Gary Numan @ O2 ABC, 20 September

This stop on the Dead Son Rising tour, with its imposing architecture and mesmeric machinery, displays an artist forging new identities and re-invigorating his past. Flanked by banks of keyboards whilst dry ice clouds and fragmented screen projections scatter across the auditorium, Gary Numan assumes a commanding, animated presence; the triple assault of Resurrection, Down In The Park and The Fall pitching smooth electronic landscapes against scalding metallic guitars.

When Numan does dip into The Pleasure Principle or Replicas, there's no sense of relying on well-worn crowd pleasers, or of cheap nostalgia. Rather, the old songs serve to reinforce the narrative of the new material. Provocative religious imagery invests Haunted and Absolution with subversive menace, whilst a cosmic panorama serves to expand the reach of Dead Sun Rising. As a performer, Numan still possesses huge reserves of energy and charisma. This bold, cathartic show suggests that his best work may still be ahead of him.