Gary Numan chats to ilikemusic.com

Every time you make an album, especially when you've been making music for as long as I have, you have to move forward. You're looking for new sounds, new ways of putting it together, new things to sing about. And it gets harder. The longer you make music the harder it is not to repeat yourself, and the more aware you become of your own limitations, but that must always been the aim.

ILM: I hear your planning some gigs for September and another Numan weekender, playing live must still be a massive buzz - which live acts have you enjoyed most yourself and who would you love to join you on stage the most?

Gary: We toured America a couple of years back, and Marilyn Manson came on stage with us in Los Angeles. So that was good! I guess the artists I like most at the moment are Marilyn Manson, he does fantastic live shows, Nine Inch Nails and Rammstein. I'm going to see them again when they play in London.

When I first started performing I didn't enjoy the live thing. I was very self conscious on stage and just wasn't very comfortable with that whole touring lifestyle, but years go by and you learn more and become more relaxed about what you're doing, and for me now it's the absolute best part of what I do. I love touring. I like being with the band on the bus and sleeping on a bus thundering through the night, waking in a different place each day, and the gigs, it's just brilliant.
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