Metamatic Forums John Foxx John Foxx And The Maths New John Foxx & The Maths gig supporting Numan

Thursday July 27th at exhibition centre Liverpool.

Tickets on sale this Friday.



Brian

Yeah. One of the readers of my blog sent that to me while I was sleeping. It'll doubtlessly be a BIG THING, but Numan lost me about 2000 or so. "Exile" was the last straw for me before his aggro metal years. Would I cross the Atlantic to see JF+TM? Yeah. Give me $5K and I'll prove it! I'd balk at personally spending the enormous travel cost for an opening set.

Presale link for tickets is 10am tomorrow morning via this link:-

http://garynuman.seetickets.com/go/gnpresale

Brian

Got myself a seated ticket.

Only decided this morning.

Brian

Well, it's not terribly costly. Don't blame you Brian. Don't know if I would stay for Numan at this point. He's decades past his sell-by point with me.

I've only seen him perform live 3 or 4 times so i'm not fed up with him quite yet.

I never saw him back in the day but i get the impression he's much better now.

Brian

Numan is fantastic live now, and has got better each time I have seen him over the last five years. He is passionate on stage and clearly loves it.

However I have seen him do the same material too many times and can't be doing with 'more of the same' Hits etc.

If this was a national tour with new material - I would consider it differently

I was a Numan fan from early'79. I heard "Are 'Friends' Electric" when "Replicas" was released in America on the FM radio, believe it or not. I only ever saw Numan once on the US "Exile" tour in 1998-ish. It was a really small club where the promoter downsized the show from a large, really nice showcase club to the smaller one that they also owned on the night of the show. Numan was really angry! After that time his material has been moving in a strong NIN direction; yech. I heard samples from the next album and where "Exile" had been "Sacrifice" watered down, the one that followed "Exile" was another paler copy. Corny, dated industrial metal. Well, it got him in Kerrang! I enjoyed "Sacrifice" a lot on its release, but then he got stuck in a pattern he's only plowed deeper, not wider. When I got the "Machine Music" DVD I had to skip the last third of it. I like the classic early Beggars Banquet material ['78-'81], but also the first three Numa albums, and "Sacrifice."