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New Model Army / Re: Happy 45th anniversary

« Last post by Tarsier on November 02, 2025, 06:50:56 AM »

Happiest anniversary to NMA! 
And thanks to you guys having a competition here who's the oldest, I feel positively young at forty  That said, none of us is getting any younger... I'm so glad that in two weeks time, first time ever, I'll go to see a gig together with my parents - NMA here in Prague! 

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Trades & Swaps / 1 spare ticket for Prague 15/11/25

« Last post by yarouzic on November 01, 2025, 12:20:28 PM »

Hi,
My friend Olivier (doesn't have a NMA login) ask me to announce this: he has a spare ticket for Prague, 22€/£20 contact him frogskip@hotmail.com
Thanks!

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Everything Else / Re: what Film / TV are you watching RIGHT NOW

« Last post by Tarsier on October 31, 2025, 08:57:25 AM »

Feeling down, seriously overworked, seriously needing sleep... Just saw there's Kung Fu Panda 4 in Netflix - perfect.
What's your go-to when you just need an empty head and to drift into oblivion?

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Everything Else / Re: what songs are you listening to RIGHT NOW

« Last post by Tarsier on October 31, 2025, 07:40:44 AM »

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XzW1QUbeASU

This song is just so beautiful I can't get over it. The Mon, solo project of Ufomammut's singer/bassist Urlo, has a new album out on 7th November, titled Songs of Abandon. Looking forward, I hope there'll be a few more gems like this. 
Ufomammut is such a wonderful band and I've listened to them alot for years, especially during nights at work. And for some reason, every time I saw them live I've cried - it's like the music dislodges something that has been stuck or hidden, maybe it's just a memory of a feeling, or a memory of a bunch of contradicting feelings that clash, ignite and burn. At any rate, it's very beautiful. Just now I though of the title of their previous album "Hidden" just a bit differently. Damn, probably it would be good idea to write a bit more, you always find something when you do.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JKYmV0FrBzM

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New Model Army / Re: I think there should be, one day, an official biography of NMA... anyone agree?

« Last post by Gaijin on October 30, 2025, 08:10:17 PM »

If you want a book you may just have to make it yourself.

A fan project that collects gig flyers, press adverts, cover scans and reviews is a place to start. Another would be to contact people that were part of various sessions; engineers, tape ops etc. Or tour personnel, venue owners and booking agents. There are always a lot of people involved with a touring band.

Then there's NMA sleeve art too.

Justin doesn't have to write the book. There are other people that may want to look back and tell their part of the story, someone just needs to find them.

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New Model Army / Re: I think there should be, one day, an official biography of NMA... anyone agree?

« Last post by Guillaume on October 30, 2025, 01:15:33 PM »

Let me now your thoughts on this.

I completely understand the band's answer. Justin Sullivan has said many times over the years that he's not interested in revisiting the past, so there will be a band biography when the band wants to allow themselves a moment of self reflection. The band is  very active, too busy with various projects (writing new songs, recording new albums and touring, among other things) to be able to spend weeks/months/years on a retrospective work. Even though there are quite a few artists who write their autobiographies around the age of 60 or 70!

I think the 2013 documentary BETWEEN DOG AND WOLF THE NEW MODEL ARMY STORY is very good; its only major drawback, for me and I suppose for those who like the band, is that it's not exhaustive. For example, NMA's discography from IMPURITY to TODAY IS A GOOD DAY isn't covered, nor are Justin's solo albums. A (auto)biography, perhaps a more "conventional" illustrated book, could fill in these "gaps".

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New Model Army / Re: I think there should be, one day, an official biography of NMA... anyone agree?

« Last post by mudgeek on October 30, 2025, 01:42:25 AM »

A few days ago I wrote to the band with a proposal to write a Brazilian NMA book myself. This is what they wrote back:

"We have to say that, at the moment, we would NOT support a project like this. We have had many, many offers and requests to write a New Model Army biography, but the band, and in particular Justin, want to choose a moment for this and that moment is not now. Sorry.

Best Regards,

NMA"

Let me now your thoughts on this.

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On The Road / Re: So, whose doing NMA at Nottingham Rockers on Friday 12 Dec?

« Last post by Master Ray on October 28, 2025, 12:09:25 AM »

So I'm guessing that seeing as most of the OG NMA Forum (pretty sure that 'OG' is something da kidz say nowadays) are absent from this Forum and may not be coming to the show or even be following the band anymore... there's no pre-gig meet or aftershow planned?   

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New Model Army / Re: Happy 45th anniversary

« Last post by Winterwulf on October 27, 2025, 09:15:35 PM »

I'm wondering what happened to the five years since the 40th anniversary livestream? Then I remember being at the 20th anniversary gig at Rock City and wonder where the last 25 years went, or think of Trip & Stumble playing down MacRorys and clattering down cobbled Bradford  back streets in hobnailed clogs and start feeling really old... (55 next year, before you ask!)

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New Model Army / Re: Happy 45th anniversary

« Last post by Guillaume on October 26, 2025, 10:20:10 AM »

47?  Oh, you sweet summer child, I'll be 56 in two months time!  I remember when I was 47, a wide eyed kid with a headful of dreams, a skip in my step and my whole life in front of me...     

 

Yes, but at (almost) 47 years old, I bitterly regret when I was 25 and even 30 ha ha! But no doubt when I'm 56 (or 70 like Justin S in 2026!) I'll perhaps regret not being 47 anymore ha ha! As we say in France: "La vieillesse est un naufrage" ("Old age is a shipwreck")!