Outlandish Exploits for Ten Years!

Well, today being the 26th of March 2001, we at Numanarchy in the UK can't help but cast our minds back to the events of ten years ago. It was on this day that things changed for us as Numan fans. The bottom line is that we stopped taking ourselves too seriously!
For too long had we travelled around the country and bought everything that had Gary Numan's name on it as if it were some kind of religion. Sure, we still loved the stuff he was doing, enjoyed the concerts as much as ever and would argue to death with non-Numan fans who would criticise the man, but among ourselves, we could finally admit that there were sometimes things that Gary did or said that when you look at them in a different way were completely funny when they weren't supposed to be.
We started to alter words to songs just for a laugh. We would watch old videos from years gone by and think "He didn't really say that, did he?".
Of course, no harm was intended to anyone, Gary in particular, but we just stopped acting like nothing he said could ever be wrong. If there was something he did that we thought was funny or daft, we would say so, where as before, we would have tried to invent a reason for it not to be because we were Numan fans and had to defend Gary against that sort of thing. He used to get plenty of bad reviews and press slaggings back then and we had just sort of hardened ourselves against it all I suppose.
The Guildford Civic Hall during the Outland Tour was the first place we attended as Numanarchists rather than Numanoids. We didn't do anything outrageous back then, maybe saying to people we thought we had come to see Barry Newman. Singing "I like petrol when it's in my car!" during his rendition of "My World Storm", that sort of inane humour which some people don't share. We just started to lighten up a bit really and we had a hell of a good time doing so over the following years.
Numanarchy never grew into anything big. The most we ever had at one concert was 13 of us, but that was ideal really as it meant we had 26 thumbs up at any one time. (26 is one of our in jokes, you either get it or you don't. It started out because we exaggerated the way Gary said it on the "Ghost" live album when he was on about "Cars".) Some of you may have seen some of us on the "Dream Corrosion" video. Two of us had giant sponge feet which were really supposed to be for "Sole Protection" but worked OK during "Bombers" as well. Ade Eyeudye and Mike R. Slides are easily spotted after "Are Friends Electric?" giving Gary the thumbs up sign.
Sadly, our sense of humour is not shared by all. We have even received very threatening letters at our home addresses for no more than handing out the lyrics to my altered version of "Emotion/Emulsion" and passing around a few cards that said;

OUTLANDISH EXPLOITS