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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
On 23rd October 1980 New Model Army played their first gig; it has been a wonderful, long, creative and eventful forty-year journey!
We had planned a lot of things to mark our 40th birthday, most of which have necessarily been postponed into next year, but by way of celebration we will be doing a one-off concert on the 24th October 8pm (GMT) this year, which will be performed live and be broadcast online simultaneously around the world – a shared experience for everyone who has ever loved the band.
The concert will be a high-quality, pay-to-view, two-hour (plus) event filmed with multi-cameras, graphics and artwork - with the band playing a wide range of material spanning the 40 years. We will be selling tickets at £10 for which you will be sent an exclusive code to access the broadcast in the hours before the show. There will also be the opportunity to buy an ‘enhanced ticket’ which will include an exclusive Joolz-designed T-shirt to mark the occasion – these will be available in different sizes, up to four shirts per ticket – as we know (and hope) that people will watch in family groups.
Tickets are available HERE
We hope you will join us.
We are happy to announce the rescheduled shows for Greece and Bulgaria. All tickets from the original shows are still valid.
16 April 2021 – Athens Gagarin 205
Tickets: HERE
17 April 2021 – Thessaloniki Principal Club
Tickets: HERE
18 April 2021 – Sofia Mixtape 5
Tickets: HERE
For more info's, tickets and links for these and other shows please go to https://www.newmodelarmy.org/tour
LONDON SHOWS ANNOUNCED
We can now announce the London shows for 2021. The rescheduled date is Saturday 4th December 2021 with an extra date on Sunday 5th December 2021. All tickets for the original show (Saturday 28th November 2020) are valid for the rescheduled date of Saturday 4th December 2021.
There is a pre-sale for exististing Roundhouse ticket-holders from Thursday 11th June and the general sale begins 10.00 Friday 12th June.
General sales for the Nottingham Rock City extra show on 26th November 2021 are onsale from 10.00 Wednesday 17th June.
Dates:
26/11/2021 Nottingham Rock City (Extra Date)
27/11/2021 Nottingham Rock City (Rescheduled)
04/12/2021 London Roundhouse (Rescheduled)
05/12/2021 London Roundhouse (Extra Date)
Given the still uncertain situation regarding Covid-19 and the rules for public gatherings, social distancing, and people’s concern about the safety of themselves and others, we have decided to postpone all our concerts this year. This will probably not come as a great surprise.
We have succeeded in rescheduling all major gigs into 2021 and have added new three-hour shows in Kaiserslautern, Strasbourg, Munich & Karlsruhe.
There will also now be a second night at Nottingham Rock City. For a limited time, current ticket holders will receive an email entitling them to buy tickets for the second night at a reduced rate.
The rescheduled date for the London Roundhouse AND an extra night will be announced next week.
All tickets remain valid for the new dates.
We have not yet confirmed the new dates for the shows in Athens, Thessaloniki, Sofia and Istanbul but these will also take place in 2021. We will also hope to celebrate the 40 years (plus one) in the Americas but we have no plans as yet.
However we ARE planning things for this Autumn, including a major birthday celebration in October. More details soon.
For those people with time on their hands, we offer a unique opportunity to play around with the audio files from the studio recording of “Where I Am” – an appropriate song under the circumstances!
Even if you are not a musician or used to working with audio files, most computers have a basic system for playing around with these things.
We encourage all contributions, a simple remix or a radical one, add what you like, replace what you like, change the arrangement, add effects – anything, any genre etc….
This is not a competition - we will not be ‘judging’ what you create, but please feel free to post up your version on any free streaming network of your choice, share it with us on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram or YouTube (should you wish to also create a visual) and we'll share your creation.
You can download the individual files – guitars, drums, vocals etc - as waveforms or, if you want to work with smaller files, as MP3s . The link is HERE
(Obviously these files are subject to copyright so can’t be used for commercial purposes).
If you don't have any editing software or have never tried this before and want to, we have heard that Ableton, Cubase, Audacity and Bandlab are a few of many apps, which are offering free software during lockdown.
Have fun, people. We’re looking forward to hearing what you make…
In other news we will be making a major announcement concerning the Autumn Tour next week.
There are very uneven signs that the Covid-19 lock-downs across the World are beginning to ease. However, there is no sign that the threat of the virus has gone away or that restrictions on social-behaviour are going to be totally lifted in the coming weeks and months. So we are currently reviewing the situation regarding all our live concerts in 2020. We will make announcements as soon as we have proper information.
However, we’re glad to say that we do have other NMA related projects in the pipeline for later in the year.
We would also like to thank everyone who bought the limited “Only Stupid Bastards Beat Women” T-shirt. As a result of this we have been able to pay £3000 (100% of the profits) to IDAS - the largest charity in Yorkshire supporting anyone experiencing or affected by domestic abuse or sexual violence. This has been a time when they need as much help as possible. Our thanks to Joolz and Ben Stone for putting this together.
Stay well everyone
