Hey guys!



For all of you who came to the last show and made it the amazing night it was, thank you soooooo much, couldn't have gone better! -SUPER gratefull.


Thanks to - This City Burns, Open the Skies and Lioness for supporting and Josh for playing bass for us, Aaron for coming from London to do a track with us.


For all of you we met over the years, either slept at your house, got drunk with or played a show with, we'll miss you all - We all still hang out all the time and laugh about old times! PLENTY of characters - you know who you are!


So if you were at the last show you would have seen Aaron Sidwell (Steven Beale- Eastenders) get up and sing 'Devils House of Mirrors' with us!


...and as I said at the show, I've now started a band with him, nothing like NATO, but its good stuff, refreshing to be doing something so diverse. I'm really enjoying it!


http://www.myspace.com/justlikeyourock


We'll be out doing club tours later in the year so lets have all the 'characters' back out to say hello! - add us up and keep track of what we're up to!


Hope your all well.


Thanks for the memories!

Ross

Hey all.

Right I'm back from Europe and back on a mission.

Tickets are all sorted!

In person  -  Force Majoure - Truro (Opposite Quicksilver)

Box Office  -  01326 211222 (Mon-Fri, 9.00am-1pm)

Tickets are £8 (subject to booking fee) - This is as cheap as we could make them for the cost on venue hire/security/bands of this quality! :-P

NATO
Lioness
Open The Skies
This City Burns

We might have a guest appearence from all singing, all dancing, all acting Aaron "Sidface" Sidwell from Eastenders if he is available at the time.

Doors open at 7.30pm and the show will end at 11.00pm.

The first group of people (maximum 5 persons) to get to the merch desk and prove to my mother they have travelled over 100miles for the show, will be given full AAA backstage passes, to go eat, drink and chill with all the bands of the night.

Proof : - 
Train/coach/plane tickets with valid date
or
Proof of address with a petrol receipt (if travelling in a car)

There will be a limited amount of photography passes for the press pit, one has gone allready so if your seriously interested send a message with a CV or link to your portfolio or whatever - sorry to be fussy but every man and/or his dog can ask for a photopass!

Theres a limited amount of free parking at the Pavilions, but plently of free legal parking around the area, driving is not a problem.

T-shirts and hoodies will be onsale from all the bands on the night.

There will be no guestlists for the show, we have too many close friends to even  consider making a decision. Dont be offended... whoever you are, but dont bother, buy a ticket! 

If we need to we can take capacity to 650, so DO NOT believe any rumors its sold out like last time unless we put it in massive letters on our myspace and several hundred bulletins, we will be keeping a close eye on the numbers.

The Pavilions is located a 10minute walk from "The Dell" train station 'Falmouth' and a 10minute walk from the end of town (Buses) if your traveling by Car (sat-sav or AA route mapper) the address is:

Princess Pavilion
Melvill Rd
Falmouth
Cornwall
TR11 4AR

B&B's - There are actually loads around the Pavilion, in and around Melvill Road, if you look up any falmouth hotels they will deffiently know the pavilion and how far it is if you ask them - if your travelling that far... I love you! (cya backstage)

We will be playing a tasty collection of new songs and old favourites for those of you who are asking us to play certain songs for the last show.

The pavilion has full access for wheel chairs

The show is all ages - all tickets are standing.

We will be partying like its 1999 at Remedies after the show, if your over 18, come have fun!

See you there!!

Rossy! - if that doesn't cover everything... errr... stay at home! HAHA!
xxx

P.S. It is correct no one in NATO has a girlfriend!

Go get tickets now!!
01326-211222 (9am-1pm) 

Dear all.

On a day off last week we were traveling north of the M11 where we stopped for a bite to eat and a game of footy!

Due to alot of unnecessary jumping around, Jay our vocalist ended up dislocating his sholder and breaking his collar bone.

We spent all that day and night in hospital with him and canceled the next days show in louth.

We traveled home the day after where Jay went to his local hospital a few days later.

Jay has been told by the doctors his sholder may never be the same again, he needs to have a special sling made on monday and see a specialist for the rest of the year.

We are all completly gutted about Jays situation and having to CANCEL the rest of the dates on the tour- apart from:

Newton Abbot - Forde Hall - 21st Aug

Plymouth - White Rabbit - 22nd Aug 

We are giving it a rest for the remainer of the year and writing and recording the second album. So we will be back bigger and better with some new tunes early 2009.

Thank you for your time.

Cya in N.A or Plymouth.... or next year.

Ross, Ben, Mike, Jay.
x

On Thursday 26th of June we had the pleasure of being the one and only support act for big haired New York rockers Coheed and Cambria!

Prior to arriving to the venue we met up with the lovely people at Rising Records and had a MASSIVE burger, now when I say massive... these burgers were £10 each! Two 6 oz. burgers, egg, bacon... everything, kicked the crap outta all off us! Why would they make a burger that big?!

Around 2.00pm we all trotted off to the Pavilion where we said hello to a few of the guys from Coheed and watched their sound check - was awesome, felt like a private show ha!

We sound checked shortly after and left everything set up ready for the sold out crowd to feast their eyes upon!

We started at 8.15pm and finished around half an hour later. After every show we give; ourselves, the venue, the crowd and toilet's a mark out of 10. As a support act we didn't think anything could have gone better, we were a bit worried that we are quite a bit heavier than Coheed but plently of wee NATO lads and lass' came out and my mother was at the back with some biker dudes who also enjoyed themself's!

Got the wall of death, some nu-metal 90's pogo action and had our own personal toilet, so 10 out of 10 from my sweaty drum seat!

After the show I got to have a good chat with Chris Pennie about; Coheed, Dillinger, America and Mapex drums (HINT... watch this space!) which was amazing as when Chris was in the band I was a BIG Dillinger fan (Bennay and I sleeping on the streets of Exeter to watch them when we were 15!)

We even met Andy Sneap!?!?! Who is one of our favourite metal producers (Killswitch, Trivium, Megadeth... insert load's of mint sounding albums) He was there with his girlfriend as she was taking photos, very pleasant surprise!

So after we all went to a house party and Jay got to the point where he couldn't really talk anymore! HA!

Big thanks to Katie SW1, Joe and Dan (good job!)  the Coheed lads and their nuts crew (If you were at the show the guy that ran out in the batman suit! haha) & the supportive family members from the band for merch & holding cardboard signs in the air!

So now we are back on day 5 of our 2 month toilet tour, back to reality! Though the Coheed dream of a night we had was incredible and can't thank everyone enough for making it that bit more special for turning up and having a gay old time.

If you catch us at a show this summer, make sure you ask Jay how his hair growing is going (Norman ended up with Claudio of Coheed and has decided to grow his hair!) So bring plenty of hair products to the gigs this summer to encourage Jay to beat the New York rocker!..... I heard Sea Calp is good ;-)

Video's from the night will be found in our next tour video we are currently filming. Photo's from the night will be up ASAP, though if you fancy a sneak peek it's www.fotomaze.com.

We only managed to find one review of the night so far (if anyone stubbles across one please forward it our way please!)  from Rock Beast!

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Rock Beast Review 2008 - Coheed & Cambria with support from NATO

I for one couldn't believe that Coheed And Cambria were playing Falmouth as a one off date and I still couldn't believe it until I walked through the venue doors and saw there merchandise lining the walls and then it finally settled in that yes indeed they were playing tonight.

First and foremost though there was the matter of local five piece Nato kicking up a storm and getting everyone fired up for Coheed. Showing off a stage presence well beyond their years Nato used every inch of the stage to get the crowd on their side which didn't make much with so many tonight already knowing a lot of Nato's material. Playing tracks new and old the pits formed early on much to the delight of Nato, maybe not everyone's cup of tea tonight being a different style of band to Coheed but Jay summed it up perfectly when he said 'thank you for your support even if you think were shit you still stuck around'. Nato in their genre are a top quality act and you can understand just why they are tipped for big things.

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"Big things..." - Hurry the f**k up I'm starving on tour right now, ha!!

Thanks for the read, we'll keep you updated as per usual! CHEERS NOW!

Ross & Dingle!

Hey all.

As some of you may or may not know.

We are playing The Corn Exchange in Camborne, Cornwall on the 27th of June as a warm up for our 2 month UK summer tour!

When on our last stupidly big tour... we ran into a band, whos singer was Aaron Sidwell (aka Steven Beale Eastenders) we had a very good night with them, had a good laugh and we stayed at the venue for a few hours after, told horrible stories and Aaron looked on in disgust at a few of us with bottles of tesco value vodka otherwise known as "paint stripper"

So yeh, good night... funny, all that lot. We kept in contact and then decided to ask Bitter Conflict to come support us on our Camborne show.

First of all their guitarist was in Europe at the time, but they said they'd do it anyways with the one guitarist they had left. Now their drummer has found out he has an exam that day so they gave in and said wont be able to play. 

BUT!

Aaron, Tom and Charles are still going to come down and party for the weekend, which means Aaron will come on stage that night and do one or two songs with us on the night! thats gona be messy... deffo! In more ways than one. 3 or 4 infact.

So NATO vs Eastenders is a bit of a lie... as we have united as one, natoenders or eastnato... whatever you like. one off show.

Camborne Corn Exchange - Natoenders - June 27th- Free before 9pm - over 18's only

P.s. we are working on doing an under 18's show in the afternoon/evening. hang tight!

In the mean time me (Ross) and Jay have VIP tickets to the metal hammer awards on monday, proper looking forward to it, that will be messy in one way only with our drink tokens! Will Smith if you are reading... please go!!!

In the mean time... Incubus are gona kill download tomorrow! Cant wait!

Thank for reading!

Ross

So if you don't know already, we are working hard on our second album. If you have our 1st you will realise there has been changes in our line up which will obviously reflect in this second album both musically and personally.

We are all so proud of 'Kill the fox…' but, we were just kids writing songs so we could play gigs saying that, this was the best learning curve of my life, so much has happened and so much has changed. We are a lot stronger, ok we have 2 new members one of which done all the touring for 'kill the fox..' and I'm sure you all know and love, mike who lives with me, so couldn't be much closer.

At the moment we are out in my garage every single day! doing about 6hours a day trying to write the best songs we possibly can (obviously everyone's opinions are different, haha) we would be lying if we said it was easy! If anything we feel is average… or even just good, we are ditching it! which means finished tracks aren't getting together very quickly but the ones we have are perfect, which is how we want the whole album to be!

If your wondering what the tracks are like... hmmm, they are defiantly very different from the first album! It's a lot more mature, not stereotypical metalcore like 'Kill the fox…'. There's heavy as hell bits, there's some ace chorus', weird ambient sections and some epic moments! Hahaha Bennay even got his dual solo out t'other day!! CHED. I seriously can't wait to get it all recorded so everyone can hear what we have and will continue to work so hard on!

We are recording demos for 3 of tracks at the moment, In Penzance with our good mate Josh from 'This city burns' check'em out! All with our new bassist William! (aahahaha aka Willy, Sam, Smollis, Sorry, Tech, Nerd) then we can look/listen to the tracks from a different point of view and hopefully, up the standard once again!

We are really lucky our label has cut us some slack on time and wants this to be the record of our life!!... as do we! We want every note and every beat of every track and gap and interlude to be as good as we could possibly could make it.

So that's what we are up to… not being slack and not playing shows, putting EVERYTHING we have into making what I sure won't be anything but genius… if its not… god take me!! hahaha

Get along to the shows in the March/April headline tour, we will be playing the 3 tracks we have demoed cause we've picked the crap out of them!!

March:

14th : Hadfield - The Crypt

15th: Mexborough - Civic

16th: Liverpool – The Roadkill

17th: Manchester – Satan's Hollow

18th: Barnsley – The Archers

20th: Neath – Windsor Club

21st: Western-super-mare – The Function Room

22nd: Barnstable – Inn On The Square

23rd: Newton Abbot – The Zepher Bar

24th: Brighton – The Engine Rooms

26th: Hull – Ringside

27th: Rayleigh – The Mill

29th: London – Islington Bar Academy

31st: Copsale – The Bridge House

April:

2nd: Kingston – Fighting Cocks

3rd: Ipswitch – Spread Eagle

4th: Stoke – The Underground

5th: Rhyl – Frames

6th: Nottingham – Junction 7

7th: Huddersfield – The Chapel

9th: Glasgow – Soundhaus

10th: Plymouth – White Rabbit

11th: London – Bedford Park

12th: Cheltenham – The 2 Pigs

13th: Poole – Mr.C's

18th: Peterborough – The Park

19th: High Wycombe – The Nags Head

Cornwall dates coming in May including-

10th: Falmouth – Princess Pavilion (CORNISH LIVE MUSIC AWARDS)

thanks for reading...
it will be worth the wait… cya in march/april/may!

Much love

Ross

After last years massive success, The Cornish music awards are back!!

We were lucky enough to be nominated and win the award for 'Best metal act' in 2007... thank you to everyone that voted, VERY grateful.

So we are pleased to say, this year we are the first band confirmed to play live at the awards on May 10th at the Princess pavilion in Falmouth!

We are all REALLY excited about this, as I'm sure 90% of the people/bands there will not have seen us before and will have no choice but to find out why we are where we are today... gigging our ass' off!!

We really cant wait!! if you want to see the looks on the indie kids faces when Jay jumps on their heads... tickets will be out and about in Cornwall very soon.

How many tracks we will play and where you can tickets from are all TBA.. so hold on with us, vote for us to win again, then come kick some pastie ass with us!!

May 10th Falmouth Princess pavilion, you heard it here first!!

ERRRRRRRRRRRRRE!!!!! PROPER JOB!!!!!!!!!!

To start MASSIVE thanks to Bernie, who let us shoot the video at the old "Drill Hall"  To Adam Powell for shooting the video and his 2 slaves for the day. And Sam and Red who managed to stay all day and not move a thing!! hahaha jokin!!

So we went on tuesday to have a clear out on the belcony with Bernie, to make sure there was enough space and everything was safe to shoot the video... so we where there all morning on tuesday sorting everything out, then tuesday night met adam and two of his friends and went for a drink and some pool, and showed them how Cornwall works... with parking on double yellow lines with no worries and free pool etc etc!! hahaha

So we where up nice are early on wednesday morning to get all the lighting and the tracks for the cameras set up!, we started shooting around 12pm, made sure the lighting was correct and stuff, then went for the first take about 1pm which is when we started getting bonkers!

 

 

 

 

these 2 are my favourate photos as it shows the pain of going bonkers for about.... 7hours?? to the same song... over .... and over.!!

 

 

Then Jay was really happy as we went to great shakes and made the biggest fuss about his milk shake ever.... he loved it, at that point of the day.... well desirved!!

 

Was a great day had loadza fun... i then made a 4hours trip to cardiff that night.... BOY did I sleep!!! I was GONE! But yeh.... massive thanks to everyone that helped, cant wait to see the video, so keep an eye out we will get it up ASAP for you guys to watch and hear the first single!!...

WHICH.... u will be able to download from itunes.... when you download the single.... you get another 2 tracks for FREE!!! 3 songs... 75p!!!!

Aswell as the single you get the 2 songs we didn't have room for on the album!! all for the price of 1 single!!

AND.... due to the mastering of the album being delayed due to the geeza going on holiday.... the album releace will be delayed a few weeks!!... so.... just AFTER may 21st!!

WATCH THIS SPACE!

thank you!

Brighton Concorde 2 november 1st.... cool gig! we had a fun week in lovely brighton!! oh rite.... a few photos from the gig!

 

 

cheers for all that went and cheers for checking the blog!

Ross