Numan signed a one year contract with Aston Villa FC to become their scout in the Netherlands and surrounding areas in mid-2011.

He signed Gary Numan and the groups The Alarm, The Go-Go's & R. E. M.

After Outland ( 1991 ), another critical and commercial disappointment and his second and last studio album with IRS, Numan reactivated Numa Records, under which he would release his next two albums.

Warriors was the last album Numan recorded for Beggars Banquet Records, and was supported by a 40-date UK tour ( again with support from robotic mime and music duo Tik and Tok ) – Numan's first live tour in the UK since his Wembley appearances in 1981.

Sacrifice was the last album Numan made before shutting down Numa Records permanently.

In 2004 Numan took control of his own business affairs again, launching the label Mortal Records and releasing a series of live DVDs.

* 1982 with Gary Numan, I, Assassin ( Beggars Banquet Records )

The final studio album of what Numan retrospectively termed the " Machine " section of his career, Telekon reintroduced guitars to Numan's music and featured a wider range of synthesisers.

Numan did win on the overall leaderboard, though he lost the final race to AC / DC lead singer Brian Johnson.

Numan appeared once again at the final run of the " Wave Goodbye " shows in Los Angeles, CA.

Numan played in all of the group matches in France, although the quarter final game against Argentina was marred with his second yellow card of the game ( after a tackle on Diego Simeone ).

In 1978, Gary Numan, a member of the group, found a minimoog left behind in the studio by another band, and started experimenting with it.

Following swiftly on in early 1979, excited by the possibilities of synthesizers, Numan took Tubeway Army back into the studio to record a follow-up album, Replicas.

* " Tracks ", a song by Gary Numan on his album The Pleasure Principle

The Pleasure Principle was a rock album with no guitars ; instead, Numan used synthesisers fed through guitar effects pedals to achieve a distorted, phased, metallic tone.

In 1980 Numan topped the album charts with Telekon, with the concurrent singles " We Are Glass ", " I Die: You Die " and " This Wreckage " reaching No. 5, No. 6 and No. 20, respectively.

With his former backing band, Chris John Payne ( Keyboards, Viola ) Russell Bell ( Guitar ) and Ced Sharpley ( Drums ) now reformed as Dramatis, Numan contributed vocals to the minor hit " Love Needs No Disguise " from the album For Future Reference.

Numan supported the album with a concert tour in America in late 1982 ( where he was living as a tax exile ), which were his first series of live shows since his farewell at Wembley.

The album was also accompanied by a striking blue-and-white visual image, a tour, a live album / video and produced two hit singles, but it divided critics and fans and commercially was Numan ’ s least successful release to that date.

To date, The Fury is the last Numan album to crack the British Top 30.

1989 saw the release of the Sharpe + Numan album Automatic.

In 1991, Numan ventured into film-scoring by co-composing the music for The Unborn with Michael R. Smith ( the score was later released as an instrumental album in 1995, Human ).

Numan re-evaluated his career and went in a harsher, more industrial direction with his songwriting on the album Sacrifice — for the first time he played almost all the instruments himself.

Fear Factory produced a cover of " Cars " ( featuring a prominent guest appearance by Numan himself ) for the digipak version of their album Obsolete.

Nine Inch Nails covered the song " Metal " on The Fragile remix album Things Falling Apart as did Afrika Bambaataa ( with Numan himself ) on the album Dark Matter Moving at the Speed of Light.

2003 also saw Numan performing the vocals on a track named " Pray For You " on the Plump DJs album Eargasm, which was well received.

In late 2006, Numan announced on his website that recording would begin on his new album in January 2007, with Ade Fenton co-producing.

Numan also launched a Jagged website to showcase the new album, and made plans to have his 1981 farewell concert ( previously released as Micromusic on VHS ) issued on DVD by November 2006 as well as releasing the DVD version of the Jagged album launch gig.

Numan contributed vocals to four tracks on the April 2007 release of Fenton's debut solo album Artificial Perfect on his new industrial / electronic label Submission, including songs " The Leather Sea ", " Slide Away ", " Recall " and the first single to be taken from the album, " Healing ".

During this period, Numan generated an army of fans calling themselves " Numanoids ", providing him with a fanbase which maintained their support through the latter half of the 1980s, when his fortunes began to fall precipitously.

Numan toured the U. S. in support of Exile, his first stateside concerts since the early 1980s.

After the breakthrough of Tubeway Army and Gary Numan in the British Singles Chart, large numbers of artists began to enjoy success with a synthesizer-based sound in the early 1980s, including Soft Cell, Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark, Japan and Depeche Mode in the United Kingdom, while in Japan, Yellow Magic Orchestra's success opened the way for synthpop bands such as P-Model, Plastics, and Hikashu.

Synthpop's early steps, and Gary Numan in particular, were also disparaged in the British music press of the late 1970s and early 1980s for their German influences and characterised by journalist Mick Farren as the " Adolf Hitler Memorial Space Patrol ".

After the breakthrough of Tubeway Army and Gary Numan in the British Singles Chart in 1979, large numbers of artists began to enjoy success with a synthesizer-based sound and they came to dominate the pop music of the early 1980s.

By this time Tubeway Army had decided to abandon live shows – Numan was unhappy with pub-venue gigs on the often violent London punk scene ( the only known recording of a Tubeway Army concert – a London show from February 1978 – was released as a bootleg album in the early 1980s.

Later in the decade and into the early 1980s, hits with Tubeway Army and Gary Numan secured the label's future.

Gary Numan had popular songs laced with Scientology references in the 1980s such as " Me, I Disconnect from you ", " Praying to the Aliens ", and " Only a Downstat ", influenced directly by Burroughs ' Scientology-based writings.

Numan then went on to play two songs with Nine Inch Nails ; " Cars " and " Metal ".

On 2 September 2009 at the Hollywood Palladium, Numan joined Reznor on stage to perform " Metal " and " Cars " near the end of the Nine Inch Nails set.

* " Metal " ( Gary Numan song ), on the album The Pleasure Principle

* Ghost ( Gary Numan album ), a live album first released by Gary Numan in 1988