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We’ve had so many mails about this ad. As usual, click on the screen if it says the link isn’t working and try later…

There’s also a new interview with Gary in Rolling Stone

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Gary Numan to tour USA in October

With an appearance at the Coachella festival cancelled due to the volcanic ash (remember that one?), Gary Numan has rescheduled a North American tour for the 30th anniversary of his rather splendid album, The Pleasure Principle.
Full dates and lots of big-ups here

over 2 million people have watched this… oh and the embedding doesn’t work on this blog, so when it says an error occured, please try again later just click on the screen and it’ll take you to the video.

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For Fall fans only...

For those of you who notice this sort of thing, there’s going to be a deliberate mistake on The Fall’s ‘Wonderful And Frightening’ box set. It’s on the track No Bulbs. Knowledgeable Fall fans (they know this sort of thing, you know) are aware there are two versions of the track – a long version (7m 50s) on the Call For Escape Route EP and an edited version that appeared on the 7” single (BEG 120A) which was called No Bulbs 3 and is also included on The Fall’s A Sides compilation.

That earlier compilation was created using the ‘cutting master’ tapes – that is the tapes that incorporate all the compression and levels that were used on the original vinyl cut. Since CD doesn’t have the sonic limitations of vinyl when it comes to mastering, it’s best to use the studio tapes (studio master) before they were worked on for the vinyl. Thus we re-mastered from the tape shown above, which, as you can see, indicates that the ‘short version + edits’ take of ‘No Bulbs’ is BEG 120A – the 7” track. Except, of course, this being The Fall, it’s not. It’s actually 30 seconds longer than the 7” edit. For whatever reason, when they came to cut the track, it was decided to do a further edit – probably why the final track was called No Bulbs 3.
On the omnibus box set we’re sticking with the un-edited edited version – possibly the missing No Bulbs 2!

They say damp records the past
If that’s so, I’ve got the biggest library yet.

If you click on the play button below it’ll probably say something like ‘Error please try again’. If so, just click on the screen and it’ll take you to an external link – bleedin’ YouTube!

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