GARY NUMAN Announces Pleasure Principle 2010 Tour of North America

MUSIC NEWS- GARY NUMAN, to celebrate the recent re-issue and 30th anniversary of his classic album The Pleasure Principle,  has announced an autumn North America tour as part of the Pleasure Principle 2010 Tour.  Mr Numan will perform the PP album in its entirety at each show.  The shows will feature material spanning across NUMAN’s career,  including tracks from his forthcoming album plinter which he's currently working on in the U.K.

NUMAN last toured North America in 2006 in support of his Jagged album and was booked to appear at the Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival this past April, but was forced to cancel due to the volcanic eruptions in Iceland that blocked air traffic.  For his 2010 fall tour starting in mid-October, you'll 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 NYC, with other artists to be announced for the other concerts. The Pleasure Principle made GARY NUMAN a huge international solo
star upon its release back in 1979. Given the soft rock and disco-dominated music scene in America at the time, the disc pioneered electronic pop music on a new, worldwide scale built around synthesizers without guitars or conventional song structures (“Cars” doesn't even have a chorus).  The album’s impact  was crystallized in the USA when NUMAN performed “Cars” and “Praying To The Aliens” to an audience of 40 million tv viewers 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 the Brit music publication 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.”

GARY NUMAN, The Pleasure Principle 2010 Tour Itinerary-

October

17 Orlando, FL       The Firestone
18 Atlanta, GA       Masquerade
20 Washington, DC    Black Cat
21 Philadelphia, PA  Trocadero w/ Emilie Autumn
22 Boston, MA        Paradise
23 New York City, NY      Nokia Theatre w/Emilie Autumn
24 Toronto, ON       Opera House
25 Detroit, MI       Majestic Theater
26 Chicago, IL       Metro
28 Denver, CO        Gothic Theatre
31 Seattle, WA       Neumos
November

1  Portland, OR      Roseland Theatre
2  San Francisco, CA Fillmore
3  Los Angeles, CA   El Rey
4  Los Angeles, CA   El Rey

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