Cast your mind back 4 years ago way back to January 2016. We would have just received ‘Blackstar’ which, unbeknownst to us, would end up being David Bowie’s final album. Two short days later, we would hear that he had died after a long fight with liver cancer and the tone and lyrics in the album would make sense. But, luckily for us, there are still new bits of music to be found in Bowie’s extensive back catalogue. 

One of these such things is the live gig from 1999 that is going to be released digitally for the first time. ‘Something in the Air’ was recorded on October the 14th at Elysee Montmatre in Paris. It will have 15 new songs on it (12 of which being previously unreleased) which will be enough to excite any die hard Bowie fan. Something that made this gig extra special was the fact that Bowie received France’s highest Artistic Order just before. So it did not put much pressure on him to have a good gig did it?

Parlophone has announced the 3rd in a series of 3 digital live releases from the 90s. DAVID BOWIE SOMETHING IN THE AIR (LIVE PARIS 99) is available to stream from 14th August. DRIVE-IN SATURDAY available 7th August: https://t.co/3UnDIjPHjd Read PR here: https://t.co/cxEUzOlEuspic.twitter.com/qvEfAHaYKh

— David Bowie Official (@DavidBowieReal) August 6, 2020

This new release comes shortly after his other live album ‘LiveAndWell.com’ was released back in May. This one was a special album due to it being released on the now defunct BowieNet which was his own internet service provider which closed down in 2006. 

His estate are now releasing live gigs from the nineties that have not seen the light of day or just have a little dust collecting on them from all the years they have spent on the shelf. The one previous to this one was ‘Ouvrez le chien’ (Open the dog?) which again was recorded in Paris.

Seeing as though Bowie went through so many stylistic changes throughout the years, it comes as no surprise that he has so much unreleased material. To have the career he had and try all the things he tried on the music side, it shows that he has tried to get the most out of his talents and, it would usually, come off. 

So hopefully this album lives up to the standards he set for himself both during his career and posthumously. There will honestly never be another artist like David Bowie so we should take advantage of all we can while we can. I am sure this will be another top album.