{"id":10864,"date":"2012-05-22T12:10:41","date_gmt":"2012-05-22T20:10:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/?p=10864"},"modified":"2012-05-22T12:11:33","modified_gmt":"2012-05-22T20:11:33","slug":"watch-gary-numan-perform-are-friends-electric-and-new-songs-on-allsaints","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/2012-05\/watch-gary-numan-perform-are-friends-electric-and-new-songs-on-allsaints\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch Gary Numan Perform &#8220;Are Friends Electric?&#8221; and New Songs on AllSaints"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Back in the day, we played <strong>Gary Numan + Tubeway Army&#8217;s<\/strong> records to death, and especially <strong>Replicas<\/strong> (which is to this day one of our all-time faves) before he released his smash hit album <strong>The Pleasure Principle<\/strong> (with mega-hit song, <em><strong>Cars<\/strong><\/em>).\u00a0\u00a0 With his synthesizers and effects, Numan was one of the true pioneers of modern electronic music.\u00a0 We&#8217;ll pass on his religious and political views, but give him his musical due.<\/p>\n<p><strong>AllSaints Basement Sessions<\/strong> recently captured Numan and crack-band performing three songs in a live session.\u00a0 The performances were evidently shot in a secret World War II air raid shelter in East London.\u00a0 Check out below a scintillating rendering of <em><strong>Are Friends Electric?<\/strong><\/em>, followed by the title track off of last year&#8217;s <strong>Dead Son Rising<\/strong> album and <em><strong>The Fall<\/strong><\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=0_EN1f3iTAw&#038;feature=uploademail<\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=wLNDphvw5A0&#038;feature=channel&#038;list=UL<\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=D-NCNJOUbTM&#038;feature=channel&#038;list=UL<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Back in the day, we played Gary Numan + Tubeway Army&#8217;s records to death, and especially Replicas (which is to this day one of our all-time faves) before he released his smash hit album The Pleasure Principle (with mega-hit song, Cars).\u00a0\u00a0 With his synthesizers and effects, Numan was one of the true pioneers of modern [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10864","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10864","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10864"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10864\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10864"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}