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September 5, 2007
80s Band in a Post-9/11 America!
by GUYMON ADAMS
The widely popular late 80s post-punk band New Model Army was scheduled for a U.S. tour beginning this September. Based out of Europe, New Model Army has written dozens of underground hits since the 1980s, including their revolutionary anthems "I Love the World" and "51st State of America" and have been consistently hard working musicians, releasing their latest full length CD "High" earlier this year. As a staple of the independent post-punk scene, they have toured the States multiple times throughout their extensive career.
However, in 2007 post-9/11 America, their passports have now been denied!
The official reason for this was due to their name, the word "Army"
apparently raising some manufactured red flag. The State Department
literally stated "they may incite terrorism."
While it is well known that New Model Army has always had socio-politically
driven lyrics and themes, they have never once incited violence towards
anyone. Indeed, while quite intellectually provoking, their lyrics might be
considered tame by many people's standards when compared to any number of
wildly popular, multi-million dollar, platinum selling artists actually
residing in the U.S.
So the question to ask is, what kind of precedent does this set? Freedom of
speech? Well, apparently even artists with a long, successful history, and
millions of fans in the U.S. are not permitted to exercise such rights. Was
this merely a case of an overzealous fledgeling graduate from some "Criminal
Justice" course at ITT? Or is this a fresh example of the State Department
specifically discriminating against a musical group based outside of the
U.S. for their political statements, and their potential influence thereof?
And perhaps even more so, what does this say about our treatment of
legitimate working foreigners when compared to our otherwise wide open
Southern borders?
John Wickham of Elysium Night Club in Austin, TX, among many other club
owners across the country, have now begun writing letters of reference to
the U.S. State Department on behalf of New Model Army, demanding that they
be allowed to travel to the U.S. and perform as any other artist would. In
the meantime, all U.S. tour dates have been cancelled, and are expected to
be rescheduled for no later than the spring of 2008.... Approval pending.
The official statement from New Model Army's website:
"We have regrettably been forced to cancel the North American tour that was
due to start this week. The US Citizenship and Immigration Service have
denied the visas that the band require to travel to the USA and so until
this matter is resolved all shows are on hold.
The band and management are extremely disappointed by this result as the
tour was destined to be one of the greats. The new album is out, there is
media attention in every city and the expectations are (were) high from the
thousands of fans who had bought advance tickets.
The dates will be re-booked once the Immigration situation is resolved. In
the meantime, ticket refunds are available from the point of purchase."
To find out more about New Model Army, and to hear samples of their music,
please visit the following web sites:
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Zanf
This really goes to show how fucking stoopid the immigration [and the whole administration] really is. I bet they have no fucking clue who the New Model Army originally were or who Oliver Cromwell was.
Ignorants fuckwitted cunts.
[sorry im not in a good mood tonight]
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Roshi
They should change it to Arny
But then Ahnold might get on their tail
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celibacyclub
at least they may get some publicity?
sometimes i wish i could ban myself from the us.
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korgborglar
same thing happened to mia when she wanted to come to US to record an album.... fukkin lame
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Zanf
i think they banned mia because she's complete shite [she was awful doing support @ the prince gig]
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quip
me and my ex had one of the worst bust ups over mia at a festival. she said she thought it was good. i said it was shite. next thing we are outside fighting. i was so drunk.
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ignatius
fucking homeland security.
i saw a piece on PBS' NOW and they banned a guy from vancouver because he wrote a paper about LSD in the 60's. the immigration agent googled him when he was at the border and the paper came up. they detained him for a few hours and said he couldn't come into the USA because he was an admitted drug user!!!! WTF.
the guy is a sought after psychologist who's son lives in seattle. what psychologist didn't drop acid in the 60's????
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flies
yea, seriuosly, it wasn't even illegal then. You can't punish people for things that weren't illegal when they were doing them.
this whole thing is just another example of the fascism that the Bush administration has perpetuated and perpetrated. I hate to identify these changes with that man since he's so clearly a bumbling asshat, it's the people around him that have been actually fucking things up, and plus the changes they've been enacting began their motion long before he took office, but yea, i can't wait for January 20, 2009.
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hteah
saw these guys in a bar in frankfurt in 89...glam goth right? oh well...bummer
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deltasleep
"Was
this merely a case of an overzealous fledgeling graduate from some "Criminal
Justice" course at ITT?"
lmfao i am thinking of those ads.
09/06/07
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pierlu001
i enjoy every time i can quote Henry Miller
"It is the American vice, the democratic disease which expresses its tyranny by reducing everything unique to the level of the herd." quotation
"I see America spreading disaster. I see America as a black curse upon the world. I see a long night settling in and that mushroom which has poisoned the world withering at the roots."quotation
even tho
"Perhaps I am still very much of an American. That is to say, naive, optimistic, gullible. In the eyes of a European, what am I but an American to the core, an American who exposes his Americanism like a sore. Like it or not, I am a product of this land of plenty, a believer in superabundance, a believer in miracles.[url=http://www.quotationsbook.com/quote/2239/]quotation[/link]
sorry for the offtopic, but it seems like this kind of things will be more and more normal. After some decades of a small world, the world is becoming big again.
Recent blogs: first blog!
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RogerRoger
And this is the same administration that was going to allow the sale of port management contracts for six major U.S. ports to a business owned by the United Arab Emirates. If NMA's record company had just sent someone posing as a lobbyist from Pfizer, they would have had a merchandising contract and an assault rifle named after them.
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tantan
this is some retarded shit right here.
America fucking rocks, but its authorities are largely corn fed teat suckers who can't tell their asses from their noses
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tantan
PS: nothing wrong with eating corn.
PPS: I love a bit of teat suck from time to time.
PPPS: We all enjoy the occasional nose up our ass, but that's beside the point. Or, behind the point. Or, the point is behind us. Or something.
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astroid
the terrorists have officially won
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