Season’s Greetings to everyone and a big thank you for all your support this year - whether you’ve been traveling to shows, watching from afar or simply listening to the music.
2022 has been when we caught up with the much delayed 40th Anniversary programme, lots of club shows, lots of Festivals and lots of retrospective, culminating in last weekend’s epic Köln Palladium concerts. The excellent WDR Rockpalast recordings of these will remain available to watch at least until the end of January here:
https://www1.wdr.de/suche/index.jsp?q=new+model+army
We don’t expect to be playing live again very much before Summer 2023, other than three already announced shows in Spring (Kendal, Whitby and Wroclaw). Instead, we will finally be able to concentrate on making the next album. Many songs have already been written for this and now we need time to work on arrangements, to play them in, to explore new sounds and to choose producers/mixers to help us and we expect this process to take a while.
Meanwhile the recordings and video of the Berlin Weekend in July (the Tempodrom Orchestra show and the SO36) are still being mixed, compiled and edited into a comprehensive package that will finally be available in mid 2023.
We wish you all the best, stay safe, stay warm and keep faith.
Justin, Michael, Dean and Ceri