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Electric Friends: A Gary Numan Podcast

De: Tom Eames
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  • Celebrating the music of electronic pioneer Gary Numan, track-by-track. Each episode delves into a different Gary Numan song from various albums and eras in a non-linear journey.
    Copyright 2024 Tom Eames
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  • Bill Sharpe interview
    Jul 12 2024

    For this interview special, it’s with a bonafide music legend: Bill Sharpe.

    Bill Sharpe is a classically trained pianist and jazz rock musician, who once worked alongside John Peel at the BBC and Trevor Horn in an early band. In 1980, he co-founded the band Shakatak, who scored many big hits around the world with their brand of post-disco jazz-funk.

    In 1985, he teamed up with Gary Numan on what was meant to be a one-off single, but later turned into several songs, and a whole album - with 1989’s Automatic. He is a prolific songwriter and musician, who has collaborated with many other stars over the years, and is still performing with Shakatak today.

    In the episode, Bill discusses:

    • How he came to work with Gary Numan and their writing processes
    • The unreleased demos he made with Gary after Automatic - could they ever be released?
    • How Shakatak came about
    • His friendship with John Peel

    Clips used:

    • Shakatak - Steppin'
    • Shakatak - Easier Said than Done (TOTP)
    • Sharpe & Numan - Change Your Mind
    • Sharpe & Numan - New Thing from London Town
    • Sharpe & Numan - No More Lies
    • Shakatak - Nightbirds (TOTP)

    Please get in touch on YouTube, X, Facebook, TikTok and Instagram, or email at numanpodcast@gmail.com.

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    45 m
  • Your Fascination
    Jun 24 2024

    "I don't suppose you ever laughed at me"

    For this episode of Electric Friends, I look back at Gary Numan's 1985 album The Fury, and in particular its lead single 'Your Fascination'.

    Including:

    • How Gary continued his funk/industrial style from Berserker
    • How radio continued to ignore him despite being a funky banger
    • How he turned to co-producers and took on a new songwriting technique for the album
    • Its music video co-starring his then-girlfriend
    • Theories to what the song is about

    Clips used:

    • Gary Numan - Your Fascination
    • Gary Numan - Miracles
    • Gary Numan - Tricks
    • Retrosound - PPG Wave Soundscapes II
    • Gary Numan - Revolution (audiobook)

    Please get in touch on YouTube, X, Facebook, TikTok and Instagram, or email at numanpodcast@gmail.com.

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    22 m
  • Metal
    May 18 2024

    "We're in the building where they make us grow, and I'm frightened by the liquid engineers, like you."

    For this episode, I look back at one of Gary Numan's best-known and best-loved songs, 'Metal', from 1979's The Pleasure Principle.

    The track was the first song on the album with lyrics, and was inspired by the writings of Philip K Dick, about a machine with a desire to be human.

    The perfect synthpop track was never a single, but it became one of Gary Numan's most-performed songs, and was later covered and sampled by a number of artists, most notably by Trent Reznor's Nine Inch Nails.

    The episode looks at:

    • What 'Metal' is all about
    • Its somewhat forgotten music video
    • Why it was never released as a single
    • The various live versions
    • When Gary performed it with Nine Inch Nails in 2009

    Clips used:

    • Gary Numan - Metal
    • The Beach Boys - Do It Again
    • Gary Numan - Metal (live, 1979)
    • Gary Numan - Metal (live, 1986)
    • Gary Numan - Metal (live, 2018)
    • Gary Numan - Metal 98
    • Gary Numan - Moral
    • Gary Numan - Revolution (audiobook)
    • Tubeway Army - The Crazies
    • Tubeway Army - We Have a Technical
    • Nine Inch Nails - Metal
    • Nine Inch Nails - Metal (live, 2009)
    • Planet Funk - Who Said
    • Afrika Bambaataa - Metal
    • Nouvelle Vague - Metal
    • Poppy - Metal

    Please get in touch on Twitter, Facebook, TikTok and Instagram, or email at numanpodcast@gmail.com.

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    27 m

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Gary Numan, still has that Something!

very much enjoyable! thank you for the fun details, I'm always ready to learn more and more about Gary!

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