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The Mighty Boosh headline festival (Daily Express)

Sat, 05 Jul 2008 10:47:05 GMT

The one-day event at The Hop Farm, Tonbridge, Kent, is expected to attract up to 30,000 revellers, who will get the chance to witness the surreal comedy of Noel Fielding and Julian Barratt (Howard Moon and Vince Noir) at first hand.The festival is being headlined by The Boosh Band themselves, while acts such as The Charlatans, Jarvis Cocker and Gary Numan will also be performing on the...

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TOC: IROSF July 2008 (SF Signal)

Wed, 02 Jul 2008 06:02:01 GMT

... of Story by Jay Lake and Ruth Nestvold Essays: Science Fiction Rock (1969-1979): David Bowie and Gary Numan by Michael Andre-Driussi Inkling Charles Williams: An Advertisement by Ryder W. Miller Reviews: The New Weird : A Review of the Anthology by Ursula Pflug Review of Flood by Stephen Baxter by Niall Harrison May-June Short Fiction Review by Lois Tilton Review of Black Magic Woman...

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Paris Men’s Fashion | Louis Vuitton, Number (N)ine, Dries Van Noten and Yohji Yamamoto (The Moment)

Fri, 27 Jun 2008 16:50:47 GMT

Dries van Noten gets the award for the most creative mise-en-scene of the day. He assembled a de-facto garage with all-white cars, ranging from classics like a Thunderbird and a Rolls Royce to pedestrian delivery vans and little hatchbacks that doubled as refreshment stands where guests could grab a ham sandwich and a glass of Pimm’s. Boys then came out to Gary Numan’s blaring “Cars”...

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News: Jarvis, Peaches, Kills, Gary Numan Play Boosh Fest (Pitchfork)

Thu, 26 Jun 2008 21:15:00 GMT

... Jarvis Cocker and Peaches, plus some regular old live ruckus from the Charlatans UK, the Kills, Gary Numan, Har Mar Superstar, White Denim, Robots in Disguise, and Polar Bear.

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The Mighty Boosh, Cargo, London (The Independent)

Wed, 25 Jun 2008 23:00:01 GMT

... boys, Noel Fielding and Julian Barratt as Vince Noir and Howard Moon, head a line up that includes Gary Numan and The Charlatans. While musically they can't hope to upstage their guests, Boosh fans will undoubtedly sing-a-long with their beloved characters. With musical pastiche a central plank of the Boosh shtick the pair have plenty of material from their TV shows on which to draw...

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Weezer & Fans Cover Radiohead (Stereogum)

Mon, 23 Jun 2008 15:57:54 GMT

Weezer's in the midst of Red and their Hootenanny tour . As we let you know last week , Rivers and the boys are mixing R.E.M., Psychedelic Furs, Gary Numan, and Radiohead covers into their special please-touch set lists. As proof, we have video of them walking through "Creep" in Portland, accompanied by a room full of guitar strummers, percussionists, solo singers, violinists, and a...

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Win tickets to The Mighty Boosh Festival! (Electric Roulette)

Mon, 23 Jun 2008 15:49:07 GMT

... lark - with live acts including The Boosh Band (featuring the cast themselves), The Charlatans, Gary Numan, Jarvis Cocker, Har Mar Superstar, The Kills, Peaches, White Denim, Polar Bear and Robots In Disguise, plus DJs and a top-notch comedy tent headed up by Frankie Boyle, Matt Holness (Garth Marenghi), Arj Barker, Mark Watson, Tim Key and many more. Oh yes - and not forgetting Howard...

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The celebrity atheist list (Technoccult)

Sun, 22 Jun 2008 19:39:51 GMT

... Eddie Izzard Billy Joel Milan Kundera Bruce Lee Sir Ian McKellen Frank Miller Friedrich Nietzsche Gary Numan Trent Reznor Bruce Sterling I would add to the list Haruki Murakami. (And of course, one could write such a list for every major religion. My point here is that spirituality is not required for creativity and inspiration.) ShareThis

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Weezer Cover R.E.M., Gary Numan and Psychedelic Furs (Spinner.com)

Thu, 19 Jun 2008 14:50:10 GMT

Filed under: News , New Music Spinner.com : Weezer will bolster the formal U.K. release of 'Pork and Beans' on Monday with cover versions of legendary songs by R.E.M., the Psychedelic Furs and Gary Numan. In a shrewd move, the Rivers Cuomo-fronted band will unveil one CD single -- featuring... Read more

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Weezer Covering R.E.M., Radiohead (Stereogum)

Wed, 18 Jun 2008 20:13:07 GMT

Between Red and various bonuses , Weezer's given us plenty of Weezer lately. Hell, why not give us songs written by other people, too? NME reports the UK "Pork And Beans" single will come in three versions with three different B-Sides, R.E.M.'s "Oddfellows Local 151," Psychedelic Furs' "Love My Way," and Gary Numan's "Are 'Friends' Electric?" Elsewhere, Pitchfork reveals they covered...

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News: Weezer Cover R.E.M., Furs, Gary Numan on New Single (Pitchfork)

Wed, 18 Jun 2008 18:45:00 GMT

... finds the band power-chording their way through "Are 'Friends' Electric?", originally done by the Gary Numan-led Tubeway Army. One 7" finds it matched with the Psychedelic Furs' "Love My Way", and the other, R.E.M.'s "Oddfellows Local 151" [via NME.com , confirmed by a press release]. Weezer (and you, maybe) will geek up another favorite-- Radiohead's "Creep"-- on those "Hootenanny"...

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Tubeway Army: Gary Numan: Are Friends Electric (MilkandCookies.com)

Wed, 18 Jun 2008 17:18:14 GMT

Tubeway Army - Gary Numan - Are Friends Electric Old Grey Whistle Test 1979

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News Ticker: Weezer, NIN, Conor Oberst and Radiohead (Rock and Roll Daily)

Wed, 18 Jun 2008 13:50:26 GMT

Having already covered the Band and Talk Talk, Weezer will attempt songs by R.E.M., Gary Numan and the Psychedelic Furs for the B sides of the “Pork & Beans” single. Nine Inch Nails will release physical copies of their new album The Slip on July 22nd. Only 200,000 numbered copies will be distributed in the U.S., [...]

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Want your faith restored in independent labels? No? Well, read this anyway (or: How the bloke who owns Beggar's Banquet made me grin) (Electric Roulette)

Wed, 18 Jun 2008 08:30:18 GMT

... Jaxx, Beck... as well as the back catalogue for The Smiths, The Fall, The Pixies, The Prodigy, Gary Numan and countless others. Mills, despite a flash car and a coupla houses and whatnot, is still mellow. This year he put on his suit and went to Buckingham Palace to receive an MBE from The Queen for services to the music industry. "It was strange... I think the nature of being an...

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Weird at My School: Gary Wilson (The KEXP Blog)

Mon, 16 Jun 2008 20:05:12 GMT

When I interviewed James Pants about his new album, Welcome, last week, he made the following remark in passing: “I have three favorite Garys: Gary Wilson, Gary Davis, and Gary Numan.” Gary Davis is the electro-funk genius behind cult favorites Chocolate Star – and one of the featured guests on Welcome. And UK pasty-face Gary [...]

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Exhibition Road Music Day returns to Serpentine Gallery (2008) (IndieLondon)

Tue, 10 Jun 2008 19:07:53 GMT

... Kensington Gardens. Late of the Pier will bring their unique combination of glam-rock, electro and Gary Numan-style synth-pop – complete with jerky sub-Kraftwerk dance moves and geometric styling – to the event. While Florence and the Machine is a one-woman force with her roots in the same ground as PJ Harvey. Likened to American pre-war folk and blues, the music of 20-year-old South...

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Synth plus fretless bass = a classic Partridge moment (Dilated Choonz)

Mon, 09 Jun 2008 17:14:00 GMT

Gary Numan – Music for Chameleons A few months back, a trip to a Clacton-on-Sea charity shop and the exchange of 25 new pence resulted in the acquisition of this remarkably well preserved piece of 7” vinyl, which is a fine example of the 80s sub-genre known as “synth plus fancy bass”. Fretless, slap or even Chapman stick, many bands played ‘em in the 80s, with the keyboards kept safely...

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Get your rocks off with the sounds of the summer (News Scotsman)

Fri, 06 Jun 2008 23:29:21 GMT

RockNess kicks off Scotland’s pop festival season today. Andrew Eaton and Claire Black pick ten top destinations

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Jarvis Cocker added to Boosh festival (Digital Spy)

Tue, 03 Jun 2008 16:27:00 GMT

Rex FeaturesJarvis Cocker has been added to the lineup for the inaugural Mighty Boosh Festival.The former Pulp frontman will perform a DJ set at the summer bash, which takes place at Hop Farm in Kent on July 5.Other new additions to the bill include Har Mar Superstar and Peaches.Acts performing in the comedy tent include Ross Noble, Frankie Boyle, Arj Barker, Simon Munnery and Robin Ince.Gary...

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This Week's Interesting Music Releases (June 3rd, 2008) (Largehearted Boy)

Mon, 02 Jun 2008 16:23:36 GMT

... Foxes Fleet Foxes: Fleet Foxes [vinyl] The Futureheads: This Is Not The World Gang: Zero Hits Gary Numan: Pure (reissue) Gavin Rossdale: Wanderlust George Stanford: Big Drop Great White: Great Zeppelin: A Tribute to Led Zeppelin Harvey Milk: Life…The Best Game in Town HorrorPops: Kiss Kiss Kill Kill [vinyl] Jakob Dylan: Seeing Things [vinyl] Jaguar Love: Jaguar Love EP Jean Grae:...

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