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Never seen this before... Numan in exile, California, 1982:
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Anyone going to the shows at the Forum in London this month?
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Billy with Gary.
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I've just pledged for the £31 deluxe signed CD with access pass for Gary Numan's next album, looks really cool
http://www.pledgemusic.com/projects/garynuman
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Originally Posted by WorzelG
Beat me to mentioning it!
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I pledged, great to see it's already hit the target.
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How much was the target? I can't see it on the page.
Not even a copy of a
I had to pre-order the signed vinyl. I'm hoping to either get in on a regular version or another signed vinyl. But those handwritten lyric sheets sound good. Hmm... Oh yeah, here's my first post in months!
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Sounds great, yeah... and I like the face he makes in the full video when he hears a sour note on his guide vocal. Really pleased with all of the Pledge updates so far.
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Is anyone else finding www.numan.co.uk to be all fucked up when you try to visit it?
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I was, yeah... try a hard refresh.
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The Quietus has shared one of Gary's PledgeMusic-exclusive videos featuring him working on new stuff in the studio. Most of the video updates have been very good, like this one. Yesterday, however, some frustration and pessimism was apparent in Gary's latest update... kind of shocking to see him so unhappy about what he was producing, in fact. It's all part of the creative process, I suppose, and good on him for being open enough to share all the lows as well as highs along the way... I just found it a bit worrying to see the man obviously upset and discouraged by his lack of progress. He said in a Facebook update that today is going better, though.
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Yeah that update was kind of sad to watch. He was really worked up. I can kind of see why he got frustrated with the music. It didn't sound like Gary Numan at all, more Prodigy sounding, I actually kinda dug it but he probably doesn't know where to go with it next. Some parts of it were really good so I hope he can use it in something. He should get some people in to help him out a bit - he seems to have taken too much on himself mentioning he's self-managed at the moment and last few albums he's had Ade Fenton doing a lot. This particular track I feel like Trent could have some good input into.
grrr. woof.
every time i hear "my breathing" i wonder why he was never as big as depeche mode. he should've been.
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Yes, holy SHIT, yes, that song:
I've been listening to his Numa Years box set again lately, there are some really great gems in there among the "lost years", but it all got drowned out somehow. The North American record company (Warner/Atlantic, which distributed Beggars Banquet at the time) was pissed off at him for not following their plan to properly roll out The Pleasure Principle on the back of "Cars" going to No.9 in the Billboard Hot 100. By that song's peak, Gary had already been touring behind the album for months (including a short tour of theatres across North America) and was more keen to put out Telekon, ASAP... and his subsequent 1980 "Teletour" was focused almost entirely on those songs. He was booked into playing larger places by then (even hockey arenas here in Canada, where "Cars" was at #1) but he probably could have done another lap and been really huge in America if he hadn't gotten so freaked out by becoming so famous in Britain. When he gave up touring entirely because of this (albeit briefly), the American phenomenon had subsided... and he was back to playing ballrooms and small theatres for I, Assassin in 1982.
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Hahaha, who remembers this shit? The year 2000 up in this mother!
Between that video being all over MuchMusic and the Things Falling Apart version of "Metal" pumping in my Discman, it was 1980 all over again. either! Oh man, good times to be a Gary Numan fan, even /mashup afterbirth thing was kinda fun.
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My main era for Numan collecting is the Sacrifice 93/94/95 era.
After literally YEARS of searching, I found the cassette (double cassette) edition of "Dark Light" on eBay UK! 8 pounds plus shipping.
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Latest Pledge update, For You with Andy Gray will be on some TV show, and he'll be releasing an EP of 4 songs or so with Andy Gray.
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Here in the Black — Live at Hollywood Forever Cemetary is out now and it sounds terrific. Splinter tour band on top form! Especially love the new arrangement for "I Die: You Die".
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What do you all think of the Bed Of Thorns demo?
http://www.pledgemusic.com/projects/.../updates/67274
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Love it, very dark, sounds kinda Jaggedy. Lyrics are only ok.
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He usually changes the lyrics before doing final vocals. As demos go this is alright, could still go in lots of directions before it's finished.
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I signed up to that too - been interesting so far. He needs to get management and focus though. So many side projects dragging him away from the album!
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The working title for the new album is "A Mountain To Climb" -
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New demo with working title "March" -
http://www.pledgemusic.com/projects/...68581_comments
Is anyone saving these demos in MP3 format from the videos?
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Totally digging the demos so far. Can't wait to hear the finished products
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I see there's 3 different versions of the album for pre-order. I'm curious as to whether or not the album download you get will reflect the version purchased or not. Like, if I end up getting the $35 vinyl I'd like to get the bonus tracks as download also, as opposed to just the standard version.
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ACCESSPASS UPDATE 03 MAY, 2016
Monday. May 2, 2016
I’ve been working on a new song called ‘If I Said’. I have the lyric written and the first guide vocal recorded. At the moment the music is piano only which I will try to record tomorrow on the GoPro for a video update. It will give you a chance to hear how a song develops when it starts out as just piano. Writing things on piano has been the way I’ve gone about song writing for quite some time but, so far, this new album hasn’t really been happening that way.
Usually I would write and arrange the entire song on piano before moving on to other ideas, workout some rough vocal parts perhaps, but only then start to add the rest of the sounds and parts to it as the week progressed, ending with a fairly well fleshed out demo, and hopefully the finished vocal and lyrics. As I say though, it hasn’t quite gone that route so far with the new songs.
This song is following that ‘piano first’ pattern a little more, although it’s unusual to have a finished lyric and vocal melody when still only at the piano stage. It’s a ballad, and so is quite pretty in its current form, but I hope to add more to it that will change that into something slightly more haunting, or sinister, but we’ll see how that goes.
The band arrive tomorrow to start rehearsals so I’ll be away from this for about three weeks or so, which is frustrating for my studio ambitions, but very exciting otherwise.
The lyrics are here but, as with most lyrics, they work better with the music. I really will try to bring this very basic song idea to you as a video update tomorrow:
IF I SAID
If I said I was a painter
Would you love and comfort me
If I said I was a soldier
Would you cry a tear for me
If I said I was a poet
Would you share your hopes with me
If I said I was a dreamer
Would you share your life with me
If I asked you for forgiveness
Would you smile and wonder why
Would you say that you believed me
Or would it all fall down
Would it all fall down
Is it over?
Is it over now?
If I said I was a liar
Would you lose your faith in me
If I said I was mistaken
Would you share the blame with me
If I said I was a memory
Would you still remember me
If I said I was a warning
Would you shy away from me
If I asked you for forgiveness
Would you turn your face away
Would you say I broke your heart
And would it all fall down
Would it all fall down
Is it over?
Is it over now?
When a new tear falls
When I hear you cry softly
I would give the world
To change the past
And, when you walked away
And I saw what I was losing
And only me to blame
I wondered why, why, why
So it all comes back to haunt me
Like a song that sings your name
And it burns here to remind me
That it all comes back as pain
When I asked you for forgiveness
And the words drifted away
I watched them float in empty silence
As it all fell down
As it all fell down
It was over
It was over then
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