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TOURING DATES

JULY SHOWS 2007

Dates Set List Tour T-Shirt
July 25, 2007 (Wednesday) 
NOTTINGHAM. Rock City

July 26, 2007 (Thursday) 
BRISTOL. Carling Academy

July 27, 2007 (Friday) 
LIVERPOOL. Carling Academy

July 28, 2007 (Saturday) 
LONDON. Shepherds Bush Empire
Intro 
Blind (reworked) 
I Can't Breathe 
ME 
Pressure 
The Leather Sea 
Replicas 
In A Dark Place (reworked) 
Walking With Shadows 
This Is My Life 
Basic J 
Friends 
Down In The Park 
Haunted 
My Jesus 
Jagged 
Are Friends Electric 
My Breathing 
Halo 
A Prayer For The Unborn 
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REVIEWS 

BRISTOL. Carling Academy
Nothing dates faster than the futurism of past generations. But the former post-punk icon Gary Numan still drew a large and enthusiastic congregation of black-clad fans to his Bristol show on Thursday. Almost 50, Numan remains trim and boyish, even if his crazed stare and toothy snarl contain more than a hint of the deranged German screen star Klaus Kinski nowadays.

There is an enduring innocence to Numan that is charming and limiting. While everyone from the pop divas Sugababes to the superstar DJ Armand Van Helden has sampled his innovative early hits in recent years, the man himself sticks steadfastly to the doom-laden techno-rock formula that has sustained him for more than a decade. A more calculating careerist might have exploited his credibility as the founding father of British electro-pop by hijacking the DayGlo dance beats of the Nu Rave scene.

Which would be shameless opportunism of course, but at least it might have enlivened some of the angst-ridden bombast that filled Thursday’s set. The tracks from Numan’s most recent album, Jagged, could certainly use a sprinkle of pop sensibility. In a Dark Place sounded graceless and bloated, while the goth-metal thunder of Haunted soon outstayed its welcome. Adolescent emotional catharsis is just about acceptable in a 25-year-old bedsit rocker, but mildly preposterous from a 50-year-old father of three.

Thankfully, Numan included classics from his early Tubeway Army period. A heavily electronic Down in the Park mustered an icy grandeur that none of his recent material could match, while a muscular rearrangement of his signature tune Are “Friends” Electric? inspired a mass singalong among Bristol’s assembled Numanoids.

It was clear that this is what most of them came to hear: communal alienation anthems for dogged devotees who have followed the maverick rocker for decades. Numan’s small but significant place in pop history is assured, but he could afford to steal a little more inspiration from his younger self

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