Justin Sullivan | New Model Army | Interview | Nov 23 2013 | Music News

[@frtoxable]

I could listen to Justin talk all night. Interesting bloke. I wish the interview could have carried on longer. What a great band NMA are. Thanks for posting this...

[@Pawlu67]

Met Justin and various band members over the years and they are so fucking brilliant. Joolz too. Great band awesome.

[@Psymon-F-C]

Brilliant interview... Justin you are the man...

[@regandevereaux5079]

Thank you! I’ve always loved NewModelArmy & pretty certain my sister & I were at the 14th May,1984 gig at the Lycem, may she rest in peace,! Regan

[@guyphawkes]

I have tried so many times to see them live, but the stars never aligned. I did interview Justin some years ago, he was such a great guy. Incredibly intelligent. From that time and now, he seems very very tired in this one. When I Talked to him that first time he was on a quick holiday between gigs and he was in Athens. It was awesome.

[@tundehale7127]

Yep - high IQ + high EQ - emotionally stable, humble, stylish -still has stamina in concerts ...he is 58 yrs old - btw ...

[@PerfectMask1]

Good interview dude. Justin is a nice, down to earth guy once he's settled in!

[@sheilamorphesQG49]

Charming, beautiful, cute, interesting... totally 💓 thanks for posting 🙏

[@Ritagati]

I like the missing tooth. It expresses the "I don't give a damn about the opinion of the mass". Justin is like an intelligent, wild and anarchist pirate. Replacing it with a gold teeth... I would laugh my head off. :-D He is perfect as he is. And he won't change anyway.

[@tobiasinnit]

Someone i'd like to have a few beers with

[@tundehale7127]

"Justinus Sullivanus REX" - the " Rockefeller uncrowned King" -aka : "the last of the mohicans" xox

[@johickey3158]

you never sold out militia shout out

[@footshotstube]

what a fantastic insight , thankyou uplaoder [ knew a few peeps in harrogate who knocked around with justin in his early days] they switched me on to the Sound and the poetry

[@regandevereaux5079]

Is he from Harrogate? are you? my best & life-long-est friend,’Danny’, is from Harrogate. Some of the best times of me life were passed away in that area! Cheers either way! peace, R

[@footshotstube]

regan devereaux i stayed there for a bit in the 90's ,...and er i did know a lotta people , Justin isnt from harrogate , but the listening to the ' valleys of green & grey' on a train ,.. IS the same journey ! [i knw the song says "bus ride" but its the train journey from harrogate to leeds ..... i thin he is from leeds [ i knew a guy called Valley aswell

[@bobdole2532]

Its Danny Day on a character study

[@ragrj2009]

Fix that missing tooth!!! This guy is getting uglier and uglier. At least a gold tooth (to retain the weird look). NMA. Catchy songs from the 80's. Silly left wing lyrics... but a lot of talent. Very inspired first bassists. Good band.

[@tundehale7127]

You as a 'mainstream person' - focus too much on the exterior and have the tendency of dwelling on the surface level ... He is the most eloquent, sophisticated and humanistic singer/song writer/poet of our time. Ps: The missing tooth is his trademark and it was due to football accident in his youth (his brother knocked it out ...)

[@ragrj2009]

Tunde Hale You don´t know me, I hate models and celebrities, but the missing tooth is ridiculous (the angry poor left wing punk rocker is 100% b.s.). I like his music, but many of his lyrics were typical socialist b.s. I read somewhere he told he is, now, more libertarian on a republican point of view (good to know he got old and wiser). Football? I also hate soccer, in Brazil it is just for stupid people. Yes! Most brazilians are stupid, that's why we have only socialist presidents here since 1995. Everytime the morons from U2 come to Brazil they go to lick the president's ass.

[@tundehale7127]

Believing in 'equality' does not make someone a socialist ... Actually their 'ars poetica' on the No Rest album is from the Magna Carta -800 yrs old (1215) : " NO MAN WILL WE SELL , OR DENY, OR DELAY RIGHT OR JUSTICE" As for the records - in terms of politics : the NMA never pushed any political agenda, in fact at times they were accused of being right-wing ... It depends how you interpret his evokative songs ...

[@ragrj2009]

Tunde Hale Yes... some lyrics are too christian. But "51st State" during the cold war wasn´t a good ideia, like a song (a very cool song with a stupid lyrics) from Big Country named "Flame of the west". When I used to hear bands like NMA, U2, Big Country ans Simple Minds I was't able to understand more than 5% of the lyrics, actually, I never studied english.

[@MrGibbonici]

ragrj2009 New Model Army were always more anarchist than socialist, and anarchy is very close to libertarianism despite the cliched stereotype that the word evokes. Anarchy isn't about black flags and burning shops down, it's about individual responsibility and extension of that responsibility to those around you.