What is your best New Model Army memory?

[ManxPat]

So far its destroying Joolz' book display with guinness in Northampton once but I'm hoping that will change as of 21 june at Leam Spa. My first ever NMA gig proper. Loved em for a long time now but never seen em live but next month just all fell into place. Can't wait!

[dilla]

Hi ManxPat,
The Leam Spa gig is on the 22nd not 21st.I know you are keen but turning up 24hours before.....lol.
Had to check my ticket just to be sure.
Enjoy

[ManxPat]

it pays to be prepared but yeh there r limits. Thanks :-)

[ManxPat]

Shame about late start and early finish but was still utterly amazing and brilliant. I know it's a cliche but I feel different having seen them. I guess its a confluence of things. From meeting so many lovely people ( cheers for the Newcy brown Frankie! ) to just watching Justin work his magic I feel altered for the better somehow. It was my first ever NMA gig but no way will it be my last! Slaint Vie
 

[jc]

Next time Pat come to the post gig curry to round off the evening a treat.

Cheers

jc

[ManxPat]

Thanks jc would love to, NMA and curry being two of my most favourite things in the world ever! Not sure how I would know which curry house to go to though eh?? .... All the best.

[jc]

Hello Pat, I usually post something on the Book of Faces or here, or you could go to any pre meet and make some friends, the curries are always open to all.

Cheers

jc

[ManxPat]

The Book of Faces..a book changed forever by just adding of one letter

[Talltigger]

Amongst many others, playing five-a-side football with members of the crew, band and following outside an obscure venue somewhere during a 'small town England' tour before a gig.  Much laughter was involved!

[Mawsley]

Pretty sure it was '99, but time seems to blur everything. My wife had been working all hours as her place installed a new network. They were pretty decent about it and said thank you by getting us flights and a nice hotel in Amsterdam. While we were out and about doing touristy stuff, I discovered NMA were at the Melkweg that night.

We used to go off riding motorbikes around Europe every summer and always kicked off with the ferry to The Hook, the Netherlands holds many special memories. Combining two of my favourite things was simply awesome, and the gig remains one of my favourites - up there with Pixies at Reading in '90, Primal Scream's Screamadelica tour at Northampton's Irish, and Neil Young in Finsbury Park '93.

Getting back to the Melkweg this year is going to be special.

[Whirlwind]

Listening to this new band called New Model Army. There really wasn't much written about them here in the USA. Didn't really know a thing about them (pre-internet days, kids). The band only had the "No Rest" album released in America. I loved every second of it. Couldn't wait for a follow up with new material to find out how solid these guys rock. Cool, they release this EP as a follow up:



I buy it, run home, put it on my turntable...every song is acoustic? These guys are hippies!

[Pim]

  It does say 'the Acoustic E.P'   

[Whirlwind]

  It does say 'the Acoustic E.P'   

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You've got to remember, at that time NOBODY was doing acoustic music. This was years before MTV Unplugged. Acoustic guitars were for Crosby Stills and Nash or Joan Baez. Try to find an acoustic guitar on a Clash album. At that time - early '80s - acoustic guitars were still associated with the '60s and folkies and hippies. (Jimmy Page would use one, yes, but that was bombastic pretentious rock.) Acoustic guitar = hippie.

So to get an EP from a hard rocking band of all acoustic songs...man, these guys are really hippies! Long hair, jeans, look like they haven't bathed in three months, and now acoustic guitars? Hippies!

[Ghosttrain]

Nothing wrong with hippies Man............ .........nor acoustic guitars..........

[lotus]

Roy Harper was doing acoustic guitar music, but Al Di Meola (jazz rock), too - and Al wasn`t a hippie at all