I've purchased my ticket and shirts. I intend to watch the pay-to-view version that streams Sunday as well.
And, if NMA make the whole concert available for purchase in DVD format OR, tack it onto a future NMA DVD as a
special bonus feature, I'd SO go for and purchase that too!!
To say I am really looking forward to this Saturday is such an incredible understatement! I haven't seen any live version of NMA in more than 10, seriously long years! So I'll go for
any kind of live NMA/JS&DW/JS live streamed concert. Beggars = me can't be choosers. No, I'm not complaining. I've waited 10 years before, I can wait another 10 if need be. I'll
always love 'em. Time and distance won't ever change that. Whether seen, or unseen, I'm a lifer.
xxxxxIt's really nobody's fault, I just live on the fcuking wrong side of the water, that's all.
I'm also, the only NMA fan I know in
real life, so for me the only truly weird thing about this special event will be watching it in private, experiencing the unconventional gig (for all parties involved), in private, and at 2pm in the afternoon, no less. And yet, I'll still feel strangely connected to others the-entire-globe-over who'll be enjoying the NMA performance in their own countless, numerous, individual and different ways, at the exact same time as me, with me. We'll still be weirdly, all together. I'm just ever thankful that NMA/JS are doing this for all of us. I can't speak for anyone else, but I really need this, especially these past few months. Been looking forward to it ever since it was mentioned. This special performance will work wonders, and be better for me than any concoction of damn pills. Thank you, you beautiful musical soldiers. Thank you
so very, very much.
A large part of the thrill and excitement for me stems from the fact that I have absolutely NO fcuking CLUE what to expect. soft lol, I've actually got a bit of the jitters happening on an deep internal level, just like when NMA comes to town for real!!! Seriously, I'm actually quite nervous for some inexplicable reason, rather goose-fleshly-so! In an exhilarating great and uplifting kind of way though!
For starters, there are so may questions and thoughts running through my mind, such as...
1. Where will NMA be playing from... a club? Their rehearsal space? Indoor? or Outdoor? A parking lot? A garden? Or, some other, perhaps very special, secret location?
2. Will it be like a behind-the-scenes making-of kind of situation, as NMA might be when recording, performing together in full light, brightness? Or, will the concert be in the dark, lit up only by stage lights?
3. Will NMA forget that we'll actually be there in a virtual way, and go about things as if they were amongst themselves just as a band?
4. Whish 30 or so songs are they going to play? Will there be an acoustic set as well?
5. Are they going to talk to us between songs, seeing as how NMA won't be able to hear any of chatter-boxes or elated cheering from all of us who will be virtually attending?
6. Is it going to be weirder for them as a band, than us as the audience?
7. How is the audience messaging thing going to work during the 20 minute or so break between NMA sets... as I am not on facefook, etc.? Will this forum be somehow linked and viewable?
8. Might Mr.
Sullivan consider holding a completely solo gig, in somewhat of a similar way, at a later date? Somehow? Somewhere? Someday, in the not too, too distant future? I'd be up for paying to see that very special performance as well. I'd even buy the DVD!!! If one were to be officially produced.
9. Might NMA or JS & DW do another, come mid-December, perhaps? Or, whenever, to keep the faith, love, interest, hope alive, and ours and their spirits up? I'd be up for this kind of thing again, while waiting for real in-person gigs to return.
10. How many cameras will be filming the gig? I'd love to be able to see the entire band in one frame as much as possible, if possible. It's always so hard to see MD and DW when I'm at a real gig, so to be able to see everyone will be a real bonus!
11. Will it be in colour or black and white? I BEG it to be in colour please.
Oh, powers that be...
please?12. Will the pay-to-view stream that
airs Sunday be the complete gig or will it be a tweaked or tidied-up edited version?
13. When will we find out the full details regarding the pay-to-view repeat that
airs this coming Sunday? Where and how long will it be viewable?
Please post details, VIV?
14. Can we catch the soundcheck on Saturday too?
Ohhh, powers that be...
please? I find all the techy, behind-the-scenes bits just as fascinating and completely thrilling!!
Also, I think it's important to mention that at last, via this new or alternate (even if temporary) way of experiencing or attending a New Model Army gig, is perhaps a blessing in disguise for any NMA aficionados who under normal circumstances wouldn't be able to attend an actual in-person live gig. They might not be able to attend an actual live in-person NMA concert for reasons that might have to do with where they live, how young or old they may be, whether they have mobility or other physical disabilities that impede the likelihood of them ever attending an in-person, live NMA gig. So in this way, I feel this NMA live online steaming concert will be more so inclusive of
all NMA/JS fans, than perhaps ever before. And in my eyes, my mind, that's truly a great thing, and makes this whole NMA effort, generous offering an entirely positive and gracious one, on NMA's part. So on behalf of each of those NMA fans, a heartfelt and sincere THANK YOU, to each of you...
thank you Mr.
Sullivan, Mr.
Dean, Mr.
White, Mr.
Gill, and Mr.
Monger.
Woo-hoo!! Just three days away now!! I can hardly wait!
