A SAD TALE.

[mattjessup]

thatbloke (STUART) told me a tale about our Mr Numan that i thought was really quite sad,(not stupid sad, emotional sad) i never knew this, and i dont know if many of you do but ,, after the last wembley concert in 81, when everybody had left the arena, apparently Gary went back out on to the stage sat there alone, and looked around and said to himself "what the fuck have i done" (exact words unknown) now to me that is quite a lump in the throat job. and clearly dubbs Numan a Human, he must've felt quite alone,
can anyone shed any light on. this

[Gavin]

He was looking for a contact lens he'd dropped during the show.

[vortex]

I seem to recall that story from an interview of perhaps the Numan "auto"biography. I think everyone has had the "oh no I've just royally fucked up" feeling sometime in our life.

As for Numan I believe he was going to shed the majority of his fan base one way or another. He really didn't understand in time why the image resonated with so many. People would have walked away in droves after Dance, gigs or no gigs. The lyrics stopped meaning anything to most people to the point of being indecpherable. The images became silly.

I remember going to a couple of the Warriors comeback gigs. The vibe afterwards from the non dedicated casual fans was that he had "jumped the shark" I think Numan thought any Sci-fi motif would please the fans hence Mad max, Beserker, Bladerunner based imagery. The truth is the first images of replicas and Telekon appealed because of the alienation and disaffection of the characters and the songs matched the mood of his teenage fans who were going through the same and quite natural phase in their lives

In short I think it was aways heading one way he simply accelerated the process.

[mysterycircuits]

Yeah, I think that bit was mentioned in the Numan book about 10 years ago or whenever it came out. Sounds familiar.