[kj] New Moder Army and KJ

[n0153 jr]

It was a very interesting night drinking with one my teenage years heroes...
listened to many a story about albums and songs I love... I've met with a
big number of bands I am a huge fan of due to my stint working for MTV, but
this is one night I won't be forgetting soon!





On Mon, Sep 20, 2010 at 10:46 AM, <countessghoulita at aol.com> wrote:


>  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

>

>

>  -----Original Message-----

> From: Michael Garcia <sandstorm_mg at yahoo.com>

> To: A list about all things Killing Joke (the band!) <gathering at misera.net

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> Cc: A list about all things Killing Joke (the band!) <gathering at misera.net

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> Sent: Sun, Sep 19, 2010 7:19 pm

> 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>

> 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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