Gary Numan - Sister Surprise

[saganemc2]

@MrRik2 what is a "gobshite" please respond

[Hammersmith80]

cool album and single artwork but somehow it dont work on stage.

[MrRik2]

My first Numan tour. The chap is a god.

[null140]

i think this is his best image; anything that splits opinion is probably a good decision in the long run.

[numanoid2006]

amazing i love the whole cold warning dvd. amazing tracks, i wish he would do ome of these tracks these days instead of the same metal,cars etc...

[SalvoBrosEnt]

Massive!!:-}

[Ilikenuman]

ive actually changed me mind. I love this look, it was called the iceman! he does look like an iceman!

[Sashthecat]

Great vid!

[steinber]

This look beats his "Warriors" image hands down. That outfit was too loopy for words.

[DerVampyrEngel]

steinber I must admit I wasn't too hot on the Warriors Look either

[KingOfUm]

I think that look had potential, but instead of fabricating an interesting post-modern image he just looks like a fetishist.

[steinber]

yes, exactly!

[MrRik2]

@KingOfUm King of Idiot.

[KingOfUm]

@MrRik2 Oh, hello clever boy. You obviously have no idea what I'm talking about in my comment because it was before yt instituted providing the names of yt users to which you are replying in the comments. So I will tell you that I was talking about Numan's Warriors era where he dressed in spikes and leather, things that are often associated with fetishists. Still think I'm so dumb, or are you one of those fans who are offended by anything negative said about Mr. Numan?

[MrRik2]

@KingOfUm I'm just marvelling at the gaping chasm between the intelligent, insightful person you clearly seem to imagine yourself to be and the pretentious gobshite you actually are.

[KingOfUm]

@MrRik2 Ha ha, okay then. Since you're so damn smart could you please explain what makes me so stupid in comparison to your raving intellect? But just so you're aware, I have in no way tried to pretend to be an 'intelligent, insightful person', I've only been sticking up for myself against an asshole who throws a dick-headed comment my way without even knowing what I was talking about in the first place. Yeah, I'm sooooo pretentious.

[Ilikenuman]

i did like this look. but i think his replicas look was better.

[Rage2552]

I kinda like it. I would like it so much better if he didn't have the white facepaint and the blue lipstick.

[DJimGilroy]

Try and get hold of the pic on the back cover of The Exhibition Tour '87 programme. I think you may like that. ;)

[UnazoM]

There's nothing wrong with his look! :I

[rockcityaudio]

I also met Cedric Sharpley whom was only"worried about where the canteen was"he has like a strange accent i remember!.

Anwyay the best look 4 me was blond hair and black clothes!come on that was the best!admit it!!!

[DerVampyrEngel]

LOL , yeah OK that Replicas machman thing if he had toured with that wioth that image he would still be very very masssive today I think rockcityaudio , did you manage to patch things up with Gary in the end?

[rockcityaudio]

Anyway it was amazing to see how much work Gary actually does and all the logistics involved.

GARYS DAD WAS SO SWEET AND DOWN TO EARTH!he was just saying that Gary had bought him a rolls Royce and that if he kept spending money like that then he would not have it long.

It surprised me that he did not know me or question EXACTLY whom I was!.Then he said do you think we have exhausted these lights?can you think of any new set to use them Hahaha! Amazing!OH YEAH I ALSO MET ANDY COUGHLAN!

[rockcityaudio]

I found a really nervous ticket tout outside that was worried about selling his many tickets!and the show had started so i got a cheap ticket anyway hahahaha.But i spent the night staying well away from the BIG G hahaha

as he saw me and looked like he was gonna strangle me!hahahaha what a great day if only i had realized it!hahaha

[rockcityaudio]

BUT WAIT THAT WAS NOT THE END OF ME!:O)

So i was outside the door now being told by the Big G to"buy a ticket!"like everyone else"hahaha

then he slammed the door.Anyway after that Chris Payne turned up with some other people and i said "Chris get me in"To my surprise he tried to get me in!!!what a smashing lovely guy!but it was not to be!The big G was there and said to Chris"no he is not with you"and you should know better!so that was it.

then the show started without me:o(

BUT!...hehehe

[rockcityaudio]

Then Gary walked in with a girl!and sat down with some photographers.Then i went up and said some bumbling really nervous words!hey the guy was my hero!I was nervous.Then Gary said!"YES MATE?"I bumbled some more gibberish and he said"can it wait mate I'm doing an interview!SO I RETREATED BACK TO THE LIGHTING DESK!then Gary kept looking back probably thinking what the F*** IS THAT GUY DOING THERE?>Then the BIG G arrived and threw me out!hahaha and I complained that"I had been working!"HAHAHAHA

[rockcityaudio]

DerVampyrEngel.Hahaha this was the concert that Gary had me thrown out!.(I was 20)Ok i sneaked in during the day and found myself behind the lighting desk,then the guy filming it asked me to switch on various spotlights!WTF!i was just standing there!so i did i just moved the faders for the lights then some guy on the stage was saying no that f*** one!so did it luckily!I was also in their canteen talking to Gary's dad Tony!HAHAHA

[Ilikenuman]

did you have counterfeit tickets or something? If you love gary, be patient!

[DerVampyrEngel]

Sorry my Keyboard peeing around again yeah I remember reading that in Smash Hits thorplex

[thorplex]

in his autobiography, "praying to the aliens" he writes about getting hairplugs "before microsurgery techniques" were perfected, so his scalp is all scarred up, and if you get up close, his hair looks like barbie doll hair. sticks up like it too.

[DerVampyrEngel]

Yeah I got the autobiography and that was around the time of I Assassin

[DerVampyrEngel]

Not only that the black sinister image and the 30 's gangster image along with this one were cool and suited the music and I liked that people dressed up in the 80' now though they jut look like fucking plebs and th music they produce is usually shite

[DerVampyrEngel]

Also all that so called "We are grown up now" ordinary dickhead bullshit I really don't care for and I think most Numan fans don't care for otherwise I think Phil Collins fanbase would have most of the 80' bands fans in there, not just Numans

[DerVampyrEngel]

I meant one of the Emperors of electronic music Thorplex

[DerVampyrEngel]

I meant

[dstdvl]

but his look....ugh...no sense of style or fashion. and WHAT IS HE DOING ON THE STAGE? mincing around, tossing his head back and POUTING.  WTH??? tho his voice sounds better here than on most of his live stuff.

[DerVampyrEngel]

what THE FUCK IS wrong with his look???????? this i a cool look better than fucking The Fury Look anyday although I like that album

[thorplex]

he looks developmentally disabled. but you're right: it is better than the fury. UNLESS all his "looks" are ironic statements making fun of rock stars. in that case the fury look is the most brilliant.

[DerVampyrEngel]

You got to be kidding me thorplex this look defines him as one of the Emperors of Electronic, the cold blue ice make up of the Berserker man, one of his best and I think this image is also better than the Warriors image

[thorplex]

which album cover first featured the barbie-doll hair plugs? so now the top of his head is all scarred up. he should shave it. arguing about which look was his "best" is like arguing about which level of hell is less painful. tho i admit, i copied some of them...the black shirt and tie of replicas, the new wave suit of pleasure principle, the brooch at the throat of dance and i assassin. i even dyed my hair blue briefly. ahh the 80s...

[DerVampyrEngel]

barbie doll hair plugs? what the fuck are you talking about thorplex? OK what image would you like him to have come up with fucking jeans and a t-shirt smelly pleb pub john tosser would you?

I don't know about you but that i why I liked Gary Numan in the first place along with the electronic music, I am not interested at looking at normal shitbag dressed pop stars , not then and certainly not now, I hate the stupid smelly trainers crowd and the bleeding hoodies

[dstdvl]

i remember the first time i heard this track. that ambient electronic hum, then those weird little noises...i could see them. then it drops into all that jangling guitar and popping bass and that wretched sax. i liked most of "warriors," but not this track so much.

[Tazz77]

My tape is for sale on eBay.

[matelot95]

Debman - I was 17 and there too!!

[DerVampyrEngel]

bloody lucky Debman and matelot95 I stayed in in shitty Milton Keynes trying to run a crappy nightclub night so missed the last night of the tour down at Hammersmith Odeon

[debman40]

Fab track!I went to newcastle city hall for this tour I was 17.Had the white gear on blue hair n make-up my Dad took me he wouldn't let me get the bus. . .dunno why

[jeannec1]

I dislike the saxophone in this song, especially in the single edit. But don't get me wrong, I love this song too. Warriors is definitely under-rated.

[DerVampyrEngel]

Still I love this song

[futuristfood]

the ultimate

[alyniceguy4u]

this was a fantastic show,seen this in nottingham.

[UpTheShakers]

was at manchester apollo on this tour. i got to front for AFE and copped hold of his boot. these 2 lasses either side did same and we almost pulled the poor struggling sod off stage. then this security bloke ran on stage and threw a punch at me. i ducked but as the song and show ended he caught me before i could flee, & said that if he ever saw me again he'd have me turfed out.

[caikwondo]

Believe it or not but this song lasted the longest as my favorite.

[DoktorAvalancheCan]

Call me crazy but this is one of my top 5 Numan Songs, wicked bass, guitar riffs and sax work...awesome!

[DerVampyrEngel]

I like the I Assasin look though, like to see an I Asaassin mini tour first though

[DerVampyrEngel]

Still I do like the Berserker look and I am quite sure about it,a dn I love Sister Suprise better here though than the record

[wishyouwas123]

lets hope he does a beserker mini tour

[sonictimbo]

Nice to see Pino's nemesis on bass, Andy 'Wal' Coughlan. What a wizz on the slap and tickle he is!!

[afriendcalled5]

To me- Gary can do no wrong(except for hiring horrible female backup singers-which you don't hear on this one-thank goodness)Gary's a chameleon which keeps him interesting.I was very intigued by this look.

[telekon01]

afiendcalled5, i totally agree!!  Numans vocals are the best, he doesnt need any backing singers!! Numan rocks!!

[Tazz77]

I have the White Noise concert video. I have to admit, I found Numan a bit annoying in it but the band shines. Especially during the song Cold Warning.

[marcello09]

Eek! One of Numan's worst tunes, methinks, I can't believe this was released as a single. The red bowtie came next, oh dear!

[whitefalcon]

rofl at the comments above

[dirtypearl]

the prince dance moves are showing some here..

[lowbot]

Very nice quality video! I always wanted to see this whole concert. I like the Berserker look.  Better than the Warriors and I, Assassin looks.

[Expos]

Numan gone wrong!!! lol

[deadliner]

I have the Berserker concert on VHS I believe, I don't think the look aged that well... but the band sounded pretty decent