Summary
Numbers didn't screw around at the High Noon. One tune rushed into the next with little or no introduction, and stage business was kept to a minimum. [Indra Dunis], [Dave Broekema] and artful synthesizer jockey Eric Landmark did acknowledge friends and family in the crowd, but they certainly didn't play to them. Numbers' music is too precise - and, really, too demanding - to allow for knowing winks and ironical smiles. When Dunis hunkered down on chilling material like the matter-of-fact "I'll Love You 'Til I Don't" goofball theatrics would have seemed utterly inappropriate, but even Numbers' lighter dance fare radiated a sense of unease that distanced them from strange-but-cuddly acts like Devo.
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Electronic Underground
Sure, San Francisco no-wavers Numbers have a Madison connection. But after six years on the West Coast, the homer factor was hardly th...
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