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FUTURE MUSIC MAGAZINE (News date: Apr 14) |
| the lastest edition of Future Music magazine is out now with a three page feature on the Replicas tour. |
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TELEKON DVD/CD, REPLICANT CD AND REPLICAS T-SHIRTS (News date: Apr 11) |
| NuStreet has been updated with Telekon DVD's, Telekon CD's, Replicants CD's and Replicas T-shirts. |
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THE WICKERMAN FESTIVAL (News date: Apr 11) |
| We are now confirmed for the headline slot for The Wickerman Festival in Scotland on Friday, July 25. Please visit the Wickerman web site for more details about this unique festival. |
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THE MAGIC LOUNGEABOUT 24 HOUR MUSICAL PICNIC (News date: Apr 11) |
| Today we also agreed to play at the brilliantly named Magic Loungeabout Musical Picnic at Newburgh Priory in North Yorkshire on August 30. Please visit their web site for all the latest details. |
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REGEN MAGAZINE (News date: Apr 11) |
| ReGen Magazine have voted Healing number 13 in their chart of the Top 25 Industrial/Goth videos of all time. |
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HOME (News date: Mar 20) |
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The slightly surreal effect of doing a major tour and then coming home is now beginning to slide back into a feeling of near normailty. By any standards the tour was
a great success and I thank everyone who came along to see the shows. With only one or two exceptions the media reviews have been incredible and I will be putting
together a NuWorld Special section devoted to the tour with plenty of pictures and info about how it went, day to day, from my point of view. I had a great time for
the most part although everything was touched by a certain feeling of apprehension regarding doing a major tour of just older songs. It's true to say that I felt a little
uncomfortable throughout the entire tour.
I've had so much feedback it's impossible to know where to start to answer all the points raised so I'll keep it short and to the one point that matters to me most after something like this. As many of you are aware nostalgia is a problem for me and although the Telekon shows in 2006, with just the four of them, were okay, I have struggled at times during this tour. A lot to be quite honest. If I ever do anything like it again, at some point in the future, it won't be for a while. I have learned with the two nostalgia tours, Telekon and Replicas, that, having all but ignored it for so long in my obsessive drive to constantly create new music, I have a history to be proud of. However, being proud of it, and living out the rest of my career through it, are two very different things, and I have absolutely no intention of settling back and living in the past. It's taken me a long time to feel proud of my musical history, and I'm glad I have at last, but it remains something I have no wish to dwell on, or to revisit on a regular basis. I am driven, as always, by the overwhelming desire to do better, to create new things, new sounds, new music that will have the same effect on people becoming interested in music today as Replicas did in '79 and as Pure and Jagged have done in more recent years. For me creating something new is a passion. It's the reason I get up in the morning, it's where the excitement is for me. It's the primary reason that I still do this after 30 years. I have never admired those artists that seem to give up and just live to remind people of how good they used to be, decades before. That will never happen to me and yet, as I've said, Replicas 2008 made me feel strangely uncomfortable. I feel a strong need to re-establish my credentials as a current and viable artist after having done such a big nostalgia tour. I know the reasons for doing Replicas were sound, my 50th birthday was indeed a huge milestone, my 30th anniversary as a professional musician was another, and to play songs from the album that started it all was the right choice of music. But, having done it, and enjoyed it, I still feel strangely empty, as though I've gone backwards somehow. This year will see a renewed drive for new music with Jagged Edge coming out in April - May, the Resurrection album later in the summer and the main new album, Splinter, being finished by Christmas for a release next March with, hopefully, a big tour to follow. Added to that we have the Bestival festival in September on the Isle Of Wight, with other dates to be added around that and some other surprise gigs thrown in. We will announce those dates as soon as we have them confirmed. So, I'm glad you enjoyed the tour, I'm glad that many of you have returned to the fold, I'm glad that, strange as it may seem to me, an impressive number of new fans came along, but I hope you can understand why, for the time being at least, I'm done with nostalgia. |
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BIRTHDAY MESSAGES (News date: Mar 10) |
| Although I haven't been able to see them yet I'm told that the amount of Birthday messages and presents coming in to the office has been incredible so I just wanted to say thank you to everyone that has sent me something. I do appreciate it very much. |
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REPLICAS PHOTOS (News date: Mar 10) |
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I know there are a lot of great photos of the Replicas tour being posted all over the web but I thought I would add a few of our own.
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MUSIC PLANET DOWNLOAD (News date: Feb 28) |
| The second Numan video download from Music TV Station is now ready for downloading. This is a nine song performance filmed for a German TV show in 2003 and inclides the songs Hybrid, Rip, Dark, My Jesus, Crazier, Down In The Park, Pure, I Can't Breathe and A Prayer For The Unborn. Please bear in mind that the sample clip on the Music TV Station web site is a low quality clip to give you just a flavour. The downloaded version is of a very high, near DVD quality. |
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THANK YOU (News date: Feb 14) |
| Thank you to everyone that was kind enough to send me 30th anniversary messages. It's taken a while to read through them all but I am very grateful. I shall look out for your messages again in 2038. Well, it never hurts to be optimistic. |
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30 YEARS TODAY (News date: Feb 10) |
| So 30 years ago today That's Too Bad was released, my first ever single, and so it all began. Any of you go that far back? Any of you even born then? I guess I should have had friends over and then gone out celebrating such a historic moment. What I've actually done today is design one of the tour t-shirts, the access all areas passes and tweaked the new design NuWorld web site for its imminent launch. I always did know how to party. Still, all that celebrating stuff can wait for the tour. That's why I'm doing it. See you all soon. |
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BERSERKER DVD (COLD WARNING) (News date: Jan 30) |
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Finally, the full concert DVD from the Berserker Tour in 1984 is available on NuStreet. Titled
Cold Warning, this is the complete and uninterrupted concert version and includes the previously unseen Berserker concert intro.
 Other updated features include a previously unseen photo gallery and a 2007 interview with me about the tour and that period in general. Also, the entire soundtrack has been digitally remastered and now sounds far superior to the original. |
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TELEKON - JAGGED EDGE (News date: Jan 30) |
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The soundtrack for the Telekon Live DVD is being EQ mastered this friday, as is the CD double disc audio version. This DVD and CD will be available in time for the Replicas tour although may not
be sold nightly as part of the tour merchandise. We will probably keep it for the web site only except in certain venues.
The Jagged Edge album, the alternative version of the 2006 Jagged album, is due to be EQ mastered next monday. This is going to be a double album as it runs for over 94 minutes. The track listing for Jagged Edge, and who produced what, is:
Jagged (Tour Intro) (Fenton/Numan) (4:13) Disc 2
Fold (Holliday/Young/Numan) (4:43) Clips of Melt (Monti/Numan), Blind (Holliday/Young/Numan), Halo (Sulpher/Numan) have been on the Nu-Music page for some time. New clips of Fold (Fenton/Numan) and Jagged (Fenton/Numan) have been added today. |
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JAGGED EDGE (News date: Dec 22) |
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The forthcoming 'Jagged Edge' album, the alternative version of the 2006 'Jagged' album, is now mixed. Artwork and mastering are still to be done but we are looking at
a release date quite early in the new year. The reason we have been calling this album alternate rather than extended is because that's the way it's turned out. We have
no extended versions at all, everything is alternative. With Ade I've worked on new versions of Pressure, Jagged, Before You Hate It, Slave, Scanner, In A Dark Place,
Fold, Melt
I've also mixed the versions that were completed with Sulpher (Rob Holliday and Monti) before Ade Fenton got involved with the making of 'Jagged'. Those songs are: Halo, Haunted, Slave and Before You Hate It. Rob Holliday's versions of Fold and Blind are also included as is Monti's version of Melt. |
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NUMAN BOOK (News date: Nov 20) |
| We are talking to a publisher about putting together a new deluxe, limited edition book to celebrate Gary's 30 years in music (the first Tubeway Army single came out in Feb 1978). If this goes ahead it will be hardback, full colour, priced at around £40 and will feature many previously unseen photographs, hand written lyrics, backstage passes, images of tour posters and so on. This rare and in some cases exclusive material will be incorporated into a high-quality, 'coffee-table' formatted book, as well as four decades of official photos and new interviews. However, in order to proceed, we need to hit a certain level of pre-orders, otherwise the project may well need to be adapted due to the high costs involved in producing a book of this type. We are not asking you to part with your money at this stage but you can now register your interest in pre-ordering the book by visiting http://www.essentialworks.co.uk/numan/ and entering your e-mail address. This isn't a binding commitment but the benefit of this is that you will be the first to know when the ordering process begins and if you are interested in buying the book you will be able to guarantee yourself a copy as only a limited number will be made. |
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MYSPACE (News date: May 15) |
| The Numan MySpace page goes from strength to strength thanks to the hard work of Erik Vermeulen. In fact Erik has done, and is doing, a fantastic job with the Numan MySpace page and I am very grateful to him for his efforts. |
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