Drivetime with Dave
Monday, 16 April 2007
Presented by Dave Fanning
Gary Numan
The Godfather of Electronic music Gary Numan, who managed to top the singles and albums charts simultaneously on
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| Gary Numan is back after five years with his new album,
Jagged, which he calls a "reintroduction".
Numan's sound has changed quite a bit since his 80's new
wave hit, "Cars." These days much of the
"classic Numan" textures are gone, in favor of
an updated approach. Numan prefers not to remain shackled
to the analog technology that helped define his early
sound. In fact, he has dispensed with his keyboards of
old, preferring to work with soft-synths, plugins, and
modern keyboard technology. He is also a dedicated Pro
Tools user, saying the most important innovation in music
since he began recording is "undo"........... |
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| We’re taught to drive cars quickly, ha ha. I’ve heard there’s a monster truck around, so that’ll be good if it happens. I’ve been going to racing tracks for fun for years, having a whizz around, so to be taught how to do it properly every day for a week is just
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| Previously an '80s synthpop icon and now popularly considered an innovator and perhaps even instigator of electronic rock, Gary Numan has seen a career resurgence after he took his music in a darker, harder, and -- according to him -- more genuine direction with his 1994 album "Sacrifice." Over ten years have passed since, and he's released a quintet of darker industrial-edged albums and has received respectful nods from modern music alumni ranging from Trent Reznor and Marilyn Manson, to The Bravery and The Foo
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| Andy McClusky; If my memory serves me right when we released our single “Electricity” on Factory Records in May of 1979 Gary was still working in the Beggars Banquet record shop and he bought a copy of the single and liked it. When he was looking for a band to support him on the tour later that autumn he thought about us. He actually came to see us play a Factory gig at the Nashville
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| Here it is, my interview with Gary Numan. We talk about
touring, podcasting, his new record "Jagged",
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| Gary Numan is an icon within the realm of synth pop and industrial music. Generally considered an originator for his work in the late 70s, Numan now takes his minimalist creationism to a new heights within the realm of dreamy, moody electronic based industrial. With his latest release, Jagged, Numan startles as he continues to develop music that is relevant, further proving that his star hasn’t fallen. In this interview he discusses the development of his latest sound, his influences in the last twenty years and playing with T-Rex’s Marc Bolan......... |
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| Gary Numan has defied the odds. Never really a darling of the pop critics, in his heyday he became something of a laughing stock when he went crashing planes all over the place........ |
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| England’s Gary Numan has a less recognized name to many,
yet his influence has touched a significantly larger
audience than the heroes of prog. In many ways, Numan
is truly the electronic musician pioneer. It was his bold
use of synthesizers in more contemporary pop and rock that
foreshadowed England’s New Wave sound, which to
this day is still wildly popular....... |
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GARY NUMAN
Electro-pop legend interviewed
by Noel Fielding of the comedy duo the Mighty Boosh |
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| Prior to Gary's appearance at this years Guilfest festival on the 15th July we were asked to interview him. Below you will find the full
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| DJ Dave Clarke interviewed Gary Numan on a sunny afternoon
in Amsterdam, Holland. Gary just came over to Amsterdam
which he hadn't visited for over 6 years. With his new
album "Jagged" he wanted to do some promotion.
Dave Clarke asks him about the new album, the good old
days, future and many more. Recorded May 2006. The video
for this interview will be online soon! .. |
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| These days what people refer to as ‘industrial’ rock
or metal can to a large extent be categorized as kindergarten
music. If what you want to find is the bozos and
clowns of modern rock, this is precisely where you need to
turn to. What used to be an excitingly post-modern form of
rock has now devolved into the domain of whining posers
and plasticity merchants. This is why the new Gary Numan
album seems so fresh and valuable (even though musically
speaking, it isn’t). It is industrial rock for adults,
with elegant melodies, economic yet intelligent use of
production gimmicks and absolutely fabulous lyrics .. |
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| On his previous three studio releases, Gary Numan has taken on one of life's bigger targets: God. An outspoken atheist in terms of his lyrical content, Numan has honed his dark, industrial-based sound to perfection on his latest CD, Jagged. Although the topic of God isn't directly confronted in the same personal and direct fashion of 2000's Pure, Jagged still finds Numan firing off such lyrics as "I think it showed me Heaven and now I know why I'm scared to die."
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| Still intermittently haunted by preconceptions that he is moody, arrogant, defensive and humourless the Gary Numan of 2006 is in fact none of these things and having plumbed the depths of a major career dip is once again recording some of the best material of his career. Name-checked by stars as varied as Beck, Afrika Bambaataa, David Bowie, Liam Howlett, Armand Ven Helden, The Bravery and Marilyn Manson, and much sampled the time has never been better to reacquaint yourself with Gary Numan's work, especially given the strong echoes of his early material to be found amongst the harder edged industrial rock on Jagged.... |
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| Living legend perhaps, Living Ornament, certainly. Gary Numan has had a career in the music industry spanning over 25 years. He is so well known that even my mother has heard of him and in the 80s had a string of number one singles with the likes of Cars and Are Friends Electric. Without his influence there would probably be no such thing as EBM and Darkwave music and he is back with a new album Jagged.... |
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| Gary Numan is best known to American audiences as the creator of the classic song Cars back in the 1980’s. But Numan has never stopped making his unique brand of electronic music. Powerful, deep, hot and cold at the same time Numan revolutionizes music with every new album.... |
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| Growing up as a teenager in the
late ‘70s and ‘80s I owe my life's passion for music
to punk and new wave music and fashion. It was in general
an age of visual art and literature, fashion ideology and
a lot of distinct music with distortion. Punk was the
first subculture I encountered and was fascinated by punk
aesthetics: the clothings, the hairstyles, the black
eyeliner and the torn pair of jeans with the safty pins
all over and the ethics and the whole DIY (Do It Yourself)
and not selling out.... |
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| WHERE Gary Numan shows were concerned, it used to be something of a tradition among his fans: Numanoids would choose their favourite era and dress accordingly. For most it was a toss-up between the black boiler suit of 1980’s Telekon or the Mad Max garb of 1983’s Warriors — although some went for the get-up from 1984’s Berserker album. It must have taken some guts to get the bus home from, say, Glasgow Apollo, adorned in white leather, greasepaint, blue blusher and blue hair to
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| The thing about Gary Numan is, not only is he a pop star, he's got a pilot's license. Imagine that." So speaks Vince Noir, flamboyant electoboy/girl from The Mighty Boosh. It would appear, then, that Gary Numan's influence has started to be felt just about everywhere
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Gary Numan has had a massive impact on the world of music with bands from Nine Inch Nails to The Bravery declaring his early mastery of the electronic dance genre. With this being his first album release in five years, Numan reminds us just who shook the world with unearthly electro first and why we should still listen.
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Ever since coming across a synthesizer in the studio when recording the second Tubeway Army album 'Replicas' in 1979, Numan has cut his own wilful swathe through pop music. Achieving huge success throughout the '80s with his uniquely icy robot-pop, he was also famed for his aeroplane antics and constant image-makeovers - from Mad Max to sci-fi Bowie.
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After nearly 30 years in the record industry, Gary Numan has seen every high and low possible. Once the 10-million-selling pin-up boy of the late seventies synthesiser revolution, by the end of the decade Numan found himself creatively and financially bankrupt.However, a decade's worth of dark, yet powerful gothic synth-rock excursions has seen him slowly claw his way back into the spotlight. A belated 6 years on from his acclaimed y2k comeback album, Pure, Numan returns with Jagged.
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UK techno star Ade Fenton is
more than happy to describe himself as a card carrying,
former Numanoid, which is one reason why he’s turned out
to be the perfect choice to co-produce Gary Numan’s long
awaited new album Jagged. To a large extent, ditching the
electro legend’s more recent dalliances towards rock and
industrial, Fenton’s looked for inspiration to Gary’s
early 80’s electro synth pop roots, in the process
serving up an album that’s both accessible though
equally dark.
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