Why Are NMA So Out Of The Public Eye?

[dilla]

One of my favourite gigs was NMA in Swansea to maybe 100 people(or was it 12)

Was that on the High tour when the security got a bit antsy about the pyramids and Justin allayed their fears by saying "Don't worry about them.  They've all attended a special training camp, west of Llanelli"?

If so, that was one of my favourites too.

Hi Jack,seems to ring a bell.Was in a venue called Sin City.

[Amandistan]

Actually, I am American and dislike the culture and lifestyle. This culture is so obsessed with fashion,reality television, sports,crap pop music and trivial crap. For this reason I do not own a television or turn on a radio. It just feels meaningless.
  The lifestyle is all about how hard you can work, how much money you can make, how much better  you can do than everyone else. Fire arms are easy to obtain and there is a monthly gun massacre somewhere in the country. 3/4 of the nation have never owned a passport and get the false idea that U.S.A. is number one drilled into their heads since birth. Anyone under 30 has been set up for failure and they have no chance for retirment since the baby boomers have already spent all of that money on themselves.
Just turning on an American television can kill a few brain cells. " Toddlers and Tiaras" and "The Kardashians" and "Miley Cyrus" and "24 kids and counting"   Please delete my knowledge of this from my brain

Yeah, pretty much the best culture ever!

[justanotheronethen]

B) I post questioning posts about NMA, not cynical. Are NMA songs too long? Why don't NMA do more TV? These are valid questions that can be discussed by fans of the band. Don't you like to examine your favorite band? My favorite band is The Beatles. I belong to a super hardcore Beatle site and we constantly disect the band. You think questions there about Yoko are greeted with "She was great" responses? Real fans of a band want to discuss everything about the band -- the good and bad.

New Model Army's music accompanies me on my journey through life, I don't have any desire to analyse that relationship any further. I spend too much energy dissecting the stuff that isn't working to have a need to understand the stuff that is. As for being a 'real fan' - "Give me some place that I can go, Where I don't have to justify myself"

[Anna Woman von NRW]

B) I post questioning posts about NMA, not cynical. Are NMA songs too long? Why don't NMA do more TV? These are valid questions that can be discussed by fans of the band. Don't you like to examine your favorite band? My favorite band is The Beatles. I belong to a super hardcore Beatle site and we constantly disect the band. You think questions there about Yoko are greeted with "She was great" responses? Real fans of a band want to discuss everything about the band -- the good and bad.

You may think that but what you seem incapable of understanding is that it's not what you say but the fact that you are a disdainful, arrogant, aggressive insulting individual who is incapable of treating anyone else with the slightest courtesy or the most basic manners. Therefore the fact that you may raise good points of interest or topics for discussion becomes irrelevant because you just come across as a particularly unpleasant penis.

[Tariq]

"I post questioning posts about NMA, not cynical. Are NMA songs too long? Why don't NMA do more TV?"

No. As Anna says, your posts do not pose a question - they state as fact. You did not "ask" if NMA songs were too long - your post was titled "Let's Face It, NMA Songs Are Too Long". And you did not suggest that NMA did more TV - you insinuated they were incompetent not to do so and expressed disbelief that your idea was not acted upon. Once again, before you bang that drum again - I am NOT saying NMA should never be critiqued on this board, just questioning your approach. The Larry Sanders Show is in my opinion one of the greatest gifts American culture has given the world. If you haven't already, I suggest you watch the episode called "Hank's Night In The Sun". You might learn something about how people react to hubris as opposed to humility (as well as how your beloved talk shows are actually run). I'd sworn I would not get dragged into this, as it plays right into your hands, but there you go.

[Space]

Actually, I am American and dislike the culture and lifestyle.

  The lifestyle is all about how hard you can work, how much money you can make, how much better  you can do than everyone else.

So true. And someone captured it perfectly in song:

"The bitterness of failure and the dirt in success, this is the choice.
Every winner means a loser in the Western Dream."

Justin nailed it. "Western Dream" is Justin's best work. An incredible piece of writing.

[Simon73]

because they are too good, too genuine, that is why they keep doing what they do and doing it so well.
bands which are much more famous who sell millions like the Cure I mean they did amazing stuff in the 80s then sime incredible shit. ok that became pop music all about love etc most of the songs are about relationships etc but musically speaking it s pop. it became pop. NMA always remained NMA even changing style.................

[jackroadkill]

One of my favourite gigs was NMA in Swansea to maybe 100 people(or was it 12)

Was that on the High tour when the security got a bit antsy about the pyramids and Justin allayed their fears by saying "Don't worry about them.  They've all attended a special training camp, west of Llanelli"?

If so, that was one of my favourites too.

Hi Jack,seems to ring a bell.Was in a venue called Sin City.

I was at that one; think it was 2008.  Sticky floors and no air conditioning....  Just how it should be.

[Master Ray]

One of my favourite gigs was NMA in Swansea to maybe 100 people(or was it 12)

Was that on the High tour when the security got a bit antsy about the pyramids and Justin allayed their fears by saying "Don't worry about them.  They've all attended a special training camp, west of Llanelli"?

If so, that was one of my favourites too.

Hi Jack,seems to ring a bell.Was in a venue called Sin City.

I was at that one; think it was 2008.  Sticky floors and no air conditioning....  Just how it should be.

You're right about that one!  Too many venues nowadays, like Manchester Acedemy, are all airconditioned!  I don't want a cool, calm breeze washing over me, I want the smell of sweat and excitement and passion... wow, that went a bit 'Fifty Shades Of Grey', didn't it?     I just remember NMA at Preston, that tiny venue and how utterly drenched in sweat I was by the end of it...

Sticky floors... hmmm, you don't know 'sticky floors' unless you've been to Nottingham Rock City... I swear, they spray the floors with glue at that wonderful venue... 

[Dipple]

Therefore the fact that you may raise good points of interest or topics for discussion becomes irrelevant because you just come across as a particularly unpleasant penis./quote]

End of chat.

[jackroadkill]

Sticky floors... hmmm, you don't know 'sticky floors' unless you've been to Nottingham Rock City... I swear, they spray the floors with glue at that wonderful venue... 

Or what about the Tiv in Buckley?  Floors so sticky it's like laminated Mandrax...

[Amandistan]

One of my favourite gigs was NMA in Swansea to maybe 100 people(or was it 12)

Was that on the High tour when the security got a bit antsy about the pyramids and Justin allayed their fears by saying "Don't worry about them.  They've all attended a special training camp, west of Llanelli"?

If so, that was one of my favourites too.

Hi Jack,seems to ring a bell.Was in a venue called Sin City.

I was at that one; think it was 2008.  Sticky floors and no air conditioning....  Just how it should be.

You're right about that one!  Too many venues nowadays, like Manchester Acedemy, are all airconditioned!  I don't want a cool, calm breeze washing over me, I want the smell of sweat and excitement and passion... wow, that went a bit 'Fifty Shades Of Grey', didn't it?     I just remember NMA at Preston, that tiny venue and how utterly drenched in sweat I was by the end of it...

Sticky floors... hmmm, you don't know 'sticky floors' unless you've been to Nottingham Rock City... I swear, they spray the floors with glue at that wonderful venue... 

I like when it is air conditioned. It keeps people from sweating to the point of dehydration.
However I am from a different generation and don't know how it was in days of old. I imagine it was a bit like greek gigs. It's hot and a lot of people are smoking.

[jackroadkill]

I like when it is air conditioned. It keeps people from sweating to the point of dehydration.
However I am from a different generation and don't know how it was in days of old. I imagine it was a bit like greek gigs. It's hot and a lot of people are smoking.

At the risk of sounding really ancient, when I first started going to gigs there were no noise limits (Sepultura, Wolverhampton Civic 15th Dec 1996.... ears rang for days afterwards) and if there were any capacity limits nobody gave them much attention and cigarette burns on the shoulders were commonplace.  The floor would be sticky, condensation would drip from the ceilings and you were still allowed to stage-dive.  Them were the days, I tell 'ee!

[Bunny]

To be fair, thats most of Wolverhampton in 2015..... COYB.. There's probably only me on here that'll get that too.. Ah my little world

[Pol]

I can remember at the barrowlands behind the crush barriers at the front of the stage, the bouncers would have barrels filled with water and they would throw cups of water over the crowd when things got too hot and sweaty