THE REPLICAS UK TOUR 2008Following on from 2006's highly successful 'Classic Album' Telekon Tour, the Replicas Tour will only feature songs from the 1979 Replicas album and the singles released from it, including the B-Sides. Gary's conventional tours are live sets made up predominantly, although not exclusively, of songs from more recent releases, such as the highly acclaimed Pure and Jagged albums. However, Gary has become increasingly aware over recent years that a significant number of fans, both old and new, would also love to hear a bigger selection, and greater variety, of the earlier material, as well as the newer songs. These 'Classic Album' tours are Gary's way of trying to meet that demand.For many newer fans these albums had been and gone before they were even born and so these tours give them a chance to hear many of the songs live for the first time. For those fans that have been supporting Gary since the very beginning it is a chance to hear songs live that they may not have heard for several decades, if at all. These 'Classic Album' tours are not planned to be repeated so, if you want to see and hear the entire Replicas album live, this is your chance.UNUSED TRACKS (News date: Aug 23) (from Gary/NUWORLD)
Some time ago I was asked if I would ever release any of the tracks that are written over the years but never make their way onto a finished album. I replied quite confidently that I didn't really have many spare tracks like that as things were usually abandoned long before they were finished. Something like that anyway. Well, it seems I spoke a bit hastily. A few weeks ago I went through my shelves as part of a studio tidy up and found a number of tracks that were clearly demo's but developed enough to be worthwhile finishing off. I think it's about 12 songs and all are from the Exile, Pure and Jagged sessions. I couldn't believe it to be honest, I had no idea that so much demo material had been worked on to that degree.
All of it has been transferred into the new system in the studio from the various formats it was in before and, with Ade Fenton, these songs are now being worked on for a release hopefully later this year. This is not the 'new' album however, but an extra release for those that are interested while the new album is still being worked on. It's going to be very interesting to see how these songs turn out.UK MINI TOUR THANKS
(News date: Aug 2)A huge thank you to everyone that came to see me on the recent UK Mini Tour. For me it was the most enjoyable and exciting batch of gigs I've done for a long time. Although the new light panels that I had hoped to use throughout the tour have still not made it out of development (software problems apparently) no one seemed to care in the slightest and each night had a fantastic atmosphere.MINITOUR 2007
Thank you to Paul @ ageofreasonphotography and Andrew Sully for pics!
JAGGED LIVE DVD Available now!
The Jagged Live DVD and CD are now available through our NuStreet stores. The DVD is in the Video Store and the CD in the Music store. Obvious enough I suppose. At the moment the DVD is only in the PAL format but NTSC (used mainly in North America) will be available very soon.
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The man who singlehandedly spearheaded the synthesizer revolution of the late 70s/early 80s, Gary Numan's influence extends far beyond his first hit, "Are 'Friends' Electric?", the first 1 synth-rock single.
That seminal track helped usher in the synth pop era on both sides of the Atlantic, especially in the U.K., where he was a huge pop star and prolific hit maker during the late '70s/early '80s. Sure, there were a few making music with synthesizers before him; Kraftwerk, Ultravox!, Bowie in Berlin and even Human League, and as brilliant and ground breaking as they all were, they missed something very important.
A pop star image.
After Kraftwerk rode the Trans Europa Express looking very German they became robots with red lips, Bowie was crying in his spagetti in Berlin and Ultravox! were on the telly in Hawaiian shirts singing about Hiroshima (a masterpiece). After the nuwave dust had settled, Numan's mark continued to make itself felt. His dark, paranoid vision, icy alien persona, and clinical, robotic yet very human sound were echoed strongly in the work of many industrial artists to come.Numan continued to record, and by the late '90s, he'd become a fashionable name to drop; notable alt-rock bands covered his songs, and the industrial dance movement called 'darkwave' looked to him as its mentor.Numan was born Gary Anthony James Webb on 8 March 1958, to Tony & Beryl Webb. Raised in the London suburb of Wraysbury, Gary's love of aeroplanes was born as they flew directley above his back garden to and from Heathrow. His parents bought him his first guitar at 12. Inspired by the punk movement, he joined a group called the Lasers in 1976. The following year, he and bassist Paul Gardiner split off to form Tubeway Army. They recorded two singles for Beggars Banquet under the names Valeriun and Scarlett with his uncle Jess Lidyard usually on drums.
Scrapping that idea, Gary found his 'nu' name in the Yellow Pages from a plumber named Neumann. He removed the e and extra n and had his name. NUMAN. A Nu man with a Nu kind of music. His name change was done just in time for the pressing of the first album to be released, "Tubeway Army".
Chiefly influenced by David Bowie's Diamond Dogs (see Chant of the Ever Circling Skeletal Family) and a bit of 'Beauty & The Beast' from 'Heroes', Ultravox!'s 'Systems of Romance' (with the original frontman and pioneer in his own right, John Foxx/ an album that served as a blueprint for both Tubeway Army albums) as well as science fiction writer Philip K. Dick (read Flow My Tears, The Policeman Said) and Burroughs' Naked Lunch.The group's second album, "Replicas" was released in early 1979. Gary wanted to release it under his name as he wrote and played everything apart from drums and bass guitar, but BB thought it would be a bad move due to the cult following Tubeway Army already had. The first single 'Down In The Park', which is Gary's personal favourite to this day, did nothing.
It's second single, "Are 'Friends' Electric?" hit number 1 with a unique sound, some clever marketing techniques by BB (a 7'' pic disc and an OGWT performance bathed in white light) topping the U.K. charts for four weeks solid, sending Replicas to number one on the album charts simultaniously as well. A feat rarely achieved by artists. Numan had become a star overnight."The Pleasure Principle" was released in the fall of 1979 and gave us Numan's international hit "Cars," which reached the top ten in the US charts and hit number one in the U.K. The single and album also became Numan's second straight British number ones. In November he released 'Complex' which was the first top ten electronic ballad in rock history. At this point Gary was already touring Britain with a huge, futuristic stage show which was one of the the biggest lightshows the world had seen at the time. He continued to make his lightshows even bigger for the next two years as a way to thank his fans for buying his records. In later years he would admit the shows were also to make up for what he considered a lack of stage presence, but the motionless, android stare sent shivers up everyone's spine.Numan's 1980 output, "Telekon", his third straight chart-topping album in Britain, scored two top ten hits with "We Are Glass" and "I Die: You Die". Tracks that weren't included on the album to 'add value' for the fans.
In 1981, Numan announced his retirement from live performance, playing three farewell concerts at Wembly Arena with the biggest light show in British rock history. The light show cost Gary £20,000 per night despite all three shows being sold out. It was his way of thanking his fans. Something still rare to this day. If he had raised the top ticket price just £2 he would have broke even. He refused. Even today huge acts with half the light show charge £75 per ticket to get every penny they can.
While Dance and its only single, "She's Got Claws" were in the top ten, Numan flew around the world in his black twin engine Piper Navajo. His retirement proved short-lived, and when he returned in 1982 with "I, Assassin", the album went straight into the top ten. That may not seem too bad but it didn't sell even half of the numbers 'Replicas' had.Although I, Assassin was another Top Ten album, and "We Take Mystery (To Bed)" was another top ten hit, Numan's singles were starting to slip on the charts.
The title track of 1983's "Warriors" became his last British Top 20 hit for almost twenty years, with the second single 'Sister Surprise' going top forty only.
This is not taking into consideration his collaboration with Bill Sharpe on 'Change Your Mind' (17) in 1985, because Numan only sang lead vocal and did not write the song.
Numan and Beggars Banquet subsequently parted ways, and Numan formed his own Numa label, releasing "Berserker "in late 1984. With 'Berserker' Numan had discoverd the art of sampling and the PPG Wave. A German synth with a new type of synthesis that evolved from the Minimoog/Polymoog/Arp Odyssey that he has been relying on for so many years. The new synthesis technology gave Gary a brand new, metalic, electronic and harsher sound than ever. Unfortunately, without the advertising muscle of a huge record label, it only reached 45 in the charts with the title track single reaching 32.
1985's "The Fury" became the final Numan album to reach the British Top 30, peaking at 24, with it's three singles reaching the top 50. Over the next few years, Numan collaborated with Shakatak's Bill Sharpe, releasing four singles from 1985-1989, and the album "Automatic".
Following 1986's "Strange Charm", and a return to the top 30 with the singles 'This Is Love' and 'I Can't Stop', Numan signed with IRS, but the relationship was doomed from the start. IRS forced Numan to change the title of 1988's UK release from ''Cold Metal Rhythm'' to "Metal Rhythm", and to New Anger for his first North American release since 1982 (and also remixed two tracks, changed the order of and added two songs from Berserker) and would not fund any supporting tours for New Anger or 1991's "Outland", of which four versions were recorded and two alternate versions exsist in fan circles. This was due to two factors. The first was IRS kept asking Gary to change verses, mixes and all the little things the 'expert' men in suits do. Secondly, there was a fire at Gary's outland studio which lead to him having to record it yet again. Some fans argue that the finished product was a watered down version of the earlier takes. This fan included. Earlier versions had heavier synths and a much sharper edge than what was finally released.
When the label collapsed, Numan returned to Numa for 1992's "Machine + Soul". The lowest point of Gary's career, according to him.
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1994 brought the release of the 'return to form' "Sacrifice", the first glimmering of Numan's return to critical favour.
Apparently, it was a new relationship with a lifelong fan, Gemma O'Neil, that sparked the beginning of a new era of Numan.
For years Gary had been trying to write songs to make the charts, while at the same time losing everything that made him unique in the first place.
Sounding like himself.Gemma explained to him that he'd lost a huge part of his fanbase because he just didn't sound like himself anymore. Enter 'Sacrifice'. (Witness the transformation on the soundtrack to his aviation video 'The Radial Pair': the blueprint for Sacrifice, and the live album Dream Corrosion)
With his fan base's faith restored and expectations raised, Numan continued to write songs that HE liked with 1997's "Exile". Then there was 2000's "Pure" , which was acclaimed as his best work since '1980's 'Telekon' and expanded his fanbase to even greater numbers.In 2002, Numan enjoyed chart success once again with the single "Rip", reaching 29 in the UK chart and 1 on Kerrang. In 2003 the single "Crazier", cowritten with Rico, reached 13 in the UK chart. Rico, an artist from Glasgow, also worked on the remix album "Hybrid" along with Sulpher, which featured reworkings of new and older songs with a more contemporary, industrial style.
In 2004 Numan decided to relaunch his own label, changing Numa Records into Mortal Records and releasing a series of live DVDs and a critically well-received new studio album "Jagged" (reaching 3 in UK independant chart), released in March 2006.
An album launch gig took place at The Forum, London on 18 March followed by successful UK, European and US tour.
The end of 2006 saw Gary appeasing a large part of his fanbase by doing a 'mini-tour' in the UK, playing songs only from the 1980 album Telekon.
This four date extraveganza saw Gary on stage with his largest light show in over 15 years, playing songs that haven't been performed in 26 years, or never at all.The success of these shows has Gary planning to do a repeat with Replicas in early 2008 to coincide with his 30th anniversary in the business...
DISCOGRAPHY (studio albums):
All albums and singles show (chart position) (label and release year)
*denotes extended version of album released
Tubeway Army (14) (Beggars Banquet 1978)
Replicas (1) (Beggars Banquet 1979)
The Pleasure Principle (1) (Beggars Banquet 1979)
Telekon (1) (Beggars Banquet 1980)
Dance (3) (Beggars Banquet 1981)
I, Assassin (8) (Beggars Banquet 1982)
Warriors (12) (Beggars Banquet 1983)
The Plan (29) (Beggars Banquet 1984)
Berserker (45) (Numa 1984)*
The Fury (24)(Numa 1985)*
Strange Charm (59) (Numa 1986)
Metal Rhythm (48) (Illegal 1988)
Automatic (59) (Polydor 1989) w/Bill Sharpe
Outland (39) (I.R.S. 1991)
Machine + Soul (42) (Numa 1992)*
Sacrifice (-) (Numa 1994)*
Human (-) (Numa 1995)
Exile (47) (Eagle 1997)*
Pure (58) (Eagle 2000)
Hybrid (-) (Jagged Halo 2003)
Jagged (59) (Mortal 2006)*
*Jagged Extended mixes (Mortal - 2007)
THE SINGLES 1978 - 2006
*denotes song not penned by Numan
That's Too Bad / Oh! Didn't I Say? (-) 1978
Bombers / Blue Eyes / OD Receiver (-) 1978
Down in the Park / Do You Need The Service?/ I Nearly Married A Human 2 (-) 1979
Are 'Friends' Electric? / We Are So Fragile (1) 1979
Cars / Asylum (1) 1979
Complex / Bombers (live) / Me! I Disconnect From You (live) (6) 1979
We Are Glass / Trios Gymnopedies (5) 1980
I Die: You Die / Down in the Park (piano version) (6) 1980
This Wreckage / Photograph (20) 1980
Stormtrooper In Drag / Night Talk (Paul Gardiner) (49) 1981
She's Got Claws / I Sing Rain / Exhibition (6) 1981
Love Needs No Disguise* / Take Me Home* / Face To Face (33) 1981
Music For Chameleons / Noise Noise / Bridge? What Bridge? (19) 1982
We Take Mystery (to bed) / The Image Is / We Take Mystery (early version) (9) 1982
White Boys And Heroes / War Games / Glitter And Ash (20) 1982
Warriors / My Cars Slides 1 / My Car Slides 2 (20) 1983
Sister Surprise / Poetry And Power / Letters (32) 1983
Berserker / Empty Bed, Empty Heart (32) 1984
My Dying Machine / Here Am I / She Cries (66) 1984
Change Your Mind* / Remix, Remake, Remodel* (17) 1985
Your Fascination / We Need It / Anthem (46) 1985
Call Out The Dogs / This Ship Comes Apart / No Shelter (49) 1985
Miracles / The Fear (49) 1985
This Is Love / Survival (28) 1986
I Can't Stop / Faces (27) 1986
New Thing From London Town* / Time To Die (52) 1986
I Still Remember / Puppets (74) 1986
Radio Heart* / Mistasax (35) 1987
London Times* / Rumours (48) 1987
All Across The Nation* / River (-) 1987
No More Lies / Voices (34) 1988
I'm On Automatic / Love Like A Ghost (44) 1988
New Anger / I Don't Believe / Children (46) 1988
America / Respect (live) / New Anger (live) (49) 1988
Heart / Shame / IceHouse / Tread Careful (43) 1991
Emotion / In A Glasshouse / Hanoi (-) 1991
The Skin Game / Dark Mountain / U Got The Look (68) 1992
Machine & Soul (1-4) / 1999 / The Hauntings / Cry baby / Wonder Eye (72) 1992
Like A Refugee (I Wont Cry)* (-) 1994
A Question of Faith / Play Like God / Whisper of Truth (-) 1994
Absolution / Magic (-) 1995
Dominion Day (1+2 CD Set)/ Voix 20th / Cars (live) / Metal 20th / Down in the Park 20th (-) 1998
RIP (1+2 CD Set)/ Prayer For The Unborn / M.E./ This Wreckage / Are 'Friends' Electric? / new versions (29) 2002
Crazier (1-3 CD set)/ Listen To My Voice / Ancients (2 versions)/ Big Black Sea / Garden Man* (13) 2003
In A Dark Place / Fold (alt version) / In A Dark Place (59) 2006
OFFICIAL LIVE ALBUMS:
Living Ornaments 79 & 80 (2) (BB 1981)
Living Ornaments 79 (47) (BB 1981)
Living Ornaments 80 (39) (BB 1981)
Living Ornaments 81 (-) (BB 1998)
White Noise (29) (Numa 1985)
Ghost (-) (Numa 1987)
The Skin Mechanic (55) (IRS 1989)
Dream Corrosion (-) (Numa 1993)
Dark Light (-) (Numa 1995)
Scarred (-) (Eagle 2003)
Live At Shepherds Bush Empire '97 (-) (Eagle 2004)
Hope Bleeds (Mortal 2004)
Fragment 1/04 (Mortal 2005)
Fragment 2/04 (Mortal 2005)
Jagged Live (Mortal 2007)
Jagged Tour Live (Mortal ???)
Telekon MiniTour 2006 (Mortal - ???)
FAN CLUB / WEBSITE AND TOUR ONLY RELEASES:
IMAGES 1&2 / 3&4 / 5&6 / 7&8 / 9&10 (Double Interview Album Sets - Vinyl Only) (GNFC 1986-89)*
IMAGES 11 (GNFC 1992)*
Ghost (Numa 1987)
The Radial Pair (Salvation Records 1994)
The Babylon Series 1-7 (-) (Salvation Records 1995-96)
Purified - Tour Programme (2001)
Photo CD 1 (2001)
Photo CD2 (2002)
Small Black Box - Tour Programme (2006)
EKO - Tour Programme (2006)
*IMAGES series has evolved into Tour Programme CDs.COMPILATIONS:
Officially sanctioned by Gary Numan or must have. Ignore everything else.
Photograph (INT 1981 - Illegal German Compilation. Very Rare)
New Man Numan: The Best Of Gary Numan (45) (TV 1982)
Numa Records Year One (-) (Numa 1985)
Exhibition (43) (Beggars Banquet 1987)
The Peel Sessions (Strange Fruit 1989)
Isolate (-) (Numa 1992)
The Best Of Gary Numan (70) (Beggars Banquet 1993)
The Premier Hits (21) (Beggars Banquet 1996)
The Numa Years (5 CD box set) (-) (Eagle 1998)
New Dreams for Old (Cleopatra/Eagle 1999)
The Radio One Sessions (Strange Fruit 1999)
Exposure: The Best Of Gary Numan 1977-2002 (44) (Jagged Halo 2002)
Resonator (Artful/Pychobaby 2004 - withdrawn per Numan's request)
The Complete John Peel Sessions (2007)VIDEOGRAPHY:Touring Principle (Warners 1980)
Micromusic (Palace Video 1982) - DVD release POSTPONED
Newman Numan - The best of (Palace Video 1982)
Berserker tour (Peppermint 1986) - Also on DVD (Sanctuary 2002)
Skin Mechanic (PMI 1990)
Shadowman (Numa 1992)
Dream Corrosion (Numa 1994).
Gary Numan - Live in London (DVD 2003) (Skin Mechanic VHS)
Hope Bleeds (MOR-DVD 2004)
Fragment 1/04 (DVD 2004)
Fragment 2/04 (DVD 2004)
Jagged Live (DVD 2007)
Jagged Halo (DVD Jagged Tour Live in London - ???)
Telekon 2006 - (DVD Live in London -???)
TELEKON MINI TOUR
The t-shirts from the Telekon mini tour are now available on NuStreet in the Clothes Store, T-Shirts (Short Sleeved) section. Eko, the double CD audio programme from the tour, is also available in the Music Store.Tour Programmes: Pure, Jagged and Telekon 2006.
NUSPACE EXCLUSIVE PHOTOS!
The following pics, exclusive to this page, are provided by Mark A Burton
of BITTERAPPLEPHOTOGRAPHY.
His myspace page is here in the top friends list. He was also the photographer for the article on Gary in Future Music this year. Top Bloke.GARY NUMAN @ MANCHESTER ACADEMY TELEKON 2006
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