Originally published by The Birmingham Mail. March 2008.
Having just celebrated his 50th birthday, Gary Numan appeared as fresh and as good as he has ever been whilst still appearing to be mean, moody and more than able to please a near capacity audience.
Coming on stage to huge applause, Gary and the rest of band postured and preened through the openers of Replicas and the stunning Me, I Disconnect From You.
With no need for introduction of each song, Gary was able to speed through the set whilst retaining the honesty and meaning of classics such as Praying to the Aliens, I Nearly Married a Human and the wonderful It Must Have Been Years.
In some quarters Gary is seen as the Godfather of industrial metal/rock and whilst not actually straying too far from his electro pop genre, it is not too hard to see why with songs such as When the Machines Rock and The Crazies in the set list.
Gary finished the set with You are in My Vision and the chart hit Are Friends Electric? before coming back on stage to do the encores which included the fans favourites Cars.
Ian D. Hall