Gary Numan Digest Thu, 22 Aug 96 Volume 1 : Issue 255 Today's Topics: ADMINISTRIVIA II ADMINISTRIVIA Adrenaline Village Adrenalin Village & V96, and The Roxy tape Box Set Comfort music GN4 GOAWFC tribute tape, etc. Photograph L.P. The Fury & Strange Charm UK press reviews of V96 V96 review in The Times ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 21 Aug 1996 16:16:05 -0700 From: dlangs@sunstroke.sdsu.edu (Derek Langsford) Subject: ADMINISTRIVIA II To: numan@cs.uwp.edu It has come to my notice that a few people were told by Karl Miller that they had the winning bid on his video and to send payment upon confirmation of the bid. I know of one who sent a check but was told after it had been sold to someone else, presumeably Mike Przytarski. This has me concerned as I have also had difficulties with Karl over some CDs I am getting from him. My asserting myself may have even affected other subscribers who wanted the same items. If you have have had problems with trying to make a deal with Karl, please email me. And if you have not had any problems and have received what you paid for, I'd also like to hear from you. The more I hear about how he is operating, the more disgusted I become with his antics and the more I regret having told him about the Digest. So far I do not have any evidence that he is pulling a scam. I'd like my mind to be put at rest. I will know myself by the weekend, by which time my CDs should have arrived. Thanks, Derek -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Derek H. Langsford dlangs@sunstroke.sdsu.edu Dept. of Biology Tel. (619) 594 2885 San Diego State University Fax (619) 594 7831 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 20 Aug 1996 13:41:35 -0700 From: dlangs@sunstroke.sdsu.edu (Derek Langsford) Subject: ADMINISTRIVIA To: numan@cs.uwp.edu >GARY'S QUESTIONS > >Please do not post your questions to Gary on the Digest. They should be >emailed to me at dlangs@susntroke.sdsu.edu and remember to tell Gary your >name and where you live. That should read: dlangs@sunstroke.sdsu.edu Ooops! Derek __________________________________________________________________________ Derek Langsford "Numanews" dlangs@sunstroke.sdsu.edu The Gary Numan Digest SDSU Dept of Biology email numan-request@cs.uwp.edu San Diego, CA for information or to subscribe __________________________________________________________________________ ------------------------------ Date: 20 Aug 96 16:05:18 EDT From: Nigel Day <100675.1253@CompuServe.COM> Subject: Adrenaline Village To: Numan Digest So how many digest people made it to the V96 warm up in Battersea on Friday night? If you weren't there, you missed a cool evening with Gary at his best. He played some great material ranging from the usual classics (Everyday I Die, We Are Glass) running through to a few Sacrifice tracks, quite a lot of new stuff and Absolution. I can really only criticise the show on a couple of points and they are very minor at that: I would love to hear Are "friends" electric? done a la "Replicas" for a change rather than the singalongarockthang that it has become in recent years. Also I would like to hear some of the songs from the Dance-MAchine & Soul eras rather than just the first 4 albums and Sacrifice. As I said these are minor quibbles as otherwise the gig was first rate. And it was worth going to just to see my friend strutting his stuff to " U Got The Look" Hee Hee Hee. Now who can I mean? ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 20 Aug 1996 08:15:33 +0000 (GMT) From: Andy Subject: Adrenalin Village & V96, and The Roxy tape To: numan@cs.uwp.edu Tony> The Roxy tape is a bootleg, so you shouldnt bother worrying about rights etc etc... Well, I went to the gig at Adrenalin Village on Friday. Gary came on, and explained that this was going to be a different show: First he would play the festival set, and then would play a few more... I'll talk about the festival in a minute, but for me, the Adrenalin Village gig just didnt seem to get going...It was a good gig, but by the usual Numan standards, not the best... At Chelmsford, Gary came on after Stereolab, which could have been a hard thing to do, but he opened with a new song; quite slow one that I didnt recognise...He only played 3 pre-Sacrifice songs, which were Noise Noise, Everyday I Die, and (of course) Cars.. He seemed more confident on the unlit stage than I expected. It was a hot day, and the sun must have been right in his eyes. A small but very vocal gang of Numan fans had formed near the front, bemusing the other fans with chants of "Numan Numan" at any silent moment ! Gary seemed very happy, and also glad to see so many of his fans there. At a glance round the site (which I would imagine 100,000 people attended) It seemed to be either Pulp or Numan T-shirts - or maybe I was just looking out for them more! Gary played a few Exile tracks, the most stunning of which for me had to be "The Angel Wars". He ended with another new one, more rocky, and up-tempo than the majority of his new stuff, called, I think "Dark Angel" Seemed to go down really well with everyone - The Love and Napalm of Exile perhaps ? Anyway, the rest of the day was spent watching Supergrass, Elastica, and then finally Jarvis Cocker's Pulp, who finished the whole day with a fantastic set. I wasnt a huge Pulp fan, but Jarvis held the audience in the palm of his hand..the only thing missing was a stage invasion by Michael Jackson..... Andy McHaffie ------------------------------ Date: 21 Aug 96 17:00:20 EDT From: Nigel Day <100675.1253@CompuServe.COM> Subject: Box Set To: Numan Digest Does anyone know anything about the new Numan Box Set of 3 cd's called The Story So Far. Is it all standards, or are there any unreleased goodies on it? ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 20 Aug 1996 13:40:25 -0700 From: dlangs@sunstroke.sdsu.edu (Derek Langsford) Subject: Comfort music To: numan@cs.uwp.edu In #254 Clea asked: >Hey all- > >I was wondering if anyone else found themselves listening to certain tracks >or discs when they were depressed or just having a rough time of it? >Lately I've gone from listening to Enigma, 24/7, to Gary--in particular >Replicas and The Plan (?!). I know I often break out Telekon and The >Pleasure Principle, too.... Back when "Sacrifice" came out in October 1994, I was still depressed and grieving over the death of my son. I absolutely wallowed in the album which sounded so dark, brooding, moody, sad, despairing, lonely, introspective, it fitted my state of mind to a tee. I would agree that Enigma's albums, particularly "Cross of Changes" have an atmosphere that is very serious though I don't find them depressing, sad maybe. OMD's "Dazzle Ships" is a good album for wallowing in depression too. The dirge "Romance of the Telescope" from the album being so wonderful. I don't find any of Gary's album particularly happy. I guess I'm not in to happy music that much. Derek __________________________________________________________________________ Derek Langsford "Numanews" dlangs@sunstroke.sdsu.edu The Gary Numan Digest SDSU Dept of Biology email numan-request@cs.uwp.edu San Diego, CA for information or to subscribe __________________________________________________________________________ ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 20 Aug 1996 00:43:32 -0400 From: Estella158@aol.com Subject: GN4 To: numan@cs.uwp.edu Does anyone know what the "4" meant on the GN4 license plate Gary had on his Ferrari? ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 18 Aug 1996 20:17:28 -0500 From: machman@interaccess.com (Jeff Tolva) Subject: GOAWFC tribute tape, etc. To: numan@cs.uwp.edu Someone posed the question about the tribute tape "Ghost Of A White Faced Clown" possibly being on CD. I know for a fact that it is only on cassette tape at the moment, but I'm not sure if it will ever be put to CD by NEC. NEC sent me their catalog of bands which they produce. It seems the bands themselves have seperate addresses (e-mail and otherwise) to write to for information. It also helps each band track sales and receive comments from people who buy their material. In any case, NEC's entire catalog is either on cassette tape or CD. It seems if something is popular enough, they might justify putting it out on CD. In the case of the Gary Numan tribute album, it's only on cassette tape as I said. On another tribute piece... Someone else asked about another tribute album (NOT 'Random' by Beggars Banquet slated for release in early '97) from Australia, I believe. Does anyone know if this is the rumored tribute album by Invisible Hands scheduled for release this September? Does anyone know about how Gary's "tape baking" went for the re-release of 'The Fury' Extended and 'Strange Charm' on CD? I believe the tentative scheduled release for 'The Fury' Extended on CD was sometime this month. Anyone know more about it? Hopefully someone can shed some light on the above, but if you have any questions about the GOAWFC tribute tape, you can contact me or Mike Ditmore at mditmor1@ix.netcom.com Again, I am in no way affiliated with NEC or the making of the tribute tape by NEC. The Machman ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 19 Aug 1996 12:03:29 GMT0BST From: "E.Stein" Subject: Photograph L.P. To: numan@cs.uwp.edu On to another Numan rarity (of the audio kind), I saw a copy (excellent condition) of the album "Photograph" for a mere stlg45 in a shop in London the other day. For those who are not familiar with it, Photograph is a withdrawn Numan album, that was originally intended to be released in Germany. The tracks are nothing spectacular (a compilation of album tracks from beggars), but the artwork features a couple of great pics unavailable elsewhere, I think. Correct me if i'm wrong but this is one of the rarest Numan items, and worth a lot more than stlg45. Anyway, i'm not interested in it, but for the serious Numan collector it seems a bit of a bargain. It can be found (if, indeed,it is still actually there) at Soho records, which is next to Vinyl experience (Tottenham Court road tube). Hopefully, the obvious enthusium I showed in the shop at the price hasn't prompted the owner to up it. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 20 Aug 1996 13:27:16 -0700 From: dlangs@sunstroke.sdsu.edu (Derek Langsford) Subject: The Fury & Strange Charm To: numan@cs.uwp.edu In #254 Pipe David wrote: >I thought that "The Fury" and "Strange Charm" were not originally issued on >CD, but are currently in the process of being re-issued on CD (according to >NuWorld). Am I mistaken? Were these albums originally issued on CD? Yes, they were in 1985 and 86 at time of original release. Both were limted pressings and ran out very quickly. They were CDNUMA 1003 and CDNUMA 1005. I assume that the new reissues will be NUMACDX 1003 (i.e. the extended mixes version as promised) and NUMACD 1005,if no bonus tracks, and NUMACDX 1005 if there are bonus tracks. > Sounds like I should spend more time poking around the used record stores >here in my own hometown (S.F.). I saw used copies of SC and TF only once or twice in the late 80s/early 90s when I frequented used stores a lot. I have not seen any import Numan CDs used for a while now (>2 years). >I'd like to replace the portion of my Numan collection that is on vinyl with >CD's - since I rarely listen to vinyl anymore. I am most interested in: > >Warriors >The Fury >Strange Charm >Berserker > >>From what I can tell, all of the above (except Warriors) can be ordered on >CD directly from NuWorld. TF should arrive in September, SC in October, according to Gary, Berserker has been out since last December. Warriors is part of the TPP/Warriors 2CD set from Beggars Banquet UK. Try a store that deals in UK CDs or try one of the internet WWW on-line stores. Pastel Blue: http://www.demon.co.uk/pastel does not list the UK 2CD issues but can probably get them for very good prices. Derek -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Derek H. Langsford dlangs@sunstroke.sdsu.edu Dept. of Biology Tel. (619) 594 2885 San Diego State University Fax (619) 594 7831 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 21 Aug 1996 09:07:11 +0000 (GMT) From: Andy Subject: UK press reviews of V96 To: numan@cs.uwp.edu Just to throw balance on my reviews, here are the reviews printed in the music press (can you guess the line they might take?) NME: "...Wisely choosing to avoid the synth-mungous hits from the early 80's that people might actually know, Gazza opts for a set of crypto-industrial bollocks that is so grindingly tuneless and grimaceingly dull that not even the ever-excellent "Cars" (as heard on the TV advert) can halt the tears of mirth rolling down our cheeks. Even two Numanoids admit, in a moment of pure Numanarchy that "It was all a bit samey" Melody Maker: "Gary Numan is another natural homie...Unfortunately Gazza is also a "working" artist - he's released albums every year since '79 - and this means he has a point to prove. Yup, we're made to work for our pleasure. Work our way through countless moments of dire, twiddly, sub-jazz/funk, muso nonsense. Work our way thtough his time-stood-still reading of the Thin White Duke (why was Gazza ridiculed for his one-dimensional version of Bowie back in the Eighties, and Suede praised for doing precisely the same in the Nineties ? Have we really regressed so far?) until we get to sing lustily and greedily along with "Cars" and, er, the other one. His weave looks great on the big screen though." Andy ------------------------------ Date: 20 Aug 96 14:36:30 EDT From: Andy Westwood <100771.653@CompuServe.COM> Subject: V96 review in The Times To: Numan Digest Gary's contribution to the V96 festival at Chelmsford was acknowledged in The Times on Monday (apologies for any repetition): "...a commendable collation of British talent it was too, with the addition of honorary Brit *Jonathon Richman* on the early afternoon bill. He at least would have made *Gary Numan* feel a touch less incongruous among a line-up and an audience some of whom were not born when first his marauding synthesisers went on the prowl in the late 1970s. At least one punter gamely decked out in a 'Berserker Tour 1984' T-shirt and white jeans had made the journey with him, and while Numan may have become a benign presence, he still plays his part with conviction; in *Cars* he sent a ripple through the trees with one of the most enduring British pop songs of the past two decades." Well, faint praise but far from a slagging. ------------------------------ End of Gary Numan Digest ******************************