New Model Army, the legendary global underground cult band from Bradford, will be playing live at the Tivoli in Buckley on Friday (November 15).
The gig comes a couple of months after the band released their 12th studio album Between Dog and Wolf.
Founder, lead singer and main songwriter Justin Sullivan said: “After a series of purist ‘rock-band-in-a-room’ albums over the last eight years, we felt it was time to do something a bit different and sonically this is the best album we’ve ever made.
“The title comes from a medieval French expression for dusk – when it’s hard to distinguish between dog and wolf, friend or foe.
“That sense of contradiction represents the band very well and there’s also something of this sense of transformation in the album.”
A feature-film documentary on the history of the band has been directed by Royal Television Society Award winning director Matt Reid.
Formed by Justin Sullivan in Bradford in 1980, New Model Army’s beginnings were inspired by Northern soul, punk rock and the incendiary atmosphere of the times.
Since then, they have had a long, creative and eventful journey.
Without a ‘genre’ audience, and never having had a top 20 hit single in any country, New Model Army still have album sales in the millions, have attracted some of the biggest producers on the planet (Glyn Johns, Tom Dowd, Andy Wallace, Bob Clearmountain,) and have built up an almost religious devotion among fans.
Having grasped early on that the internet was going to revolutionise the way music is sold, from the mid-1990s they set out on the now fashionable wholly independent path of controlling all aspects of their output.
As a result, they have been perfectly placed to withstand the changes in the Industry and have outlasted most of their peers.
There are very few bands in NMA’s position of being able to record and release what they like when they like, while maintaining a worldwide following and all without making a single artistic or commercial compromise.
Originally formed as a three piece, the current five piece features Michael Dean on drums, Dean White on keyboards, Marshall Gill on guitar and their latest addition, Ceri Monger on bass – although all members are multi-instrumentalists.
Since marking their 30th anniversary at the end of 2010 with multiple retrospective releases and an ambitious series of two-night stands in cities across four continents, the band have endured a series of misfortunes including the loss of almost all their equipment and archives in a studio fire at the end of 2011, and the theft of much of their remaining equipment from a van a few months later.
The band used the opportunity of the loss to rebuild both the studio and their approach to recording.
For ticket details, call 01244 546 201 or visit www.tivolivenue.com/tickets.htm.
