Originally posted by MemberD:
Nice pics Alex thanks .. how was it for you?
It was a good show let down by a crap venue. Apparently, according to "Big G", it was the only one available on that date.
Imagine Replicas played with the power of Pure. The arrangements and most of the synths sounded true to the originals, but the power of them all had been gloriously beefed up. It was also nice to see Gary playing keyboards (or at least pressing a note or two!) on some songs.
I enjoyed it, but IMHO it wasn't half as good as the 2006 Telekon show. Then again I'm slightly biased because I much prefer Telekon over Replicas.
Being the second night of the tour, various arrangement problems were still being ironed out, much to Gary's amusement, and he'll be the first to admit that remembering the lyrics to all these 30 year old tracks is no easy thing - many of which hadn't been played live at all!
The Replicas 'part' of the show lasted just over an hour, before they ran out of Replicas songs. They played all the album tracks and b-sides. For an encore, they played Cars, Every Day I Die and Prayer for the Unborn from Pure.
The light show was cool, but not as impressive as the Telekon panels. There was no spotlight on Gary so he spent most of the show in silhouette.
I Nearly Married A Human and We Have A Technical sounded great.
Unfortunately, the Sheffield Corporation, with it's narrow letterbox-like stage and extremely low ceiling was not the best venue for sound, Gary's vocals sounding muffled at times or drowned out. The Numan sound really benefits from a venue with good acoustics. But, with a new Sheffield Academy due to open soon, I hope he returns and plays there as he's better suited to that kind of place (although for me, the best Numan venue is Nottingham Rock City.
