Gary Numan "Films" Live

[JM13121]

I would have loved to have seen this live...Original, innovative, brilliant. Gary is the Father of the keyboard..( Mini Moogs..Baby!)

[crjdemte]

He livens the song with his moves.love the extra terestrial look at the end

[OralAgreement69]

i believe this is my favorite song from TPP. the main keyboard riff is just so weird. i love it

[synthpro]

I love the replicas intro. I restored a polymoog 280a a few years ago and play that intro all the time, haha.

[Melodize2010]

if everything was as perfect as this song and this performance, the world would be such a better place.

[RussX5Z]

I love this song! It really relaxes me and puts me at peace like many of Gary Numan's songs.

[dmnddog74]

Regarding his dancing, also remember that his on-stage persona during his "machine period" was of a lonely android. Plus, he was terrified of going on stage so he tried whatever he could to distract himself from the fact that he was in front of thousands of people.

[rupertducker]

ABSOLUTELY SPECTACULAR ! ! God I wish I could have seen him back then ! (Except I hadn't even been born !) I've seen him perform this song (one of his best !) a couple of times in the past year in Brighton and it was great, but not quite comparable to this classic vintage performance ! !

[tygaelement]

@DerVampyrEngel Im a dj & so I have to give real underground hip hop credit for resurrecting & showcasing the obscure & forgotton by sampling their work..

I dont think the industry cares as most of those artists were considered unprofitable at the time & had poor contracts & minor royaties..They probably earn more from sample clearance fees & publishing than limited press re-issues.

Ive had problems with copyright restrictions on youtube uploads so i advise you to also check the blogs..

[DerVampyrEngel]

@tygaelement Yeah I got that sorry for taking so long to reply , well I think Numan must have earnt a lot for his music being sampled( The Sugar Babes"Freak Like Me" for instance and Wu Tang's "Life's a Movie" plus Sir Mix A Lot used to use a lot of Gary's music. Still I doubt record labels and companies get as much demo's sent to them as they used to and yes about the poor contracts Numan had a very crappy contract at the time if you read his Book "Praying to The Aliens"

[maccagrabme]

Weird how music 30 yrs ago sounds more futuristic than todays music.

[tygaelement]

@maccagrabme ..

It's even stranger to discover that

silver apples , Raymond Scott, Bruce Haack & many more were doing this in the 60s..

[DerVampyrEngel]

@tygaelement Yeah but they weren't so dark electronics, more psychedelic and Yes Kraftwerk were amongst them then though more psychedelic s well as John Foxx (Tiger Lily)

[tygaelement]

@DerVampyrEngel have you heard silver apples - lovefingers ? Its incredible.

There's also a lot of dark electronica in film library music & italian soundtracks which went against the swingin hippy 60s spirit ..

it's unfortunate that most of it is uncredited.

[DerVampyrEngel]

@tygaelement No never heard it so I will give it a listen, Yeah Walter (Now Wendy Carlos) soundtrack for "A Clockwork Orange" is one soundtrack, and I know there were was lot of electronic music in Germany in the 60's , not Just Kraftwerk but Tangerine Dream among others then, thats the problem with the music industry, although now with things like youtube a lot of artists that didn't get credited with stuff can put thier music up and eventually be discovered

[DerVampyrEngel]

@tygaelement yeah a lot of artists I think will now be discovered which were not way back when because of youtube, and myspace, whereas before although there was the internet in the 90's there wasn't a central hub to kind of view it all as there is now which must piss of the Music Industry Boss Assholes

[paintedship]

@DerVampyrEngel "weren't so dark electronics"- try a band called 50 foot hose

[DerVampyrEngel]

@paintedship OK I will check it out

[DerVampyrEngel]

@paintedship checked them out they were a very good band, very wierd especailly for those times although I gather pyscodelic rock was big then, check my late girlfird's band out "Blue Anger" She was into a lot of that and was into Captain Beefheart very heavily, her band was from Berlin, she was from Kassel ,Germany

[Alma889900]

i love gary numan but his dancing . . . . . . . well what can i say?

[Numaness]

Met Gary at Bristol Hippodrome very much a gentleman and as for the concert was superb! Went backstage and saw all the gadgets absolutley unbelievable!!!!

[veepreekins]

this song is one of his dopest!!!

[darklord20042002]

best of numan right there !!! shame the light shows aint so great now, would have loved to have seen him live back then.

[nederwiet1]

must have been inspiriational to industrial music....

[BurkeHare1]

What are you looking for? Leroy from Fame?

[tallboyandy23]

Still playing Gary even today, my other half like me has always been a big fan... Ive recentley bought dvd of his tour when his first child was born... think that was 2002

[80metamatic]

brill

[rupertducker]

The lighting here is climatic, yes you heard me ; CLIMATIC ! ! !

[rupertducker]

That Trent Reznor lout is nothing compared to this chap ! ! ! ! !

[Acadianiste]

f*ck this is good shit!!!! I am discovering Gary right now, after hearing how he was an inspiration to Nin inch Nails (Trent Treznor).

[TheXtremeEnthusiast]

EPIC!!!!!!

[hodgietwo]

I love him cos hes such a down to earth guy and he isn't boastful in any way of his success, hes also a very talented songwriter.

[scooptdoo]

i agree 100% scoop

[rupertducker]

YES HE IS GOD ! ! ! ! !

[GaryNumanAlbums]

Living Ornaments '81.

My favriote live show, besides White Noise. Thanks for the video footage.

[denimdemon9]

As much as I love Gary Numan his dancing really displays that he had the athleticism of a toothbrush.

[nederwiet1]

LOL

[parky2310]

Like Rick Astley! - the only bloke that couldn't dance to a Rick Astley record was Rick Astley!!! : )

[j37h3r]

@denimdemon9 As a product of the 80s, I can assure you dancing in any new wave club back then consisted of those exact moves. Gary's doing it right...hate the game, not the player...

[smoothSnake11]

awesome vid! freaKin awesome indeed .

[TheXtremeEnthusiast]

Sure can dance!

[TheTraveller125]

Awesome!!! Gary Numan rocks!!!! :D

[miketim7]

what kind of synth is it

i want to play this song

[presutton]

It's an old analogue polymoog. The sound has never adequately been replicated by modern digital synths. It's why a generation of music lovers fell in love with this sound in the 1980s. The opening bars are from the title track called 'Replicas' - a truly awesome work. There are videos of it on youtube.

[surfyphil]

Hello all!! I loved Numan!! BUT.......... Bowie Eno Rother Schneider laid the path for him!! Still cool though.

[TheTraveller125]

Surfyphil, I dont not believe that for one second! lol

[TheTraveller125]

do not*

[antknee47]

numanoids will never die .

[Pergiacomo]

Thisis for sure...those synth sound and dystopian lyrics will remain forever.

God bless Gary Webb.

Anyway, this Tour was really incredible for that times...

[modsleix6]

R.I.P Paul Gardiner...

[johntbd]

Why has footage of this concert and 1979 been released proper? We know the cameras were there.

[thedriver1969]

i remember this concert absolutely fantastic great sound great music i was there near the front ahhhh so long ago still sounds good though

[intoodeep0606]

The height of genius. If there was a time and we could go back to 1981 and go crazy watching his brilliance on stage again. Haha. That'll be the day. I'd drive up in a convertible and blasting Numan's best on the stereo. Yeah!

Today, I probably would be sitting down in the living room with some tea and chatting with him over music theory.

Or maybe not.

[intoodeep0606]

Correction: Time machine

Would go nicely with Numan's philosophy, come to think. ;0)

[twofourtwo242]

I love the synth'd helicopter blade sound which begins at 0:59 and ends at 1:37 mark (coupled with the looped "rotor style" movenmet of light above and behind the stage). Nice effect at mimicking the high-speed prop of a helicopter's blades. Leave it to Gary to envision using this effect on stage. :)

twofourtwo242

[Pergiacomo]

Love to see another Numan and 242 fan like me that is so intrigued with loops and drum pattern!

[diesonneuk]

Fantastic

Those opening bars of Replicas are fantastic and then to take it into Films is just musically brilliant

Numan = under rated

[Kammler03]

Just:Thanx,for sharing !!!

REALLY,

OUTSTANDING !!!

[Molzen]

Ganz sicher einer der coolsten Typen aller Zeiten. Bahnbrechend!

[elainebartlett]

aah, front row, Wembley farwell tour.

though i have returned to my rock roots since being a numanoid, Gary's was the defining music of the era. Clones unite!

[waheex]

just saw him live in Belfast last night - pule class. Especially down in the park & AFE

[loonmaniac]

Numan is touring again! Damn!  I caught him in 2000. Excellent show. Nice guy, too.

[UriEL757]

Great live performance! Even if it´s only a little video tape! From Peru Thanxs luxthedog

[bleg1]

Now that's a SHOW!

What bands do today is soooooooooo boring.

Sucks to be a teen now-a-days. Poor sods.

We got it all. HAHA!

Numan is beyond brilliant.

[nerdelicious5]

the album version of this song has the best intro to any song EVER

[dharting1]

One of the best intros for sure. Definitely the best work that the Paul Gardiner (RIP) and Cedric Sharpley rhythm section did for Numan around '79. Sampled all over the place down the years to this day and easily as funky as anything guys like Chic were doing around the same time IMO.

[scouser640]

AWESOME - Thanks for this.

I was there - crush section at the front. Bloody Brilliant.

Close Encounters of the Best Kind.

[BPRGTEAM]

I have had the privelage of meeting the man twice. He is fantastic.

[vinaysangel]

everything is does is pure gold!!

[jeffleo16]

comlete drug fix

[ryandashsdotorg]

Awesome!

[slikquiver]

Gary's music gets better with every passing year.

[wasp09]

superb!!

[Ni5ei]

Ha, this is from the Micromusic video tape. I taped that same concert from Music Box (I remember Sunie presenting the show) and if I'm not mistaken the V2000 tape is still somewhere in the attic at my parent's house :)

[mort3965]

great song...his drummer is tight

[inmutable]

un buen recuerdo. Admirable que aún se mantengan esos videos.

[dlforbes22]

Smoke pot, then listen to any Gary Numan. You will find a new found respect. He is a brilliant artist

[mancavant]

fuckin amazing track,dark and cool electronic music.

REPLICAS & the pleasure principle.kick ass albums

[DerVampyrEngel]

I just love this song and I remember listening to this in the early 80's when I was 12, this and Asylum are the some of the coolest and darkest electronic music ever

[dildo78]

he looks creepy as shit at the very end of the video... kinda looks like klaus kinski in nosferatu.

[alyniceguy4u]

still get goose bumps listening to this song,stunning keyboards

[zarcon85]

fantastic!!! i wish i could see it in perfect sync...his freaked-android dance is so cool in this one!...one of his best songs-i loooove this menacing, spooky ppg´s and moogs on it...the drumbreak is also one of the baddest EVER!!!

zrn

[retromaster2000s]

Yes this song is very dark & is is the second song I ever heard by Numan after seeing the Cars Music Video back in the early 90's a a young boy. I have been a fanatic ever since has been 5 or 6 years now.

[afriendcalled5]

AMAZING! I was 13 when I became a fan in 1979 and I don't know if he ever came to the US with this tour. It must have been an incredible thing to experience. I saw him live for the first time recently with the Jagged tour and I was up close -so intimate- so that was fantastic for me! Gary is such a great performer with or without a huge set.

[vuetube]

One of the coolest sounding Numan songs. I'd like to post the 1979 Touring Priniciple version. Slower and heavier synth riffs.

[mashamorgan]

Love PPG waveterm's and Oberheim synths !!

[Omidion]

Incredible lightshow, shame about the gurning.

[chuckdrum]

You can definately hear the influence of John Foxx's album "Metamatic" through this whole song, the siren-like synths...

[JamesT2K]

Films was originally released in 1979, Metamatic was released in 1980.

[anTONYM2M2]

JAMEST2K has some sort of infatuation with Numan, he says Numan's a Cunt and then spends all his time looking at youtube Numan Videos...what a cretin

James is pissed that Numan's probably richer now than he ever was

see you later cretin, on another youtube numan video no doubt !!

[DerVampyrEngel]

Ultra cool ultra dark song Films one of my favorite Gary Numan Songs of all time

[sakura256]

Love it! Good Job Gary! Keep Up The Good Work!

[whitefalcon]

Image is great, a little out of synch though.