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Gary Numan Giving Telekon’s 45th Birthday A Big Party With UK & North American Tours, New Song

NEW SONG: LIKE A B-FILM Gloryoski! It was a fortnight ago when commenter Echorich in an offline thread told me that Gary Numan had released an unreleased “Telekon” track to herald a 45th Anniversary DLX RM of that album later … Continue reading

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New Wave Acts Start Making Scents

Last month, I was poking around on the Gary Numan website to dig into the upcoming “Berserker” DLX RM and I was viewing the merch and came across the funniest thing I’d seen in ages. It immediately went out on … Continue reading

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Gary Numan Turns Attention in 2025 to His Numa Label Releases With “Berserker” Box Now in Pre-Order First Out April 25th

Though in 1978-80 I was a dyed-in-the-wool [if not hair] Gary Numan fan, owing to a single playback of “Are ‘Friends’ Electric?” on the what-were-they-thinking FM Rock of the day, I will admit that by 1983 I’d moved on. I … Continue reading

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Gary Numan Goes Acoustic For New Tour As Nation Gasps For Its Breath

Last weekend I got a message from Echorich that whacked my skull like a 2″ x 4″ chunk of lumber from my blind spot! Gary Numan, who has seen fit to almost mutate into a Metal act† in the last … Continue reading

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Record Review: Gary Numan – We Are Glass UK 7″

Gary Numan: We Are Glass – UK – 7″ [1980] We Are Glass Trois Gymnopedies (First Movement) Here was another song that I believe I heard on Mike Cooper’s weekly program, “The Import Hour,” which was must-listening in the ’79-’80 … Continue reading

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REDUX: Scarcity vs. Ubiquity: The Rise And Fall Of Synthpop [part 2]

June 30, 2015 Gary Numan had made one album as the sci-fi punk band Tubeway Army in 1978. It was full of chugging guitars and even the same Philip K. Dick lyric references [“Listen To The Sirens” opens with the … Continue reading

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“Summer” Remix Sees Simple Minds + Gary Numan Reunited

Simple Minds: Summer [Gary Numan + Ade Fenton Remix] DL [2018] This month I was surprised to see that the third single from “Walk between Worlds” by Simple Minds had been released. In these dark days, this is something I … Continue reading

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