Tubeway Days
THE GARY NUMAN LIVE EXPERIENCE 1979/’80
Since relaunching the band to the live circuit in 2021 with their new “Gary Numan”; frontman Chris Fielding, (Chris appeared on the popular ITV show “Stars in their Eyes” as Gary Numan) Tubeway Days – The Gary Numan Live Experience 1979/80 have been thrilling audiences with their stunning performances replicating the Gary Numan early era classic songs in venues around the UK.
Over the course of the last three years the show has been taken across the UK taking in shows as far north as Glasgow and down to the South Coast in Southampton.
As the popularity of the band continues to grow so does the demand from many Gary Numan fans requesting a show in their towns and cities. Not always possible, but we are trying to cover as much of the country as possible especially to locations where we know there is a demand and a strong catchment area. Each year new locations are included in the schedule and for 2025 priority bookings have been worked on for first time visits to Plymouth, Bristol, Cardiff along with returns to Norwich, Southampton and Glasgow. With committing so much attention to detail with the images, stage show and the incredible accuracy to the original sounds of all the songs the band are constantly receiving positive appraisal from fans, media and venues alike.
Recreating the shows of the original Gary Numan 1979 and ’80 tours is giving fans the opportunity to relive what was the pinnacle of Numan’s career as he dominated the UK music scene and saw hits and sold out tours around the world. For those who didn’t get the chance to see these iconic shows then Tubeway Days are giving everyone the chance to experience exactly what they were like.
2024 took the shows to another level with the addition of a full scale replication of the 1979 Touring Principle stage show, the two lighting towers were built, Huey & Dewey our robotic pyramids were ready to delight the audiences and the band have added new songs to the set which includes a few unexpected surprises too.
These additional songs will sit neatly alongside the hits such as “Cars”, “Are ‘Friends’ Electric?, “Complex”, “We Are Glass”, “I Die:You Die” and all the fan favourite album tracks. All as performed by Numan and his original band back on those legendary tours of 1979 and ’80.
This is a show not to be missed by any fan of Gary Numan and those pioneering bands when the sounds of synthpop and the new electronic music ruled the charts and airwaves. The reaction to the new stage set has been everything we hoped for when unveiled at Colchester and Liverpool.
Equally impressive for the smaller stages and venues is the scaled down ’79 set version we use, and again it is hugely impressive filling any stage with an excellent show to impress any audience.
“TUBEWAY DAYS AREN’T SO MUCH A TRIBUTE BAND, BUT MORE A JOURNEY BACK IN TIME” -Mik Scarlet, Blitzed! Magazine.
