Gary Numan

‪Childish I know, but every single time we approach Ireland this makes me giggle.‬

‪Left an unusually rainy Los Angeles on this magnificent machine earlier. The cabin crew forgot to give me my dinner (and breakfast) but, being British, I looked at them very sternly and said absolutely nothing.‬

‪Flying to England today. Searching for the last few items for the new album ‘Making Music’ campaign.‬

Persia and Echo on their way to the school dance (a few days ago to be honest).

‪Sometimes, either by extraordinary luck, or exceptionally clear thinking, we make the single, most important, and best, decision of our entire lives. I know I did. Love you wife xx‬

‪Happy Birthday Mum. I miss you 💔‬

‪Stand with me to #bantrophyhunting now. Support the Campaign to Ban Trophy Hunting and get your t-shirt at: https://campaigntobantrophyhunting.teemill.com‬

‪This Sunday Times article is out now. https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/me-and-my-motor-pop-star-gary-numan-gngvgv8qz ‬

‪I’ve been working in the studio with Persia for the last few days. Persia has written a song called ‘Too Soon’ about her Nanny (my Mum). She wants it finished by Feb 14th, my Mum’s birthday, to send to my Dad. I think it’s remarkable.‬

‪The I, Assassin album, previously released in 1982, and which will be re-released by Beggars Banquet in green vinyl on March 1st, can now be pre-ordered from the Numan Store. https://garynuman.tmstor.es/cart/product.php?id=41500

‪My ‘First, Last and Everything’ feature on 6Music can be heard here. It’s about 15 minutes long and starts around 1:36:40. https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m00023p4 Pic: Eva Ettegard‬

‪Thought you’d be interested in this: Beggars Arkive have announced their reissue of my 1982 ‘I,Assassin’ album. Restored from the original analogue tapes, HD Audio, Dark Green vinyl. It will be out on March 1st, 2019. Pre-order here: https://archive.beggars.com/numan-gary-i-assassin/‬

Discussing the Savage orchestral light show and show production with lighting designer Luke Edwards. https://www.facebook.com/334956137262163/posts/395076647916778/ https://www.facebook.com/334956137262163/posts/395076647916778/

In a few weeks I will start work on my next album, the follow up to Savage. As you know, with Savage, fans were able to witness the progress of the album from day 1 to the finished article via my Pledge Music campaign and the updates, video, audio and text, that were a regular part of it. That witnessing, that inside look at what it takes to make an album like Savage, for most people that took part, seemed to be a very successful thing. I would like to do something similar, better hopefully, with the next album. However, with the Savage/Pledge campaign there were a few grumbles towards the end from fans and I listened very carefully to the problems you had. To fix those few problems, and to give you an even better experience with the new album, I’ve decided to move the campaign from Pledge to Townsend’s Making Music site. I feel confident that in those few areas where people felt let down with Pledge, Townsend will be able to deliver more effectively. Townsend are well known to most of you having run my online store very successfully for many years. They also work very closely with BMG so, between the three of us, we should be able to deliver on my ‘even better experience’ claim. More details will follow in the coming weeks that will let you know how you can join the Making Music campaign and what it will be able to offer you. I am now back in Los Angeles but I’ve spent the last few days in the UK going through a vast amount of items that have been stored over the years. Decades in fact. We found a huge amount of rare and special items that I will be able to make available on the campaign, from signed ‘blue vinyl’ Tubeway Army albums, white vinyl Jagged albums, white label test pressings of rare singles and albums from the early days (including Telekon), acetates cut on the mastering lathe itself, to stage clothes, musical equipment, personal items and beyond. We still have much more stuff to go through which we’ll be able to find and add to the campaign as the year unfolds, so it won’t all be available on day 1. It will be a campaign that keeps on giving 🙂. For now though, this is just to let you know that all this is coming and to look out for more news very soon.

‪Thank you to everyone that came along to my ‘In Conversation’ event in London last night, and for all the kind comments you’ve posted about it today. Based on that I might do some more later in the year.‬

‪Surprised at how emotional I was last night at certain points. Talking about my Mum for example, and the baby we lost. These are things that I’ve been able to talk about in private, but in public I found it wasn’t so easy. London tonight. Queen Elizabeth Hall, Southbank.‬

‪Thanks to everyone that came along to my first In Conversation show tonight in Manchester. Thanks also to Steve Malins for the actual conversation. London tomorrow.‬

‪Just to make sure you’re aware, the doors open time for both the ‘In Conversation’ shows is 7pm and we’ll be starting our conversation somewhere between 7:30 and 7:45.‬

‪To everyone coming to the ‘In Conversation’ events tomorrow & Wednesday, if you would like to ask a question there will be cards at the merch stall where you can write down a question & hand it in. I’ll answer as many as I can later in the evening (after a short interval).‬

Thank you to everyone that came to see us play last night, the 130th and last ever Savage show. It’s been a huge journey for us, for me especially going back to writing the first notes of the album (Bed Of Thorns I think) in the studio in late 2015. We were all a little sad as it ended but thank you to everyone that came to see us on all the shows, bought the album, came to the Meet and Greets and more. I am so very grateful. I start the next album in a couple of weeks (more news on that very soon) so let’s hope we can start another epic journey with that one soon. Bye. Pic Eva Ettegard.

‪I don’t know who gave me this today, hopefully I’ll find out, but thank you very much. I love it.‬

‪Just finished the Q&A at Rockaway. Thanks to everyone for coming to listen. Good practice for my ‘In Conversation’ events next week :)‬

‪Two special occasions today. The last ever Savage show this evening, and today is Gemma’s 51st birthday.‬

‪I am now in the UK. Today we start rehearsals in Brighton for the last ever Savage show (the 130th Savage show in fact) which will be at the Rockaway Beach festival on Saturday. Pic: Eva Ettegard‬

‪Back to California today, briefly. I leave for the UK on Tuesday so this Oregon weekend was our last bit of family time for a while. These moments are very precious to me.‬