If the new album leaks onto The Net... will you listen?

[Master Ray]

So, once again, something gets out on FB before going onto the NMA website... apparently a big announcement on Monday...

 

[Guy]

It looks like I shall be working abroad during September so there should be a nice pre-ordered present waiting for me when I get back. I somehow doubt I'll get to hear any of it before then. First listen on headphones extremely loud I'd imagine. Like the last one I've heard 3 tracks live already so I'm pretty damn excited.

[Shush]

So, once again, something gets out on FB before going onto the NMA website... apparently a big announcement on Monday...

 

Just accept it mate even the powers that be have abandoned the fans forum... If you want the latest, you ave 2 look on facebook,,, at least with the link through the main NMA site, you don't have to be a member with a sign in to read the latest news 

RIP the forum,, long live NMA..

[Toronto Popular Front]

if this is the case with Facebook, then why don't they just dump the website & forum and only use facebook? if not then all info should be shown on all at the same time. you could argue that it is low down Thatcherite Technological Elitism.
still wouldn't make me use facebook though!

[Viv Savage]

It is true that Facebook is all pervasive these days and is very useful for drip drip dripping stories. Here we like to run a more refined ship and only actually post the announcements themselves and not the run up to them. Less clutter around the place 

It seems to me that there is a fear of missing out on announcements. Don't worry on that front, the Forum has not been abandoned at all, and all announcements will be made on this website as soon as we get them, though that might well be on the homepage and not necessarily on the Forum. Sometimes, if you go straight to the Forum instead of going through the homepage, you might miss the announcement as has happened recently. I will endeavour to stick a post up on here with the link to the homepage when we have something to announce.

In the meantime, there is an announcement coming on Monday so you might want to keep half an eye open on the homepage 

Viv Savage

[Shush]

Sorry for moaning Viv. I think you are right about going straight to the forum for lots of users, instead of getting on it via the main site. I myself ,and I imagine many others have the forum on my favourites bar for convenience, and do not check the main site often enough.

Me and Master Ray like a good moan, but I have not lost sight of the fact that we get to use this forum for free, and  grateful for it, and the work you do on it Sir 

Also, I have recently come to realise, that even as a none face booker, and intend to stay that way, you can still click the facebook link on the main site, it brings the sign in / sign up box, but you can still scroll down and see the latest content.

[Master Ray]

Agreed with Shush... Viv, not a single scrap of disrespect was intended, hope you didn't take offence.  The NMA website has usually run better than clockwork.  I was just saying that it seems a bit odd that people who heard one NMA song, 'liked' them on FB, seem to be getting new info quicker than the hardcore following who've been in moshpits for a couple of decades... surely, the information comes from the same source?

No matter.  Shush was right, me and him do love a good moan 

Don't get me started about why NMA never play 'Modern Times'...

All the best, Viv.

[Stoney]

I'll be completely honest, I'm bustin' to hear what's been done with the N.M.A. template this time around.....
I'm currently savouring Navigatin' as type, and wonder if the new cd is going to bare any resemblance to JS's "desert albumn" to go with the "water album" he made 20013.......
This thread reminded me of gettin' a moody copy of IMPURITY on cassette in the summer of 1990. There was a bootlegger outside Reading festival who was "relieved" of his whares by a friend.  Said whares then posted up and down this sceptered isle! As you do! =) As is known, Impurity has a special place for me, and that moody copy (I still have it!), is part of it I suppose....... The whole of mid 1990 onwards has a huge importance for me.......
I think, most likely, I'd liste to Between Dog and Wolf, hell, I know I would........ But then, I have a pretty sizeable collection of releases and merch' and it's guatenteed I'll buy the new cd no matter what....... I think it's fair to say, every one on here will buy the official release, whether they get a "moody" early listen or not.......
Just to be sure tho', I'm NEVER, EVER, bootlegged a single thing I was priviledged to hear or see early. That always seemed out of the question......... Because it is. As a writer of songs, and some one who sees his own stuff downloaded on Amazon and other sites via labels who NEVER pay me a red cent, it's something I can't be involved in. I've only downloaded a few things from here, and one long deleted lp by a now defunct label of Venice California hardcore bands. Period........

[Shush]

Absolutely !!

Bootleg advance hearings or not, will always pay for a legit copy of the official release. It has to be done. A band like NMA works on a shoestring budget. We owe it to the writers and performers to pay for what we hear and enjoy. If someone down loaded, or brought a cheep fake copy, its no different to sneaking through a side door at a gig. If you love a band, releases are worth every penny. Roll on the new album. A few  pounds is a small price to pay to keep OUR band going.

Now I am watching Braveheart with Gibson,, trying to come to terms with how evil I am being an Englishman

[Master Ray]

Absolutely !!

Bootleg advance hearings or not, will always pay for a legit copy of the official release. It has to be done. A band like NMA works on a shoestring budget. We owe it to the writers and performers to pay for what we hear and enjoy. If someone down loaded, or brought a cheep fake copy, its no different to sneaking through a side door at a gig. If you love a band, releases are worth every penny. Roll on the new album.

Now I am watching Braveheart with Gibson,, trying to come to terms with how evil I am being an Englishman

Don't worry too much about Braveheart, Shush, that film is about as historically-accurate as HIGHLANDER...

Anyway, off topic slightly...

[Shush]

History is a set of recorded events. Available for use and abuse. Can be twisted and added to validate a perspective, or create a new one. Mans identity is bases on his-story. so easily used be the powers that be to shape his possible future. No one understood this better than adolf H

Fight in the future to validate the ghosts of the past.

[Master Ray]

Just re-read my last post and didn't notice your 'rolling-eyes' icon, Shush...

Good point.  Though, again, we're going off-topic...

 

And to get back on it, I'd love to understand the general hatred of FB on this forum.  I can't say I'm a huge fan, but I find it's a useful tool, no more no less.  I was one of the people who said 'Ill never do FB' but once I did, I found it a handy way of keeping in touch with scattered friends... in fact, it's the only way I'd have reconnected with old friends whose details I'd long since lost.  Some cracking nights out have resulted because of that, not to mention the joy of reigniting old friendships.  So, yeah, FB has improved my life.

(awaits brickbats and disdain...)

Now, I'm sure I'm going to be bombarded with retorts to this, often relating to privacy issues, and I'm sure I could throw a few back about various aspects of modern life that are so pursuasive in this day and age... I just feel we're living in a tightly-wrapped spiders web where anything and everything we do is recorded SOMEWHERE... there no way around it, unless you go and live in a tent in Northumbria or something.  We live in a world thats kinda like 1984, although less blatent.

Which brings me back to my original point... FB ain't the biggest evil going.  It's just a communication tool.  Don't give away too much personal info, don't accept friends requests from pople you don't know and treat it like the silly little toy it is.

OK... bring on the dispariging posts.  Please be nice. 

[Shush]

In fact, absolutely nothing against facebook. The fact that you and many millions of others use face book, and get something out of it does not bother me at all, why would it. Its just that I have chosen not to join as I do not think it is for me. Its about privacy to me, I don't want to give out my personal details or have people tracking my activities. I have seen it, and seen people posting everything about themselves, where and when they go on holiday, whatever. If someone likes doing that, fine, but its not for me. My original post of forum V facebook I started as I said at the time, I heard that many had abandoned the forum in favour of facebook, which I thought was a bit sad as facebook is for everything under the sun, but the forum is just for NMA and similar.

No doubt there are dedicated users of facebook who have dislike for specialist forums like this!!

[Stoney]

It's an interesting point about the all pervasive Facebook........
I've not logged here as much as I used to for a couple of reasons....... But I use fb for my own bands exploits/contacts/buggering about etc etc........ Since Myspace was ruined by adverts and slow response FB has come into it's own.
Privacy I could care less for, I make my business as private as it needs to be, work and play are kept seperate. Lets be honest, you can make it as private as you want. Conversations can be public or private, same for pics. I'm the same person online as off. Secrecy has it's place, and I can be very descreet if required. But by n large I'm a gobshite, so enjoy fb's surfin around with little conversations feel.
It's like bein at a big gig or festival, you have your mates, but when you go to the bar or lavs you have all these little convos along the way. FB's pretty much the electronic version of those I think.
I keep in touch with litteraly hundreds of folks on every continent using it, and it costs nothing. Very useful to me. I've booked gigs, sorted releases, artwork, advertised shows, tours even via it....... Aswell as meet ups and NMA gatherings...... It's just another weapon in the arsenal pretty much. The whole Family contingient is MUCH MORE cohesive unit in part because of it. Just my two peneth on the off topic topic. 

[Shush]

Despite the facebook V forum thing, you don"t need to be a member to access the front page and get to the order of the new album links 

https://www.facebook.com/NewModelArmyOfficial