This might be a loose translation...
Many here are sworn fan base, many have traveled from afar to this concert. Mid-forties are not underrepresented: "With us, it's like an exclusive club," said the Englishman Chris Miller, who says with a Becks bottle in his hand by his favorite band: "He that is not there, can not understand what the attraction lies."
"51st State" or "Vagabonds"
If a troop so much for a decade is like New Model Army for the Eighties, it must embody the Zeitgeist pretty much: all that time, "Duran Duran" or "Wham!" despised, could be reflected in the critical texts by New Model Army, the political rebellion of the band and in its raw sound. Your hingerotztes "51st State" or "Vagabonds" - all that fluctuated between gruff folk and melancholic punk. New Model Army was somewhere halfway between the Sex Pistols and Reinhard Mey.
At that time they were more for the basement club, now they have arrived at the festival. This shows on the one hand, as the indie music has established itself gradually from back then. But it also shows how idiosyncratic the band is still that has released their 13th album "Between Wine and Blood" last September. Am Maschsee they play especially younger songs, and in between takes Justin Sullivan, the last remaining of the foundation Formation, praised Hanover sunset.
"They have continued to develop," says Bernd Winkeler, which belongs to the fan base for years. The use of the band against racism and exploitation - that was important to him, says the 38-year-old, who has the tape belongs in Osnabrück until the night before....
