Interview: Gary Numan

Since we last spoke to Gary Numan ahead of his New Zealand show in 2011, the industrial musician has had a pretty busy time. After a drawn-out bureaucratic process the British native successfully immigrated to balmy Los Angeles with his wife and three children, and last year he released an album which has been lauded by critics as his best work yet. And, as Numan suggests, that’s a pretty impressive compliment considering Splinter (Songs From a Broken Mind) is his 20th album and follows a career that began way back in 1977. The album’s release has seen the 56-year-old back on tour, taking his powerfully broody sound around most of the globe, an activity he says is one of his favourite things to do, ever. Luckily for us, his next stops include a one-off show in Auckland this Friday. We had a chat with Gary Numan ahead of his visit about all manner of music-related things, including how a man with such a seemingly sunny disposition can make such dark music.

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