David Bowie, Pink and Santana are among the acts confirmed to be playing at the 2002 VH1/Vogue Fashion Awards in New York next month. Among the awards to be made on the evening are Visionary Video Award which sees Moby's ‘We Are All Made of Stars’ against the White Stripes' ‘Fell in Love with a Girl’ and Shakira's ‘Objection (Tango)’. ‘Will & Grace’ star Debra Messing will MC – details of other performers and presenters are expected soon.
Meanwhile Bowie performed an exclusive gig for an intimate audience of less than 200 people at the BBC’s Maida Vale studios in a recording for BBC Radio 2. With Jonathan Ross, Ricky Gervais, David Baddiel and BBC Chairman Gavyn Davies among the audience he performed a number of mainly new tracks but found time for some classics, including the first ever performance of ‘Bewlay Brothers’ which appeared on his 1971 album 'Hunky Dory'. Such an unusual event he had to use a lyric sheet - "there are more words in this than War and Peace,” he told the crowd. The gig will be aired on Radio 2 on 5 Oct. Bowie was also videoing the performance to show to his two-year-old daughter Alexandria back in New York. "This is just to show my daughter exactly what sort of person I associate with," he said, focusing his lens on the fans.