Review: Gary Numan, Wulfrun Hall
Time hasn't aged Gary Numan. Jumping around the Wulfrun Hall stage last night in front of banks of synthesisers, he looked like a young Iggy Pop armed with a guitar
This is as opposed to the solemn young man witnessed by fans in Birmingham some years ago.
There was plenty of crowd communication this time in a fairly packed house as he premiered new songs from his forthcoming Splinter album.
The songs were often melancholy and majestic, such as I am Dust and Petals, with the excellent support band Officers'.
Numan's enthsiastic hard-core fans continued to chant his name all night and the hits had to come.
Gary ended the set with his Tubeway Army hit Are Friends Electric? and then encored with Down in The Park, Cars and I Die You Die to rapturous applause and much jumping about and the still continuing cries of Numan, Numan.
John Darby
