New Model Army US Tour Cancelled
VISAS Denied. North American tour cancelled.
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.
This obviously irritates me quite a bit. From what I understand, last time New Model Army were denied traveling visas, they didn't come to the States for 10 years. Of course, I was living in France at the time, so it did not really affect me.
Idiotic Republicans and stupid Citizenship & Immigration Services ...
Addendum 9/5/07 1:18PM Revere Radio Network has more details on the visa denial of New Model Army.
You know, I had joked privately that Republicans didn't know jack shit about history, except for the Lifetime (rose colored) version.
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.
This obviously irritates me quite a bit. From what I understand, last time New Model Army were denied traveling visas, they didn't come to the States for 10 years. Of course, I was living in France at the time, so it did not really affect me.
Idiotic Republicans and stupid Citizenship & Immigration Services ...
Addendum 9/5/07 1:18PM Revere Radio Network has more details on the visa denial of New Model Army.
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.
You know, I had joked privately that Republicans didn't know jack shit about history, except for the Lifetime (rose colored) version.
Comments
New Model Army are not terrorists; they are terrorized! These poor musicians, sharing comradely and harmony in their art form are provoked constantly by the stubborn fascism of the Empire of the Marathon. That greed that has capitalized and valorized itself from the greek oligarchs to the roman senatorial class to the French, Spanish, English, German, and finally American, has corrupted and warped the peace of nature to the ends of luxury and decadence.
The price of permanent terror is the working class - the so-called proletariat, which, greedy too for its turn in the sun, works like oxen for the possibility of upward mobility. For God, family, and nobility, the majority have slaved and toiled, though never have those ideals been upheld - and never have they been even regarded by the 'liberal' bourgeoisie!
A prison system in which we live is quarantined and sequestered by billboards, roads, fences, and windows. We brutalize and terrorize nature - we fight abroad for complacency at home, and we are not to question the forbidden clockwork that like some Leibnitzian God affords us our means of consumption.
You say that the word Army rose a red flag!? What about the red flags of Iraq and Iran and Libya and Israel and Darfur and Rwanda!? What about the red flags flown by those bitter and oppressed in Peru, S. Korea, and Panama? They are simply ignored - even by the media! Such expurgation is the manufacturing of consent necessary for an empire. The walls! The walls! The walls of our collective unconscious are merely the mountains of the world, and strewn along the tops fly the hopes of prayer flags - such are my hopes that New Model Army will breach this denial of the American psychosis, and enter our land with no name - let them come, but let them come armed with the bass, guitar and drum.