For Future Reference
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For Future Reference is the only studio album released by the British synth-pop band Dramatis. The album itself failed to reach the UK Albums Chart, however, one of the four singles released from the album, "Love Needs No Disguise", with Gary Numan providing vocals, reached No.33 on the UK Singles Chart.[2] The other singles from the album were "Ex Luna Scientia", "Oh! Twenty Twenty Five" (titled "Oh! 2025" on the album) and "No-One Lives Forever". The album was reissued on CD in 2000[3] and 2002[4] and retitled as The Dramatis Project. This reissue was credited to Tubeway Army featuring Gary Numan, despite Numan's only contribution being the vocal to "Love Needs No Disguise". A further CD reissue in 2003, under the title Future, was again credited to Tubeway Army.[5]
The album was made available again in 2014 as a digital download only, this time under the title Terrestrial Channels and with Numan as the sole artist credit.[6]
The album was eventually reissued as a remastered and expanded double CD edition released by Cherry Red Records[7] on 22 April 2022,[8][9] with Disc One including the original album track listing, plus eight bonus tracks consisting of 7-inch and 12-inch versions of singles and B-sides. Disc Two includes seven 7-inch single mixes and eight tracks recorded "In Concert - BBC Paris Theatre, London May 1982".
Although three new singles were released during 1982, a follow-up album to "For Future Reference" didn't eventuate:
- "Face on the Wall" (released 5 February 1982)[10][11]
- "The Shame" (released 21 May 1982)[12]
- "I Can See Her Now" (released 15 October 1982 and charted at No.57 on the UK Singles Chart)[13][14]
Track listing
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Original LP track listing
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2022 Remastered 2CD
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Personnel
- Chris Payne – viola, keyboards, cornamuse, recorders, backing vocals
- Rrussell Bell – guitar, Chapman Stick, Moog Liberation, Vi-tar, abstract sax, backing vocals
- Cedric Sharpley – drums, percussion, synth drums, backing vocals
- Denis Haines – piano, keyboards, backing vocals, abstract vocal noises
- The Big G (Gary Numan) – guest vocal ("Love Needs No Disguise")
- Gus – backing vocals on "I Only Find Rewind" and "No-One Lives Forever" and humping the gear
- Dramatis – producer, arrangements
- Simon Heyworth – producer, engineer
- Simon Smart – engineer
References
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- ^ Allmusic review
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Chart History of Love Needs No Disguise". Official Charts Company. Retrieved 8 December 2025.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Tubeway Army Featuring Gary Numan – The Dramatis Project". Discogs. Retrieved 8 December 2025.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Tubeway Army Featuring Gary Numan – The Dramatis Project". Discogs. Retrieved 8 December 2025.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Tubeway Army – Future". Discogs. Retrieved 8 December 2025.
- ^ Beathound.com: Gary Numan - Terrestrial Channels Script error: No such module "webarchive". - retrieved 10 September 2015
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Dramatis: Dramatis, 2CD Digipak". cherryred.co.uk. Retrieved 8 December 2025.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Dramatis For Future Reference - Compact Disc Double". Plastic Head Megastore. Retrieved 8 December 2025.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Lost Albums: DRAMATIS For Future Reference [release date at bottom of page]". electricityclub.co.uk. Retrieved 8 December 2025.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Face On The Wall [The Rocket Record Company press release image]". 45cat. Retrieved 3 November 2025.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."New Singles" (PDF). Record Business. 1 February 1982. p. 22. Retrieved 8 December 2025 – via World Radio History.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."New Singles" (PDF). Record Business. 17 May 1982. p. 18. Retrieved 8 December 2025 – via World Radio History.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."I Can See Her Now [Notes: 'The New Singles' No. 948 reference]". 45cat.com. Retrieved 8 December 2025.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Chart History of I Can See Her Now". Official Charts Company. Retrieved 8 December 2025.
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