Ultravox - Mayflower Club, Manchester 27th August 1980

https://rapidshare.com/files/4272353503/Mayflower_Club__Manchester___27th_August_1980.rar

SAMPLE Sleepwalk

Another Ultravox show that I hadn't got round to posting, this one is not as good quality as the previous posts. It is quite interesting as it is after the release of the "Vienna" album - the first top ten album the band had but before the massive chart success the following year the title track would have as a single. In hindsight the Gary Glitter cover might not have been that wise but it was 1980 - who knew!

01.Astradyne

02.New Europeans

03.Passing Strangers

04.Quiet Man

05.Face To Face

06.Mr.X

07.Western Promise

08.Vienna

09.Slow Motion

10.Hiroshima Mon Amour

11.We All Stood Still

12.Sleepwalk

13.Private Lives

14.King's Lead Hat

15.Rock And Roll Part 1

Thanks Clive!

After the closure of Megaupload I started loading all posts to Rapidshare to try and get things back to normal asap, being a one man show this was a slow process not helped by the fact that my net speed isn't the best. I was talking to my friend Clive (who saw his first Numan show in December!) and he stepped up and offered to help get the posts back up as quickly as possible....he has links now for a lot of the early posts on Numa Boots which I will start posting this weekend. We will both continue to work until we are completely live again. So can I just take this moment to give Clive a massive shout out and thank him for all the work he is doing in this hour of need!

Clive You The Man!

Ultravox - "Whiskey All Round" 30th December 1979

http://www.4shared.com/rar/qIVYr5eL/Numaboots-UV-Whiskey_79.html?

I got an email yesterday asking if I could re-up the Ultravox and the John Foxx posts which should all now be live again. While I was doing this I realised I had some other Ultravox recordings I hadn't posted so here is one of those now!

This is titled "Whiskey All Round" and is from the American tour at the end of 1979 shortly after the departure of Foxx and before the release of the "Vienna" album. It's an audience recording which has some intrusive moments of conversation (that is unless you want to know what someone thinks of the new Jam album!) but the music is good and the band have a good vibe even in the "new streamlined" line up!

01.Astradyne
02.New Europeans
03.Quiet Man
04.Sound To Sound
05.All Stood Still
06.Mr X
07.Western Promise
08.Slow Motion
09.Sleepwalk
10.I Can't Stay Long
11.Kings Lead Hat

Photo Credit : Grundnick with many thanks
http://www.flickr.com/photos/9716802@N02/with/3126088427/

Back Stage Book nears launch date!

Written by Stephen Roper from The Touring Principle site "Back Stage - A Book Of Reflections" is an in depth look at Numans career between 1979 and 198, the peak of Gary' commercial peak.

So what's it all about? This is what the author had to say on TTP...

"This is the inside story in the words of those that were directly involved in producing some of the most influential electronic pop music of the time. Over a period of three years, I have interviewed most of the original band members, record company executives and the technical crew responsible for Numan's spectacular live concerts. All the interviews were conducted in person and everyone has expressed themselves openly, often with a great deal of humour and a fondness for their time spent with Gary."

It features contributions from Gary Numan himself and members of the "Numan Band" as well as contemporary artists such as John Foxx, Jim Kerr and Andy McCluskey...not to mention Nash The Slash!

The book costs £24.99 + p&p OR for those in the London area you can pick up the book at a unique launch party for the inclusive price of £30. The launch party is on the 10th March 2012 at The Old Bell in Westminster and starts at 7pm. Those listed at attending so far include Ced Sharpley, Chris Payne, Russell Bell and Steve Webbon. You can get all the latest at TTP or on the books Facebook page http://www.facebook.com/backstagenuman?sk=wall

Details and order links are here.... http://www.thetouringprinciple.co.uk/orders.html

Newcastle Riverside 3rd October 1991 (The Emotion Tour)

NEW LINK https://rapidshare.com/files/2891126849/Newcastle Riverside 3rd October 1991 (Emotion Tour).rar

It's always nice when someone sends in a Numan recording and this one comes from our good friends at The Numan Folder who emailed last night to say they had just added this soundboard recording from the "Emotion" tour of 1991. So it's with many thanks to them (as always!) that we can post this here for you all to hear! We have posted a few shows from this tour but this being a soundboard recording makes it well worth getting.

01.Hanoi
02.Me! I Disconnect From You
03.Call Out The Dogs
04.Your Fascination
05.Outland
06.Respect
07.Cars
08.Devious
09.The Sleeproom
10.Are "Friends" Electric?
11.Soul Protection
12.Confession
13.From Russia Infected
14.(Interval 3)
15.My World Storm
16.Emotion
17.Cold Metal Rhythm
18.America
19.Young Heart

Tubeway Days announce another gig!

Tubeway Days, who as the name suggests are a Numan "tribute band" of some note, have announced that they will be playing at the Newhampton Arts Centre, Wolverhampton on Saturday 21st of May 2012. For those still to experience Tubeway Days I suggest you check out youtube where you will find a host of clips from the bands previous gigs.

Megaupload Statement

It looks like MEGAUPLOAD are the latest online file hosting site that have been targeted for legal action...see the report here http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2399105,00.asp

So....what does that mean for Numa Boots?

Well it means a hell of a lot of work has just gone down the pan! Links currently will not load as every recording we posted used Megaupload! In the long term let's hope the situation is settled and the links become active again but in the short term we have some thinking to do......

*We could post everything into The Numan Folder (we would have to clear that with them first!)

*We could use a different file host - but which one? (any suggestions?)

*If you have any burning requests for a previously posted concert then email me numaboots@hotmail.co.uk and I will prioritise that for re-upping.


UPDATE
I have started uploading to Rapidshare for now...Hatfield and SHOWstudio are both up....new posts will be uploaded in this way too. All Megaupload links will be left in place until we see where the dust falls, there may be some fight in them and hopefully they will be back before too long! So any previous post that you want that I haven't got round to re-upping just let me know (email as above) and I will get them sorted as quickly as possible. (Dramatis will be back up tonight!)

THE FUTURE

Numa Boots will not be throwing in the towel or disappearing, we are here as Numan fans to share our passion and promote Garys work. We will continue to do this for a long long time!


The Simpsons.... Kevin Spencer has done some great re-workings of Numan covers featuring various Simpsons characters which always make me smile, so hopefully he won't mind me sharing this one with you!

In Your Face SHOWstudio 2011

NEW LINK https://rapidshare.com/files/1596566598/In_Your_Face_SHOWstudio.rar

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=DHDAN6Q0

Gary was invited to perform for the "In Your Face" series on web site SHOWstudio ( http://showstudio.com/ ) and chose to use the opportunity to showcase 3 tracks from "Dead Son Rising" plus the modern arrangement of "Are "Friends" Electric?". The brief was for artists to "perform their most emotive and emotional songs, in a stripped-back, intimate and entirely personal set." These were streamed live on SHOWstudio and were then made available on demand. Watch the excellent videos for all 4 tracks at http://showstudio.com/project/in_your_face_music#gary_numan

This is highly recommended!

01.Dead Sun Rising
02.When The Sky Bleeds, He Will Come
03.For The Rest Of My Life
04.Are "Friends" Electric?

Newcastle City Hall 4th December 1984 (Berserker Tour)

NEW LINK https://rapidshare.com/files/3852294213/Newcastle_City_Hall_4th_December_1984__Berserker_Tour_.rar

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=17K718QL

SAMPLE The Iceman Comes

One for all the "Berserker" fans out there....the set list should be pretty familiar especially if you have the "Cold Warning" DVD filmed at the Hammersmith Odeon at the close of the tour. Sound is ok but not perfect so check out the sample first.

01.Intro
02.Beserker
03.Metal
04.Me! I Disconnect From You
05.Remind Me To Smile
06.Sister Surprise

07.Music For Chameleons

08.The Iceman Comes
09.Cold Warning
10.Down In The Park
11.This Prison Moon
12.I Die : You Die
13.My Dying Machine
14.Cars
15.We Take Mystery (To Bed)
16.We Are Glass
17.This Is New Love

18.My Shadow In Vain

19.Are "Friends" Electric?

Nottingham Rock City 18th April 1999

NEW LINK https://rapidshare.com/files/1637423229/Nottingham_18th_April_1999.rar

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=RO5P66AQ

SAMPLE Jo The Waiter

This was the first gig of a very quiet year for live performances with only four shows being played in total for the whole year. This is another show sourced from The Numan Folder and thank you to the person who highlighted that I had missed this one on the resource links for the Festivals & One Off Shows section here. This show has one of those "human" moments when Gary loses his way at the beginning of "Exile" and has to restart as he "totally fucking forgot how it went"!

01.Intro
02.Friends
03.Dead Heaven
04.Metal
05.Everyday I Die
06.Dark
07.Desire
08.Alien Home (One Perfect Lie)
09.Exile (False Start)
10.Exile
11.Cars
12.The Angel Wars
13.Voix
14.Down In The Park
15.Dominion Day
16.Are "Friends" Electric?
17.I Die You Die
18.You Are In My Vision
19.Tracks
20.Jo The Waiter

I don't have a relevant picture to go with this one so if anyone has then let me know!

Dramatis - BBC In Concert 1982

http://www.4shared.com/rar/tEbSHCqx/Numaboots-Dramatis82.html?

Dramatis should be familiar to most Numan fans as they were the 'Numan Band' for three years or so and appeared (some or all) on albums such as "The Pleasure Principle", "Telekon" and "Dance". They consisted of Chris Payne (Vocals and Keyboards), Cedric Sharpley (Drums), Denis Haines (Keyboards) and Russell Bell (Keyboards) and released the "For Future Reference Album" in 1981. The bands second single "Love Needs No Disguise" is perhaps best known as Gary guested on vocals which helped take the single to a UK chart position of 33. In total 3 singles were released in support of the album then 3 further non album singles were released the following year in 1982.

Mike Slifkin has created a Facebook page to document the current happenings regarding the band and its members "Dramatis To Reform" which is an open group if any Facebookers want to join and share their memories of the band. Mike says his reasons for creating the FB group...

Dramatis To Reform

This is an idea I had after listening to both Rrussel Bell & Chris Payne being interviewed.On separate occasions, they both hinted that in principle they would not rule out reforming their old band (along with Cedric Sharpley and for a brief time Dennis Haines) Dramatis.A good starting point would be to find out who owns the For Future Reference masters and along with Face On The Wall, The Shame & I Can See Her Now 7" & 12" respectively, try and get them remastered and repackaged better than the last attempt.

Any new material and live work would obviously be a bonus. So come on. Let's put some pressure on and see what happens!Any ideas and comments welcome.

Regards,

Mike Slifkin

This is a BBC live recording of excellent quality featuring 8 tracks including "Love Needs No Disguise" (Sorry no Gary on vocals on this version!) Many thanks to Mike for this great share!
01.Introduction
02.Sand And Stone
03.I Only Find Rewind
04.Face On The Wall
05.I Can See Her Now
06.Turn
07.Love Needs No Disguise
08.Pompandstompandstamp
09.The Shame

Cambridge Junction 1st December 2009 (Pleasure Principle Tour)

NEW MP3 LINK https://rapidshare.com/files/2013668957/Cambridge Junction 1st December 2009 (Pleasure Principle Tour).rar

Another fantastic recording from the end of the "Pleasure Principle" tour this one comes with the same requests as the previously posted Nottingham gig...."the original post was in FLAC and the uploaders wish was to keep it that way except for personal use. I converted this to MP3 for a friend and I listen to a lot of shows on my i-pod so it's easier for me too. I'm guessing that a lot of you do the same so if you want this show for that option here it is...however if you want to listen at home and in a lossless format then please use the FLAC links. I hope that this reasoning will be ok with the original poster as I have no wish to upset anyone or devalue the hard work put in to getting this great recording. So again MANY THANKS for this show."

01.Random
02.Airlane
03.Metal
04.Complex
05.Films
06.M.E.
07.Tracks
08.Observer
09.Conversation
10.Cars
11.Engineers
12.Asylum
13.The Fall
14.Pure
15.Down In The Park
16.Haunted
17.Halo
18.Jagged
19.Are "Friends" Electric?
20.We Are So Fragile
21.A Prayer For The Unborn

Hatfield Forum 11th December 2011 (Dead Son Rising Tour)

NEW LINK 
https://rapidshare.com/files/2852200633/Hatfield Forum 11th December 2011 (Dead Son Rising Tour - Final Night).rar

FLAC

SAMPLE Absolution

This is a fantastic share from the great Stevie D - the last night of the "Dead Son Rising" tour at the Hatfield Forum. A great sounding recording from about 5 rows back this one is highly recommended! Many thanks to Stevie and to the original taper for this quality show! Listen out for the abrupt end to "Everything Comes Down To This" which didn't quite go to plan and surprised everyone including Gary!

01.Intro (Resurrection)

02.Down In The Park

03.The Fall

04.Haunted

05.When The Sky Bleeds, He Will Come
06.Films
07.Big Noise Transmission
08.Pure
09.Dead Sun Rising
10.Every Day I Die
11.We Are The Lost
12.Absolution

13.For The Rest Of My life

14.Noise Noise

15.Everything Comes Down To This

16.Jagged

17.I Die You Die

18.Cars

19.My Shadow In Vain

20.Are "Friends" Electric?

Southend Pavillion 30th October 1983 (The Warriors Tour)

NEW LINK https://rapidshare.com/files/1044802299/Southend_Pavillion_30th_October_1983__The_Warriors_Tour_.rar

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=1QAX07GV

This one is a request which I had said was pretty bad sound but upon a re-listen it's not that bad...definitely one for the completists but still worth a listen!

SAMPLE Warriors

01.Sister Surprise

02.Remind Me To Smile

03.Metal

04.This Prison Moon
05.Down In The Park
06.This Is My House
07.My Centurion
08.Warriors
09.She's Got Claws
10.Love Is Like Clock Law
11.The Iceman Comes
12.Films

13.War Songs

14.Cars

15.We Take Mystery (To Bed)
16.I Die : You Die

17.Me! I Disconnect From You

18.Love Needs No Disguise

19.Are "Friends" Electric?

20.Tracks

Adrenalin Village London 16th August 1996 (V Festival Warm Up)

NEW LINK https://rapidshare.com/files/2015844525/London_Adrenalin_Village_16th_August_1996__V_Festival_Warm_Up_.rar

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=859G0A2P

Prior to the two V Festival dates Gary played this warm up show at the Adrenalin Village. This is an audience recording which is a good document but isn't crystal clear so avoid this if you like your sound perfect. This is being posted as a request so you may want to check the audio sample first!

SAMPLE Cars

01.Dark

02.Noise Noise

03.A Question Of Faith
04.Scar
05.An Alien Cure
06.Dead Heaven
07.Everyday I Die
08.Bleed
09.Cars
10.Dominion Day

Many thanks to Steve Russell for pointing out that when I posted this I had put April rather than August! Goes to show I shouldn't post things when I'm not concentrating!