars, Gail Ann Dorsey on bass and vocals, Mike Garson on piano and keyboards, Catherine Russell on multi‑instruments and vocals, and Sterling Campbell on drums—Bowie moves fluidly through songs from Reality and Heathen alongside classics and deep cuts reaching back over three decades.
The tracklist balances hit singles, fan favorites, and obscurities in a way critics have likened to a “greatest hits live” set with real depth: “Rebel Rebel,” “Fame,” “Ashes to Ashes,” “Heroes,” “Ziggy Stardust,” and “Under Pressure” sit alongside “Fantastic Voyage,” “Be My Wife,” “The Man Who Sold the World,” and covers like the Pixies’ “Cactus” and Iggy Pop’s “Sister Midnight.” Three songs—“Breaking Glass,” “China Girl,” and “Fall Dog Bombs the Moon”—appear on the CD for the first time from these shows, with two additional bonus tracks on the iTunes edition, making the album an expanded document of the Dublin performances. Reviews have consistently praised A Reality Tour as one of Bowie’s strongest live releases, emphasizing how his voice (described as still unmistakably “Thin White Duke”) and the band’s precise but flexible playing inject new energy and nuance into familiar material, capturing Bowie in a late‑career phase that feels both summative and creatively alive.
A Reality Tour is a live album by David Bowie, released on January 25–26, 2010, drawn from two concerts recorded at the Point Depot in Dublin on November 22 and 23, 2003 during his worldwide Reality Tour. Initially issued as a concert DVD in 2004, the audio version presents a fully remastered, career‑spanning set across two CDs (or 35 tracks in its digital edition), running nearly two hours and forty minutes. Backed by a six‑piece band—Earl Slick and Gerry Leonard on guitars, Gail Ann Dorsey on bass and vocals, Mike Garson on piano and keyboards, Catherine Russell on multi‑instruments and vocals, and Sterling Campbell on drums—Bowie moves fluidly through songs from Reality and Heathen alongside classics and deep cuts reaching back over three decades.
The tracklist balances hit singles, fan favorites, and obscurities in a way critics have likened to a “greatest hits live” set with real depth: “Rebel Rebel,” “Fame,” “Ashes to Ashes,” “Heroes,” “Ziggy Stardust,” and “Under Pressure” sit alongside “Fantastic Voyage,” “Be My Wife,” “The Man Who Sold the World,” and covers like the Pixies’ “Cactus” and Iggy Pop’s “Sister Midnight.” Three songs—“Breaking Glass,” “China Girl,” and “Fall Dog Bombs the Moon”—appear on the CD for the first time from these shows, with two additional bonus tracks on the iTunes edition, making the album an expanded document of the Dublin performances. Reviews have consistently praised A Reality Tour as one of Bowie’s strongest live releases, emphasizing how his voice (described as still unmistakably “Thin White Duke”) and the band’s precise but flexible playing inject new energy and nuance into familiar material, capturing Bowie in a late‑career phase that feels both summative and creatively alive.
A Reality Tour
David Bowie
A Reality Tour is a live album by David Bowie, released on January 25–26, 2010, drawn from two concerts recorded at the Point Depot in Dublin on November 22 and 23, 2003 during his worldwide Reality Tour. Initially issued as a concert DVD in 2004, the audio version presents a fully remastered, career‑spanning set across two CDs (or 35 tracks in its digital edition), running nearly two hours and forty minutes. Backed by a six‑piece band—Earl Slick and Gerry Leonard on guitars, Gail Ann Dorsey on bass and vocals, Mike Garson on piano and keyboards, Catherine Russell on multi‑instruments and vocals, and Sterling Campbell on drums—Bowie moves fluidly through songs from Reality and Heathen alongside classics and deep cuts reaching back over three decades.
The tracklist balances hit singles, fan favorites, and obscurities in a way critics have likened to a “greatest hits live” set with real depth: “Rebel Rebel,” “Fame,” “Ashes to Ashes,” “Heroes,” “Ziggy Stardust,” and “Under Pressure” sit alongside “Fantastic Voyage,” “Be My Wife,” “The Man Who Sold the World,” and covers like the Pixies’ “Cactus” and Iggy Pop’s “Sister Midnight.” Three songs—“Breaking Glass,” “China Girl,” and “Fall Dog Bombs the Moon”—appear on the CD for the first time from these shows, with two additional bonus tracks on the iTunes edition, making the album an expanded document of the Dublin performances. Reviews have consistently praised A Reality Tour as one of Bowie’s strongest live releases, emphasizing how his voice (described as still unmistakably “Thin White Duke”) and the band’s precise but flexible playing inject new energy and nuance into familiar material, capturing Bowie in a late‑career phase that feels both summative and creatively alive.
A Reality Tour is a live album by David Bowie, released on January 25–26, 2010, drawn from two concerts recorded at the Point Depot in Dublin on November 22 and 23, 2003 during his worldwide Reality Tour. Initially issued as a concert DVD in 2004, the audio version presents a fully remastered, career‑spanning set across two CDs (or 35 tracks in its digital edition), running nearly two hours and forty minutes. Backed by a six‑piece band—Earl Slick and Gerry Leonard on guitars, Gail Ann Dorsey on bass and vocals, Mike Garson on piano and keyboards, Catherine Russell on multi‑instruments and vocals, and Sterling Campbell on drums—Bowie moves fluidly through songs from Reality and Heathen alongside classics and deep cuts reaching back over three decades.
The tracklist balances hit singles, fan favorites, and obscurities in a way critics have likened to a “greatest hits live” set with real depth: “Rebel Rebel,” “Fame,” “Ashes to Ashes,” “Heroes,” “Ziggy Stardust,” and “Under Pressure” sit alongside “Fantastic Voyage,” “Be My Wife,” “The Man Who Sold the World,” and covers like the Pixies’ “Cactus” and Iggy Pop’s “Sister Midnight.” Three songs—“Breaking Glass,” “China Girl,” and “Fall Dog Bombs the Moon”—appear on the CD for the first time from these shows, with two additional bonus tracks on the iTunes edition, making the album an expanded document of the Dublin performances. Reviews have consistently praised A Reality Tour as one of Bowie’s strongest live releases, emphasizing how his voice (described as still unmistakably “Thin White Duke”) and the band’s precise but flexible playing inject new energy and nuance into familiar material, capturing Bowie in a late‑career phase that feels both summative and creatively alive.