New Model Army

NMA

2019:
18 Aug W-Fest (BE)
24 Aug Putting The Fast In Belfast 3 (NI)
07 Sep Angeliter Open-Air (DE)
14 Sep Visor Festival (ES)

08 Oct Southampton (UK)
09 Oct Paris (FR)
10 Oct Dortmund (DE)
11 Oct Hamburg (DE)
12 Oct Berlin (DE)
13 Oct Poznan (PL)
15 Oct Gdynia (PL)
16 Oct Warsaw (PL)
17 Oct Wrocław (PL)
18 Oct Krakow (PL)
19 Oct Budapest (HU)
20 Oct Vienna (AT)
22 Oct Winterthur (CH)
23 Oct Fribourg (CH)
24 Oct Freiburg (DE)
25 Oct Münich (DE)
26 Oct Stuttgart (DE)
27 Oct Nurnburg (DE)
29 Oct Dresden (DE)
30 Oct Frankfurt (DE)
31 Oct Losheim (DE)

01 Nov Rijkovorsel (BE)
02 Nov Strasbourg (FR)
13 Nov Bristol (UK)
14 Nov London (UK)
15 Nov Cambridge (UK)
16 Nov Leeds (UK)
17 Nov Cardiff (UK)
19 Nov Chester (UK)
20 Nov Newcastle (UK)
21 Nov Edinburgh (UK)
22 Nov Manchester (UK)
23 Nov Birmingham (UK)
30 Nov Istanbul (TR)

12 Dec Brighton (UK)
13 Dec Amsterdam (NL)
14 Dec Köln (DE)
21 Dec Nottingham (UK)

Justin Sullivan Solo
2019:
23 May Hebden Bridge SOLD OUT
24 May Bearded Theory Festival

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End Of Days

Here is the first release from our "From Here" album (released on August 23rd via earMUSIC).
Enjoy.

Listen here: https://newmodelarmy.lnk.to/EndOfDays
Townsend NMA Shop: https://newmodelarmy.tmstor.es/?lf=5d93914c18f90086be808a529ab6b3d9
earMUSIC Shop: https://earmusic.lnk.to/NewModelArmy_FromHerePR

Arena, Vienna - 20th October 2019

The final date on our Autumn tour can now be announced: on 20th October, we will be at the Arena, Vienna. Tickets are available from HERE

More news soon...

For more information and ticket links for this and other shows please see the Tour page HERE

"From Here" Album Release

We are very happy to announce our new album! "From Here" will be released on 23rd August 2019.

“FROM HERE”

We have often heard it said that the album is dead. We don’t believe this is true; because if you study what people actually watch, while much of it is short hits and Youtube clips, they also love long series that create a particular atmosphere and entry into another world in which they can submerge themselves. Since “Between Dog and Wolf”, we have tried to make records that work in the same way.

Only this time we’ve gone a little further. “From Here” was mostly written in just two months and recorded in only nine days. It has a particular sound and a particular atmosphere that we hope draws people in. We decided to work again with Lee Smith and Jamie Lockhart, with whom we have developed a productive relationship over a few years, and they persuaded us to leave a lot of the details of the music to the spontaneity of the moment, and to go to what is probably the most beautiful recording studio in the world, Ocean Sound Recordings on the tiny Norwegian island of Giske, and let the place do its magic.

We all have different lives and different tastes in many things (including music). One thing we have in common is the love of bleak, open, cold, rugged landscapes – water, snow and rock. So this was the perfect place for us to create something collectively - at all times while we were working, we could see through the windows the sky, the sea and the melting snow on the mountains, all in a constant state of change. No environment has had such an effect on the band’s music since we discovered the Sawmill Studios in Cornwall and created Hex, Thunder & Consolation and Impurity there thirty years ago.

So this album has a feel that is different to our other albums, but it still contains all the elements that characterise our curiously unidentifiable music – perhaps even more than ever. And “From Here” was an obvious title. The record belongs to a very special place and also a particular time – what is happening in the world now and where we are as a band and as people.

Justin, Michael, Dean, Marshall and Ceri.

The album “From Here” will be released on 23rd August 2019 and can be pre-ordered in Hardbook Cd, Vinyl and special splatter vinyl, along with tee shirts from: HERE

We are also happy to announce the dates for the first section of the “From Here” tour – tickets will be on sale from 16th May:

We are happy to announce that New Model Army will be playing at this years Wave Gotik Treffen Festival in Leipzig, Germany on 8th June. Tickets are available from HERE

We also have a number of other festival dates coming up over 2019:

27 April Tomorrow's Ghosts Festival, Whitby (UK)
24 May Bearded Theory Festival (UK) ***JS SOLO***
01 June Camden Rocks (UK)
08 June Wave Gotik Treffen (DE)
14 June Nova Rock Festival (AT)
18 August W-Fest (BE)
24 August Putting The Fast In Belfast 3 (NI)
07 September Angeliter Open Air (DE)
14 September Visor Festival (ES)

For more information and ticket links for these and other shows please see the Tour page HERE

NOATV Extra Tracks Email Update

We have sent an email to everyone who bought the 1000 Voices dig-pack from us with instructions for how to download the extra tracks. Some of these emails arrived, some went to spam filters and some, it seems, were filtered out by servers.

If you did not receive this mail, please write us at viv.nma@gmail.com with your original order number and we will send you the instructions directly.

Best Wishes, Shop Team

Nights Of A Thousand Voices CD (+ Bonus DVD) And Book

After a lot of delays, we will at last be releasing the visual and audio commemoration of the amazing Nights of 1000 Voices.

First, there will be a digi-pack featuring a double CD with a twenty-eight song selection. People who buy the digi-pack from us will get free digital access to all the other twenty-one songs not selected for the CDs – but please note that these will only be made available after Christmas. The digi-pack will also feature a one-hour, 12 song DVD, put together by Dean White from many different sources including people’s camera-phone footage, which we hope provides a fitting record of the event.

There will also be a beautiful 100-page book of high quality photographs taken by our long-time friend, Jochen Melchior, which truly capture both the small details and the spirit of the event. Laid out with the photographs will be text of the best memories, stories and feelings that we have been sent by you.

The Digi-pack is priced at £17.99 and is available HERE
The Book is also priced at £17.99 and is available HERE
For a limited time you can order both together for £29.99 HERE
(Please note: all prices include taxes, but not postage and packing)

We hope to be shipping these out on the week beginning 26th November. Both items should also be available at this year’s December shows.

Die Trying

Here is a video for Die Trying taking illustrations from Matt Huynh's fabulous "Winter - The Graphic Novel"

The novel is also available to purchase from the New Model Army Online Shop: HERE
and also on tour at the merchandise table.

Justin Sullivan NOATV Interview

Here is a short interview with Justin about the Night Of A Thousand Voices CD/DVD and the photo book by Jochen Melchior.

Winter – the graphic novel

We are very happy to finally announce the arrival of Winter – The Graphic Novel - which has exceeded our very high expectations.

These limited edition high quality A4 62-page works of art are now available to buy in our Shop HERE It will be available at all the shows on the Winter tour.

We have long been interested in the idea of asking a graphic novelist to interpret the band’s narrative lyrics in a style that fits with the music, in the same way that Joolz’s wonderful iconic cover art always works so well for us.

As we began to look at the work of many artists across the World, we became fixated on Matt Huynh, particularly for his incredible work on ‘The Boat’.
Click HERE
Partly it was the humanist attitude in the drawings that appealed so much – perhaps as a result of his own family story - and partly because his sumi-e style looks and feels as if it is done fast, giving a terrific energy and movement to the art. A lot of graphic novels lean deliberately towards horror and ugliness when dealing with dark subjects. Matt has the ability to combine violence and tragedy with a certain beauty and human empathy – something we have always strived for in our own creations. For us he has taken three songs - Die Trying, Devil and Winter and woven them into a continuous narrative. We’re so glad that he embraced the idea so readily and brilliantly; we think the result is something really strong – we hope like the album itself.

Matt Huynh is an artist based in New York City. His comics and drawings are informed by sumi-e ink painting and shodo calligraphy. His clients include The New York Times, Esquire, Rolling Stone, and GQ. His work appears in the Museum of Modern Art’s collection and his comics have been presented on the Sydney Opera House stage.

In 2016, Huynh was awarded the World Illustration Award in the Editorial Professional category. He was nominated for Australian of the Year, appointed ambassador for New Beginnings Refugee Arts Festival on World Refugee Day, and awarded a special commendation by the United Nations Media Peace Awards for his interactive comic book The Boat. Visit www.matthuynh.com

Matt himself writes:
“The proposition of making comics to accompany New Model Army's new songs is as daunting as it is foolish. The songs are complete and powerful experiences in their own right, but their appeal to contemporary experiences of some of our most vulnerable - refugees and asylum seekers - was irresistibly call to me as the child of refugees from the Vietnam War and as an advocate. To find the contemporary refugee experience in New Model Army's metal and melodies lit the way to my own charge - that we can be powerful with surprise, and we can connect with delight.

It's a rare opportunity to reach beyond the solitary discipline of making comics to collaborate with powerful artists and masters of their own respective discipline. But armed with the band's lyricism and phantom melodies humming behind every panel, I'm given a fresh palette to propel a novel experience of comics along, and hopefully a new perspective on the music of New Model Army too”.

Devil Video

"As Devil is simply our take on an old, old story, we thought we'd borrow a visual accompaniment from one of the many thousands already in existence - F W Murnau's magnificent 1926 movie 'Faust', starring Gösta Ekman as Faust and Emil Jannings as Mephisto. We recommend anyone to watch the full movie and we hope you enjoy the song."
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Drifts Video

We’d like to share with everyone this beautiful animated video for “Drifts” from the new album Winter.

Many thanks to Khad for putting it together and to the animators (Melissa Lafon, Elodie Legros, Yann Moalic and especially Matthieu Deltour) for allowing their work to be used for this.

The original short film "Haoma" can be seen HERE

Winter Video

Here's a visual for the single Winter:

NMA Live - Christmas 2014

There are only a few copies left of the new live album taken from the Christmas shows in 2014. The thirty-one song, three CD & Bonus DVD is available to order now! Priced at £12.99 + VAT (EU only) + P&P.

The Shop link: New Model Army Live Between Wine And Blood December 2014

Here's a couple of videos from the bonus video from the new album both from Köln Palladium 2014: