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GARY NUMAN
THE PLEASURE PRINCIPLE TOUR 2010
NORTH AMERICAN TOUR CELEBRATING
THE 30th ANNIVERSARY OF THE LANDMARK 1979 DISC
LAUNCHES OCTOBER 17

Gary Numan

To celebrate the recent re-issue and 30^th anniversary of his classic album The Pleasure Principle, GARY NUMAN has announced he will come to North America this fall on tour. On The Pleasure Principle 2010 Tour, the modern music icon will perform in its entirety the album that climbed into the Top 20 on the U.S. charts 30 years ago propelled by his unforgettable Top 10 single “Cars.” The shows will feature material spanning across NUMAN’s career, including tracks from his forthcoming album Splinter which he's currently working on in the U.K.

NUMAN last toured America in 2006 in support of his Jagged album and was set to appear at the Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival this past April, but had to cancel due to the volcanic eruptions in Iceland blocking air traffic. For his 2010 fall tour starting in mid-October, fans will be able to catch him in 15 markets including Orlando, Atlanta, Washington D.C., Boston, Toronto, Detroit, Chicago, Denver, Seattle, Portland, San Francisco and Los Angeles. Emilie Autumn will join NUMAN as the support act in Philadelphia and New York City, with others to be announced for the other cities.

The Pleasure Principle made GARY NUMAN a huge international solo star upon its release in 1979. Given the soft rock and disco-dominated music scene in America at the end of the decade, the disc pioneered electronic pop music on a new, worldwide scale built around icy synthesizers without guitars or conventional song structures (“Cars” doesn't even have a chorus). The disc’s impact was crystallized in the U.S. when NUMAN performed “Cars” and “Praying To The Aliens” an audience of 40 million people on Saturday Night Live. The music from The Pleasure Principle gave birth to new musical movements in the States over the next decade, including hip-hop, industrial and techno.
As NME recently noted, “every hip-hop production titan ever--notably Dr. Dre--has nicked the opening beats from the track ‘Films.’ The likes of Timbaland and The Neptunes' minimal pop--featuring exquisitely produced drums and simplistic synthlines--are currently heralded as futuristic genius in the 21st century; The Pleasure Principle shows that Gary Numan was doing the same thing 30 years previously. His influence on hip-hop, while rarely recognized, is enormous. His influence on electronic music in general is unparalleled.”

When GZA of the Wu-Tang Clan covered “Films” from The Pleasure Principle last year, he was actually taking hip-hop back to its roots as the track features one of the original break beats, also included as part of the hugely influential Ultimate Breaks & Beats series. In industrial music, both Nine Inch Nails and Marilyn Manson have name checked NUMAN as a significant influence, with the former currently performing the track “Metal” on his tour. “After hearing 'Cars,' I knew I wanted to make music with synthesizers,” says Reznor. “The Pleasure Principle is great because it's so cold sounding.”

Techno pioneers ranging from Carl Craig to Juan Atkins and Richie Hawtin were also grabbed by this strange, futuristic music, creating a relationship between NUMAN and dance music that has spawned the likes of the Basement Jaxx's “Where's Your Head At” (samples “M.E.” from The Pleasure Principle) and the “Cars”-mutating “Koochy” by Armand Van Helden. As the newly reformed Devo recently commented, The Pleasure Principle is “so original and cool and groundbreaking and in a way classic. Like, it still sounds great today…like nothing sounds like that today.”

Catch GARY NUMAN on The Pleasure Principle 2010 Tour this fall:

DATE		CITY	VENUE
Sun	10/17	Orlando, FL	The Firestone
Mon	10/18	Atlanta, GA	Masquerade
Wed	10/20	Washington, DC	Black Cat
Thu	10/21	Philadelphia, PA	Trocadero w/ Emilie Autumn
Fri	10/22	Boston, MA	Paradise
Sat	10/23	New York, NY	Nokia Theatre w/Emilie Autumn
Sun	10/24	Toronto, ON	Opera House
Mon	10/25	Detroit, MI	Majestic Theater
Tue	10/26	Chicago, IL	Metro
Thu	10/28	Denver, CO	Gothic Theatre
Sun	10/31	Seattle, WA	Neumos
Mon	11/1	Portland, OR	Roseland Theatre
Tue	11/2	San Francisco, CA	Fillmore
Wed	11/3	Los Angeles, CA	El Rey
Thu	11/4	Los Angeles, CA	El Rey

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