Are ‘friends’ electric? 1,000 gigs in, Gary Numan sure is

• Gary Numan performed the thousandth concert of his career in the dark and dingy confines of the Electric Ballroom in London on Saturday night. The landmark event passed as pretty much every Numan concert has passed since he rose to fame as Britain’s first synth pop star in the late 70s. That is, in a furious blizzard of throbbing and slamming electronic sound, dazzling lighting, theatrical posing and drily mannered mockney vocals delivering dystopian visions of a future we have arguably long sin