Category Archives: New Model Army

It’s that time of year again, New Model Army are on tour. A fantastic night, but bloody hot. By the end of the evening sweat was dripping from the ceiling which wasn’t particularly pleasant.

Island
No Greater Love
Christian Militia
Rumour & Rapture
See You in Hell
Today Is a Good Day
Disappeared
The Attack
States Radio
Autumn
Orange Tree Roads
Rivers
Knife
Purity
Ballad of Bodmin Pill
Whirlwind

Long Goodbye
High
White Coats

No Rest

The support band tonight were 50% of Eureka Machines, a fairly enjoyable way to start the evening. Somewhat later than usual, Justin and Dean took the stage and played through until midnight, way past my usual bedtime.

Setlist

Someone Like Jesus
One Bullet
LS43
North Star
Aimless Desire
Another Imperial Day
La Push
States Radio
Dawn
Stoned, Fired, and Full of Grace
Marry the Sea
Ocean Rising
Sun on Water
Wipe Out
Notice Me
You Weren’t There
Snelsmore Wood

Sky in Your Eyes
Bad Old World
Lights Go Out
Ballad of Bodmin Pill

Another fantastic night watching New Model Army. Even more people there than on Friday and even hotter stood up on the balcony. Same again in 10 years?

Heroes
Snelsmore Wood
No Pain
Another Imperial Day (Acapella)
You Weren’t There
Lovesongs
Space (with Joolz)
Modern Times
Ocean Rising

Island
Christian Militia
Long Goodbye
Falling
One of the Chosen
Carlisle Road
The Hunt
Red Earth
Get Me Out
Autumn
Here Comes the War
High
Whitecoats
51st State
No Rest

Marrakesh
Bad Old World
Believe It
Stupid Questions
I Love the World

A fantastic night at Rock City. The place was packed, and everyone was singing along. We’ve got it all again on Saturday night as well.

Better Than Them
Turn Away
Dawn
Higher Wall
Drummy B
Fate
Bluebeat
Courage
The Attack

Over the Wire
Vengeance
White Light
Drag It Down
Wonderful Way To Go
Today Is a Good Day
Liberal Education
Flying Through the Smoke
No Sense
Vagabonds (*)
Knife
Mambo Queen of the Sandstone City
Orange Tree Roads
Purity (*)
Green and Grey (*)

Brother
Wired
225

Poison Street (*)
Betcha (*)

(*) – with Ed Alleyne-Johnson

A new venue for me tonight, apparently it used to be a prison. It’s certainly smaller than the venues I usually see New Model Army at only 400 or so capacity, therefore it was a little more intimate than usual, but just as sweaty as always.

Setlist:
States Radio
Get Me Out
The Charge
White Light
Mambo Queen of the Sandstone City
Peace is Only
Today is a Good Day
Disappeared
High
One of the Chosen
Autumn
White Coats
Into the Wind
Vagabonds
Wired
Wonderful Way to Go

Stupid Questions
Island
No Rest

Back to the venue where I first saw New Model Army five years ago. A superb night as always, the new songs sound superb live, and it was nice to hear plenty of tracks from Thunder and Consolation 20 years after it’s release.

Setlist:
States Radio
Get Me Out
The Charge
Bad Harvest
Mambo Queen of the Sandstone City
Peace is Only
Today is a Good Day
Disappeared
High
One of the Chosen
Autumn
White Coats
Lurhstaap
Vagabonds
Wired
Wonderful Way to Go

Arm Yourselves and Run
Poison Street
225

Tonight was a benefit gig for the family of the late Tommy Tee. The doors opened an hour or so late forcing us to drink beer in the pub beforehand. Once we’d finally been let in the running list was as follows:

Notoriouz
Bishop Bray (Stephen Burden)
Rev Hammer
The Almighty
Joolz
Ed Alleyne-Johnson
New Model Army

New Model Army were down to a four-piece band for most of the night due to Marshall Gill having his left wrist in plaster, however Dean White took on rhythm guitar duties, and Ed Alleyne-Johnson, Dave Blomberg, and Ricky Warwick filled in at times throughout the night. The setlist was as follows:

Vagabonds
Stranger
White Coats
Fate
Today is a Good Day
High
Get Me Out
Inheritance
Snelsmore Wood
Love Songs
Wired
Island
Purity
Poison Street
Green & Grey

51st State
225

I Love the World

We arrived at 7 to find the sound-check in mid-flow, so were banished to the garden with our drinks for a while. I’d not been in The Thunderbolt for a good 15 years or more, and it’s a fairly cramped venue. Annoyingly I kept finding myself stuck behind taller people, which is something of a rarity for me.

Joolz entertained us for 30 minutes or so with a few poems and endless banter, occasionally accompanied by Justin Sullivan on keyboard or guitar. Then after a short break Justin arrived on stage, joined after the first song by Dean. As always it was a superb set, only slightly spoiled by a few drunk twats in front of us who couldn’t keep quiet.

Changing of the Light
One Bullet
Heroes
Another Imperial Day (acapella)
La Push
Turn Away
Dawn
Tales of the Road
Ocean Rising
No Pain
Stranger
You Weren’t There
Snelsmore Wood

Someone Like Jesus
Stoned, Fired, and Full of Grace
Ballad of Bodmin Pill

Billed as “An intimate night with Justin Sullivan” it couldn’t have been more intimate. We were sat at a table about 4 feet away from Justin in a venue which held about 120 people or so.

Better than Them
Changing of the Light
One Bullet
Heroes
Love Songs
Turn Away
Dawn
Tales of the Road
Ocean Rising
No Pain
Stranger
You Weren’t There
Snelsmore Wood

Aimless Desire
Lights Go Out
Ghost of your Father
Stoned, Fired, and Full of Grace

Definately the best gig of the year, and certainly a contender for the best ever.

A few photos.