Two for The Show
A cool front moves in as Moby and David Bowie go on tour
Sitting in his trailer before his July 31 set in Holmdel, N.J., David
Bowie, 55, is more Mr. Mom than Major Tom. On Area2, his summer tour with Moby, Bowie
is pleased that many of the gigs are within commuting range, so he can usually get
back to Alexandria, 2, his daughter with former supermodel Iman, 47, who now
runs a cosmetics line. "My baby's too important," he says. "She wakes up and
finds us and yells 'Milk!' And she switches on one of my keyboards and does abstract
music."
Which brings us to another cherubic keyboard lover. Techno-pop pioneer
Moby invited Bowie, his friend and "favorite rock performer of all time" (the pair
live near each other in downtown Manhattan and have hung out together), to join his
12-city area2 festival, which ends Aug. 16. (The eclectic bill includes Blue Man
Group and rapper Busta Rhymes.) "Being at a cocktail party and talking to three or four
people, I'll be very nervous," says Moby, 36. "But in front of 20,000 people I'm
confortable. Don't know what kind of pathology that's indicative of. A degree of
mascochism?" It's a topic he can always discuss whith groupies. "There are," he
says, "women who want to have sex with you, and others who just want to talk to you. I
tend to fall in with the latter category."
Few have more devoted fans than Bowie, though. "Busta said 'David
Bowie, I never missed one of your shows. I never been to one of your shows, so
I never missed one of your shows.'" As for other graying rockers on tour this
year such as Paul McCartney, The Who and the Rolling Stones, Bowie says cheerfully,
"Don't worry. We'll all be dropping like flies shortly."
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