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Gary Numan’s hard-won return to the peak of his creative powers and commercial success has been driven by an intense 15-year partnership with his musical foil Ade Fenton. They speak to Alastair Shuttleworth in their first ever joint interview
Sod the first few EPs, we say a band's real hidden gems are buried at the end, among the ill-advised career moves and last grasps at fading relevance. Here, tQ writers fight the corner for their favourite unloved and underrated records from the tail-end of their favourite artists' discography.
Having collaborated with artist Start Semple, and recently worked and toured with Gary Numan, Leeds-based four piece Officers have been finding ways to bridge the physical and electronic worlds. Dom Smith caught up with the band's Jamie Baker to discuss the importance of blurring those lines
Gary Numan may well be fully critically rehabilitated now but this wasn't the case fifteen years ago. Simon Price recalls meeting the synth hero who, even at his lowest ebb, brilliantly had little or no interest in making himself look good . . .