Date: Sun, 29 Aug 93 04:00:11 CDT From: numan@cs.uwp.edu Reply-To: numan@cs.uwp.edu (Gary Numan) Subject: Gary Numan Digest V1 #41 Gary Numan Digest Sun, 29 Aug 93 Volume 1 : Issue 41 Today's Topics: Address to send Letters to Gary Another past hit Gary is catnip? NAGNFC -- August 1993 Numan USA Convention info Numan was dumped by IRS? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sun, 22 Aug 93 15:15:02 PDT From: terrym@netcom.com (Terry McConnell) Subject: Address to send Letters to Gary To: numan@cs.uwp.edu After reading the summary of Gary's 1992, and his request for fans "not to be scared of him," I dredged up an old letter that I wrote "to Gary" after the release of Outland. Suprisingly, the content of the letter seems particularly relavent even today. However, I never sent him the letter. I only wrote it to satisfy my desire to put something down on paper that really expressed how I felt about the direction in which Numan was/is heading. When I wrote the letter, I felt it was very negative, and that it seemed almost worse than a critic's pen-pounding efforts to drive Gary into isolation. However, upon reading it now, I see it as being constructive and even inspiring at times. This leads me to the following question: If I were to send this to Gary, what address would I send it to? I think this question was the real reason I never sent it despite the fact that I originally felt it was far to insensitive. Terry ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 25 Aug 93 12:58:03 EDT From: richard@dgbt.doc.ca (Richard Paiement) Subject: Another past hit To: numan@cs.uwp.edu Yet another past hits compilation featuring a Numan tune, as posted on alt.music.alternative. >You may like to look for a Canadian release, _Hardest Hits 2_, which has >the 8:24 mix of "Change Your Mind." It's available through Denon Canada as >cat# SPG-002. Richard ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 26 Aug 93 07:56:23 EDT From: Richard=Paiement%DCN%DGBT=CRC=ADMSR@dgbt.banyan.doc.ca Subject: Gary is catnip? To: numan@cs.uwp.edu I never paid much attention to the alias Gary used on his early singles, namely Valeriun/Valerian, until recently. Credits on the Tubeway Army That's Too Bad / Bombers 7" single double pack are as follows: Inside the double pack sleeve: Valeriun - vocals & guitars On the bombers record label, writing credits to Valeriun On the TTB record label, writing credits to Valerian I suppose the first is the correct spelling. Reading about cats recently, I discovered that valerian is a type of catnip. According to the concise Oxford dictionnary: valerian: n. herb of genus Valeriana, esp. common ~, with pink or white flowers and strong smell liked by cats; roots of this used as medicinal stimulant. Hence my suggestion that Gary was catnip at the time of That's Too Bad. :-) So where does this alias come from after all? Could it have anyting to do with what Kay mentioned in the last digest, pertaining to valiums? =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Richard V. Paiement "If you cut off my head, where would I stay? Ottawa/Hull CANADA Me in my, me in my head, or me in my body?" ac925@freenet.carleton.ca from the movie "The Tennant" OR richard@dgbt.doc.ca sampled by Skinny Puppy ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 24 Aug 1993 12:46:19 -0600 From: bhammond@diana.cair.du.edu (BRIAN D. HAMMOND) Subject: NAGNFC -- August 1993 To: numan@cs.uwp.edu The Fan club is back up and running. Jim Napier decided to take an unanounced vacation which put everything on hold for 2 months. The following items may be of interest and if I repeat anything that already appeared here, then I apologize. --The Vicious tour will be short and according to the following schedule: Ocotber 30 Oxford 31 Manchester November 1 Bristol 2 Guildford 4 Portsmouth 5 Cambridge 6 London --A new compilation CD from Australia called _Sound of the City_ has been released and features Cars (Extended 'E" Reg Model) --The 4th annual Numan Convnetion will be held on 25 September in Cortland New York. For futher details, I would suggest speaking with Jim Napier personally. He can be reached at 44 Rickard St. Cortland, NY 13045 - 1310 >From Paul Mayer: The Beggar's Banquet compilation album is due out on 6 September and is rumoured to contain at least 2 unreleased recordings. Me! I Disconnect From You ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 25 Aug 93 10:54:11 EDT From: Richard=Paiement%DCN%DGBT=CRC=ADMSR@dgbt.banyan.doc.ca Subject: Numan USA Convention info To: numan@cs.uwp.edu Hiyall, I finally received the latest issue of 'THE NORTH AMERICAN GARY NUMAN FANCLUB' newsletter yesterday. (For other subscribers, it is the August 1993 Issue #44, which explains the missing June and July issues, as Issue #43 was May 1993). It seems that Jim Napier decided to take a few well deserved months off. Although I've also been frustrated not knowing what was happening, and would have appreciated a warning, I have to strongly disagree with the following comments and suggestions from Brian in the last Digest: >I too have not gotten my June or July issues of the fanzine so "something's >wrong." I have heard nothing from Jim Napier so for now I can only suggest >that fellow Numanoids do not bother joining this club until things have been >straightened out. I'm a rather patient person but I do wish those of us who >are members could have been kept better informed as to the nature of the >problem and to when things would resume. Jim Napier has been doing a tremendous job for the last almost four years publishing a newsletter every month. I stronly encourage anyone thinking about subscribing to do so without hesitation. Jim is a very reliable person and would not take advantage of other members. As if to prove this, he's hosting the next Numan Convention in his house... Here are the details of the '4th Annual Gary Numan North American Fan Club Convention': it is being help in Cortland, New York on Saturday, September 25, 1993, starting at 2H00 PM. Jim invites everyone to the convention to 'buy, sell and trade Numan paraphernalia, win Numan prizes, to meet other friendly Numanoids and to take part in Numan history, namely our continent's only Numan Convention of any kind.' For more information, you can call Jim at (607) 758 3907. Tell him you heard of the convention in this group. Later, Richard ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 22 Aug 1993 12:30:09 -0400 From: jedi@pinetree.org (skywalker) Subject: Numan was dumped by IRS? To: numan@cs.uwp.edu I just joined so I was suprised to hear (if I heard it right) that Gary was dumped by IRS records? I was told by IRS CAanada that they had been happy with the OUTLAND cd's sales in Canada. If he's having this much trouble trying to get airplay, then it's going to take something major to get himself back into the airwaves. Maybe he should form a "project" with another musician or two. So machine & soul is a full cd? I didn't buy the single because it had 2 or 43 remixes of the same song and the most awful version of a PRINCE cover song that I've ever heard! Would someone please tell me if there is a full album and the cat # if they know. "I'm in Outland..." George -- Internet: jedi@pinetree.org (skywalker) UUCP: pinetree!jedi Gordon's Pinetree -- Ottawa, ON, Canada -- +1 613 526 0702 -- v.32bis/v.42bis ------------------------------ End of Gary Numan Digest ******************************