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Interesting Pages
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Discography,
Albums,
Singles,
Live
Albums, Bootleg,
Bootlegs
CDRs, Pic
Disc, Video,
DVD,
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Mix, Collaborations,
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Numan
Videos, Books,
Bootlegs
DVD, Touring
List, Photo
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NIN TOUR
2009
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Set List |
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CD Tour Programme |
July 15th - London o2 Arena
2nd September - LA Hollywood Palladium
6th September - LA Echoplex
8th September - LA Henry Fonda Theatre
10th September - LA Wiltern Theatre
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Gary Numan appeared as a special guest
at the Wave Goodbye Tour
A performance of Down in It
provided the cue for a guest appearance by Gary Numan, whom Reznor
described as “a huge inspiration” from those days and who sang Metal
and Cars in his high, ghostly warble.
Songs
Gary sang guest vocals on were
Cars
Metal
Down
in the park
I die
you die
Anthrax
London o2 Arena Set List
1. Now i'm nothing
2. Terrible lie
3. 1,000,000
4. Heresy
5. March of the pigs
6. Reptile
7. The becoming
8. I'm afraid of americans
9. Burn
10. Gave up
11. Ia mer
12. The fragile
13. Non-entity
14. The big come down
15. The downward spiral
16. Wish
17. Survivalism
18. Down in it
19. Metal [with gary numan]
20. Cars [with gary numan]
21. The hand that feeds
22. Head like a hole
23. Hurt
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Gary Numan - Guest vocals
Trent Reznor – lead vocals, guitars, bass, keyboards, synthesizers
Robin Finck – guitars, synthesizers
Justin Meldal-Johnson – electric and double bass, guitars, synthesizers
Ilan Rubin – drums, keyboards
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REVIEWS
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| March 8th 2009 Golden Plains Festival |
Numan and his band set the standard early in the show. They entered the stage one by one under a cloud of red and purple light and proceeded to grind into the opener In A Dark Place. It was clear that this was not going to be a pop show.
Numan’s band clearly made a group appointment with the stylist – black hair, tattoos, black shirts and not a smile between them. These guys clearly take themselves seriously as a heavy, post-industrial rock band and have no desire to be a nostalgia act.
Two keyboardists provide heavily layered washes of sound that roll across throbbing rhythms created by both programming and bass and drummer. A rock guitar player is joined by Numan himself in providing some additional layers of sound. It’s obvious that this band would be more at home at the Soundwave Festival than an reunion tour with Numan’s contemporaries like the Human League or Ultravox.
More power to them. Their deliberately heavy handed approach actually drags some of Numan’s older songs like Cars and Films into a more contemporary sonic arena. You have to remember that Numan was a pioneer of the electronic sound and as such many of his songs employed some early and quite dinky sounds. Rather than replicate those sounds this band layers the sound on thick and dense to the benefit of the material.
Even the iconic Down In The Park becomes even for foreboding under the post-industrial sonic regime.
The majority of the set comes from the two more recent albums Jagged (In A Dark Place, Blind, Haunted, Jagged and Halo) and Pure (RIP,Pure, My Jesus, A Prayer For The Unborn and the show closer I Can’t Breath). These songs defiantly stick to a template that clearly respects Nine Inch Nails and their various offspring. The only criticism is that for someone not well versed in the intricacies of the individual songs there was a tendency for them to merge into a homogenous mass.
Of the older songs Metal (a song actually covered by NIN) was strong and the crowd pleasing Are Friends Electric predictably bought the house down.
And what a house it was! The big Forum crowd consisted of everything from Goths to bikers to 90’s nightclub promoters, to danceclubbers to indie rockers, metalheads and even some folks older than me.
There were a couple of older songs notable by their absence – Me I Disconnect From You and You Are In My Vision would have been welcome inclusions but the re-jigging of We Are So Fragile almost made up for them.
Overall you have to give Numan credit – he hasn’t so much re-invented himself but simply evolved and he manages to drag the audience kicking and screaming along with him. The best compliment I could give was that after a few songs I forgot that I was watching an artist I liked in the 80’s and just enjoyed the concert for what it was – a very good 2009 heavy rock and electronic music show.
In reality there are probably a few other bands treading the same path and doing it as well but none with the pedigree of Gary Numan. This was indeed a triumphant return to Australia after a 30 year absence
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