Comments on: No Great Dark Numanoid

By: Andrew

Andrew — Sat, 12 Apr 2008 21:12:27 +0000

I think ‘never ever go and see him’ is a bit strong.

To be honest I blame the sound desk guys at the Dome; I went to the Brighton and London dates and the guitars were nowhere near that high in the mix for the London show.

I see Numan a lot and the Replicas show is a very bad example of the average gig.

Please give Gary another go. Please.

Evidence of good later career music;
Exposure, She’s got Claws, Music for Chameleons.

By: Justin Baum

Justin Baum — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 23:58:56 +0000

Funny, a few days after reading this I noticed Feadz released a track on Ed Banger called Numanoid. Beatport top 10 electro-house! :-p

By: burkowitz

burkowitz — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 23:10:30 +0000

unrelated to gary numan:

http://www.myspace.com/certainbreeds

italo-horror influenced vancouver outfit right up your alley

By: davemc

davemc — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 09:29:19 +0000

it wasn’t very good, but it was still better than Gay Against You.

By: dona

dona — Sun, 06 Apr 2008 16:17:13 +0000

thanks for that awesome review. I will never go see Gary Numan!

By: Jon Lester

Jon Lester — Sat, 05 Apr 2008 18:33:45 +0000

I’m a fan but I don’t mind saying it’s not for everyone. No artist is.

By: Georgie

Georgie — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 22:48:56 +0000

I suspect Gary was never quite the same after ‘Blade Runner’ was released. It made visual what he had been trying to accomplish through his music for his entire career up until that point(Roy Batty even had his hairdo, for Pete’s sake).

Speaking of hair, once in the late 90′s I shared a few pints with the Man himself at a football pub in his hometown of Hammersmith. At some point in the evening, he graciously let me try on his toupee. It fit like a glove.

(:{D

By: sassa

sassa — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 20:37:52 +0000

look at his kitchen, those chairs are way cool!

By: Dan Nixon

Dan Nixon — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 14:43:47 +0000

Stu,

That Independant story references the thing I told you about Newman getting arrested for spying while flying his plane around the world! It reads like he wrote the article himself though, very odd.

By: davemc

davemc — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 13:52:27 +0000

sorry, broken link: http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/house-and-home/interiors/gary-numan-lord-of-the-swords-764265.html

By: davemc

davemc — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 13:49:26 +0000

“He reminds me of Rick Moranis though.”

I always thought *I* was the only person who got that! no one else sees it…

check out the nume’s wall of swords:

http://money.independent.co.uk/property/homes/article3221419.ece

aw. poor gary. i love him.

By: Teep

Teep — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 11:54:58 +0000

fair enough… still, I saw him on tour for the jagged album, which I thought was very listenable and sufficiently dark and the show was descent… the highlight for me being ‘prayer for the unborn’ http://youtube.com/watch?v=4eLgRu9Sm2I

By: Brian

Brian — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 11:34:56 +0000

Aww…
Gary’s a cat lover so giv’em a break.

He reminds me of Rick Moranis though.

By: davemc

davemc — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 09:29:08 +0000

hopefully he’ll release the Living Ornaments video on DVD soon (with the little car!!!). I stand by Dance as an album. One day I’m actually going to get round to listening to all the 80s Numan LPs I bought in a frenzy when I was 19, but the covers to some of them give me the fear.

The Fury, apparently, is not that bad: http://static.rateyourmusic.com/album_images/44354.jpg

By: davemc

davemc — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 09:13:51 +0000

stu, it weren’t THAT BAD. it was better, at least – i think – then when i saw him in 99 in manchester. but nowhere near as good as when he did Telekon in the London. Also, Replicas is fundamentally a guitar album! I did find it a bit dispiriting that his band only actually seemed really into it when they did rubbish new song at the end though.

He should do an album with Black Strobe. Black Strobe should also do an album with Sunn 0))) and Satyricon – kind of anthemic EBMblackmetalfusionfunk with clouds of billowing black guitars over the top.

By: seandonson

seandonson — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 08:39:27 +0000

I came very near to seeing him once as I had (and have) an intense love for Replicas, The Pleasure Principle and Telekon. But as I was online getting ready to get tickets it dawned on me that everything hes made since Telekon is well… total bullshit. Except for Change Your Mind by Sharpe and Numan, which is rad in a pretty non Numanesque way. Anyway, I’m glad that I’ve read this and know I didn’t make a mistake by missing it. I knew it just might ruin what I loved about him.