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New Model Army Video For ‘Where I Am’

New Model Army have shared the video to their single, 'Where I Am’, taken from their latest charting album From Here, which is out now via Ear Music. This time New Model Army decided to use a sequence of photographer John Sevigny’s photos to create an intense and moving video full of small stories.

Justin Sullivan, founder of the band, singer and principal songwriter commented: “John Sevigny is an old friend who has spent 20 years taking extraordinary portrait photographs, mostly in Central America. His pictures are incredibly alive and his subjects display an embrace of life combined with a certain attitude. They work perfectly with everything we wanted to say in the song.”

Justin states, "We're really looking forward to playing the songs live for the first time, knowing that by Christmas, they will have developed a life of their own. And with everything that's happening in the World these days, gigs seem generally more charged as if people need these kinds of gatherings more than ever." From Here was recorded earlier this year on the tiny Norwegian island of Giske at the beautiful Ocean Sound Recordings studio and reflects the spectacular isolation of that environment yet has profound messages for the world we all live in and the times we are experiencing.

NEW MODEL ARMY – FROM HERE TOUR 2019

 

13 Nov     BRISTOL SWX // UK

14 Nov     LONDON Electric Ballroom // UK

15 Nov     CAMBRIDGE Junction // UK

16 Nov     LEEDS Stylus // UK

17 Nov     CARDIFF Tramshed // UK

19 Nov     CHESTER Live Rooms // UK

20 Nov     NEWCASTLE Boiler Shop // UK

21 Nov     EDINBURGH Liquid Rooms // UK

22 Nov     MANCHESTER o2 Ritz // UK

23 Nov     BIRMINGHAM o2 Institute // UK                                 

12 Dec      BRIGHTON Concorde 2 // UK

21 Dec      NOTTINGHAM Rock City // UK

 

 

Dream Nails Release Corporate Realness

London-based Dream Nails rage against the comical bizarreness of office work in their new single ‘Corporate Realness’, which is their first release on UK indie, Alcopop! Records. Fittingly, the band has excited Rage Against The Machine’s Tom Morello, who will be releasing the song in the USA through his label Firebrand Records. The song pokes fun at corporate life, whilst offering solidarity to everyone suffering existential angst at work, and was launched in real life earlier this week to the fortunate few who nabbed tickets to Dream Nails’ sold out show at The Old Blue Last.

The lyrics first began to form in an eye-rolling email exchange between Janey (vocals) & Anya (guitar and vocals) while they were plugging away at their day-jobs. Says Janey “This is a song about soul-crushing office work and the bizarrely self-important terms of phrase that only exist at desk jobs. So many of us are living a bleak late-capitalist performance day-in, day-out and this is a song to name it and rage about it! Three people have told us that seeing us play this song live gave them the guts to quit their jobs.”

Lucy (drums) adds “Our culture fetishizes overwork, we’re encouraged to pride our participation in unpaid overtime and side hustles (sponsored by Pret sandwiches and bad coffee) as proof of our value to society; no wonder we’re all so burnt out and anxious! Corporate Realness is a punk antidote to this and a reminder that your identity is not the same as your productive labour.”

For fans of Bikini Kill, The Julie Ruin, Dream Wife, The Regrettes and The Ramones, Dream Nails are a punk force to be reckoned with. Founded by feminist activists in 2015, this hotly tipped band of witches mix political rage with contagious pop punk joy, winning hearts (and funds for abortion charities) wherever they go.

Dream Nails live:

15/10 - York, The Crescent (supporting She Drew The Gun)

16/10 - Nottingham, Rescue Rooms (supporting She Drew The Gun)

17/10 - London, Electric Ballroom (supporting She Drew The Gun)

 

 

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