Bowie's Ashes?

geedee

balibule wroteIts obviously very unlikely that Bowie will attract 600,000 visitors a year to Bali. Elvis Presley was just an example (the most popular). There are plenty of other celebrities who are dead and still get visitors. If they make some kind of memorial place for Bowie there is in my opinion a possibility that this will attract graveyard tourism.

You may be right his stuff is going crazy on the charts but my personal opinion it wouldn't be huge but the whole thing is a huge positive for Bali Where would they put it?

Markit

geedee wroteTalking of cheese what was good and what was ordinary?

Your wonderful supply of the blessed cheese is still largely intact and the couple I've enjoyed were just wonderful. You have to understand that here "ordinary" is no cheese at all.

geedee

Markit wroteSince Bowie was one of the most popular pop Icons/figureheads and musicians of the last 60 years I seriously think people all over the would look at it and say "Wow! If Bowie thought Bali was where he wanted his ashes then it must be fecking good there!".

It is good there,and its a positive for Bali but in a couple of months at best who is going to remember Bowie asking for his ashes to be scattered in Bali. NO ONE except Die hard Bowie freaks and Bali expats.It may give Bali an extra 100 tourists(Bowie freaks) at best so in MY opinion no difference to tourism. Can you remember any famous person asking to have their ashes scattered and where. I can't but there have been many. More importantly and tourists will remember is safety, VOA, accommodation choice ,restaurant standards ,affordability and beaches (Bali should fix this). P.S I have just asked a 19y/o and a 16y/o have they heard of David Bowie 1st reply was who? 2nd reply was I seen something about him on Facebook

Markit wrote(Geedee, I've said it a hundred times here: I'm really glad that Bogans love Kuta/Seminyuk/Jimbaran/etc and have nothing against them at all but I don't want to live next to it, thanks. )

In your area its a different type of tourist and I loved the feel but didn't see any bogans in Seminyak but maybe I just blend in

balibule

geedee wroteWhere would they put it?

If nobody makes a memorial I will take a gamble and build one myself ;-)

geedee

Most of the activity around Elvis happened after he'd had his banana-peanut butter fried toast. While he was alive Graceland was just where a rock and roller lived (and not all that popular at that time, leastwise in the US). As to Elvis being the "highest selling single artist of all time" in the day of Google you have to be careful with such statements: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_best-selling_singles

I wasn't meaning best selling single (song) what i was meaning was best selling solo artist with about 18 - 20 No 1 singles and look at the movies, my mum loved them ,then again she loved me I think

balibule

geedee wroteNo comparison its like comparing Bali to Fiji There are far more Elvis freaks than Bowie ones. how many worldwide Elvis events and impersonators are there Elvis is the highest selling single artist of all time. There is something to see with Elvis like Graceland, recording studios,where he grew up etc etc. So are people going to come just to see an island that his ashes were scattered on?

Its obviously very unlikely that Bowie will attract 600,000 visitors a year to Bali. Elvis Presley was just an example (the most popular). There are plenty of other celebrities who are dead and still get visitors. If they make some kind of memorial place for Bowie there is in my opinion a possibility that this will attract graveyard tourism.

Markit

No comparison its like comparing Bali to Fiji There are far more Elvis freaks than Bowie ones. how many worldwide Elvis events and impersonators are there Elvis is the highest selling single artist of all time. There is something to see with Elvis like Graceland, recording studios,where he grew up etc etc. So are people going to come just to see an island that his ashes were scattered on?

Most of the activity around Elvis happened after he'd had his banana-peanut butter fried toast. While he was alive Graceland was just where a rock and roller lived (and not all that popular at that time, leastwise in the US). As to Elvis being the "highest selling single artist of all time" in the day of Google you have to be careful with such statements: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_best-selling_singles

geedee

balibule wroteIf nobody makes a memorial I will take a gamble and build one myself ;-)

You are giving away your ideas You would probably do Ok? get your tour guide to dress as Ziggy Stardust(actually I think Markit would like to dress like that and probably has)

no.idea

Markit wroteBlacky's ashes at Senia may be a big draw to your crowd but I'm guessing that might have a limited attraction for the rest of the world? Oh and I rather liked his early music too.

Blacky's music was shocking, what are you smoking up there in the cave?

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