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MJR Presents is proud to announce Gary Numan - The Savage Tour live in New Zealand.

 With a career that has spanned nearly four decades, Numan’s approach to electronic music remains an inspiration to artists across genres and eras, from stadium goliaths such as Depeche Mode, Prince and Nine Inch Nails to alternative heroes such as Beck, Damon Albarn and Marilyn Manson. Even Kanye West owes him a debt and David Bowie once credited him with ‘writing two of the finest songs’ in British music.

Now with a new album SAVAGE (SONGS FROM A BROKEN WORLD) under his belt, the man whose voice was behind the 1980 smash hit ‘Cars’, is touring the world, stopping in Auckland for one night only, playing the legendary Powerstation on Tuesday, May 29.

SAVAGE is set in a post global warming, apocalyptic, Earth in the not-too-distant future. There is no technology left and most of the planet has turned to a desolate, desert wasteland. Food is scarce, water even more so and human kindness and decency are just a dim and distant memory. Western and Eastern cultures have merged, more because of the need to simply survive than any feelings of greater tolerance or understanding. It’s a harsh, savage environment, as are the survivors who still roam across it.

      “SAVAGE is a compelling cautionary tale of what may happen if we’re too complacent to give a damn about future generations. It’s also a stunningly sharp and diverse collection of songs from a living legend”
- Pop Matters

“Gary Numan landed a bull’s eye with this record. There’s no-one in the industrial/electro-rock scene who is able to pinpoint despair, grief and the whole range of desolate feelings as exact as he does”
- Electrozombies

SAVAGE is Numan’s 21st studio record and follows on from his critically-acclaimed 2013 record SPLINTER. A self-proclaimed “one man band”, Numan has always been something of an outlier living on his own terms. These days he manages himself, so has to balance being the artist with all manner of other duties; booking shows, designing flyers, endless scheduling.

A mark of overcoming that challenge - the lyrics of the SAVAGE’s opening track 'Ghost Nation' are now tattooed on his arm as a reminder of writing and recording the album in a studio at the side of his garden.

Don’t miss this living legend live in Auckland on Tuesday, May 29, 2018.