Gary Numan
Electronic krautrock pioneer Gary Numan will open the U.S. leg of his new tour at Observatory North Park. People in this town are still talking about the day Numan brought his neon-trimmed multi-level stage show to the Fox Theatre downtown (November 2, 1980), a few months after the stateside release of his breakthrough single “Cars.” Pulsing like a live-action Tron set, the Pink Floydian production arrived complete with onstage bumper cars and Volkswagen-sized spinning, glowing pyramids that made the whole syth-drenched presentation play like the biggest, craziest, and loudest pinball machine ever built. Numan is now 59 and travelling with a considerably pared-down stage show, with a new album called Savage that was preceded by the single “My Name Is Ruin.”