What is your best New Model Army memory?

[ruckedout]

Yeah i think it might have been, cant say for sure. I have a feeling it was the love of hopless causes tour in the 90's. I was brought up with NMA before that though, i will never forget asking my foster parents to let me borrow their radio so i could listen to them live at wembely - if i remember rightly whilst "i love the world" was finishing the radio guy who was covering the event said some along the lines of.....'No-one really knows who this band is but they sure can play live'....something like that, i didnt really care what he said to be honest i was mesmorised and still wish to this day that i could have been a part of that crowd....oh well i have been to many great gigs since then and will keep the NMA faith.   

[HereComesTheWar]

Meeting Justin and Dean backstage before they played Bearded Theory, easily the best day of my life never mind memory
Bring on Rock & Bike !

[Heloisa]

Meeting the band for the first time... it was so magic! Wow!!!

[Knutty]

Going to see N.M.A. for the first time with my future wife, it was her first ever gig, we stood near to the back and she couldn't see anything as she is small. It was one of our first dates and trying to impress her i invited her to get up on my shoulders so that she could see. Not wanting to appear a "wuss" I kept her up there all through the set even though I was in agony! she loved them and to add to the agony was dancing about on my shoulders too. It was love all round, we loved the band and...another great N.M.A. memory was  a few months later, the "first dance" at our wedding reception to Green and the Grey
Happy memories tend to always be in the distant past but the recent tour provided many too.
Knutty

[McBastid]

"first dance" at our wedding reception to Green and the Grey

...that's awesome

[Zenboy]

I remember when we had a virtually spam free notice board.  Ah them were the days!!!


Zen

[Mawsley]

Went away on an all-ex's break in Amsterdam in 1998 thanks to my wife being brilliant and working hard. After our first breakfast we walked out to find a tram, walked by the Melkweg and saw who was playing that night.

Tickets bought, amazing day and a blinding night later. Ranks up there in my Top Whatever of gigs. 

[ghost^o^me]

One of best concert moments I ever experienced with NMA was a massive clog dance that suddenly took off in a gig in Liverpool in 1990 during Vagabonds I can only describe it as a wild whirlwind frenzy. It was an atmoshere like none other! <33333... Smitten.

[Stoney]

One of best concert moments I ever experienced with NMA was a massive clog dance that suddenly took off in a gig in Liverpool in 1990 during Vagabonds I can only describe it as a wild whirlwind frenzy. It was an atmoshere like none other! <33333... Smitten.

The Royal Court gig was a pretty damned good gig! Has to be said! The ruptions outside with touts/bootleggers n scallies onl;y made the gig even more edgier than normal......... Happy days indeed!

[JohnnyM]

Was the Hummingbird gig on the "Two Dogs" Xmas tour in 91? It was a great gig, tho' bloody freezing in the van that night!

I can remember hitching to Leicester the day after in the snow - it was freezing....

[Stoney]

Was the Hummingbird gig on the "Two Dogs" Xmas tour in 91? It was a great gig, tho' bloody freezing in the van that night!

I can remember hitching to Leicester the day after in the snow - it was freezing....

Fog all the way from Brum aswell........ Nearly froze to death in the Transit the night after Brfum.... we bought water pistols at the Toys R Us opposite the Hummingbird...... Thought it'd be funny...... It was til after the gig....... Then, not so much! ha ha ha

[ghost^o^me]

One of best concert moments I ever experienced with NMA was a massive clog dance that suddenly took off in a gig in Liverpool in 1990 during Vagabonds I can only describe it as a wild whirlwind frenzy. It was an atmoshere like none other! <33333... Smitten.

The Royal Court gig was a pretty damned good gig! Has to be said! The ruptions outside with touts/bootleggers n scallies onl;y made the gig even more edgier than normal......... Happy days indeed!

and shhhhh! The Levellers were on form that night not 'alf! it was a weird and wonderful night of vicious beauty<3
Smitten

[Stoney]

One of best concert moments I ever experienced with NMA was a massive clog dance that suddenly took off in a gig in Liverpool in 1990 during Vagabonds I can only describe it as a wild whirlwind frenzy. It was an atmoshere like none other! <33333... Smitten.

The Royal Court gig was a pretty damned good gig! Has to be said! The ruptions outside with touts/bootleggers n scallies onl;y made the gig even more edgier than normal......... Happy days indeed!

and shhhhh! The Levellers were on form that night not 'alf! it was a weird and wonderful night of vicious beauty<3
Smitten

......... Sorry who??    That was before the trouble started I admit......

[CROWMAN]

Hey stoney I rember all the fun with Touts/bootleggers it was going to kick off?what i rember of that gig and we had fun in the pit ect :)happy days

[Stoney]

Aye, running battles up the main drag outside the venue, it spilled into a shitty Wild west type pub at one point. I'd bailed to get a drink with a couple of others and it spilled into the pub we were in! Typical! =)  Couple of riot vans outside at one point, about 6 ish I think, it all settled down after that. Similar grief in Madchester end of the tour aswell I recall........