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It will come as no surprise to everyone that our Greece/Bulgaria shows that were rescheduled for April have now been rescheduled again, this time into Spring next year.
FRI 8TH April 2022, ATHENS
SAT 9TH April 2022, THESSALONIKI
SUN 10TH April 2022, SOFIA
At the moment, we have no date for the many-times-postponed Istanbul show.
When it comes to our schedule from this summer onwards, at the moment of course we are unable to confirm what will and what will not happen. If, as seems likely, we are not able to play everything as we had planned, we will make alternative arrangements. Stay tuned…
A small section of our Global Gathering event from last October will be re-streamed as part of Vive Le Rock’s online ‘Rockdown’ event on 21st February with proceeds going to venue and crew funds. Meanwhile, as promised, we are planning a limited-edition DVD release of the whole of our stream in a few weeks’ time, with further NMA catalogue releases being planned for later in the year.
Finally, both Justin’s new solo album ‘Surrounded’ and the re-release of ‘Navigating by the Stars’ are scheduled for release in late March/early April and may be accompanied by a handful of socially distanced acoustic shows. We are looking into what is possible…
More news soon. Stay well everyone.
We have had a few issues with our Shop over the last 3-4 months. We’re working hard to fix these problems which have been exacerbated by Covid hitting our Shop people as well as postal services across the World. To these problems we now unfortunately have to negotiate the totally stupid, nonsensical and super-complicated Brexit issues. From today, customers outside the UK will only be able to choose a tracked shipping service which, while a bit more expensive, should at least mean that we can locate missing items.
We will have news of new releases soon and, like everyone else, we are counting the days until live gigs are happening again...
Stay well everybody…
On another note - here are links to a couple of interesting albums of NMA songs in Swedish recorded by Oskar Wigren. These are free for everybody to download and listen to. Enjoy!
https://oskarwigren.bandcamp.com/album/nya-modellarm-n-new-model-army-p-svenska-2016
https://oskarwigren.bandcamp.com/album/f-rk-rlek-f-r-hoppl-sa-f-rs-k-2020
Over the last few weeks, unbeknownst to us, a number of our fans have been raising money to help the band and our crew, through these troubled times of no live work (and to celebrate 40 years of our music). Today, completely unexpectedly, a very large amount of money has been passed on to us and we can only say a very big thank you, and salute the extraordinary generosity of everyone who gave. We will do our best to use this money in as appropriate way as possible, in particular to help our crew people past and present.
If anyone wants to make a further donation, there are a number of support groups for struggling road-crew and small venues in danger of collapse and we would point people in these directions.
https://www.psa.org.uk/pages/about-welfare-and-benevolent-fund
https://www.backuptech.uk/
https://saveourvenues.co.uk/#/
Thank you
We have been amazed at the response to our global live-stream concert on Saturday. We hoped that in making something genuinely live, visually unrehearsed and obviously a bit rough around the edges, we would get across some of the energy and spirit of a real gig. It was genuinely exciting and nerve-racking to make and this seems to have connected with everyone in these unreal and bleak times. There were 6200 live links and so we estimate a worldwide viewing audience of anything from 10-25,000.
The background to the whole event was also captured by WDR for a documentary film to be screened in December.
The stream has now moved to https://www.themill.tv/ where it will be available to watch in a pay-to-view format for a while.
The 40th Anniversary Global Stream is available to watch in a pay-to-view format at https://www.themill.tv/ for the next few weeks.
However, for those people who bought a ticket, there is a one-off opportunity to watch it again for free - for a limited 24-hour period beginning at midnight (UK time) tonight. You will be sent a link this evening.
For everyone still waiting for 40th Anniversary Global Gathering shirts, we ask for your patience. Our printers are still trying to keep up with demand - while our Shop service has been limited by illness and quarantine.
And thank you to everyone for their amazing response to Saturday.
Dear everyone.
The response to last night has been overwhelmingly positive.
We always knew that doing it totally live would be a risk; that, at times, the band would 'make mistakes', the cameras and video feeds might be look bit haphazard, the sound mix wouldn't be perfect studio quality. But we thought that it was the right, and for us, the only way to approach it, because we believed that what people really want and need at the moment is something with the spirit that only a truly live event can create.
However, we are aware that some people had connection issues, drop-outs, buffering problems. Far worse than that, a few people who bought tickets, never received their link. Despite having a team of people answering emails and coping with a surge in last-minute sales, we were never able to catch up with the amount of email traffic coming in yesterday. For this, we can only apologise.
The stream will now move to a different pay-to-view platform at https://www.themill.tv/, which should be available from tonight. However, EVERYONE that bought a ticket for last night will receive a code to watch this for FREE for a single one-off 24 hour period on Wednesday - we only ask that people don't share the code and don't leave it running if they're not actually watching it.
Meanwhile if you want more live NMA, on this anniversary weekend, WDR's Rockpalast, who are one of the best live-music recording outfits in the World, are broadcasting their four NMA concerts (1990,1996, 2001 and 2006) in their chronological entirety this afternoon into tonight.
https://www1.wdr.de/fernsehen/rockpalast/events/new-model-army--re-live-100.html
Tickets (and T-shirts) are selling very well for our Global Gathering on 24th October. We will be giving more details of this broadcast very soon. Meanwhile we have had a separate project in the pipeline...
CARNIVAL – REDUX
We have always felt that Carnival was the one album where the recording, mixing and mastering didn’t bring the end result close to what we had originally intended in the writing. So when our label, Edel, declared their interest in licensing and reissuing the album (with others to follow), we discovered four associated tracks (B-sides and unreleased songs) to add to it and saw an opportunity to ‘reimagine’ the album as a whole.
We are happy to announce that New Model Army will be appearing at next years Wacken Festival, Germany on 31st July 2021.
Website: https://www.wacken.com/en
For more information about this and other shows please see the NMA Tour page: HERE
