Artist: Gary Numan
Album: The Pleasure Principle (30th Anniversary Edition)
Release date: September 28, 2009
Label: Beggars Banquet
Gary Numan's classic, influential album, The Pleasure Principle is being re-released as a double CD edition (featuring demos and B-sides on the bonus disc) 30 years after it debuted at Number 1 in the UK charts.
The singer's single from the album, 'Cars' also climbed to the top of the charts, an achievement he's celebrating with a 16 date UK tour starting in mid November.
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OLDER NEWS....
The Replicas Live DVD is available NOW at the Gary Numan On-Line Store. Simply click on the DVD cover below to place your order.
A clip of the DVD can be seen here...
'Jagged' Press Reviews
'Numan is still as vital as ever . . . the Godfather is back and he's here to stay.'
Kerrang
'The massive synths and guitars are stacked up like some Babelesque tower constructed from breezeblocks . . . it is supremely confident and the innovator of the late '70s never sounds like he's having to play catch-up.'
Mojo
Jagged is a shudder-fest of consistent quality, with a dash of Eastern promise.
Q Magazine
'If 2000's Pure album brought Numan back into focus, then Jagged gives his music fresh shape and vitality.'
Metal Hammer
'A must for those who like their music dark and heavy.'
The Sun
''Without Gary Numan there would be no industrial scene. Jagged is his latest offering and is a million times more haunting than anything this modern-day scene has to offer. Each track is a dark and brooding slab of gothic beauty with Gary Numan proving to the likes of Manson and co once and for all who the daddy really is.'
Big Cheese
'Jagged tells reflective stories of loss, sorrow and regret through dark, creeping rhythms that lurk beneath sheets of guitar, tempered by heady, almost suffocating, synths. The result is a bleak emotional holocaust of an album, evidencing the work of a truly precious artist whose continuing creativity should be cherished.'
Rocksound
'Gary Numan now makes more sense than he did as a confused young pop droid. Endorsements from post-Goth noiseniks such as Nine Inch Nails and Marilyn Manson have given Numan a new focus. 'Haunted' sounds like Led Zeppelins 'Kashmir' reinvented for distant dystopian futures. On 'Halo' and 'Pressure', beefed-up synths anchor their creators newfound grasp of rock dynamics.'
The Times
'Jagged is aggressive and dark, yet doesn't forget to pack the tunes too.'
Record Collector
'Powerful electronic rock . . . a dense, moody collection, it can be thunderous one moment and ethereal the next, forbidding and mysterious, grinding and soaring.'
Classic Rock
'This is suitably atmospheric and rousing stuff, close in feel to the urban nightmare of 'Down In The Park' . . . One can only hope that this will mark a complete critical re-evaluation of such as visionary and misunderstood figure.'
Zero Magazine
'The beats are fresh, the incidental effects impact nicely and there's more energy here than there should be from someone who has been through the music industry mill for the last quarter of a century plus.'
Future Music
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Available Now:
The Telekon Live DVD and the Telekon Live CD can now be ordered from Nuworld.
Here's the link to order the PAL DVD:
Telekon Live 2006 DVD
Replicant - 2008 tour programme
This double CD audio programme features a two hour interview with Gary Numan by Steve Malins.
Along with audio clips from tracks featured on the original Replicas album, plus a few extras that were also played at the Replicas shows, they discuss the making of the album, new found fame, songwriting, Top Of The Pops, The Old Grey Whistle Test, influences, musical instruments, loyalty, Paul Gardiner, studios and very much more.
To order 'Replicant' 2CD tour programme, click here: Replicant 2CD Tour Programme
Forthcoming releases (subject to change)
Dead Son Rising - (Pure, Exile, Jagged unreleased songs) - 2009
Splinter - new studio album - 2009
Replicas Live - DVD & CD - early 2009
Micromusic DVD - 2009
The Touring Principle DVD - late 2009
Few artists can lay claim to the titles of 'legendary' and 'pioneering', but as the NME argued recently, 'Gary Numan's influence on electronic music is unparalleled.'
His signature style can be heard in everything from bands such as Nine Inch Nails, Marilyn Manson, Foo Fighters, Smashing Pumpkins, Basement Jaxx, Sugababes, Wu Tang Clan and Afrika Bambaata. It's also no coincidence that all of these artists have chosen to cover or sample his songs.
He has also been widely recognised as influential in recent years by artists such as Queens of the Stone Age, Beck, Tricky, Damon Albarn and David Bowie, but Numan's influence is far reaching, having inspired a wide range of musical genres from hip hop to techno.
Now in his 30th year as a recording artist and having amassed millions of record sales, including 2 number one singles 'Are Friends Electric?' and 'Cars' and 3 number one albums 'Replicas', 'The Pleasure Principle' and 'Telekon', 2008 saw Numan successfully complete a sold out 15 date 'Replicas' UK Tour and perform to thousands at various shows and festivals around the UK including Bestival, Wicker Man and The Mighty Boosh Festival, where he has become an instantly recognisable cult figure to a whole new generation on the Boosh TV series.
In 2008, he released a double CD remix album 'Jagged Edge', based around 2006's critically acclaimed 'Jagged', co-produced with Ade Fenton. The pair are currently in the studio working on Numan's 18th studio album 'Splinter', due for release in 2009.
As Kerrang! magazine recently wrote, 'Gary Numan is vital as ever...the Godfather is back and he's here to stay.'
Thank you gary for being in my life , i have had a life shattering year but you have ketp me sane , you are firmly in my heart and have been for the past 30 years , forever your jakki x x x big hugs x x x
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