[kj] New Moder Army and KJ

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 Very interesting post here--both from nomeanswhat and you, Mike. NMA have always shown great loyalty to their fans and all of them are KJ fans too. They are famous for being really personable people and I am glad you could spend some quality time with them, nomeanswhat , and you, Mike, could actually open for them:). Lucky lads indeed.

As far as the Rubicon phase is concerned, I completely agree with you, Mike, that the music in their first album "What Starts Ends" was amazing and a natural continuum to FOTN, but the singer's voice was really shite. That album came out in 1992, one year after the first album by Asylum, "Suckling the Mutant Mother" had been released. This release was produced by Robert Heaton, long-time NMA drummer who passed away of cancer in 2004. Well, that release made FOTN fans really happy, the opening tack "In Asylum" sounds like FOTN (and I played a prank on friends who did not know the band, telling them I just got a FOTN rarity. They loved the track so much they thought it was Carl McCoy singing and a true Fields of The Nephilim boot, and I let them simmer for a while before revealing it was actually Asylum ;) 

Get it, if you love FOTN and want to pay respect to NMA as well :)

CG


 

 

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From: Michael Garcia <sandstorm_mg at yahoo.com>
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Subject: Re: [kj] New Moder Army and KJ


My old band got to open a show for NMA during their 1991 tour. After the gig we partied all night with them and heard some very cool stories. They were telling us they practiced down the hall from the neph guys after Carl went his own way. They were called Rubicon at the time (great music, shit singer) and they were in awe of the musicianship of the neph guys. They told us how they sat outside their door and just listened to them jamming. He said the stuff they jammed out was some of the moat amazing stuff they've ever heard. 


Those guys in NMA were the most down to earth people we've ever played with. No attitude whatsoever and they gladly shared their drink rider with us until every last drop was gone. Justin remembered me ten years later when they started doing more us shows. Amazing bunch of guys. Anyways, that's my story for the night. Back to my cave

Michael


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On Sep 19, 2010, at 4:21 PM, bongo <humanhybrid666 at gmail.com> wrote:




fuckin cool!  yr a lucky man...   =)



"due to a lack of trained trumpeters, the end of the world has been postponed indefinitely..."



On Mon, Sep 20, 2010 at 7:21 AM, n0153 jr <nomeanswhat at gmail.com> wrote:

This weekend I went to a couple of New Model Army concerts and, yesterday got to meed the guys and go out for a drink with them. As I was wearing a Wardance KJ shirt, obviously the talk gravitated towards them eventually. We rode my car from the venue to this very shitty bar and I played Justin the new KJ album and he was overwhelmed by how good it was and he said at one point: "we were meant to play together a handful of times, but they are very difficult people. I mean, they are all great guys, but their management is fucked up, they book dates and they simply cancel them when it draws near". other than that, he really liked Absolute Dissent.
At one point I commented about album sales and how ridiculously HFTBOH have performed and he was rather impressed and said that his albums sometimes sells just that, 20, 30, luckily, 40 thousand copies too and that after mp3 it really took a nose dive but that he did not care about that, that that's just the way it is now and that's ok, at least more people are getting to know the band.
This feeling towards KJ was shared even by their light guy. All of the guys complimented me on the shirt and added that information about being impossible to play with them because they will always cancel on you. What's startling was the fact that nobody knew that a new KJ album is about to be released tomorrow and when I talked about the new album they thought I was on about Hosannas.
See, we, the fans, are not the only one bothered by KJ's frequent canceling shows!


That said, yesterday was a memorable night for me as a New Model Army fan! :)






cheerio

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