Ann Dorsey, Plati, Garson, Campbell, Leonard and Catherine Russell. First making a series of festival and television appearances, Bowie and the band played Low and Heathen in their entireties during performances in June. He stated: "The two albums kind of feel like cousins to each other. They've got a sonic similarity." Changes were made to the setlist after headlining the UK Meltdown festival. "A Better Future", "Slow Burn" and "I Took a Trip on a Gemini Spaceship" were dropped in favour of more crowd-pleasing numbers, such as "Stay" (1976) and "Life on Mars?"; most of Low and Heathen continued to be played for subsequent shows. In late July 2002, Bowie joined musician Moby on his 12-date Area: 2 festival tour promoting his new album 18. Bowie's performances at Area: 2 were described by numerous reviewers as show-stealers. In September, he made various television appearances to promote the "Everyone Says 'Hi single. The tour's European leg commenced on 22 September 2002 with a show in Berlin and ended on 2 October with a show at London's Hammersmith Odeon, the venue Bowie famously killed off Ziggy Stardust in 1973. Afterwards, the tour was extended to multiple shows in New York, where tracks from Heathen and oldies such as "Rebel Rebel" were played. In the end, the tour consisted of 36 dates, with several leisurely breaks. Bowie initially ruled out the possibility of a world tour due to his family commitments. However, the success of the Heathen Tour, and admiration for his touring band, reinvigorated his desire for larger tours, leading to the worldwide A Reality Tour the following year. Legacy Heathen marked a commercial and creative resurgence for Bowie. Buckley argues that he finally found a voice in 2002 compared to the 1990s, when critics dismissed him as "genre-hopping". With Heathens update of old themes into a modern settings, the public took notice of him for the first time "in a generation". The album went on to sell one million copies worldwide by the end of 2003. In later years, some commentators found the album one of the artist's strongest albums of his later career. In 2016, Bryan Wawzenek of Ultimate Classic Rock placed Heathen at number 17 out of 26 in a list ranking Bowie's studio albums from worst to best, praising Bowie's comfortability on the record, calling it "distinguished, thoughtful and spirited". Including Bowie's two albums with Tin Machine, Consequence