Live: Nippon Budokan, Tokyo

David Bowie performed at the Nippon Budokan in Tokyo, Japan, on 9 March 2004, as part of A Reality Tour.

It was the 64th date of the tour, which began on 7 October 2003 in Copenhagen, and the second of two consecutive nights in Tokyo.

Earl Slick and Gerry Leonard played guitar, Gail Ann Dorsey was on bass guitar and vocals, and Mike Garson played keyboards and piano. Sterling Campbell was on drums, and Catherine Russell played keyboards, percussion, guitar and sang backing vocals.

Bowie had previously played there on 11 December 1978 during the Isolar II Tour; 20, 21, 22, and 24 October 1983 for the Serious Moonlight Tour; 17 February 1992 for Tin Machine’s It’s My Life Tour; and 4 and 5 June 1996 for the Outside Tour.

The setlist

• ‘Rebel Rebel’
• ‘Hang On To Yourself’
• ‘New Killer Star’
• ‘Fashion’
• ‘Cactus’
• ‘All The Young Dudes’
• ‘China Girl’
• ‘Reality’
• ‘5:15 The Angels Have Gone’
• ‘The Man Who Sold The World’
• ‘Hallo Spaceboy’
• ‘Sunday’
• ‘Heathen (The Rays)’
• ‘Under Pressure’
• ‘Slip Away’
• ‘Looking For Water’
• ‘Quicksand’
• ‘The Loneliest Guy’
• ‘Afraid’
• ‘Be My Wife’
• ‘A New Career In A New Town’
• ‘Ashes To Ashes’
• ‘I’m Afraid Of Americans’
• “Heroes”
• ‘Bring Me The Disco King’
• ‘Five Years’
• ‘Fall Dog Bombs The Moon’
• ‘Suffragette City’
• ‘Ziggy Stardust’